Although my experience with ISO-9000 are all in non-union shops, I do find some
useful insights in Parker & Slaughter's Working Smart.
The spirit of ISO-9000s series is to acquire utmost predictability of the
performance of all work procedures in a company. Generally, consulting firms
encourage c
(Mark is temporarily off LBO-talk and Marxism mailing-lists. He is also
permanently off PEN-L, don't ask me why. I thought that this post which
just appeared on the leninist-international mailing list, which he
moderates, would be interesting to others. I also passed Greg Nowell's
comments on the
Here is the latest (horrifying) news from Russia.
Greg.
RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol 2, No. 203, Part I, 20 October 1998
MORE RUSSIANS FALLING INTO POVERTY... More Russians
slipped into poverty in S
On Mon, October 19, 1998 at 14:22:16 (-0700) James Devine writes:
>Bill writes ...
>... Cui bono? and it's correlate Cui futuo? ...
>
>what does cui futuo mean? "who gets f**cked"?
That's what I was trying for. My classically-trained computer-nerd
friend can't remember exactly how to conjugate "
Dear PEN-L'ers
The Foreign Policy In Focus project is looking for experts that can write
four page briefing papers on the following topics:
* U.S. Policy on Privatization of Social Security Overseas
* U.S. Policy on Current Crisis in Brazil
* Role of U.S. in Liberalizing Capital Flows through
Dear Pen-Lers:
First, thanks to all of you who responded to the query on the definition of
underemployment. I hope the very good reponse lifts Michael's animus to
continuwe with PEN-L.
I'm back now with another query. A while back there was a good discussion
on ISO 9000, with participation fro
Michael Yates wrote,
>the two most important control mechanisms, in my view, are the stress
>now being placed upon our system and mechanization in the form of
>computers. On an automobile assembly line, stress is delivered by
>speeding up the assembly line, reducing the amount of materials
>avai
I talked to a guy at the BLS once who basically said - in more polite
bureacratic language - that they don't count underemployment because they
have no way to measure what its opposite would be, just-right employment or
whatever you want to call it. A cellist might feel underemployed driving a
tax
Doug Henwood wrote,
>I talked to a guy at the BLS once who basically said - in more polite
>bureacratic language - that they don't count underemployment because they
>have no way to measure what its opposite would be, just-right employment or
>whatever you want to call it. A cellist might feel un
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__A sharp fall in energy prices kept the Septe
The August Journal of the Marxism list is now online and contains:
1) An Argentinian's voyage from Zionism to Marxism
2) The Communist Party in Argentina and Peru, a mixed record
3) Mexican, Chicano music and politics
4) Charlie Haden in Portugal
5) Texaco and the Knitting Factory: hip capita
Doug writes:
>Why is it then that so many lefties have felt completely disarmed by Hayek,
>and so many liberals were by Lucas?
a) Hayekian ideas helped fill a theoretical gap. Socialists had to deal
with the seeming failure of the USSR's planning methods. One problem was
the problems of informat
This is something re unemployment that the Baltimore Sun published back
when George Bush was still President.
Maybe I was too critical -- those folks in prison are all getting
their Ph. D.s at the expense of those who played by the rules. (Who talks
about playing by the rules?)
G
At 12:52 4/10/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Tom,
>
>I have articles on underemployment. Should I mail them to you?
Golly yes! US Airmail please to the address below:
Tom Kruse
Casilla 5812
Cochabamba
BOLIVIA
I would be happy to reimburse anyone for mailing costs. Many thanks!
Tom
Tom Kruse / C
Dear June:
Many thanks!
>Both underemployment and subemployment categories not only are
>measurement problems, but more important, political
>problems--governments are not pleased to acknowledge higher
>unemployment. I'd be interested to know about the disagreements you
>mention.
Agreed compl
>Sometimes I say to myself--no offense to anybody on PEN-L--that scholarship
>is only meaningful if you don't get paid for it. Who cares if you get paid
>to read De Cecco, if it is part of getting ahead.
I agree, kinda. We have a good, small group of Bolivian students here.
Together we are stud
Ken Hanly wrote:
>PS. CONSERATIVE LOGIC is not an oxymoron it's a neologism.
Why is it then that so many lefties have felt completely disarmed by Hayek,
and so many liberals were by Lucas?
Doug
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