Re: Biernacki

2003-02-17 Thread Michael Pollak
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Michael Perelman wrote: Has anybody else here read: Biernacki, Richard. 1995. The Fabrication of Labor? I heard him present his argument in the 80s when he had just finished it as a dissertation. It sounded like an excellent piece of comparative history. I thought he

Re: Re: Biernacki

2003-02-17 Thread Michael Perelman
University of Cal., San Diego. On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:42:19AM -0500, Michael Pollak wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Michael Perelman wrote: Has anybody else here read: Biernacki, Richard. 1995. The Fabrication of Labor? I heard him present his argument in the 80s when he had just

Biernacki

2003-02-16 Thread Michael Perelman
Has anybody else here read: Biernacki, Richard. 1995. The Fabrication of Labor? I am about 60% through now. He shows how different the British and German conceptions of labor were. He attributes this difference to the historical conditions in which wage labor arose. He suggests that many

Re: Biernacki

2003-02-16 Thread Paul Zarembka
I have read some of it. Very interesting, but what's your question, Michael? Paul --On Sunday, February 16, 2003 3:21 PM -0800 Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody else here read: Biernacki, Richard. 1995. The Fabrication of Labor? I am about 60% through now. He shows how

Re: Re: Biernacki

2003-02-16 Thread Michael Perelman
I found the book to be interesting as well. I was wondering if there might be a problem with the argument that I was missing. On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 06:30:05AM -0500, Paul Zarembka wrote: I have read some of it. Very interesting, but what's your question, Michael? Paul -- Michael