Hello, Tom. I do not have an op-ed on that issue; however, I do regularly
write op-eds and have had many published in CA papers, such as the LA Times
and SD Union Tribune. If you at some point in a progressive look at other
issues, I have several in my directory. Recent ones include privatization;
>>>who said a "blonde" has any specific gender?
>>
>>
>>Blonde is female. Blond is male.
>>
>
>I plead ignorance. Is the e a phallus, then?
No doubt. It's French.
>who said a "blonde" has any specific gender?
Blonde is female. Blond is male.
Ellen
y still.
And my symphathies to Michael Yates on the student situation. I have the
best employment law class I've ever had at the moment. They make teaching at
8 am worth it.
Ellen Dannin
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disease and social oppression spill over their
walls.
Ellen Dannin
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Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 4:54 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:2776] Re: Re: Job insecurity, wages, and computers
>I have to agree with Ellen: looking for causes for union decline in
>endogeno
>It might be offered that, for the 1990s, an underlying _cause_ of the
>(further) decline in union power is increased employment insecurity. The
>same article I cited in my previous message indicates that union workers
have
>have seen a greater increase in employment insecurity than non-union
>wor
Obviously there are a lot of pieces to the puzzle. All I'm doing is pointing
out one. It is interesting to speculate how union weakness feeds into a lot
of facets of life today. Were unions a credible force, would we have NAFTA
and employer ability to draw arrows? The doctrine I mentioned is a pow
>Eric Nilsson
***
>"... we find estimates of the effect of insecurity on wages
>that would be large enough to explain most of the puzzle
>of slow wage growth in the 1990s." (page 39)
***
I'd like to add in one possible source of weakness in wage demands comes
from both the decline in union me
>On Fri, January 22, 1999 at 16:50:11 (-0800) Colin Danby writes:
>>Read a page or two from any of the more theoretical
>>chapters of _Capital_, with its highly abstract terms
>>and sprinklings of Latin, and ask yourself what
>>audience its author had in mind.
Just quoting a wee bit of Colin's
I once asked a sociologist friend who had long experience as an editor of a
sociological journal whether, in his experience, it was necessary to use
jargon and impenetrable prose. He told me that when he started editing he
had thought this might be the case -- that certain thoughts required
specia
Greetings Pen-lers. Does anyone know what percentage of workers are paid at
minimum wage and has this percentage been increasing / decreasing/ remaining
stable?
Ellen
Ellen J. Dannin
Professor of Law
California Western School of Law
225 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA 92101
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>> Wojtek
>
>> What exactly is recombinant bovine somatotrophin (BST) and what is it
used
>> for?
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> It is a growth hormone. The hormone increases milk production in
>cows.
The other concern flows from bst's use to increase milk pr
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>Dear friends:
>Help me with the lingo please: what does it mean to "go postal"?
>Tom Kruse
>Casilla 5812 / C
>Has anyone posted Jim's case to Misc.activism.progressive. I think that
>someone there could put him in touch with the proper legal groups. The
Chronicle of Higher
>Education would certainly be interested as well.
>Michael Perelman
This past year, in connection with an attack on another a
>Does anybody know why Bensinger was fired? Every time I heard him, I was
>impressed.
>--
>Michael Perelman
There was some dissatisfaction with his technique --the Blitz. which focuses
on trying to organize workplaces very quickly, before an employer is aware
an organising drive is underway -
283 3
P.O. Box 1, Auckland, NZ.
Ellen Dannin
>> >What about telling the story that American economics is properly
>> a high wage economics and that adherence to a low-wage economics is
>> UNAMERICAN? That is to say, for example, that not only is NAIRU
>questionable as a theory and misleading as a guide for policy, it is first
>and foremost F
Professor Tim Hazeldine of Auckland University's economics department has
recently written a book advancing a more collective view of society and
economics. The book is written in very accessible language and is meant to
be readable by a popular audience. He argues for a society organised on
princ
Throwing in my 2 cents worth . . . and trying to come at this from another
angle. Democracy is a hard thing to achieve anywhere from the smallest
grouping to the largest country. Maintaining engagement is difficult as
energy and focus fades, as leaders' ambitions take over, as a group faces
strong
>Robert Saute
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What percentage of the labor force fall into the categories "professional,
executive, and
>administrative personnel"?
Michael Yates did a great job summarizing some of the many and complex
exemptions from coverage of the FLSA. To know whether any exemption app
Ellen J. Dannin
California Western School of Law
225 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA 92116
(619) 525-1449
FAX: (619) 696-
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From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, August 13, 1998 7:37 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:831] Re: R
Although I have a fairly laissez-faire attitude about list membership
(except in those cases where there is personalised malevolence), I think it
is reasonable to require all list members to front up with their real
identities. Knowing that what I write to Pen-L is archived and retrievable
through
>Now, everyone has limits on how far individual choice is permitted. Some
>would limit pornography, cannibis, tobacco, alcohol, prostitution, leaf
>blowers, etc. These discussions usually occur is the framework of
>questions of morality. I am only suggesting that we frame these questions
>in a
>And it is immoral to break the capitalist law and leave someone else
>to pay the the penalty. So you should not break copyright laws and
>leave Michael P. to be sued for it -- regardless of moral arguments.
Nicely put discussion.
Ellen Dannin
Also, would you please leave your
unlocked, un-alarmed cars with the keys in the ignition and the registration
in the glove box.
Much thanks. I'm eager to see the metal hit the road.
Ellen Dannin
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ook at the manuscript and publish it with no
compensation to the author.
Ellen Dannin
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ghts as a publisher. He is a publisher.
Please go fight with someone else, and don't assume that everyone is being
provocative.
Ellen Dannin
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bute them for free. There may be some
level at which he is happy to let people distribute parts electronically.
What is that level and why?
Ellen Dannin
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vigorous in recent years. Fighting such a lawsuit,
even if the defendants were to prevail, is not cheap. The fair use doctrine
provides a safe harbor of sorts, but care should be taken not to abuse it
and subject the list or archive to suit.
Ellen Dannin
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An important nuance in Darwinism that seems to get left out of discussions
of "competition of the fittest" is the importance of filling different
environmental niches. Folks often talk about this subject as if all
creatures all over are in a free for all competing against one another.
Obviously th
on't like it. When I was called for jury duty a
few weeks ago we were asked whether we knew what jury nullification was and
whether we believed in it. Anyone who said yes (one person) was in for extra
questioning.
Ellen Dannin
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CALL FOR PAPERS/CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
FORGING A LABOR COMMUNITY AGENDA:
RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER AND THE FIGHT FOR
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
UCLEA/AFL-CIO EDUCATION CONFERENCE
April 8-11, 1999 Atlanta Georgia
On April 8-11, 1999, the AFL-CIO and the University College Labor Education
Association (UCLEA) wil
in.
One key failure of the statute as drafted has been the failure to give
standing either to employees or unions to take an active role in the key
initial parts of OSHA cases.
Ellen Dannin
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Although Judge Gary Lancaster dismissed Beverley
Enterprises' lawsuit against Kate Bronfenbrenner on May 26, that
does not end the company's litigation against her.
Not only has Beverly announced that they are going to appeal
their decision, but on June 9, they filed a motion to amend its
It has now accessible through:
http://www.natcavoice.org/javatree/laborframe.htm
The direct link is http://www.natcavoice.org/un/f98/bronfenbrenner.htm
Ellen J. Dannin
California Western School of Law
225 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA 92116
(619) 525-1449
FAX: (619) 696-
As those on these lists have probably heard by now, the case against Kate
Bronfenbrenner was dismissed Friday on the ground that her statement was
made in a congressional proceeding and therefore was privileged. No ruling
was made on other issues in the motion to dismiss. Beverly opposed the
motio
f Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic
>Growth, vol. 5, Greenwich, Conn. and London: JAI Press, 1991, pages 167-81.
>
>
>Ellen Dannin wrote:
>
>> Is anyone on Pen-L familiar with these two economists?
>>
>> Dwight Lee and Robert Vandenberg from the Econ dept at th
Is anyone on Pen-L familiar with these two economists?
Dwight Lee and Robert Vandenberg from the Econ dept at the University of
Georgia
They are being advanced as experts in a trial. Their role is supposed to be
to examine the work of a labor researcher -- essentially using social
science method
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To: Ellen Dannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 2:55 PM
Subject: Electricity deregulation
Dear Ellen,
Here is my just published "Listener" column on the question you ask. To be
even more
I wondered if Bill Rosenberg or Brian Easton might like to comment on the
fallout from the weeks-long blackout of Auckland -- something that appears
to have been the result of privatising the electrical system. Deregualtion
is big here in California and elsewhere, so those experiences are probably
Any comments on the microsoft antitrust suit from the list? Is it true that
MS Word can't / won't convert any Word Perfect formats since 5.1? If so, is
microsoft engaging in similar tactics elsewhere to freeze out other
companies by making their products less compatible?
Ellen
Ellen J. Dannin
Ca
Magic realism or fantasy in one form or another has been a factor in most
John Sayles films. The most obvious example was "Brother From Another
Planet." It would be possible to bypass its role in "Men with Guns", but I
think that would be a mistake. The device of the mother telling the story
to he
There are a few sources for information on these events that have not
so far been mentioned.
James Gross (Cornell labor historian) has written a multi-volume history
of the NLRA and NLRB.
Jim Pope (Rutgers Law school) is currently doing an analysis of s.7(a).
And related but slightly off topic:
Thank you for your support. We have received nearly a thousand
endorsements. Based on these we have put our a press release and expect
coverage on this situation. We have also sent the material to the
congressional representatives who attended and called the Town Hall
meeting at which Kate Bronfen
We have had an enormous outpouring of support for Dr. Bronfenbrenner. At
this point, we don't need further endorsements. We will be going to the
media today (Wednesday, February 23, 1998) with the petition and the
hundreds of endorsements.
We will try to provide updates as newsworthy events tra
or History, School of
Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
Ellen Dannin, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law
Julius Getman, The Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair and Professor
of Law,University of Texas Law School and former President,
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
> I got a flyer in yesterday's mail announcing a series of seminars on "How
> To Stay Union-Free into the 21st Century" (printed with "UNION FREE" in red
> in what looks like 96- or 100-point type, in contrast with the rest of the
> phrase, which was merel
A visit to Cahokia (across the river from St. Louis) is fascinating in and
of itself and also for the evidence it provides that the large number of
residents there overused the local resources, which then led to its
decline. There may have been other factors, such as climate, but the
decline took
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Louis Proyect wrote:
> * * * I have to confess that the discussion about "technology" sort
> of baffles me since it seems detached from the broader question of how
> society is organized.
>
> There is no question that automation of blue-collar and white-collar work
> has led
On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Tom Walker wrote:
> Ellen Dannin wrote,
> > Suppose you were an employer whose employees were represented by a
> > union. Now suppose that the labor laws you bargain under state that
> > when the parties reach an impasse, you, the employer, get to impose
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, James Devine wrote:
* * *
> Lately, I've been wondering about the social-psychological basis of these
> claims of "superiority." Why make this kind of outrageous claim at all? Is
> it because we're working at a liberal arts college and have to rub shoulders
> with all sorts
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Continuing a discussion from several months ago, the opening of a BLS news
> release published today. The full text is on the BLS web site at
> http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.toc.htm.
>
> I welcome discussion as to what it all means.
>
> Doug
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >It's magic: lower incomes + higher labour force participation = a lower rate
> >of unemployment. This precisely confirms the right-wing nostrum that there
> >is no such thing as involuntary unemployment. At a low enough wage, there is
> >a job for every
of those who are less powerful and the most open to
exploitation, the most vulnerable in society." - Service Workers
Union National Secretary Rick Barker, first anniversary of the
ECA
Introduction by Ellen Dannin, California Western School of Law
Contributors:
Gordon Anderson Busi
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, William S. Lear wrote:
> Can anyone fill me in on the origins of the term "wage slavery"?
>
I can't fill you in on its origins, but there is a great example of the
comparisons you made in the 1960's movie "Burn" or "Quemado" starring a
thin Marlon Brando with a British accen
The now defunct labor research review out of Chicago has done several
research volumes on the topic. These are usually written by union
activists, so they present a more hands-on approach.
If you wanted to talk to people deeply involved in this work, contact the
Support Committee for Maquiladora
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, James Devine wrote:
> Doug reports poll results: > half of "American Indians" called themselves
> that, 37% "Native American";<
>
> My wife has worked a lot with the "Native community." She finds that most of
> them call themselves "American Indians," thinking that "Native A
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, tom wood wrote:
> Richard Duchesne wrote:
> >What about pre-linguistic mental capacities, say in the first two
> >years of a child? This is possible, but should we call that
> >"thinking"?
>
> Are you saying learning is possible without thinking?
I wanted to wade in just t
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Michael Perelman wrote:
> James Devine wrote:
> >
> > Michael Perelman asks if labor has ever been so weak with such low
> > unemployment rates ("tight" labor markets). I'd say yes. The 1920s was a
> > period of labor weakness, but low U rates:
>
> Jim D. correctly notes tha
One thing that seems to be affecting union power and thus the
attractiveness of unions to members has been the expansion of the legal
doctrine which allows employers to implement their final offers upon
reaching impasse. Beginning in the mid-1980's the NLRB became
increasingly willing to find
One excellent film on the globalisation of labor is "The Emperor's New
Clothes" from the Canadian Film Board. Its main focus is NAFTA, viewed on
many levels, concluding with a visit by Canadian auto workers to a
Mexican plant where the work Canadians did is now being done. This is a
very styl
Today's Los Angeles Times has a long piece criticizing NZ's reading
methodology -- whole language v. phonics. The article says that employers
are complaining that they can't get literate workers.
Periodically groups like the NZ Business Roundtable have
advocated privatizing public education or
I wanted to add some thoughts on the legal issues involved to this
discussion on externalities and how they are or are not taken into
consideration.
In order to bring a case, one must have "standing." Standing is a
constitutional requirement, and it is also a difficult status to define.
One has s
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t on employers to its
overuse than banking comp time.
There are ways the legislation can address each of these problems, but it
may be that the eventual law will not be drafted in a way that makes the
unionists' lives easier.
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At least some who have commented on this (sympathetically) in the California
newspapers have said it was being used as a way to get additional funding
-- available for teaching students whose primary language is not English --
for these schools.
Ellen J. Dannin
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Perception in this area is fairly important. There have been lately a
number of stories in the papers about how fearful people are as a result
of their own or others' experiences with downsizing and/or being made
contingent. Some say they are happy to have been cut free of an employer
and to b
On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Doug Henwood wrote:
> At 5:41 PM 11/9/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >I interpret the massive attack on affirmative action in
> >California as part of the "angry White male" phenomenon.
>
> Obviously, but one complicating point: according to the LA Times exit poll,
> 48%
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Terrence Mc Donough wrote:
> Collective bargaining type models don't work well in progressive
> org's because the org shouldn't be using its powerful position as an
> employer in the bargaining process. Similarly, the social
> consciousness and personalized relationships
I am doing some work focussed more on legal and labor issues connected
with privatization and subcontracting of government services. Have any of
you on this list been doing anything on the issue or are you aware of any
recent studies, particularly those looking at the economics of privatizatio
It seems to me that you might want to put in at least some reference to
the Fed's NAIRU policy -- i.e. it is the government and its policies that
have impoverished so many. These are the casualties of a war on
inflation. The government has been demanding that some 6% of us remain
unemployed
A few days ago Thomas Murakami forwarded an edited piece of information
about AIRAANZ to this list. Maggie Coleman asked what AIRAANZ is, and I
answered her offlist. AIRAANZ has been around for quite awhile, long
before Clive set foot in the antipodes. It sponsors annual conferences
of acad
I must not have been clear - let me try again.
> Ellen Dannin writes 5/24:
>
> > To follow up and segue, did anyone else hear the interview with the
> chair of Chrysler who claimed that downsizing and laying off people is
> good for those laid off. He based this on fig
On Thu, 23 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think Jim is on the right track with his slogan, but that this does not go
> far enough. How about a mandatory education list for all corporate leaders
> and politicians? What books, movies, and music would people put on a list in
> an attempt to
One of my colleagues's husbands is a psychiatrist. An HMO with which he
is associated was purchased by a drug manufacturer which also makes
anti-depressants. One of the administrative people there called Dr. X
and told him that they had reviewed the dosages he was prescribing for
his patient
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In Shniad's interesting post on NZ we find the following:
>
> The ethos of the market pervaded everyday life. Even
> the language was captured, dehumanizing the people
> and communities it affected. It became acceptable to
> talk of "shedding worke
On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, bill mitchell wrote:
* * *
> the swish pamphlet paints a very pessimistic outlook for the NZ economy in
> terms of low investment, low productivity and declining export prospects. In
> other words, while the usual criticisms of the reforms were in terms of equity
> and social
On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Hugo Radice wrote:
> I was recently at a workshop in Budapest on foreign direct investment
> in the Visegrad countries (btw, that's Hungary, Poland, Slovakia,
> Czech Rep], and to my surprise one of the papers was on "The role of
> FDI in structural change: the lessons from
Rather than looking to Chile to find out whether investing social
security funds in private markets, I'd look to New Zealand. It has
seized on privatization avidly but has not had the sort of militarisation
and dictatorship which clouds the picture in Chile. Jane Kelsey's new
book called "Ec
I'm curious whether the suggestion that social security be privatized is
not the first step to abolishing it. At the present time, the wealthier
people in this country already have little to gain or lose from whatever
happens to social security. Private pensions have made social security
onl
Here's a few thoughts. Legislatively overturn S.Ct. cases which say that
corporations are persons entitled to 14th amendment protections. Require
that all corporation enabling laws require that corporations operate in
the public interest. Then define the public interest as something more
th
I don't know how economics courses are taught these days, but one method
of teaching some of use, I notice especially in the labor field, is
problems and simulations. The students get into the role play and seem
to learn their labor law much better than a more traditional walk
through, exeges
I was asked to forward this message to this list.
ejd
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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 07:40:47 +1300
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Subject: EJROT (pronounced "Edge-Rot")
The Electronic Journal of Radical Organisation Theory (EJROT) launched
its first edition last year. T
not be a bad idea to get hold of those papers. (I didn't get copies).
ellen dannin
p.s.
thanks to all the economists who have tried to enlighten the
noneconomists on productivity and, as a result, lessened their own, no
doubt.
ejd
tion: output/worker/period of time.
Isn't it actually cost of labor etc? So that if you cut the amount of
wages paid to workers that in and of itself raises productivity, all
other things remaining equal?
/s/ another non-economist,
ellen dannin
Let me just add a personal view on what living under the ACC was like for
a one-year visit to NZ. It really brought home to me in how many ways
the cost of and provision of health insurance affects so much of our
lives. My auto insurance was about $NZ90 [$50US] / year. It was
essentially a
Thank you to the many of you who responded with clear explanations of the
budget. I passed them on and received many thanks to be conveyed back to
you.
It's an amazing time, but one of the pluses is that sometimes expertise
is a keystroke away.
ellen
Ellen J. Dannin
California Western Schoo
rough it now. Reading it will give many of us in many
countries a sense of deja vu all over again -- only theKiwis are just a
few years farther down the road.
ellen dannin
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for economists to come to the aid of, well, the noneconomists.
On two labor lists which have a high membership of union activists,
public and private sector, there is, as you can imagine, a lot of
discussion going on about the budget. There is a strong need for
comprehensible explanations as
mine its positions with sympathy -- not just assume they had
nothing to say -- until they did so, they were not ready to step into the
courtroom.
ellen dannin
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A new book is out on the liberalisation of New Zealand's economy which
might be of interest to some on this list: Jane Kelsey, The New Zealand
Experiment: A World Model for Structural Adjustment?
It was published November 10 by Auckland University Press and Bridget
Williams Books. The AUP con
Lately I've noticed statements by members of the Fed and the Clinton
administration expressing puzzlement as to why wages remain low,
especially compared to improvements in productivity. Aren't these the
same folks who just a few months ago were releasing statements about how
they needed to r
production, whether or not anything was done to improve processes.
ellen dannin
re also helped by the economy which had unemployment in the low
teens at this time, particularly bad in the region around Tiwai, with
some notable companies not far away having gone under adding to workers'
fears.
ellen dannin
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Peter Colley wrote:
> Unions win against RTZ/CRA
>
> Since no other Australian seems to have gotten around to it, I should
> inform labour activists and other progressives that there has recently been
> a major victory in Australia against a transnational company with an avow
s well as some whistleblower statutes. Put it
all together, and you get a complex situation in these sorts of cases --
creating the best of all possible worlds -- more work for lawyers.
Ellen Dannin
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Subject: Re: FW: Murder in Nigeria
Dehai members:
I have just read Debrai Haile's eloquent eulogy for Ke Sara Wiwi, murdered
Friday in Nigeria.
While it may be comforting to think about the actions of the US or South
Africa, or to expect other governments to res
On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Paul Zarembka wrote:
> Friends and comrades:
>
> I received the request below from a colleague in our Women's Studies
> program here who teaches a course in American pluralism. I wonder what
> suggestions you may for her and thus our students. Thanks,
>
> Paul Zarembka,
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