[PEN-L:7682] Superexploitation

Can anyone find me a reference citation on the subject of super-exploitation? I can't find anythjing, but remember some brief discussion of it on pen-l a few months back. Thanks in advance. Cheers -- Eric Schutz

[PEN-L:7684] Re: Superexploitation

Carl Dassbach, PEN-L participant, uses the concept of super-exploitation in his contribution to a new book entitled, I believe, North American Auto Unions in Crisis. I hope that Carl sees this and fills in the details. Rakesh Ethnic Studies UC Berkeley

[PEN-L:7690] Re: Superexploitation

On Mon, 2 Dec 1996 09:17:54 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Can anyone find me a reference citation on the subject of super-exploitation? I can't find anythjing, but remember some brief discussion of it on pen-l a few months back. Thanks in advance. Cheers -- Eric Schutz At the

[PEN-L:7692] utopian apologies

oops. This Alzheimer's is getting to be too much. ;-) Actually, it's the absent-minded professor syndrome, which gets worse when I have too much work to do. I sent a ms. on utopias to pen-l that was actually supposed to go to Phil O'Hara's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL ECONOMY,

[PEN-L:7683] Rifkin

Jeremy Rifkin shouldn't be faulted for being invisible. He's probably busy cranking out books, a worthy type of labor even though his products are so deeply flawed. Also, an emphasis on technology as the source of all evil doesn't encourage social activism (that's uniting theory and

[PEN-L:7689] Utopia unbound!

here's my piece on utopia: Utopia. James Devine December 2, 1996 "Utopia" refers to images of an ideal society; its opposite is "dystopia," visions of the worst society. Utopian visions make moral principles more concrete

[PEN-L:7688] Break the embargo on Iraqi children!

Friends and Fellow Activists: As many of you are no doubt aware, according to UN statistics more than 500,000 Iraqi children have died as a result of the US/UN embargo. In response to this crisis a Chicago-based peace group, Voices in the Wilderness, has been campaigning against the embargo,

[PEN-L:7687] No More Econ Ph.D's

Has anyone read John Cassidy's piece in the 12/2/96 New Yorker. "The Decline of Economics"? It's a bunch of fluff, but there are some choice quotes: "Is economics making enough progress to justify the millions of dollars a year that the taxpayer spends to subsidize economic research? the

[PEN-L:7691] Part III: Scientific Laws Of Political Economy

What is the condition that has to be changed in order to avoid the multifarious economic laws that blindly operate with such destructive consequences under capitalism? The great contradiction must be resolved between the social forces of production and the capitalist relations of production