Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: DefendingChina'sRighttoSelf-Determination (fwd)

2000-05-26 Thread Brad De Long

>Mine,
> I do not disagree that the wages suck.  But, are
>they better than what those workers got on the ejidos?
>

The voting-with-the-feet pattern suggests an answer...




Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: DefendingChina'sRighttoSelf-Determination (fwd)

2000-05-26 Thread md7148


sure, with $1.80 hourly wage, *and* mostly non-unionized, as of 1996
figures!

Mine


Barkley asked:  >>Mine, > I do not disagree that the wages suck.  But, are
>>they better than what those workers got on the ejidos?  >

Brad replied:
>The voting-with-the-feet pattern suggests an answer... 




Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: DefendingChina'sRighttoSelf-Determination (fwd)

2000-05-26 Thread Michael Perelman

Brad, are you suggesting that it is only the pull of the city, and not
push of people being dispossessed from the farms?


Brad De Long wrote:

> >Mine,
> > I do not disagree that the wages suck.  But, are
> >they better than what those workers got on the ejidos?
> >
>
> The voting-with-the-feet pattern suggests an answer...

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