Regarding Justin's point about wage slavery. This was precisely the
attitude toward waged work in classical Greece. To accept wages was
to lower your social status almost to the level of a slave.
Terry McDonough
Plu ca change
--Justin
On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Terrence Mc Donough wrote:
Regarding Justin's point about wage slavery. This was precisely the
attitude toward waged work in classical Greece. To accept wages was
to lower your social status almost to the level of a slave.
Terry
At 7:49 PM 1/29/96, Justin Schwartz wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Doug Henwood wrote:
"rights"? That leads you to the elitist dead-end of litigation and Supreme
Court worship. Any liberals out there who can help me out?
Hey, Doug, go easy on us (future) radical lawyers. Litigation isn't so
THE MAXIMUM WAGE: a common-sense prescription
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by Sam Pizzigati. NYC: Apex Press, 1992. 144 pp, notes (101 referents)
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The publication AFL-CIO REVIEWS THE ISSUES is now available full-text in
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For those in need of Labor's position on public policy issues, this is an
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On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Carl H.A. Dassbach wrote:
How ever do they define "economic freedom," anyway? Freedom from hunger, or
freedom to fire 5,000 workers?
Doug
Economic freedom in the US is, of course, the freedom to fire 5000, with no
questions ask, the freedom for health care
Treacy: The health care system in the U.S. was and is a mess! We got
into third party payments as a tax dodge and price control
avoidance back in 1944. Over time more and more stuff got shoved
under the medical care tent which was being paid on a fee for services
Trying again..Hugo Radice
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Subject: Moscow study trips: 1996
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Concerning the 1996 study trips to Moscow:
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Subject: The Book!
Doug Henwood wrote (in response to Justin Schwartz):
Hey, Doug, go easy on us (future) radical lawyers. Litigation isn't so
bad. You got a problem with Brown v. Board of Education or Roe v. Wade, to
start with?
Obviously not their substance, but there's a deep, largely unexamined
elitism behind
Yesterday's NYT had a ringing endorsement of the possible appointment of
Felix Rohatyn to the Fed. What do the New Yorkers say: is FR the Last
Keynesian or just another warmed-over neoliberal? Does it make a
difference?
-bob naiman
wolfram research
(but soon to be urban planning, ui-chicago)
Recently Peter Burns wrote:
A few of you may be interested in looking at pope John
Paul II's 1982 encyclical "Laborem exercens", which
stresses the primacy and priority of labor over capital,
and while criticizing Soviet style state ownership,
indicates approval for what JP calls an
I was told that a large number (almost all) of Mexico's
Congress signed a letter to the President denouncing the
government's policies. If this is true, does anyone know
where I can get hold of the text (Spanish or English)?
Mark Weisbrot
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I agree with Mark that litigation is no substitute for activism and with
Doug that the courts are limited as a venue for social change. Gerald
Rosenberg has a nice book called The Hollow Hope in which he argues based
on case studies that the courts do not initiate but in fact tend to follow
Rohatyn is an accomplished hypocrite; as Michael Thomas puts it, he pounds
the pulpit with one hand while endorsing checks with the other. His
temperament is authoritarian and secretive; his investment banking career
has been entirely consumed with giant mergers (no wonder he wants a new
RFC; his
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:30:41 -0800
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Subject: Boston Globe online
Western hick that I am, I hadn't been exposed to this newspaper. It's
online and has lots of fodder on the election and
In response to Ken Hanly on papal social teaching:
(I tried sending a post on this before but it didn't appear).
Laborem exercens does represent something of a highwater
mark of left-leaning progressivism in papal social teaching.
Sollicitudo rei socialis (1987) was okay too, though not
quite
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