[PEN-L:1970] Re: minimum wage

According to Lawrence Mishel, et al., The State of Working America, 1996-97, page 206, 11.7% of the labor force in 1993 earned between the minimum wage ($4.25) and the 1997 minimum wage ($5.15). Another 8.5% of the labor force earned between $5.15 and $6.14. Gerald Friedman Associate Professor

[PEN-L:1971] A lump sum: frequency

Contributions toward a sociology of economics pseudo-knowledge -- The terms "lump of labor", "lump of labour" or "lump of work" occur in the text of 37 articles since 1891 indexed by JSTOR, an academic journal database. Included in the search database were the following economics journals (along

[PEN-L:1974] Re: Re: Re: minimum wage

The Economic Policy Institute has tons of data on this. See for example the executive summary of a 1998 report at http://epinet.org/test/studies/stmwp.html. Doug

[PEN-L:1973] BLS Daily Report

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --_=_NextPart_000_01BE38C2.7734C760 BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1999 Consumers' quick draw with credit cards and checkbooks will slow in 1999,

[PEN-L:1972] Re: Re: minimum wage

20% is a very high figure. With $6.14/hr- 40 hour week , does that add up to income above the poverty line? Do minimum wage employee get benefits? Is there any breakdown of the data to what portion is under-employed and to what extend, for example compared to the worker's highest paying job

[PEN-L:1977] INTERNATIONALIZE THE CORPORATIONS !

The rapid development toward the political / environmental catastrophes has reached the stage where only those aiming directly at terminating the transnational corporations are entitled to call themselves progressive. The march of events seems accelerating.

[PEN-L:1979] Of the Scurf Trade among the Rubbish Carters

. . . and plagiarism among the economics textbook authors I think I've located the locus classicus for the "Lump of Labour fallacy" and the so-called fallacy ain't what the textbook authors said it was. There's an 1891 article in the Economic Review by David F. Schloss, "Why Working Men

[PEN-L:1976] Communications on Jim Craven

Dear Dr. Hasart: I am writing on the matter of Prof. Jim Craven's internet correspondence relating to the Tribunal on Indian Residential Schools held here in Vancouver, British Columbia, in June 98. Since the Tribunal, where I first met Prof. Craven, I have followed this matter with interest

[PEN-L:1978] An Academic Sociology Parable

Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 13:26:44 -0600 From: Arthur Wilke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: An Academic Sociology Parable Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PSN-CAFE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-To: PSN-CAFE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not only are there few, if any, heroic stories from academic

[PEN-L:1980] Re: Pen-l [newcomer] II

Rob ruminates, in part: .. It occurs that not a lot of Indonesians are currently enjoying their sudden involuntary simplicity. No, not when it means a return to one real meal per day. That said, and without sinking into the quasi-malthusian

[PEN-L:1981] Re: INTERNATIONALIZE THE CORPORATIONS !

This is rather millenerian? "The rapid development towards the political/environmental catastrophe"? That's what they said in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece (since these societies have left us written words). We are still here today, aren't we. It is simply called change! It's not good