[PEN-L:5015] Re: Revolt of the Haves--global race to the bottom

THIS is the question that animates me most, lately: how can leftists respond to the global downward pressure on wages --Mike Parkhurst By fighting to lower the length of the work-week. How about that? Cheers, ajit sinha

[PEN-L:5017] Hello and temporary goodbye

Dear penners; I have been a passive lurker for some weeks now, among other things not keeping my promise to reply to Jim D. in our fincial accumulation discussion. It is just that I have been extremely busy the last month. the local progressive radio station that i am the (so called free-time)

[PEN-L:5018] Re: Devine on Unemployment Rates, then and now!

Jim Devine wrote: (responding to my statement: -- Result: the very basis on which the system was "held together" between 1945 and,say, 1989 is now GONE. The sluggishness of the recovery and the need to maintain unemployment so much higher than in the past and the persistence of the

[PEN-L:5019] HELP -- B-school imperialism threatens to expropriate poor Econ Dept!

Dear Penners: [warning, this isn't really about progressive economics --- it's more about one progressive economist [me] getting shafted!] This is a cry for help from a small (four person) econ dept. at a small private (definitely non-elite) college in Springfield, Ma. I've been here 24 years

[PEN-L:5020] Re: Revolt of the Haves--global race to the bottom

Some interesting discussion has come out of this, but I'm not sure it's got at what I was really asking about. Let me be more specific: In Massachusetts, we've seen Raytheon (one of the state's largest employers) whine for a huge tax abatement the usual ripoff of the public infrastructure, at

[PEN-L:5021] Re: Revolt of the Haves--global race to the bottom

Mike Parkhurst asks what happened to the US movement for the shorter workweek. Philip Fonere and David Roediger have a book on this cxalled Our Own Time: I recommend it. See also Kim Moody's book on the antimonies of business unionism--I forget the title. --Justin Schwartz

[PEN-L:5023] PEN-L Shorter work week

People interested in recent analysis of redistributing work through reductions in working time, might like to take a look at the Canadian Report of the Federal Government Advisory Group on Working Time and the Distribution of Work, December, 1994. The Advisory Group commissioned Informetrica

[PEN-L:5024] Shorter Work Week

For a video account of the movement for a shorter work week and other ways to rebalance work and leisure (along with material on the double-shift of women in household and market production) see "Running Out of Time" produced by Oregon PBS (Order info: 1-800-440-2651 $28.90 incl. SH).

[PEN-L:5025] Re: profit-rate equalization

May 9, 1995 Dear Peners, I was out of mail service for a while and I missed the discussions on "profit-rate equalization" before May 5th. I would appreciate receiving those postings directly to my e-mail:

[PEN-L:5026] Re: Devine on Unemployment Rates, then and now!

Mike Meeropol writes: "Has the Sam Bowles/Julie Schor time series of the "cost of losing your job" been updated through the present. That's a useful index, IMHO, for what Jim seems to be concluding..." I don't know if it's been updated. Does anyone on pen-l who's at UMass- Amherst know? Even

[PEN-L:5028] New version: Wealth Poverty, Sustainable Dev.

I have placed the paper whose abstract appears below on an easily accessible gopher at: csf.colorado.edu environment/Authors/Barkin.David as two files (May95 and biblio) I would very much appreciate your comments and feedback on its content and usefulness. David Barkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]