Title: RE: [PEN-L:30724] The persistence of feudalism
A great article! But even if the current situation in the U.S. workplace is _legally_ feudal, it is not so in a socio-economic way: it's capitalist. A lot of what's described below is similar to what Marx described in his chap
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From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Why do the freedoms
> that we take for granted outside the workplace suddenly disappear when we
> enter it? ''Belated Feudalism,'' a study by UCLA political scientist Karen
> Orren, suggests a surprising, and shocking, answe
Boston Globe, 9/29/2002
Lavatory and Liberty
The secret history of the bathroom break
By Corey Robin
IN HIS NEVER-ENDING quest for control of the workplace, Henry Ford
confronted many foes, but none as wily or rebellious as the human digestive
tract. Hoping to tame what he called the body's '
