Are the Census Bureau "P-60" Household & Family Income data for
1993 available on the 'net? If so, address would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Brian
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| Brian Eggleston, Ph.D.|
At 10:34 AM 4/18/95, Brian Eggleston wrote:
>Are the Census Bureau "P-60" Household & Family Income data for
>1993 available on the 'net? If so, address would be appreciated.
You can get lots & lots of stuff in two zip'd files, income.zip and
poverty.zip and a few new separate poverty tables, a
I thought this would be of interest to pen-l, both because it's something
that folks might want to act on, individually and through e.g. faculty
unions (see to do stuff at the end), and because it's perhaps an example of
coming trends... (maybe someone wants to cite it in an article...)
>Date: Su
What and who is a "worker"?
Mary Schweitzer
> What and who is a "worker"?
> Mary Schweitzer
Hmm. I'm curious to see where this is going, so I'll take a shot:
Most broadly, a worker is someone who expends labor in a productive
endeavor or enterprise.
For certain purposes at least, Marxists might want to modify this to
read, a worker
Re: "worker"
Good question!
As used in Schweickart's work I think it means anyone who
has to rely on paid employment--other than senior managerial
employment--for the bulk of her/his income, and not on
ownerhip and/or control of private capital.
This leaves open, as S would definitel
Let me take this opportunity ("what is a worker") to say something truly
heretical on this list. For me, a worker in a capitalist economy is an
employee of an enterprise; it is the relationship to the enterprise, not the
content of his or her activity, that is decisive. (I recognize that some
pe
Hello:
Is there anyway to set the digest to create longer digests
that come once per day. Having six or more digests each
day seems somewhat pointless.
Thank you.
Thomas J. Malloy
what is a "worker"? that's a different question from, say,
"what is a 'proletarian'?" I think those two questions are a bit
mixed up in the contributions I've seen on this question.
A worker, to my mind, is what Marx termed a "direct producer"
and might not be a proletarian but a slave or serf
A worker can only be defined in relationship to an owner and both worker
and owner can only be defined in relationship to material "things".
(Relations between individuals are the result of their relationships to
things). A worker is the antithesis of an owner, i.e., a non-owner of the
means of pr
Regarding Carl Dassbach's definition:
What is a telecommunications operator in a big room filled
with dividers and other telecommunications operators working the
night shift for a big catalog company?
A physical product was part of the definition. What is the
physical product?
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Coming across Gary Dymski's request for new and innovative studies on
segregation in housing and housing finance markets reminded me of the
PEN-L musings last week on progressive political resistance to
financial power. I think an important link is the nature of the
analysis that we as intellectua
I have to disagree with Peter Dorman's rejection of an activity-based
definition of 'worker', and go with Jim Devine's definition that allows
'workers' to include or workers, workers,
workers, workers, and yes, workers
of all kinds in all sorts of circumstances. The term has referents in
I need to contact Jeremy Rivkin, the author of The End of Work. Are
there any Pennners who can tell me how to get in touch with him?
Sid Shniad
It's Jeremy Rifkin, and he can be reached at the Foundation on Economic
Trends, which he heads. The address is 1660 L Street NW, Suite 216,
Washington, DC 20036. Tel. 202-466-2823. I don't have an e-mail address.
FYI, Rifkin has taken issue with some points I made in my review of his
book in
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