The glories of working in California hi-tech industries eh?
Bill
One H1-B victory, but thousands in slave-like state
by Sukhjit Purewal, India Abroad News Service
San Francisco, May 5 - Dipen Joshi may have won his case against the
consultancy firm, Compubahn Inc., that tried to hold him to
Strange bedfellows dept. Chossudovsky and Jared Isreal are cited in the
newsbriefs section of the latest issue of The New American, the magazine of
the far right mainstay in the USA, the John Birch Society. Two pgs. before,
Gerhard Schroeder is identified as a Marxist (!) but, not
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY: The Bureau of Labor Statistics today reported preliminary
productivity data -- as measured by output per hour of all persons -- for
the first quarter of 2001. The seasonally adjusted annual rates of
productivity change in the first
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, MAY 7, 2001:
Payroll cuts reported for April -- a huge 223,000 by nonfarm employers --
may turn out to be the largest monthly drop for the current economic
slowdown, analysts predict in assessing the employment figures released by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Joseph Green asks whether Pomeranz has intentionally ignored
findings which run against his thesis. Anyone can be accused of
this charge; and on the surface P appears to be following recent
trends in his claim that English agricultural production seems not
to have changed much between 1750
I know Perelman will hate this (don't blame him!) but, short reply to
~!~.
Jared on an hour long debate with David Rohde on Australian Broadcasting
Corp. denied ANY massacre in Srbenica. 7,000, you say? Imperialist lies.
Suppose he would deny this too. Covered also in the London Sunday
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You are correct. This is absolutely flame bait. We do not need this here. We
have been over this many times. Please do not even bother refuting this
message. Why would you even bother to put something on that you know is almost
certain to cause trouble?
Michael Pugliese wrote:
I know
I can think of three reasons why land productivity is such an
important indicator of agricultural efficiency.
1) Obviuosly since we are talking about land - which also
happened to be the largest sector of pre-industrial societies - we
should be concerned with those practices which increase
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1321000/1321209.stm
Wednesday, 9 May, 2001, 13:46 GMT 14:46 UK
Sharp jolt for German economy
The economic outlook for Germany has worsened again as the biggest economy
in the eurozone reports a shart fall in industrial output.
Data published by
from this week's Chico Examiner:
WATER is big business in Butte County. Consider the
case of the Western Canal District, which consists of
most of the big rice farms in the Richvale area. The
total profit on rice is about $200 an acre this year.
Rice farms use about three acre-feet of water
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Contact: Nathan Newman, NLG Judicial
Ricardo:
I believe - by taking seriously not just one or two but many of the
findings out there - that there is substantial evidence showing that
English agriculture was experiencing substantial increases in land
productivity (and in labor productivity) after the 1600s through the
1800s into
If P asks us to drop our Western biases and look at Chinese
economic performance in terms of its specificities most
fundamentally at its superior agrarian sector and its land-saving
innovations, he says next to nothing about Chinese agricultural
productivity. We are definitely told indirectly
You should look at Philip T. Hoffman's Growth in a Traditional Society:
The French Countryside 1450-1815 which effectively demonstrates through
econometrics that French agriculture, based on small peasant holdings, was
just as productive as the English.
productive for whom? some unmentionable
Philip T. Hoffman. Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside,
1450-1820. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. xvi + 361 pp.
Appendices, notes, sources, bibliography, index. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN
0-691-02983-0.
Reviewed by Jonathan J. Liebowitz, Department of History,
At 02:23 PM 5/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
Philip T. Hoffman. Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside,
1450-1820. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. xvi + 361 pp.
Appendices, notes, sources, bibliography, index. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN
0-691-02983-0.
... Chapter Two (Common
http://platts.com/business/issues/0011/0011geb_coverstory_part2.shtml
If, for the purposes of argument, we assume all the growth data are
accurate and properly indicative, and restrict ourselves to the last 20
years, the neoliberal argument seems to fare much better if one takes
China and India as the rule, and Africa and Latin America as the
exception, where the
does anyone know if Texas is one of those states that must balance its
government's budget?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Here is my own take, off the cuff...
Anthony P. D'Costa
Associate Professor Ph: (253) 692-4462
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The Chinese developed a magnificent system of working the land with high
sustained yields. There were problems. High levels of intenstinal worms
and parasites because of the unsanitary ways of handling wastes. Even so,
multi-cropping achieved yields the west could never achieve, except in
The following forwarded message is from a short exchange I had in
EH.R last March which briefly shows that I don't view productivity
increases, including per capita income increases, as progress.
Having said this, I still think we should acknowldge that productivity
increases through
You should look at Philip T. Hoffman's Growth in a Traditional
Society: The French Countryside 1450-1815 which effectively
demonstrates through econometrics that French agriculture, based on
small peasant holdings, was just as productive as the English.
Louis Proyect
I have a note on
On Wednesday, May 9, 2001 at 12:18:33 (-0700) Jim Devine writes:
does anyone know if Texas is one of those states that must balance its
government's budget?
I've answered Jim offline, but yes: Texas Constitution, Article 3,
Section 49-j,
Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
that small
scale agriculture is not inherently inefficient,
Efficient or inefficient at what or by what measure? Efficient at
producing food, or efficient at providing surplus value? Or efficient in
competing with other capitalist firms?
Carrol
Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
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http://www.linguafranca.com/br/9911/shalit.html
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Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
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