First, let me thank all on the list who responded, on or
off the list, to my query for views on pension
privatization or related questions. I ended up with
enough material to write a book! The TV debate went
I think well enough, though we didn't even get to
1/4 of the issues raised in the discu
Sorry ... I'm a novice at all this. How do I change the email address I
want PEN-L corresp. to go to? (My university based server was just privatized!)
Tom
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From: Nikhil Aziz Hemmady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Greetings fellow Asian(ist)s,
My name is Nikhil Aziz and I am a doctoral student at the Graduate School
of International Studies at the University of Denver. I've just joined
the H-Asia list and was asked to introduce myself. At GSIS, I've work
I've just returned from laying down multiple self-promotional tracks in
Toronto. Interested Canadians, and a few Americans in the line of fire of
Canadian media, can hear/see me on: CBC radio This Morning, sometime in the
next 3-4 days; OnTV's noon news program, Thursday; Andrew Van Velzen's show
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Pen-L'ers,
Greider implicitly seems to be arguing for some sort of global Keynesianism
here, which if it were to be instituted would require that social movements
both nationally and internationally put pressure on their states to reverse
neo-liberal export-oriented policies.
What do pen-l fol
Interesting that you should post this. As of today all of my pension
funds are out of the market. The reason -- the really memorable market
crashes have occurred in October. Why? No one knows. My own opinion is
that the market requires optimism to maintain prices, and with the fall
comes the S
The now defunct labor research review out of Chicago has done several
research volumes on the topic. These are usually written by union
activists, so they present a more hands-on approach.
If you wanted to talk to people deeply involved in this work, contact the
Support Committee for Maquiladora
> Lott seeks campaign finance bill
> change its backers call `poison pill'
>
> Associated Press, 09/30/97 03:20
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott
> wants to require labor unions to get written permission
>
> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 12:06:27 -0700 (PDT)
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> Subject: [PEN-L:12733] Unions and Globalisation
> I am participating in a panel on Unions and Globalization at a
> conference later this month. Has anyone spec
Ken,
Take a look at the summer issue of Monthly Review. It's on labour and
globalization.
Cheers,
Sid Shniad
>
> I am participating in a panel on Unions and Globalization at a
> conference later this month. Has anyone specific material they would recommend
> as giving a good leftist a
I am participating in a panel on Unions and Globalization at a
conference later this month. Has anyone specific material they would recommend
as giving a good leftist analysis on the topic?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
William Greider wrote,
>Or perhaps the new uneasiness stems from a creeping recognition that deeper
>disorders are stalking the global economy -- deeper than the business
>cycle. A friend notices increasing references to the "O word" and the "D
>word" -- overcapacity and deflation. Neither term i
At 09:31 AM 10/1/97 -0700, James Devine wrote:
>I think one reason why the workers were more effective at organizing was
>that the capitalists were so demoralized, which was really a unique event
>in US history. Wojtek is also right about the issue of social cohesion.
>
So far in this discussion
October 1, 1997
When Optimism Meets Overcapacity
By WILLIAM GREIDER
An edge of anxiety has crept into the celebration of America's supposed
triumphant economy. Maybe because it's autumn. Manias and panics in the
financial markets typically occur in October or November, for very human
reasons. W
Michael Perelman writes: >I am aware of the hardships, but the point is
that the government responded with some reforms that were pretty far
reaching in comparison with other epochs.<
I had written: >> Maybe it could have been worse. One reason why it didn't
was that capital was demoralized after
At 08:28 PM 9/30/97 -0700, Michael Perelman wrote:
>>During most U.S. depression, capital has succeeded in preserving part of
>>its prior gains by bearing down harder on workers, farmers, etc. Such was
>>not the case during the Great Depression.
>>
>>Was there any reason,
>
>None come to mind, bu
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 AND 30, 1997
RELEASED ON TUESDAY: Most state unemployment rates showed little change
in August, as 43 states recorded shifts of 0.3 percentage point or less
from July. The national jobless rate, 4.9 percent, was little changed
over the month.
Dear Penlrs,
I've just been hired as research and education director of Tom
Schlesinger's new & improved outft, the Financial Markets Center (formerly
the Southern Finance Project). We're kicking off this contest for grad
students, and I'd greatly appreciate it if you could repost it to any list
> > In Big Victory for Labor, Workers at US Airways Vote to Unionize
> > In the biggest union organizing election in private business in
> > a decade, nearly 10,000 reservations takers, gate agents and ticket
> > sellers at US Airways have voted to join the Communications Workers
> > of A
Regarding Marxist analyses of the Holocaust: In the July/Aug 1997 issue of
New Left Review Norman Geras does a very interesting review of Ernest
Mandel's writing on Holocaust and WWII generally. In identifying the
Mandel's weaknesses, he suggests the limitations of Marxist analyses
generally of
At 04:53 29/09/97 -0700, Doug wrote:
>Deconstructing something exposes its origins and presuppositions, but
>doesn't necessarily mean you can't use it anyway.
Use it for what?
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>Freud was pretty hostile to religion, so I'm not sure what this is supposed
>to mean.
___
At 10:36 29/09/97 -0700, Ricardo wrote:
>You cannot emancipate yourself from the dogmas of reason except
>through the employment of reason: to deconstruct reason you must
>employ reason. If deconstruction wants to make any claims to
>validity, it must make claims to truth.
How
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