Labor on the Move: Which way from here?
Labor Notes' Ninth Biennial Conference
April 18-20, 1997
Westin Hotel, Downtown Detroit
"...the most significant gathering of individuals committed to
democratic reform in the trade union movement..."
-Victor Reuther, Co-founder of the UAW
Anybody out there aware of any studies on day care availability and women's
labor-force participation, in this country and in Europe?
Any information on day care provision, either public or private, in
European countries would also be helpful.
This is for an article in the crypto-socialist
WhileB. Rosser is correct that many advocates of socialist planning
do NOT address the issue of what classes might or might not develop,
and do NOT explain HOW workers (and consumers) would exactly participate
in the planning process; that is NOT true of either Pat Devine whose
book and articles
While I am no fan of the Heritage nor its definitions of economic freedom,
having been in Singapore I can testify that "freedom" is an extremely
loaded word. The Heritage and the writer of the piece below suffer from
their inability to discriminate social contexts. As economists, even if
not of
In reply to Robin Hahnel: I've read Devine's work
[Democracy and Economic Planning] and I would not
characterize it as anti-market socialist as far as
substance goes (as against labels). In common with most
advocates of market socialism, Devine calls for planning
of investment,
At 4:01 PM 1/24/97, Robin Hahnel wrote:
the work that I have published with Michael Albert on "participatory
planning."
Robin, what's your answer to the critique pungently summarized by Nancy
Folbre, who said that your utopia sounded like one long student council
meeting?
Meaning in part that
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The question of the "withering away of the state" is not dependent on
this or that belief. The state is a feature of class society. Its
withering away is a feature of the classless society. The way forward for
the U.S. to achieve this is to
