FYI - there's a typo in the URL that was posted for the page for Nelson
Peery's book The Future is Up to Us. The correct URL is:
http://www.lrna.org/speakers (L rna, not I rna)
jd
I did a presentation for the Globalization and Social Justice conference
last May at Loyola U. in Chicgao on speculative capital. The paper is
available at:
http://www.scienceofsociety.org/discuss/speccap4.pdf
(a PDF file). Any comments would be welcome.
jd
May 10-12 Globalization Social Justice Conference at Loyola Water Tower
Campus
This spring Loyola University will host an international conference on
Globalization and Social Justice. This will be a progressive conference
embracing a variety of critical, and radical perspectives on
Economic Human Rights Freedom Bus Update
June 1, 1998
Day 1 of the Freedom From Unemployment, Hunger and Homelessness Bus Tour!
[Pictures and more information are available on our website:
http://www.libertynet.org/kwru ]
The day started with a prayer vigil at 7 AM, as the freedom riders
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 09:49:02 -0400
From: Chris Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: kwru-announce SUPPORT THE NEW FREEDOM BUS!
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
The Economic Human Rights Campaign '98 is a national effort to highlight the
economic human rights abuses caused by
Two advantages that the PEN-L list has is that it (a) provides a way of
receiving posts in digest form, and (b) it has a great archiving and search
function via the pen-l web site. So one can search for discussion via
specific key words going back months.
I don;t know if Panix provides those
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Saturday, May 9, 10 AM to 4 PM
Roosevelt University, Room 236
Congress Michigan
Registration: $10 ($5 Students)
Morning Session: 10 am to 12 noon
TECHNOLOGY GLOBALIZATION
Jim Davis, cy.Rev Editorial Board and Co-editor of _Cutting
Edge: Technology, Information Capitalism and Social
Does anyone know of any work that has been done that brings the figures in
Anwar Shaikh's _Measuring the Wealth of Nations_ as up-to-date as possible?
jd
Since Chile has been in the news and on this list lately, folks might be
interested to note that The Battle of Chile, the remarkable three-part film
from the mid-1970's that chronicled the overthrow of the Allende goverment,
has just been released on video. The first two parts were filmed in the
From the Scout Report:
2. What Caused Asia's Economic and Currency Crisis and Its Global Contagion?
[.pdf, .ps]
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~nroubini/asia/AsiaHomepage.html
Nouriel Roubini, Associate Professor of Economics and International
Business, Stern School of Business, New York
How exactly are these productivity figures arrived at?
jd
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There was a question the other day about productivity performance in the
U.S. Here are some numbers, current through last week's downward revision
of the 1997Q3 stats. Though there was a bounce in the 1997Q2 Q3 figures,
performance
From the BLS release it looks like contingency means a worker thinks the
situation will end w/in a year. The release says the proportion of
"alternative work arrangement" workers (contractors, temps, on-call,
workers provided by contract agencies) in the tota workforce has remained
the same
I was interested in seeing G. Carchedi's name raised in some recent posts.
I thought his _Frontiers of Political Economy_, although tough-going, worth
the read. More recently, he co-edited (w/ Alan Freeman) a collection of
pieces titled _Marx and Non-Equilibirum Economics_, published by Edward
What's the significance of the distinction between more control vs. less
labor, which I assume means less labor cost? Underneath both is the
compulsion to introduce technology to increase profits. A controlled labor
force is a labor force which presumably yields up more profit for the boss
in one
Jim Davis writes: Electronics (broadly defined) represents technology of a
new quality capable of at least drastically reducing the need for labor
power in the production process (because they replicate more and more of
the functions of the worker in the technology, especially the command
In said book, Caffentzis ("Why machines cannot create value, or, Marx's
theory of machines") notes that the significance of the Turing machine is
that, with a few notable exceptions, any mental activity can in theory be
^^^
automated.
Fascinating! But still
[This was fwd'd to me. Not sure of the headline it went out under. - jd]
..c The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) - McDonald's Corp. next year plans to begin rolling out a new
store format that aims to put the ``fast'' back in fast food and lure more
customers into its U.S. restaurants.
Analysts
In said book, Caffentzis ("Why machines cannot create value, or, Marx's
theory of machines") notes that the significance of the Turing machine is
that, with a few notable exceptions, any mental activity can in theory be
automated.
Whether the technology is yet available to automate a given task,
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Book Announcement
CUTTING EDGE
Technology, Information Capitalism and Social Revolution
Edited by Jim Davis, Thomas A. Hirschl and Michael Stack
Published by Verso, Fall, 1997
Available at bookstores
The Emancipation Proclamation was a political gesture to win moral support
for the war in the North, and to make it more difficult for England to come
to the aid of the South.
Passing the Land Grant act, liberalizing homesteading laws, providing
federal funds to build harbors and railways, and
It doesn;t seem that there is enough here to comment on. What is her
methodology? What does a "job" mean? What does "job loss" mean? How is
tenure determined? (And what wd that mean?)
In any case, the polarization of wealth wd seem to be a more relevant
statistic than employment data to describe
LABOR DAY 1997: FULL-TIME, PART-TIME AND UNEMPLOYED WORKERS
INTENSIFY THE STRUGGLE
By General Baker
DETROIT -- The year 1997 has sparked an intensification of the
class struggle here at home. Labor Day 1997 follows the first
anniversary of the so-called welfare reform bill, which ended the
The following is an exchange that took place elsewhere; given the recent
query as to why the UPS strike made a big splash and the miners and NYNEX
strikes didn;t, thought others here might find it of interest...
jd
To: Danny Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Jim Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED
August 13, 1997
Contact: Cheri Honkala
215.763.4584
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
HOMELESS RESIDENTS OF CITY SHELTER USED
TO CROSS TEAMSTER=92S PICKET LINE:
Kensington Welfare Rights Union Stands United With Teamsters
to Stop Use of City Shelters to Throw Other
[Given some of the discussion on this list recently re: imperialism vs.
globalization; and the comments on Grieder, on whom the following relies
somewhat, folks on this list might be interested or have comments on the
following... -- jd]
ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: CAPITALISM IN THE AGE OF
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