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33406 Shorris I -- rank: 1000

Kelley Walker wrote: >these were ordinary folks: a butcher, a machine shop worker, a >'welfare mom', a minister, secretary, an engineer, etc. Apologies for the length of this, but I loved this article when I first read it; it literally brought a tear to my eye. Doug ---- Harper's - September 1997 On the Uses of a Liberal Education As a weapon in the hands of the restless poor. Earl Shorris Next month I will publish a book about poverty in America, but not the book I intended. The world too ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 5 15:37:08 PDT 2001

33407 Shorris 2 -- rank: 1000

After the recruiting session at The Door, I drove up Sixth Avenue from Canal Street with Abel, and we talked about ethics. He had a street tough's delivery, spitting out his ideas in crudely formed sentences of four, five, eight words, strings of blunt declarations, with never a dependent clause to qualify his thoughts. He did not clear his throat with badinage, as timidity teaches us to do, nor did he waste his breath with tact. "What do you think about drugs?" he asked, the strangely ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 5 15:37:17 PDT 2001

33408 work and rhetoric -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: > > I haven't read Anti-Samuelson, but I've read a couple of Linder's >> books and had him on the radio a few times. He seems serious, >> prolific, thoughtful, and radical. I'm going to interview him about >> this book in an hour & 15 mins. >> >> Doug > >Gotta link? In theory, <mms://wbai.escape.com/wbai>. It didn't work when I just tried it though. Requires Windows Media Player, further evidence of Pacifica's complicity ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 5 13:08:41 PDT 2001

33409 work and rhetoric -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >I'm at U IOwa Law School where Linder is-do you know >anything about him? I'm the new U Iowa NLG president >and he's our adviser-I've read his anti samuelson-what >do people here make of him? I haven't read Anti-Samuelson, but I've read a couple of Linder's books and had him on the radio a few times. He seems serious, prolific, thoughtful, and radical. I'm going to interview him about this book in an hour & 15 mins. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 5 12:47:02 PDT 2001

33410 work and rhetoric -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Hey, we got TV, what do we need night classes and political meetings >for? Fact is, most workers, including most white collar workers, >would probably prefer a longer workweek to night classes, reading, >or political meetings. Especially political meetings. So where does >that leave us? Linder addresses this by saying that the decay of collectivist thinking and rhetoric in the labor movement leaves workers in a role of purely individualistic calculators: th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 5 12:31:17 PDT 2001

33411 work and rhetoric -- rank: 1000

"The sea change in teh conflict over a shorter workweek is captured by the current union refrain that '[t]he question is...[s]hould workers be forced to work or should they be given the choice to spend time with their families?' This individualistic 'family values' public relations approach stands i nsharp contrast to the ninettenth- and early twentieth-century collectivist context, when labor 'predicated its demand for leisure as a means to the creation of a better social order. To produce ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 5 12:12:30 PDT 2001

33412 hard times -- rank: 1000

A real measure of the economic slowdown in the U.S.: ticket prices for the Masters golf tournament are off 45% from last year... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 5 10:46:17 PDT 2001

33413 Global Warming -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >James Heartfield asks Chris Kromm: > >>Let me, if you will, draw out the conclusion of what you are saying. You >>think that the US consumes too much, and I presume would like to see it >>consume less, no? If that's the problem (personally I don't think so) >>then there is only one solution: reduce consumption by cutting wages. > >Of course the US consumes way too much >-fossil fuels >-fossil water >-topsoil >-military hardware a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 5 10:44:49 PDT 2001

33414 quotas -- rank: 1000

Folks who use free email services like Yahoo: mailboxes fill up very quickly, and when they do, posts bounce back to me. I've been slow to unsub people like that, but there are just too many messages bouncing, so I'm going to be a lot quicker now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 5 09:14:04 PDT 2001

33415 The tendency of earnings estimates to fall -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Doug, I don't understand the answer they gave you. Are they saying that if I >was given stock options five years ago, move onto another company the next >year, and then cash them in today that the timing does not matter because >somehow all of this averages out. It doesn't sound very convincing to me. Right, that's what he said. But he conceded they have no idea how big a factor option income is. (The BLS is doing a survey of stock options, but they're stil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 4 14:50:59 PDT 2001

33416 Americans support strikers -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010404b.asp> POLL RELEASES April 4, 2001 Public Supports Workers in Possible Airline Strikes Historically, Americans have sided more often with workers than management in labor disputes by Mark Gillespie GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ - This could be a long year for frequent fliers, with labor problems threatening to lead to strikes at several of the nation's major airlines. Comair (Delta Connection) pilots are already on strike, and Delta pilots c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 4 14:06:26 PDT 2001

33417 strangeness -- rank: 1000

Strangest email of the day, from a car-hater: > Fellow Americans -- > > Each hour that our airmen remain held in China, > American SUV's burn another one-and-a-half > million gallons of fuel. > > How much longer shall we permit this to continue? Indeed, how much longer? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 4 13:21:51 PDT 2001

33418 The tendency of earnings estimates to fall -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio wrote: >Obviously, however, surplus value/variable capital (the rate of >exploitation in Marx) is vastly different than, and far exceeds, the >ratio of profits to wages in the NIPA. Any marxian analysis of >capitalist development must then begin with the sources and uses of that >surplus value and the social class struggle far beyond the walls of the >factory. Rather than comparing reported paper profits to that even more >useless analytical category, employee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 4 12:20:48 PDT 2001

33419 Consumer debt question -- rank: 1000

christian11 at mindspring.com wrote: > >Does anybody know: does consumer debt include mortgage debt? > >In the Flow of Funds, consumer debt does not include mortgage debt. >Like Doug said, it depends on what they are talking about. I don't >have my FoF at hand, so I can't look to see. > >Doug, where did you get those #s that you cited? Computed from the flow of funds, thanks to my handy Excel spreadsheet. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 4 12:08:04 PDT 2001

33420 The tendency of earnings estimates to fall -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > The computer I'm typing on is a >> bit over 2 years old and works quite well, but its market value is >> close to 0. What's it worth? > >That's easy. Check EBay. Looks like $200. Since I do most of my work on this thing, I'm earning a truly phenomenal rate of return. Wow, a real productivity revolution, right on my desktop! Used panties seem to be going for $10-20. They depreciate a lot less quickly than computers! Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 4 12:06:12 PDT 2001