http://www.itf.org.uk/solidarity/040302.htm
SOLIDARITY ACTION
To all ITF affiliated unions
Monday/04/03/2002
Korean rail union leaders arrested
Dear colleagues,
At least ten leaders and members of the ITF-affiliated Korean
Railway Workers' Union have been arrested.
The President, Kim
Hi Charles,
There used to be a speculation that Japanese banks may repatriate
overseas funds to write off a part of their bad loans before they
close their fiscal year account at the end of this month. Can you
comment on the likelihood of this and its possible effects?
Sabri
In a message dated 3/4/2002 11:57:49 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Question to Various comments in In Digest 77
by Davies, Daniel
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And whatever else
one thinks about Cohen's work, I think he has to be right that Marx had a
theory of history, and that this theory of
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 5:23 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:23465] Re: Re: Suppression of Marx
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Dear Melvin, before becoming a researcher, I was a worker and an Union
leader, like you. And
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Let me ask you a direct question: Is it your point that
capitalism is not as bad a system as some of us here think it is?
It's awful, but I guess it beats slavery or feudalism But it's also
a deeply contradictory system, producing wealth and possibility
alongside poverty and
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2002:
About 15 percent of the workforce worked at home during May 2001, as a part
of their primary job responsibilities, a total of 19.8 million people,
according to figures released March 1 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Two-thirds
From: Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:23494] Wade vs Wolf
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:21:17 -0800
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk
Are global poverty and inequality getting worse?
[snip]
In a message dated 3/5/2002 6:14:29 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dear Melvin, before becoming a researcher, I was a worker and an Union
leader, like you. And I believed in "historical materialism", too. I
believed in it, because having not yet visited history by myself, I
Question to Various comments in In Digest 77
by Waistline2
05 March 2002 12:09 UTC
CB: Doesn't _The Manifesto of the Communist Party_ make it pretty clear that Marx's
theory of history is rooted in the relations of production aspect of the forces of
production, the division of labor, and
you write:
...Isn´t infant-industry promotion, buttressed by trade restrictions the
only way any country has ever industrialised ,including all of Southeast
Asia and India, or am I way off here?
I don't think S. Korea, Taiwan, or Japan made it as far as they did based on
import substitution,
Now, depreciating the Yen relative to the dollar would clearly help Japan's
exports and its economy But wouldn't that encourage recession in the US?
jim d
^
CB: Which would hurt Japan's exports
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From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A friend of mine who spent a few
years as a reporter in Vietnam interviewed Nike workers who
told her
that they prefer their sweatshop jobs to what they would have
been
doing otherwise - things like chasing rats in rice
In a message dated Tue, 5 Mar 2002 11:51:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Question to Various comments in In Digest 77
by Waistline2
05 March 2002 12:09 UTC
CB: Doesn't _The Manifesto of the Communist Party_ make it pretty clear that Marx's
theory
Question to Various comments in In Digest 77
by Justin Schwartz
05 March 2002 04:32 UTC
Thread Index
CB: Doesn't _The Manifesto of the Communist Party_ make it pretty clear
that Marx's theory of history is rooted in the relations of production
aspect of the forces of production,
Question: Why is historical materialism in quotes? And is this different from what
Engels call the materialist conception of history in Anti-Durhing?
Melvin P.
Wade vs Wolf
by Doug Henwood
05 March 2002 13:53 UTC
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Let me ask you a direct question: Is it your point that
capitalism is not as bad a system as some of us here think it is?
It's awful, but I guess it beats slavery or feudalism But it's also
a deeply contradictory system,
[was: RE: [PEN-L:23532] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Wade vs Wolf]
Doug Henwood wrote:A friend of mine who spent a few years as a reporter in
Vietnam interviewed Nike workers who told her that they prefer their
sweatshop jobs to what they would have been doing otherwise - things like
chasing rats in
from SLATE's survey of today's major US newspapers:The papers note that
Gen. [Tommy] Franks began his press conference yesterday by offering his
condolences to the families of those killed in our ongoing operations in
Vietnam. He later corrected himself.
in less amusing news:
The Wall Street
[NYTimes]
March 1, 2002
W.T.O. Pact Would Set Global Accounting Rules
By ANTHONY DePALMA
As Congress and regulatory officials consider ways to tighten
auditing and accounting rules to prevent a repeat of the Enron
(news/quote) debacle, a little- known global agreement that
places untested new
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2002:
At least 125,000 American workers lost their jobs in mass layoffs that
lasted 30 days or more because of the September 11 terrorist attacks,
according to a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report. It's pretty
substantial, said
Doug,
I don't think anyone here would argue that when faced with a
choice between less misery and more misery, people would chose
less misery. By the way, I am using the word misery in its daily
form without any theoretical connotation and mention this so that
I don't find myself in a long
From: Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don't forget that this is not just a temporal/historical but also
a spatial/geographical system. Even at times of capitalist booms,
although the boom lifts some boats in certain locations, other
boats sink in certain other locations. I would say whether you
Jim D
There are these folks who are hard to identify, so you declare them to be
war criminals following the age-old principles of guilt by association --
and then incapacitate them (I guess this why Tony Blair's good friend
Silvio Berlusconi sees Western Civilization as superior)
^
CB: Of
Ian M:
So far, the new rules, which are being drafted by the World
Trade Organization with the help of Arthur Andersen and other
companies
CB: These people truly give new meaning to the phrase no shame in their game
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Don't forget that this is not just a temporal/historical but also
a spatial/geographical system Even at times of capitalist booms,
although the boom lifts some boats in certain locations, other
boats sink in certain other locations I would say whether you
appreciate or hate the
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2002:
Average job tenure fell to 7 years in 2001 from 8 years in 2000 and 9 in
1999, says a survey of about 2,900 of its laid-off clients by outplacement
concern Drake Beam Morin (The Wall Street Journal, Work Week feature, page
A1).
Jim, you write
I haven't read Veneziani's paper, but the possibility of workers' saving
doesn't undermine Marx's theory Marx does discuss workers' saving in volume
III (though I can't find the quotes, since my copy of CAPITAL that's been
marked up is at work) It's often assumed that the
Let me try another tack here My understanding has been that Japan has
been historically locked into a pattern of development characterized by
high savings rates and high investment shares of GDP (the
exhilirationist model) Each validates the other, and both are made
feasible by a large trade
Right. I argued in Actually Existing Globalization (published in a collection a
few years ago) that industrial policy is ultimately understandable only as
technology policy, but that the era of national technology (or innovation) systems
is largely over. At the time I reviewed some of the
RE
It's not easy to read the tenure numbers - tenure could rise in a
weak job market, as people hold on to what they have, and fall in a
strong one, as they feel confident about changing jobs The national
numbers don't show that much of a change between 1983 and 2000
And I believe I read
Rushed, much of this comes from people influenced by Alfred Dupont
Chandler. Michael Best has been the furthest left of all the people who
have contributed to the literature.
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:34:33PM -0800, Peter Dorman wrote:
Right. I argued in Actually Existing Globalization
No, high wages came about as industries absorbed labor So labor
repression worked initially but it didn't later If my memory serves me
right Korean wages were growing at very high rates throughout the 70s and
80s Further, Jim is right that it wasn't classic Lat Am style ISI, but
Korea did have
[Was: : [PEN-L:23525] Re: Re: Re: Re: Wade vs Wolf ]
Doug writes
[Capitalism is] awful, but I guess it beats slavery or feudalism But it's
also
a deeply contradictory system, producing wealth and possibility
alongside poverty and oppression A friend of mine who spent a few
years as a
The Times of India
FRIDAY, MARCH 01, 2002
Nokia, Texas Instruments in China tie-up
REUTERS
BEIJING: Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia, Texas Instruments and 15 other
Chinese and foreign firms said on Thursday that they had formed a company to
develop software, semiconductors and multimedia
Doug wrote:
It's awful, but I guess it beats slavery or feudalism But it's also
a deeply contradictory system, producing wealth and possibility
alongside poverty and oppression
This is silly (And of course the most vicious slavery was capitalist
slavery) Misery is individual, and a
From: www.thedeal.com
Updated 01:30 PM EST, Mar-4-2002
S. Korea reaffirms privatizations despite strikes
by Gina Chon
Posted 11:48 AM EST, Mar-4-2002
SEOUL Despite days of labor protests, the South Korean
government said March 4 it must move forward with restructuring
plans for the public
January 28, 2002
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Letter from Seoul Prison, Dan Byung-ho, Prisoner Number 77
Dear brothers and sisters across the world,
I am deeply moved by your action. Your solidarity has burned
through the cold cement walls
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Now, depreciating the Yen relative to the dollar would clearly help
Japan's
exports and its economy But wouldn't that encourage recession in the US?
jim d
^
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CB: Which would hurt Japan's exports
Not necessarily if it could sell them for higher profits I suppose if a
'Walmart'
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:23537] Roemer vs. Marx in Vietnam?
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:05:29 -0800
[was: RE: [PEN-L:23532] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Wade vs Wolf]
Doug Henwood wrote:A friend of mine
There used to be a speculation that Japanese banks may repatriate
overseas funds to write off a part of their bad loans before they
close their fiscal year account at the end of this month. Can you
comment on the likelihood of this and its possible effects?
Sabri
I hear this every year
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From: Justin Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[was: RE: [PEN-L:23532] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Wade vs Wolf]
Doug Henwood wrote:A friend of mine who spent a few years
as a reporter
in
Vietnam interviewed Nike workers who told her that they
prefer their
sweatshop jobs
Ian writes:
This of course raises, again, the issue of Marx' vs. Roemer's
views on exploitation.
Justin writes:Roemer is on record as saying that many agricultural laborers
found factory labor liberating. I criticized him for being unhistorical; he
ignores the savage breaking of the new
As you might know, Gene Coyle and I are fans of this book, that just
came out in a second edition. Here is a review by one of the principles
in the book.
Rats In The Grain
James B. Lieber, Author
The Book The Government Didnt Want Printed
Rats in the Grain is a hard-hitting and
There are two premenant jobs in economics at Nottingham Trent
University, to
be advertised shortly in The Guardian and on jobs.ac.uk.
NTU is a pluralist department with about 18 economists in a Department
of
Economics and Politics. Recent appointments include myself (with a
research
interest in
sorry for the poor formatting.
Position Announcement
Faculty Position in International Business
San Francisco State University
College of Business
Announcing a Position Open for Fall 2002
POSITION: One full-time tenure-track position in International Business
for=
=20
Fall 2002. The position
Peter Dorman
Let me try another tack here My understanding has been that Japan has
been historically locked into a pattern of development characterized by
high savings rates and high investment shares of GDP (the
exhilirationist model)
What do you mean by high investment shares of GDP?
Penner's,
While I was gone last week some local friends published the
following report. For US citizens, you might have heard about it
on NPR.
The pdf file is the easiest to read
Exporting Harm
The High-Tech Trashing of Asia
http://www.ban.org/
Ian
I should clarify what I earlier wrote
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CB: Which would hurt Japan's exports
CJ:
Not necessarily if it could sell them for higher profits
I mean a cheaper yen with a mild recession in the US might still be better
than a higher yen and a boom economy in the US (as the 1990s showed)
I
Since Japanese banks report on a consolidated basis, how would moving their
assets from a correspondent account in New York to a nostro account in Tokyo
help them close their accounts?
dd
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From: Charles Jannuzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 06 March 2002 03:01
To:
Since Japanese banks report on a consolidated basis, how would moving
their assets from a correspondent account in New York to a nostro account
in Tokyo
help them close their accounts?
I think the issue that people are worried about is money in huge waves being
taken out of North American
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