[PEN-L:2719] Progressive Municipal Models
I'm not on these Lists right now, so any replies have to be to me personally. Where can I find information (preferably on the Internet) regarding models for municipalities or regional governments that is from a people's grassroots POV? Surely someone must have given a lot of thought to this -- no sense trying to reinvent the wheel. Thanx. +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ |stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal | | if you agree copy these 3 sentences in your own sig| | more info: http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ |JANUARY 25: CORPORATE TAX FREEDOM DAY IN CANADA -- MAKE THE RICH PAY| +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Jim Jaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Public Key available. | | http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~ab975/Profile.html | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+
[PEN-L:2718] Re: More job loses coming (fwd)
On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, D Shniad wrote: > "outsourcing" is management's value-neutral term for contracting out. > > Sid Shniad > > > What exactly does "outsource" mean? What is the definition of this term? > > > > TIA > > > > > > Shawgi Tell > > University at Buffalo > > Graduate School of Education > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Shawgi Tell University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PEN-L:2717] Re: More job loses coming (fwd)
"outsourcing" is management's value-neutral term for contracting out. Sid Shniad > What exactly does "outsource" mean? What is the definition of this term? > > TIA > > > Shawgi Tell > University at Buffalo > Graduate School of Education > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
[PEN-L:2716] Re: manufacturing vs. services
On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, dilek cetindamar karaomerlioglu wrote: > > I really don't understand how to draw a line between services and > manufacturing and how it is used as if they are rival developments in an > economy. I am trying to find a way to express the sectorial differences and > understand the dynamic changes they are undergoing. If you share your > opinions, comments on the following questions with me, I will be happy. > > 1) it is widely told that the employment on services is increasing, and it > is declining in manufacturing. But don't many services, in fact, directly > related to production? For example, very crudely transportation (SIC 4); > trade (SIC 5); finance, insurance and real estate (SIC 6); and business > services (SIC 75 & 87) may be defined as the complentary to manufacturing. > By adding these sectors to manufacturing, I found out that for example the > broadened manufacturing employment of Ohio has increased in the 1980's > instead of general belief that manufacturing sector lost employment. Then we > can comment that manufacturing is reshaped not lost its importance to services. > > Moreover, there are some services which are not directly related to > manufacturing but themselves evolved into a new phase which became as if > they are manufacturer. For example, McDonalds shops reminds me factories, > since they are so much specialized and highly labor-intensive activities > (like assembly lines). So should we count them also manufacturers? > > What about health services, don't they supply the reproduction of labour (an > input in manufacturing production) or repair of labour! (similar to the > maintenance of machines). > > I read that the biggest input suppliers to GM(general motors) is insurance > companies, and the largest GM products is financial services(to sell its > cars, it gives financial aid to people). So what is the difference between > GM and a bank? > > In short, I am not sure what kind of a criteria could be developed to > include which services in order to have a "broadened manufacturing sector" > (or a different name!)? For example, under "finance, insurance and real > state sector" is real estate connected to manufacturing? My answer is no, or > similary food stores under trade sector doesn't sound as manufacturing > related. So can there be some criteria for it? > > > 2) In fact, perhaps we don't need to think of in terms of manufacturing and > services at all but as the whole economy. But, then, in terms of economic > policies, what should economists propose for economic development (favour > and support manufacturing against services?)? How to respond the arguments > like [services increase, manufacturing dies, high-technology production is > good, rustbelt is dying, sunbelt is rising] ? > > > 3) How is the surplus-value created in services and how can be measured? Is > there a surplus-value when a movie star earns millions of dollars only with > one movie? Is this a redistribution of surplus-value created somewhere??? > > > before getting boring, let's stop. > > dilek > > > Dilek Cetindamar Karaomerlioglu > The Center for Regional Economic Issues > Weatherhead School of Managament > Case Western Reserve University > 311 Wickenden Hall > Cleveland, Ohio 44106 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dilek, I think one of the things that has contibuted to the questionable notion that the manufacturing sector is being eclipsed by, say, the services sector, is the increasing frequency of terms such as "post-industrial" in the titles of so many works. It is true that the service sector has grown in the last 15-25 years. I think many have inferred that this phenomenal growth, particularly in relation to the manufacturing sector, represents a break, as it were, from the centrality of manufacturing in monopoly capitalist societies. Shawgi Tell University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PEN-L:2715] Re: More job loses coming (fwd)
On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, D Shniad wrote: > > STATES LOOK TO OUTSOURCING IS FUNCTIONS > > > > State officials in Iowa will decide in the next few weeks whether to > > outsource their information systems, and other states are watching their > > deliberations carefully. As many as 17 states, and countless local > > governments, are looking at outsourcing as a way to control costs while > > providing better service. In addition, there's a strong desire to > > centralize disparate systems that are run independently by dozens of > > agencies, often with union employees. Michigan is currently addressing some > > of these problems, consolidating its data centers and outsourcing its > > desktop computer management to EDS. Meanwhile, its financial management and > > employment security commission systems are run on a mainframe at IBM's > > Integrated Systems Solutions Corp. (Information Week 22 Jan 96 p70) What exactly does "outsource" mean? What is the definition of this term? TIA Shawgi Tell University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PEN-L:2714] manufacturing vs. services
A somewhat dated but useful book might be "Manufacturing Matters" by Cohen and Zysman. Anthony D'Costa Univ of Washington Tacoma
[PEN-L:2714] manufacturing vs. services
I really don't understand how to draw a line between services and manufacturing and how it is used as if they are rival developments in an economy. I am trying to find a way to express the sectorial differences and understand the dynamic changes they are undergoing. If you share your opinions, comments on the following questions with me, I will be happy. 1) it is widely told that the employment on services is increasing, and it is declining in manufacturing. But don't many services, in fact, directly related to production? For example, very crudely transportation (SIC 4); trade (SIC 5); finance, insurance and real estate (SIC 6); and business services (SIC 75 & 87) may be defined as the complentary to manufacturing. By adding these sectors to manufacturing, I found out that for example the broadened manufacturing employment of Ohio has increased in the 1980's instead of general belief that manufacturing sector lost employment. Then we can comment that manufacturing is reshaped not lost its importance to services. Moreover, there are some services which are not directly related to manufacturing but themselves evolved into a new phase which became as if they are manufacturer. For example, McDonalds shops reminds me factories, since they are so much specialized and highly labor-intensive activities (like assembly lines). So should we count them also manufacturers? What about health services, don't they supply the reproduction of labour (an input in manufacturing production) or repair of labour! (similar to the maintenance of machines). I read that the biggest input suppliers to GM(general motors) is insurance companies, and the largest GM products is financial services(to sell its cars, it gives financial aid to people). So what is the difference between GM and a bank? In short, I am not sure what kind of a criteria could be developed to include which services in order to have a "broadened manufacturing sector" (or a different name!)? For example, under "finance, insurance and real state sector" is real estate connected to manufacturing? My answer is no, or similary food stores under trade sector doesn't sound as manufacturing related. So can there be some criteria for it? 2) In fact, perhaps we don't need to think of in terms of manufacturing and services at all but as the whole economy. But, then, in terms of economic policies, what should economists propose for economic development (favour and support manufacturing against services?)? How to respond the arguments like [services increase, manufacturing dies, high-technology production is good, rustbelt is dying, sunbelt is rising] ? 3) How is the surplus-value created in services and how can be measured? Is there a surplus-value when a movie star earns millions of dollars only with one movie? Is this a redistribution of surplus-value created somewhere??? before getting boring, let's stop. dilek Dilek Cetindamar Karaomerlioglu The Center for Regional Economic Issues Weatherhead School of Managament Case Western Reserve University 311 Wickenden Hall Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PEN-L:2713] Re: Olasky or Malthus
At 11:01 AM 2/2/96 -0800, you wrote: >But I'm sure that many of you already know about the infamous Poor >Laws. Illegalized and severely punished camping out/ squatting, >distinguished 'deserving' poor from the non-deserving, imprisoned >paupers in abusive and exploitative 'work houses' [work-fare], etc. =20 The non-deserving poor were also in fact separated into "dangerous" and "harmless". The "dangerous" thrown into the "madhouses." See *The Trade in Lunacy*, [by] William L. Parry-Jones. London, Routledge and K. Paul, 1972. [which is the book I am currently reading "for fun"]. Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development=20 University of Illinois at Chicago "Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?" --Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929), U.S. sociologist .*Human Nature and the Social Order*, ch. 2 (1902). Copyright =A9 1996 by Calm Cool Collective. All rights reserved for other plagiarists.
[PEN-L:2712] More job loses coming (fwd)
> STATES LOOK TO OUTSOURCING IS FUNCTIONS > > State officials in Iowa will decide in the next few weeks whether to > outsource their information systems, and other states are watching their > deliberations carefully. As many as 17 states, and countless local > governments, are looking at outsourcing as a way to control costs while > providing better service. In addition, there's a strong desire to > centralize disparate systems that are run independently by dozens of > agencies, often with union employees. Michigan is currently addressing some > of these problems, consolidating its data centers and outsourcing its > desktop computer management to EDS. Meanwhile, its financial management and > employment security commission systems are run on a mainframe at IBM's > Integrated Systems Solutions Corp. (Information Week 22 Jan 96 p70)
[PEN-L:2711] Call for meetings to combat neo-liberalism
8 La Jornada, January 30, 1996 THE EZLN CALLS FOR INTERCONTINENTAL GATHERING AGAINST NEO-LIBERALISM First Declaration of La Realidad Against Neoliberalism and For Humanity "I have arrived, I am here present, I the singer. Enjoy in good time, come here to present yourselves those who have a hurting heart. I raise my song". Nahuatl Poetry. To the people of the world: Brothers and Sisters: During the last years, the power of money has presented a new mask over its criminal face. Disregarding borders, with no importance given to races or colors, the power of money humiliates dignities, insults honesties and assassinates hopes. Re-named as "neoliberalism", the historic crime in the concentration of privileges, wealth and impunities, democratizes misery and hopelessness. A new world war is waged, but now against the entire humanity. As in all world wars, what is being sought is a new distribution of the world. By the name of "globalization" they call this modern war which assassinates and forgets. The new distribution of the world consists in concentrating power in power and misery in misery. The new distribution of the world excludes "minorities". The indigenous, youth, women, homosexuals, lesbians, people of color, immigrants, workers, peasants; the majority who make up the world basements are presented, for power, as disposable. The new distribution of the world excludes the majorities. The modern army of financial capital and corrupt governments advance conquering in the only way it is capable of: destroying. The new distribution of the world destroys humanity. The new distribution of the world only has one place for money and its servants. Men, women and machines become equal in servitude and in being disposable. The lie governs and it multiplies itself in means and methods. A new lie is sold to us as history. The lie about the defeat of hope, the lie about the defeat of dignity, the lie about the defeat of humanity. The mirror of power offers us an equilibrium in the balance scale: the lie about the victory of cynicism, the lie about the victory of servitude, the lie about the victory of neoliberalism. Instead of humanity, it offers us stock market value indexes, instead of dignity it offers us globalization of misery, instead of hope it offers us an emptiness, instead of life it offers us the international of terror. Against the international of terror representing neoliberalism, we must raise the international of hope. Hope, above borders, languages, colors, cultures, sexes, strategies, and thoughts, of all those who prefer humanity alive. The international of hope. Not the bureaucracy of hope, not the opposite image and, thus, the same as that which annihilates us. Not the power with a new sign or new clothing. A breath like this, the breath of dignity. A flower yes, the flower of hope. A song yes, the song of life. Dignity is that nation without nationality, that rainbow that is also a bridge, that murmur of the heart no matter what blood lives it, that rebel irreverence that mocks borders, customs and wars. Hope is that rejection of conformity and defeat. Life is what they owe us: the right to govern and to govern ourselves, to think and act with a freedom that is not exercised over the slavery of others, the right to give and receive what is just. For all this, along with those who, beyond borders, races and colors, share the song of life, the struggle against death, the flower of hope and the breath of dignity . . . The Zapatista Army of National Liberation Speaks . . . To all who struggle for human values of democracy, liberty and justice. To all who force themselves to resist the world crime known as "Neoliberalism" and aim for humanity and hope to be better, be synonymous of future. To all individuals, groups, collectives, movements, social, civic and political organizations, neighborhood associations, cooperatives, all the lefts known and to be known; non-governmental organizations, groups in solidarity with struggles of the world people, bands, tribes, intellectuals, indigenous people, students, musicians, workers, artists, teachers, peasants, cultural groups, youth movements, alternative communication media, ecologists, tenants, lesbians, homosexuals, feminists, pacifists. To all human beings without a home, without land, without work, without food, without health, without education, without freedom, without justice, without independence, without democracy, without peace, without tomorrow. To all who, with no matter to colors, race or borders, make of hope a weapon and a shield. And calls together to the First Intercontinental Gathering for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism. To be celebrated between the months of April and August of 1996 in the five continents, according the following program of activities: First: Continental preparation assemblies in the month of April of 1996 in the following sites:
[PEN-L:2710] Heartless capitalism
The Globe and MailFebruary 2, 1996 CAPITALISM MUST DEVELOP A HEART, EXECUTIVES TOLD Davos forum kicks off with a warning that greed is ultimately bad for business DAVOS, Switzerland -- One thousand of the world's top executives were warned yesterday that unless they treat their employees and their customers as human beings they risk a backlash that could jeopardize capitalism. In three separate speeches, Harvard business professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Swiss President Jean- Pascal Delamuraz and American philosopher William Bennett warned the executives that the bottom line isn't all they should be watching. Capitalism is doomed unless it develops a heart. The speeches struck a cautionary note on the opening day of the week-long World Economic Forum whose theme this year is "sustaining globalization." The common thread is that business has a responsibility to set standards even in the post-communist period where the free market has primacy. Executives ignore the ethical dimension of their business at their peril. "Even though capitalism triumphed in Eastern Europe, we may be entering an era of tremendous backlash against capitalism," said Ms. Kanter, who teaches at Harvard's graduate school of business administration. The tremendous upheaval as companies slim down or move operations makes workers feel that the global economy displace them, she said. "Unless businesses demonstrate their commitment to the work force and to the communities in which they operate, we could see a populist uprising in many parts of the world and a resurgence of labour movements." Mr. Delamuraz said that while globalization has brought tremendous benefits to some, there is growing inequality in the world. "We have to remember to place the individual at any political or economic measure we take," he said. Otherwise, there is a risk that globalization will capsize. Mr. Bennett is know in the United States for his crusade as co-director of Empower America for the media to clean up their productions and eliminate degrading and violent music, films and television programs. His book _Virtues_ has sold more than 2.3 million copies and has been translated into 15 languages. In his message to the audience of 1,000 executives and their spouses, 200 government officials and 40 heads of government, he focused on the responsibility executives have to the consumers of their products. "I have two questions to put to companies," he said. "One: Before you sell a product, do you ask yourself is this something you want your family using, eating, listening to, etc.? And two: Have you set any standards beyond which you will not go?" Ethics have to be an important part of any corporate decision and not just something executives leave for others to worry about, he said. The emphasis on spiritual concerns on the opening day of the conference reflects the preoccupation in the U.S. presidential election campaign with values. But it is also a sign of soul-searching among a broader group worried about the trend of massive layoffs to foster higher profit and soaring share prices cannot continue indefinitely. The conference in the fashionable ski resort will feature debates, private meetings and brainstorming sessions covering economic, political and cultural issues.
[PEN-L:2709] Olasky or Malthus
Re: Review of Olasky's _The Tragedy of American Compassion_ Thanks to Meeropol for posting that review. This Olasky thing sounds like a mate to George Gilder. Presented as "economics", Gilder prescribes religion and anti-rationalism as ways to stimulate and preserve capitalism. Also, more economically dependent women with more children will make men work harder to try to make more money. Yes, old-fashioned 'family values' stimulate entrepeneurship! Yech. But, back to Olasky. Part of his history, as I glean from the review, sounds pretty accurate - for England around the 1830's !! I just read some Malthus, and the parallels are _striking_. There is some truth to the idea that paupers used to rely on family and church charity. Of course, it was not livable, and it wasn't very reliable, I mean 'rely' as in they had no other options. To the extent that this is historically correct, it is equally unacceptable as a prescription for social policy today. But I'm sure that many of you already know about the infamous Poor Laws. Illegalized and severely punished camping out/ squatting, distinguished 'deserving' poor from the non-deserving, imprisoned paupers in abusive and exploitative 'work houses' [work-fare], etc. Malthus was an Anglican clergyman himself, who presented his "biology" and "economics" as "scientific", when it was all the baldest apology for defending the interests of the landed aristocracy. He was not a friend to the capitalists, except that both of those segments benefited by keeping the working class as poor and powerless as possible. All this came about [Malthus' first publication, on his population theory, was 1798] in the context of the aftermath of the French revolution. There was a great deal of labor unrest in England, and the ruling classes were panicky about the possibility of revolution. They all adored Malthus for his contributions to the false 'justification' of social policies, for his 'scientific' support and contribution to the already existing ideology. Malthus prescribed exactly the same fixes that Olasky seems to favor. Funny thing is, Malthus was accused of plagiarism, because Robert Wallace published something similar in 1761. I wonder if Olasky read Malthus before writing his own, uh, re-write...
[PEN-L:2708] Re: Culture Reference
On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Lisa Rogers wrote: > Shawgi, I've heard of this book, but didn't know anything about it > yet. Thanks for the paragraph. Have you read the whole thing? Does > it make a lot of sense to you? Do you think I ought to take a look > at it? > [Sorry to be so slow replying to your mail, but I've not forgotten.] Lisa, I think this book is explosive. I find much, perhaps all, of what Woolfson says to be valid and instructive. And, while I have studied much of it, I have not read it from cover to cover. In my opinion, this work represents a creative application of dialectical materialism. Woolfson rightly grounds cultural development in real, concrete, material processes. His approach is interdisciplinary. This is one of its main strengths. Yes, I think you ought to take a look at it. I'd be interested in what you think. I find that a good book to read along with Woolfson's is David Lethbridge's "Mind in the World: The Marxist Psychology of Self-Actualization." The sections on language and speech development in both books complement each other well. > > Thanks, > Lisa > anthropology grad stu > > From: SHAWGI TELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Culture Reference > > - Charles Woolfson, "The Labour Theory of Culture" (London: Routledge > & Kegan Paul, 1982). Shawgi Tell University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PEN-L:2707] Culture Reference
Shawgi, I've heard of this book, but didn't know anything about it yet. Thanks for the paragraph. Have you read the whole thing? Does it make a lot of sense to you? Do you think I ought to take a look at it? [Sorry to be so slow replying to your mail, but I've not forgotten.] Thanks, Lisa anthropology grad stu From: SHAWGI TELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Culture Reference - Charles Woolfson, "The Labour Theory of Culture" (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982).
[PEN-L:2706] Culture Reference
- Charles Woolfson, "The Labour Theory of Culture" (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982). This is one of the few scientific, not textual, works on culture and its development that I have seen. It addresses topics such as language, labor, speech, and, of course, how all these are dialectically related to cultural development. It actually incorporates anthropological, archeological and paleontological info. No MCE texts do this at all. This book leaves the reader with a clear and unmuddled understanding of what culture actually is, where it emerges from and how it develops. Shawgi Tell University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education [EMAIL PROTECTED]
