[PEN-L:3596] Re: Arguments: labor exploitation and boycotts (fwd)

Someone picked up the phone and my last messgae got sent while I was in the middle of writing it. Please respond to this message; I take no responsibility for things that were only in the last message because they were my incomplete thoughts. :( Thanks. ... I'm sorry to get huffy, b

[PEN-L:3595] Re: Arguments: labor exploitation and boycotts

I'm sorry to get huffy, but I find the idea of Americans calling for a blanket boycott of Chinese and Thai toys demeaning to the workers in these countries and the idea that they might actually develop their own consciences on their own terms. I'm appalled. Unfortunately I think it's part

[PEN-L:3594] Re: Arguments: labor exploitation and boycotts

Dan Epstein said in reply to Jim's >One problem with boycotting toys made in China is that there >> aren't very many toys currently that aren't made in China. > that " Most of the battery operated >crap deserves to be recycled into something more productive, in >my opinion. > To Jim: who care

[PEN-L:3593] Re: Arguments: labor exploitation and boycotts

We've found toys manufactured in Switzerland (LEGO...), Germany, Holland (e.g. ambi toys), NY State (wooden), US (e.g. little tikes) and elsewhere that seems o.k. But it sure means limiting ones options (e.g. no Fisher Price). Not a bad choice in the consumer society in which we live. Most

[PEN-L:3592] Inst. of PE Carleton

Dear Pen-ler's DOes any body work at (or know the email address of someone who does) the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, Ottawa? A dear friend of mine is there on a visiting professorship and I want to contact her by email. ( She didn't have an email address when she left

[PEN-L:3591] Mexican women fighting back

Subject:Mexican Workers File Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against U.S.Corporate Executive From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 00:09:08 GMT Date: 10:25 AM Dec 27, 1994 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Conference in APC networkd: igc:hr.women Mexican Workers F

[PEN-L:3590] Real Change for a Change?

"Peter E. Pflaum, Ph.D. Institute for Human Resources (904) 428-9609 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] RE: Fundamental Changes? If you keep doing what you do - you keep getting what you have got, (gotten)! The system is brok

[PEN-L:3589] Computer applications for universities

Universities Look to PeopleSoft for HR Applicatons. The software company PeopleSoft, in conjunction with Andersen Consulting, has targeted the higher education field with applications developed for financial administration and human resource management. Kansas State University, the Univers

[PEN-L:3588] TWU study of info highway

The British Columbia-based Telecommunications Workers Union is having a press conference in Vancouver to release its BC Science Council-funded study entitled "Socio-Economic Implications of a British Columbia Information Highway." This study was conducted by Goss Gilroy Inc., an Ottawa-bas

[PEN-L:3587] Re: Arguments: labor exploitation and boycotts

One problem with boycotting toys made in China is that there aren't very many toys currently that aren't made in China. -- Jim Devine

[PEN-L:3586] Arguments: labor exploitation and boycotts

A conventional and well-to-do woman in her '60's has seen the recent op-ed's in the NYTimes discussing the horrendous conditions under which women and children toil in dangerous toy factories in China, Thailand, etc. She asked me why she should boycott these products, which I advocate: "won't

[PEN-L:3585] why the BELL CURVE now?

in a side discussion with Doug, I typed the following, which may be of interest: When I was buying Lewontin et al (NOT IN OUR GENES) at the local lefty bookstore, the proprietoress (?) said: "my question is why this book (the Bell Curve) has come out *now*?" I think it's not just the general righ

[PEN-L:3584] social history (fwd)

"Peter E. Pflaum, Ph.D. Institute for Human Resources (904) 428-9609 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 08:50:42 -0800 (PST) From: Raymond McInnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter Pflaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:

[PEN-L:3583] Re: New Paty's...

On Sat, 31 Dec 1994, William Myers wrote: > > > I think we need a serious discussion of "community," which has acquired a > > mushy saintliness on a par with "democracy." What *is* a community? Is it > > geographic? Ethnic? Is Manhattan Island, home to Wall Street, Harlem, and > > me, a com

[PEN-L:3582] Re: Forwarded question

Greenpeace keeps tabs on toxic waste shipments. You could start by contacting the Washington DC office - but one hand at GP doesn't always know what the other is doing. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 31 Dec 1994, M

[PEN-L:3581] Re: Merry Xmas, Orange County USA

On Sat, 31 Dec 1994, Jim Devine wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 1994 09:18:13 -0800 Doug Henwood said: > >Jim Devine notes that the Orange County mess is to be "solved" by cutting > >public sector wages and services for the poor. These are the uses of > >crisis. > > This sounds a bit too conspiratoria