Dear Paulo, Thanks for your gracious welcome. I think you are asking about the content of my Labor book, Beyond Survival: Wage Labor in the Late Twentieth Century. If so, the Table of Content is as follows: Introduction--Beyond Survival: Toward the Revitalization of Labor, Bina, Clements, and Davis 1. Wage Labor and Global Capital: Global Competition and Universalization of the Labor Movement, Bina and Davis 2. Labor and Today's Global Economic Crisis: A Historical View, D. C. Ranney 3. Political Entrepreneuralism: Deregulation, Privatization, and the "Reinvention of Government," L. Clements 4. The Swedish Model: From the Cradle to the Grave, N. Eiger 5. Labor Relations and the Social Structure of Accumulation: The Case of U.S. Coal Mining, M. I. Naples 6. Shop Floor Relations: The Past, Present, and Future of Mass Production, D. Fairris 7. An Alternative Strategy: Lessons from the UAW Local 6 and FE, 1946-52 8. Lean and Mean: Work, Locality, and Unions, P. Garrahan and P. Stewart 9. The Future is Already Here: Deskilling of Work in the "Office of the Future," V. Mogensen 10. Management Resistance to Change: A Case of Computer Information Systems, E. Bernard 11. Legal Challenges Against Plant Closings: Eminent Domain, Labor, and Community Property Rights, D. Schultz Selected Bibliography Index About the Editors Contributors Best wishes, Cyrus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Francisco Paulo Cipolla" <cipolla@sociais.ufpr.br> To: <ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 10:01 AM Subject: [OPE-L:6828] Re: Cyrus Bina > Hi Cyrus, welcome to the Ope-l. The title of the book you co-edited interests > me. Would you please send us the table of contents, even if briefly stated. > Thank you, > Paulo > > P.S. I have been thinking about how a marxian book on labor economics would > look like and came to the following points > > I. Inclusion > 1. exploitation > 2. forms of wages and exploitation > > II. Exclusion > 3. technological change and exclusion (industrial reserve army) > 4. exclusion and self-employment > 5. historicam transformation in the composition of the resenve army > > IV. labor process and forms of control > 6. technological change, labor process and forms of control over labor > > V. Differentiation > 7. competition and wage differentials > 8. wage differentials and different rates of exploitation > > I would like to hear from our colleagues what they think would compose a table > of contents of a book on labor economics. > Paulo > > ope-l administrator wrote: > > > Cyrus Bina" <binac@mrs.umn.edu>, from the University of Minnesota, has > > joined OPE-L. > > > > Here he tells us a little about his interests: > > ------------------------------------- > > My work includes > > The Economics of the Oil Crisis (St. Martin's, 1985), in which I have > > originally developed Marxian Theories of Oil Rents, Oil Crisis, and > > Globalization of the Oil Industry. I also extended those theories to US > > foreign policy elsewhere. I have written extensively about the 'Pax > > Americana' and its demise due to the forces of globalization, and decline > > of US hegemony (ala Gramsci). Since mid-1980s, I have been working on > > the notions of 'globalization,' 'technological change,' and 'skill > > formation' in capitalism. And labor co-editor, Beyond Survival: Wage > > Labor in the Late Twentieth Century, M.E. Sharpe, 1996). Finally, I am > > also specialized on Political Islam and Iran (co-editor, Modern > > Capitalism and Islamic Ideology in Iran, Macmillan, 1992). > > ------------------------------------- > > > > Cyrus: welcome aboard! > > > > In solidarity, Jerry > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Name: untitled-2 > > untitled-2 Type: Hypertext Markup Language (text/html) > > Encoding: base64 > >
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