Search LBO-Talk Archives

3916 [lbo-talk] U.S. working class: skills and "functional literacy" -- rank: 149

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com, Fri Mar 4 08:43:19 PST 2005 >I will state what I've said before: The US economic system doesn't >merely tolerate mediocrity, it insists on it. Genuinely skilled >workers with independent minds pose a risk to the system that must >be contained ...

Document Size:	8593
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Mar 4 09:12:03 PST 2005

3917 [lbo-talk] U.S. working class: functionally literate -- rank: 149

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu, Fri Mar 4 07:35:21 PST 2005: >[L]ooking at the results that you quoted (Table 2: Reported Sources >of Work Pressure, 1986 and 1997) - the pressure from customers not >only declined between 1986 and 1997 but also lost its rank order >from #2 ...

Document Size:	13900
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Mar 4 08:40:24 PST 2005

3918 [lbo-talk] U.S. working class: surlier than ever? -- rank: 149

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu, Thu Mar 3 13:06:26 PST 2005: >>I disagree. In general people want to do the best they can and they >>take pride in "knowing" and gratification in being able to help. >>One obvious difference between older and younger workers is that >>younger workers ...

Document Size:	18723
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Mar 3 14:18:45 PST 2005

3919 [lbo-talk] U.S. working class: functionally literate -- rank: 149

>>In general people want to do the best they can and they take pride >>in "knowing" and gratification in being able to help. > >You're right. Many of the Wal-Mart workers Liza talked to liked >retail work - they liked helping customers, and want to do a good >job, even ...

Document Size:	10364
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Mar 3 13:49:32 PST 2005

3920 [lbo-talk] The Dollar and the American Language -- rank: 149

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net, Thu Mar 3 09:30:52 PST 2005, [lbo-talk] U.S. working class: functionally literate: >>(ii) native born college students had problems understanding >>somebody speaking their own language with an accent; one might >>expect that of an uneducated burger flipper, but college students >>are ...

Document Size:	14068
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Mar 3 12:21:29 PST 2005

3921 [lbo-talk] Query -- rank: 149

... php>. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow ...

Document Size:	6357
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Mar 3 10:14:11 PST 2005

3922 [lbo-talk] talk about getting your finger on the pulse of the country -- rank: 149

>Quickly checking the purchase circle for the University of >Pennsylvania, I find at least five books in the top ten that are >clearly assigned readings, and three books about making megabucks >quickly and easily: >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/browse-communities/-/215100 > >-- >Matthew Snyder >Philadelphia, PA "Purchase ...

Document Size:	9027
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Mar 3 09:53:31 PST 2005

3923 [lbo-talk] U.S. working class: functionally literate -- rank: 149

>Yet another example of dumbing down that does not involve >between-class differences. > >Retail sales, especially hardware stores. Virtually all sales >associates working there are working class. You can get useful >information on various products and know-how from older associates >(say, 40+), but if you ask younger ones (20 ...

Document Size:	7272
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Mar 3 09:10:34 PST 2005

3924 [lbo-talk] U.S. working class: functional political literacy -- rank: 149

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu, Thu Mar 3 06:08:43 PST 2005: >Yoshie quoted: >> > <blockquote>The NALS literacy definition and scales seem to have been >> widely misunderstood by lay audiences. One bit of evidence on the > > depth of popular misunderstanding of the NALS can be found in <snip> >All ...

Document Size:	10501
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Mar 3 08:41:26 PST 2005

3925 [lbo-talk] U.S. working class: functionally literate -- rank: 149

>Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> quoted CG&C: > >* 50% of the U.S. population aged 16-65 is functionally illiterate. > >This statistic is, ironically, based on a rather poor reading of the >NALS report from which it's drawn. The real number is significantly >lower. > >See, for example,: > http ...

Document Size:	13999
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Mar 2 19:36:27 PST 2005

3926 [lbo-talk] women on top? -- rank: 149

>Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - February 28, 2005 > >Women Increase Their Lead Over Men in Bevy of Undergraduate >Statistics, Report Says <snip> >For example, while women made up 56 percent of all undergraduates in >2001 (up from 42 percent in 1970), women accounted for 63 percent of >black students ...

Document Size:	15375
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Mar 2 15:56:04 PST 2005

3927 [lbo-talk] A Very Long Engagement: Draftees and Reluctant Volunteers -- rank: 149

Michael Dawson MDawson at pdx.edu, Tue Mar 1 11:04:07 PST 2005: >>Philip Carter and Owen West write that "[v]olunteers outnumbered >>conscripts by a 9-1 ratio in the units that saw combat during the >>[Vietnam] war's early days in 1966" ("Iraq 2004 Looks Like Vietnam >>1966 ...

Document Size:	11782
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Mar 2 09:33:34 PST 2005

3928 [lbo-talk] A Very Long Engagement -- rank: 149

Carrol wrote: >>I'm guessing, though, that not too many grunts in WW2 did drugs and >>shot their commanding officers. > >I an not aware of any dependable studies. A good scholarly history of collective mutinies and individual acts of insubordination in armed forces -- a military equivalent of Herbert Aptheker's _American ...

Document Size:	15518
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Mar 2 07:40:39 PST 2005

3929 [lbo-talk] Vermonters Vote to Study National Guard's Role and Withdraw Troops from Iraq -- rank: 149

This is the campaign unanimously adopted by the UFPJ National Assembly on February 19-21, 2005 that I mentioned earlier (cf. <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20050221/004143.html>). <blockquote>In a debate that echoed in at least 50 other Vermont towns holding their annual ...

Document Size:	8656
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Mar 2 07:25:41 PST 2005

3930 [lbo-talk] A Very Long Engagement -- rank: 149

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu, Tue Mar 1 13:09:15 PST 2005: >See the discussion of deserters and AWOLs in the current New Yorker. >Volunteers, apparently, were more apt to desert than draftees. (The >author speculates that volunteers come in with rosier expectations >than draftees.) I looked into _New ...

Document Size:	8920
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Mar 1 14:18:06 PST 2005