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38506 immigrant meatpackers on the line -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >What percentage of meatpackers are unionized, and thus in a position to >call on union leadership to support a strike? Jeez, what percentage of >meatpackers are non citizen immigrants? Dunno the answer to either. Anyone else? >Capital seems to be fighting and >winning its rights to reestablish neo bracero programmes all the time. For sure, but this particular group of immigrant workers sounds pretty militant. >How can Greenspan seriously be concerned wit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 08:56:11 PDT 1999

38507 What is the interest of bondholders? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >In this week's _The Nation_, Jamie Galbraith says: > ><quote> >By all accounts, the Fed is poised to raise interest rates, in a wholly >symbolic anti-inflation gesture. If the logic of this escapes you, don't >worry, there isn't one. The move is just a concession to the Fed's >internal lobby of right-wing economists and pleaders for the banks and >bondholders, who always want higher interest rates and who like to invent >inflation threats ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 08:35:14 PDT 1999

38508 Marxian vs. bourgeios categories [was Marx on Smith] -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio wrote: >So what do we make of the basis for your judgements about marxian analysis? Not worth a dime, obviously. I keep hearing statements about how the concept of productive labor is central to Marxian analysis, and the basis of all sorts of fruitful insights, but I've yet to hear any examples of those fruitful insights. We did hear that British capital was better off than it realized in the 1970s, but British capital seemed unaware of their good fortune, and opted for Thatcheri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 07:52:43 PDT 1999

38509 Fw: Fw: Unemployment, poverty and prisoners -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >And this undercuts their >argument about a systematic underestimation of productivity. Speaking of which.... "North-South Technological Diffusion: A New Case for Dynamic Gains from Trade" BY: MICHELLE P. CONNOLLY Duke University Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=164810 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.econ.duke.edu/Papers/Abstracts99/abstract.99.08.html SSRN only offer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 07:39:04 PDT 1999

38510 The Southern Party Seeks Secession (fwd) -- rank: 1000

For info on the neo-confederates, see <http://www.mindspring.com/~newtknight/>, a site maintained by a guy who used to by the nom du guerre Crawfish, until his anonymity was blown by some of his targets. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 07:30:48 PDT 1999

38511 immigrant meatpackers on the line -- rank: 1000

[Alan Greenspan can only view the pull quote on this story - "A strong economy gives some workers the confidence to dig in on labor issues" - with alarm.] New York Times - June 26, 1999 MEAT-PLANT STRIKE IS LATEST CASE OF IMMIGRANTS PACKING PICKET LINE By Sam Howe Verhovek ALLULA, Wash. -- Khamkong Baninthivong, a Laotian immigrant who has quietly worked for 13 and a half years as a meat trimmer at the IBP plant here in eastern Washington, voted to strike because she feels her wage -- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 07:16:18 PDT 1999

38512 N.C. Textile Workers OK Union (fwd) -- rank: 1000

So is this UNITE victory a one-time thing, or is something really happening there? Anyone know? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 25 18:00:39 PDT 1999

38513 Americans' concerns about moral decline -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >And are the workers less in chains today than they were when this >rhetoric was first uttered? Yeah, actually they are, in the First World at least. It was absolutely hellish to be a prole in 1848. It's not a walk in the woods today, but it's not hellish (in the First World - it can be real hellish in the Third). And the Marxist movement had no small amount to do with that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 25 16:15:35 PDT 1999

38514 Fwd: Chalmers Johnson (reformatted) -- rank: 1000

[Reformatted thanks to a little Mac Desk Accessory called UnGarbleIt.] Friday, June 25, 1999 Let's Revisit Asia's 'Crony Capitalism' Economy: America's free-trade proselytizing is the true root of what is now a global crisis. By CHALMERS JOHNSON After all the endless mouthing off in the pages of the English-language business press about East Asia's "crony capitalism," the lack of "transparency" in Asian stock exchanges, the "no pain, no gain" logic of the Internatio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 25 16:06:09 PDT 1999

38515 Marxian vs. bourgeios categories [was Marx on Smith] -- rank: 1000

Fabian Balardini wrote: > Take, for example, the work of Glyn and Sutcliffe in England during >the 70's-80's. These well intentioned leftist economists believe >that you can tell a Marxist story by using conventional accounts. >They observed that the English economy was stagnat due to a fall in >the rate of profit(r). They defined r as total profits/capital >advanced, p/k which can also be expressed as r=(p/y)/(k/y) where p/y >is the profit to wage ratio (the profit share) ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 25 15:02:29 PDT 1999

38516 Disabled workers and inflation -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Would you say that Herman is saying that disabled workers can be used to >keep the wage floor down (prevent inflation)??? Sure sounds that way. Greenspan has been worrying for months that the pool of available workers was getting too small. This is a way to enlarge the pool. God, the Clintonites are so vulgar. No arguments from justice or ethics for them - it's just good economic policy. Like his "we don't have an American to waste" line about racial discrim ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 25 09:58:44 PDT 1999

38517 Americans' concerns about moral decline -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >There is a Catch-22 here. I agree that if you use PR/advertising >techniques to reach people, you will negate what the left is supposed to >represent. OTOH, if you serve leftist thought straight up as occurs on >this list, you will indeed come across as "grim and humorless." Plus, >the hard work of consciousness-raising takes a long time. How do you >hold people's interest when they suffer from Political Attention Deficit >Syndrome and respo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 25 09:46:32 PDT 1999

38518 laws of capitalism (Jim O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >And CNS stands for? Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, an excellent journal edited by Jim O'Connor and a fine bunch of colleagues. They're doing heroic work trying to put red & green together. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 25 09:38:43 PDT 1999

38519 more Pacifica news -- rank: 1000

East Bay Express - June 25, 1999 Media Madness THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO "I don't need this pepper-spray shit!" the man howled as he stood outside the KPFA studio on Monday, tears streaming down his face. "The last time I got pepper-sprayed I was protesting Lyndon Johnson!" Had the pigs rolled in and kicked ass? Not quite. As sixty demonstrators chanted outside the radio station, enraged at the latest head-rolling courtesy of Pacifica guillotine queen Lynn Chadwick, some two do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 25 09:14:37 PDT 1999

38520 Marxian vs. bourgeios categories [was Marx on Smith] -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio declaimed: >At 10:29 AM 6/24/1999 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: > > >Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I find the basic Marxian categories, > >like the ones you name in the rest of your post, profoundly useful and true > >- but mainly as political categories. > >Previously you said Marxian categories were primarily political rather than >technical. You repeat the first part again here. Political? What do you >mean? Useful to create some polemic? ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 25 08:59:15 PDT 1999