>In response to my request concerning the professional discipline of
>which William Greider belongs, Mike Meeropol wrote:
>>
>> I don't know about Greider's credentials, but anyone who could write a book
>> like _The Secrets of the Temple_ is an economist!! In fact, calling him an
>> economist ca
>PACIFIC NORTHWEST LABOR HISTORY ASSOCIATION, ANNUAL CONFERENCE
>
>"Workers and the Environment: Perspectives in Pacific Northwest Labor History"
>
>MAY 19-21
>UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE
>
>Conference Agenda
>
>Friday Night May 19
>
>Welcome and Introductions
>Labor Song Exchange
>
>
>I read someplace that there is a lockout at Diamond Walnut in
>Stockton, California. Can the Californians tell us anything about this? Is
>there a boycott?
>
>-bob
>
>
>P.S. There was a nice article in yesterday's NYT about the end of the
>baseball strike: how the baseball players are the
>In defense of the mysterious HG, who was willing to have the
>government pay for child care but not provide it, hasn't the
>superiority of government child care as described here in
>many posts rested primarily on the fact that the government
>can afford to pay more? Is there some reason to beli
>On another list, an irrepressible born-again market enthusiast we'll call
>only H.G., after dismissing public jobs programs as "a joke" and "a waste
>of money," declared that government should do no more than finance child
>care, not provide it - provision being best left to private providers. In
>This is true, but what DO Marxists say about workers who are also
>rentiers? Many workers are also very small scale capitalists, in the
>sense that they own a piece of capital in a stock portfolio. And then
>there are the flight attendants at United Airlines, who "own" their
>employer. Waller
Heather-
McGarity and Shapiro in Workers at Risk: The Failed Promise of OSHA
(Praeger 1993) have several chapters that respond directly to Viscusi but
especially to Mendeloff on cost-benefit and risk assessment in the context
of OSHA. New Solutions has also run a number of articles on the topic.
>Thanks for allaying my fears about the right. I guess it just scares me that
>so
>many people actually enjoy right-wing talk shows, and it's frightening that at
>the grassroots tons of financial support goes to local rightist politicians.
>
>People in Colorado seem to like having Democratic gov
Trends in Oregon partially mirror what happened nationally, but there are
some hopeful differences. While both houses of our Legislature did go
Republican for the first time in 40 years, voters strongly rejected a hard
right Republican candidate for governor. Results of the vast menu of
ballot i
>On another note, how are Pen-Lers coping with depression and anger today,
>as we exercise our freedom to vote for the marginally lesser evil? The
>thought of Jesse Helms as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations committee
>is so nauseating that I'm having trouble thinking of anything else. Here
>Thank God I'd doused my Macscreen (not an advertisement for AppleTM
>products) with fire retardant, otherwise I might not be here this morning.
>
>Look, enemies of commercialism. I reflected for some time on whether to
>post that bit of self-promotion, knowing the prevailing anti-commercial
>cult
>according to 74762.1427,
>" Upon some review, I believe that most [OSHA]
>standards arrive after it has become the norm for the industry or after
>OSHA has been able to spend any amount of time targeting one industry."
>
>This fits with what Kaufman's labor economics text says: the initial
>OSHA
>The right to work states are alabama, arizona, arkansas, florida,
>georgia, iowa, kansas, louisiana, mississippi, nebraska, nevada,
>n. carolina, n. dakota, s. carolina, s. dakota, tennessee, texas,
>utah, virginia, and wyoming. oklahoma is not a right to work state.
>
>a right to work state mak
>One of my classmates just told me what must be an old joke in Canada
>about the most recent national election in Canada:
>
>Q. What do a Ferrari and the Tories have in common?
>
>A. Both have two seats.
>
>Steven Zahniser
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The variation is:
Q. What's
>Could someone please help me with some data on the following:
>
>I am interested in the relative importance of the U.S. entertainment
>industry - movie, video, TV productions, music - in relation to other
>large sectors, such as electronics, computer, aerospace, auto
>industries.
>
>I am interest
Tom Weisskopf wrote:
>P.S.: Like Nathan Newman, I am a New Balance customer myself!
While I can't respond to Tom's queries about price setting for athletic
shoes I can issue a warning to those who purchase New Balance that, while
some are still made in the US I have noted that some models seem
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