Happy Labor Day!

2002-05-01 Thread Devine, James
Happy International Labor Day, pen-pals! now I've got to pay these damn bills... JD

Re: Re: productivity & happy "labor" day!

2001-09-03 Thread Jim Devine
At 08:58 AM 09/03/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Or, maybe what economists really mean (although they don't know it) is >literally an increase in the rate of surplus value. exactly. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine

Re: productivity & happy "labor" day!

2001-09-03 Thread Tom Walker
Or, maybe what economists really mean (although they don't know it) is literally an increase in the rate of surplus value. See Marc Linder's "From Surplus Value to Unit Labor Costs: The Bourgeoisification of a Communist Conspiracy" in his _Labor Statistics and Class Struggle_. Linder tells the t

productivity & happy "labor" day!

2001-09-03 Thread Jim Devine
quot;labor" are paid according to their contribution!) What's left -- "the residual" -- is mostly profits. So when "total factor productivity" goes up, so does the profit rate.] [andÂ… happy "labor" day!] Workers See Power Shifting to Employers Labor: Th

labor day 2000 flyer

2000-09-04 Thread neil
-- Forwarded Message -- From: neil, 74742,1651 TO: DATE: 9/4/00 6:23 PM RE: labor day 2000 The more things change--The more they remain the same Another bosses election circus is upon us. The corporate mass media says it is funded by "campaign contribu

Labor Day

2000-09-03 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
I seem to have failed to unsub. So, for what it's worth, I'll wish everybody a happy Labor Day before I attempt again to disappear. Barkley Rosser

Re: AFL-CIOs on line labor day

2000-08-31 Thread Timework Web
Max Sawicky wrote, > Haven't listened to the rest yet, but there are some > good groups. EPI's in there too, singin' "Baby don't > lose that number." Wasn't it "Ricky, don't lose that number"? Temps Walker Sandwichman and Deconsultant

RE: Re: AFL-CIOs on line labor day

2000-08-31 Thread Max Sawicky
st crusades the >AFL-CIO promotes , this "virtual labor day" is no real surprise

Re: AFL-CIOs on line labor day

2000-08-31 Thread Doug Henwood
neil wrote: >Along with the usual class collaborationist and nationalist crusades the >AFL-CIO promotes , this "virtual labor day" is no real surprise

AFL-CIOs on line labor day

2000-08-30 Thread neil
Along with the usual class collaborationist and nationalist crusades the AFL-CIO promotes , this "virtual labor day" is no real surprise, as the AFL has been promoting the usual deceit of the unions - "'virtual class struggle" to deceive and demoralize workers for m

Labor Day 2000: beyond Leo Troy?

2000-08-30 Thread Timework Web
I've only had time to skim Leo Troy's "Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining", so it would be presumptuous and hypocritical for me to label his argument "superficial". Troy seems to be saying that unions are inherently monopolistic and protectionist and thus are doomed in a dynamic, competitive

[fla-left] [labor] AFL-CIO staging online Labor Day (fwd)

2000-08-30 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover > AFL-CIO staging online Labor Day > > Sunday, August 27, 2000 > > By Karen MacPherson, [Pittsburgh] Post > Gazette National Bureau [via Labornet] > > WASHINGTON -- The AFL-C

[PEN-L:10466] Labor Day

1999-08-30 Thread Louis Proyect
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR September 3, 1982, Friday, Midwestern Edition SECTION: Opinion and Commentary; Pg. 23 LENGTH: 740 words HEADLINE: Labor Day BYLINE: By Thomas V. DiBacco; Thomas V. DiBacco is a historian at The American University, Washington, D.C. Labor Day, begun 100

[PEN-L:10468] labor day

1999-08-30 Thread Jim Devine
Monday, August 30, 1999 Commentary Missing in Action: Media Images of Real Workers By MATT WITT, Special to the Baltimore Sun As the Labor Day weekend approaches, we will see advertisements for back-to-school sales, reports on holiday traffic deaths and recipes for backyard

Labor Day

1998-05-01 Thread hoov
forwarded by Michael Hoover > Whose labor day is it really? > > by Fred Gaboury > >from the September 1.1995 issue of the >People's Weekly World. > >

[PEN-L:12024] Labor Day, 1997

1997-08-29 Thread Jim Davis
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