Re: Re: Re: Re: 'Anti-globalization activists havetheir facts wrong.' Really?

Globalization and capitalism are synonymous, except that the former at least in scholarly treatments is more than the economic processes. Anthony xxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Associate Professor Comparative International De

Wage trends

Seth chimes in: My two cents on wage trends at the local level. Aping corporate America, Sacramento County has cut the benefits and salaries of entry-level workers during the past few years. Robert MacDiarmid wrote: can anyone with a better grasp of stats than I have help with a rebuttal to

The Internet Anti-Fascist: Friday, 12 Jan 2001 -- 5:1 (#501)

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 'Anti-globalization activists have their facts wrong.' Really?

I wrote: >>>Doug, isn't commonplace for us lefties to say that "globalization is more than trade," i.e., that issues of capital (both financial and real, portfolio and direct) and labor-power mobility play a big role?<<< Doug answered: >> It's never very clear to me what people mean by "globa

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 'Anti-globalizationactivists have their facts wrong.' Really?

Jim Devine wrote: >right. But whatever "globalization" may mean, my point was that >foreign trade is only a part of the story. It's the part that the >orthodox economists emphasize, seeming to want to either not talk >about capital mobility or to treat it as a form of foreign trade. Actually,

Re: Re: money wage cuts & employment

I would like to just add two dimensions to this thread. 1. During the last 5-6 years, wages in the bottom 3/5 of US workers finally rose at slightly ahead of the rate of inflation for the first time in decades. (During the 80s expansion, virtually all income gains went to the top fifth of earner

Re: Welfare Reform, from the Horse's Mouth

A couple of comments on the excerpts Max sent us from the prez report 1. Mathematica (a fairly conservative (imho) think tank/number crunching group) came and presented an unpublished paper to us census dweebs about a month ago. They compared the effect of the reduction of caseload under afdc

re: definition of compassionate conservatism

A friend of mine sent this to me, thank heavens I now KNOW what compassionate conservatism is! > George W. Bush ran for president for more than a year as a "compassionate > conservative," and we've never figured out what Bush meant. But now, thanks > to Linda Chavez, we've witnessed the first real

Re:Anti-globalization activists...

Jim Devine wrote: > I think that it's best to say that globalization is a normal result of > capitalism, an inherent part of its dynamics. This discussion of globalization intersects nicely with a local development, as shown in the following posts. The first two, proposing a discussion group, ap

Ooops!

Shit! I just posted an incomplete message. I intended a more complete preface to the posts copied, but I suppose they are more or less self-explanatory. In any case it might be useful to discuss the extent to which (as David Harvey argued in his plenary lecture at the Marxism 2000 conf.) Globaliza

class

> > > > jim devine makes some good points, just to add one more > observation. in > > > many senses the strict, and abstract, marxian definition of class has > been used > > > in an exclusionary sense/ F'rinstance, since working class was > defined by a > > > person's relation to the mean

Re: Bankruptcy Question

Continental Airlines used bankruptcy to break unions at the beginning of airline deregulation. It seemed to be the main objective of Continental's first bankruptcy. Other airlines might have done so as well, but my memory is dim. Gene Coyle michael perelman wrote: > I asked David earlier if

Re:Anti-globalization activists...

I asked my class this week what "globalization" was, a term almost all of them said they had heard. The main idea that came back was 19th-century liberalism -- bigger markets, more trade, more competition. It's also true that the word is often used as a euphemism for capitalism or for imperialism

Re: Re: Bankruptcy Question

Gene mentioned Lorenzo and Continental Airlines. Charles Hurwitz and his assistant who became chancellor of the Cal State system and now rules the Getty Museum also did. I was wondering how common this is? Doug's article was: Orr, Douglas V. 1998. "Strategic Bankruptcy and Private Pension Defa

RE: Re: Re: Bankruptcy Question

Back in the mid 90's UPS threatened the Teamsters with a reorg so as to be classified as an Airline like FedEx in order to break the union; they basically told the Teamsters "go organize FedEx or we'll do it." This was while they were in court trying to have FedEx' status changed so that those of

Re: definition of compassionate conservative

Maggie Coleman wrote, >A friend of mine sent this to me, thank heavens I now KNOW what >compassionate conservatism is! > > Compassionate conservatism: It's compassionate to take in illegal > immigrants. It's conservative not to pay them. That may be too true to be funny. As I understand it, t

H-ASIA: Globalisation & Citizenship: Public Lecture by Dr Arjun Appadurai (fwd)

A sample of globalization issues... xxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Associate Professor Comparative International Development University of WashingtonCampus Box 358436 1900 Commerce Street

The problem...

[you knew this but hey, let's spread the news.:-)] [full article] A dominant world view coalescing around the Bush administration is that the US is the true leader of the civilised world, with a historic duty to promote the liberal