OARDC seminar: Dr. Richard Levins, of the Harvard University School of
Public Health, will give two seminars at the OARDC campus in Wooster on
April 6 and 7. His seminar on Thursday, April 6, "MANAGING CROP PROTECTION
IN AGROECOSYSTEMS" will be from 1:30 to 3 p.m. The one on Friday April 7,
This "scholary" piece of work sounds like another Rushton of 2000. I
don't know what ASA has done about the publisher of Rushton.
To my knowledge, the progressive folks were demanding to ban the publisher
from participating in ASA yearly meetings. They should also think about
MIT...
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Mine
After the current anti-China strategy fails, hopefully when the labor
movement is thinking about which way to go next, it will consider views
such as this more seriously. I think Doug reported recently that there is
considerable tension within the AFL-CIO about the 'yellow peril' strategy,
so
Some of you have already known this before. I am posting it since I have
not heard from ASA yet about the appropriate action taken against
Rushton's publisher, so you can still join the struggle to protest this
book. Three months ago Transaction sent an abridged version of
Rushton's book _
Rushton and Pioneer Fund
by Steve Rosenthal
07 December 1999 03:34 UTC
Below are excerpts of a review I wrote of "The Bell Curve" with
information about the Pioneer Fund, Rushton's benefactor. The
full text of the
Check out the Monthly Review special issue on agriculture from a couple of
years ago. There is a tremendous article by Richard Lewontin that not only
makes the case that most farming is done by self-employed family farmers,
but has the statistics to back up his argument.
At 02:30 PM 3/28/00
Stephen,
The Monthly Review article is right in principle. however, from a world systemic
perspective, I am much more interested in why the US steel workers cooperate with
the big US steel companies to keep their wages high in the core. if you remember
that in anti-WTO protests, AFL-CIO head
Carrol Cox wrote:
Does anyone have any good figures on the farm population of
the United States? How many "small farmers" are left -- not
counting those whose primary family income is from regular
off-farm employment. Also, I'm not sure how to define "small
farmer." Does this category add up to
I am in a rush now and cannot answer in detail. Most of the production comes
from fairly large farms, which probably is owned by a farmer. Corporatations
however impose ever more stringent contracts on farmers, so that many, if not
most, become more like franchise owners than outright owners.
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I am in a rush now and cannot answer in detail. Most of the production comes
from fairly large farms, which
After the current anti-China strategy fails, hopefully when the labor
movement is thinking about which way to go next, it will consider views
such as this more seriously. I think Doug reported recently that there is
considerable tension within the AFL-CIO about the 'yellow peril' strategy,
so
Max,
Noone is calling anyone racist. But relying on Harry Wu to justify an
attack on China? Tibetan nuns? What does this have to do with the issue of
labor rights in China? Maybe in ads against China trade they can also
include pictures of Wen Ho Lee, my sense is the strategy is 'whatever it
Max,
Noone is calling anyone racist.
Oh come on. What is 'yellow peril' supposed to connote?
But relying on Harry Wu to justify an
attack on China? Tibetan nuns?
Why not? I got nothing against Tibetan
nuns. I just hope they stay away from Al Gore.
What's wrong w/Harry Wu screaming about
I wrote: However, I think that at this point there is enough unity
amongst the leading capitalist powers that instead of there being a flight
to gold when and if a US financial crisis hits, there will be a flight to
Yen or similar fiat currencies.
alfredo writes: I am not clear about this:
Mostly my day-to-day tasks revolve around keeping the Columbia University
Financial Front-end System up and running. This involves keeping my nose
buried in the technical minutiae of Sybase and Unix and away from users or
other human beings. Sort of like a post-Fordist version of the coal
I must say, I have some sympathy with Max on this point. First of
all, I would argue that WTO type 'free trade' is bad for workers in
both the developed and underdeveloped countries. Quite apart from
the human rights issue, extending WTO to China would tilt the
balance of power within China
I do not know how the system works in the US. For some
specialty crops I suppose contracts with the purchaser would
be the only way to sell but for
standard grains and oilseeds there is a great deal of
competition among elevator companies, seed companies, and
other companies(e.g. Monsanto) to get
Is there are breakdown on the number of organic farmers and
production of organic farms etc? The number seems to be
growing here but since it takes three years for soil to be
free of chemical residues etc. and get certified it takes a
lot of dedication. There seems to be an increasing interest
in
An interesting and informative post. Why has co-operative
farming declined?
I expect that the same has happened here, while Hutterite
collective farms seem to be doing well. The Social
Democratic government in Saskatchewan encourage
co-operatives of all sorts including farming but I know that
at
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