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: "Rakesh Bhandari" <rakeshb@stanford.edu> To: <ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 12:29 PM Subject: [OPE-L:6829] Re: Re: Cyrus Bina > re Paulo's 6828 > > >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 > > Paulo, > while I2a may include analysis of time vs piece wages and I2b wages > vs. salaries, would I2c include analysis of formally free and > formally unfree forms of *capitalist* exploitation? What did you make > of the story that I downloaded in OPE-L 6817? I have had some offlist > discussion with Patrick Mason about this, and I am trying to > encourage him to return. > > Have you reviewed Ingrid H Rima Labor Markets in a Global Economy > (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 1996)? > > > > > > >II. Exclusion > >3. technological change and exclusion (industrial reserve army) > > Chris Freeman wrote an interesting book on technological > unemployment. I learned a great deal from this forgotten classic, > Alexander Gourvitch, Survey of Economic Theory on Technological > Change and Employment, New York: Augustus Kelley, 1966 [1940]. > > > > >4. exclusion and self-employment > >5. historicam transformation in the composition of the resenve army > > One interesting aspect here is border politics. As workers have been > laid off in the US, they have found themselves returning back to > Latin American, Mexico in particular. > > Another interesting aspect would be the export of workers. Do > exporting countries really relieve unemployment and collect hard > currency through the export of workers? If there is a net loss, then > would do they allow it? Can they stop it? > > > > > > >IV. labor process and forms of control > >6. technological change, labor process and forms of control over labor > > > Interesting that Rima has little to say about this, but I am sure > Tony Smith does. > > > > >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 > > > > All the best, Rakesh > >
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