Re: 24/7 (promiscuous labour)

2001-08-06 Thread Tom Walker
Ian Murray mused, Wonder what Marx would've made of speed limits to info production per unit of time? He might have muttered something about absolute and relative surplus value and the physiological and class struggle limits to the production thereof. Then he might have gone on to suggest some

Corporate Globalization and the Poor

2001-08-06 Thread Robert Naiman
Corporate Globalization and the Poor By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman George Bush has thrown down the gauntlet, issuing a public challenge to the anti-corporate globalization movement. When hundreds of thousands last month demonstrated against the G-8 meeting of rich country leaders in

Quotable

2001-08-06 Thread Max Sawicky
. . . The Democrats can argue -- and do -- that the tax cut has put the government back in a fiscal bind that threatens all manner of worthy undertakings, from adding a drug benefit to Medicare to building up the defense budget to increasing aid to education. But that turns out to be a greater

good news!

2001-08-06 Thread Jim Devine
from economy.com Defense-Aerospace Profits Take Off By Steve Cochrane 08/6/01 12:00 PM ET There is no profits recession in the defense-aerospace industry. Not only are the leading U.S. defense contractors posting positive net earnings, but profits are generally rising. Last month, Lockheed

knowledge protectionism

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Murray
All you profs. out there worried about having your lecture notes commodified to no end... Who owns learning? : questions of autonomy, choice, and control / edited by Curt Dudley-Marling and Dennis Searle Pub info Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c1995 Ian

Late comment on Mexican truck controversy

2001-08-06 Thread Charles Brown
Washington Post August 2, 2001 The Democrats' Mexican Roadblock By Ruben Navarrette Jr. -clip- Not to be outdone, the Senate yesterday approved legislation that would impose strict safety and insurance requirements on Mexican trucks bound for U.S. highways -- 22 more than are

RE: Re: Precapitalist South Africa?

2001-08-06 Thread michael pugliese
Weird. All of a sudden I get a dozen or so pen-l posts from JUNE! Michael Pugliese From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 6/17/01 1:27:24 AM Lou says: As Colin Leys correctly noted in his silly 1978 Socialist Register article on the bourgeois revolution

BLS Daily Report

2001-08-06 Thread Richardson_D
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, AUGUST 6, 2001: Holding out the possibility that the tide of manufacturing losses is ebbing, the July employment report shows a much smaller drop in nonfarm payrolls, -- 42,000 -- than in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The

query

2001-08-06 Thread Jim Devine
is the name OASDI used interchangeably with Social Security in the US? Do the initials stand for Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

RE: query

2001-08-06 Thread Max Sawicky
yes to both. Sometimes you see OASDHI, which means Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance) is thrown in. mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 5:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:15728]

question about SirCam virus

2001-08-06 Thread Michael Perelman
Can anyone tell me why I get the messages from this virus from people that I do not know at all? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Expropriation politics

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Murray
Monday August 6 6:27 PM ET U.S. 'Pleased' with WTO Ruling in Cuba Rum Case WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. trade officials said on Monday they were ``pleased'' with a World Trade Organization ruling in a case brought by the European Union involving trademark rights for a major brand of Cuban rum.

Argentina

2001-08-06 Thread Ian Murray
Argentina Doubts Market Wisdom Crisis Weakens Region's Embrace of Capitalism, Many Say By Anthony Faiola Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, August 6, 2001; Page A01 BUENOS AIRES -- Rusting hulks of abandoned factories line the barren industrial landscape of this metropolis. On one

The TimeWork Web restored

2001-08-06 Thread Tom Walker
Last week the server that hosts my TimeWork Web crashed its hard drive and deleted the web files. I restored the website today and gave it a minor facelift. The TimeWork Web has been online since June 1995 as a repository of narrative analysis on working time.