From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Mon Oct 18 2004 - 00:22:47 EDT
At 2:25 PM -0400 10/17/04, glevy@PRATT.EDU wrote: > >================================ > >Subject: Fwd: CP India-Marxist Pushes Hi-Tech >----------------------------------------------- >Bengal's communist government has taken some steps that might make >even a staunch capitalist blanche. >It has declared IT - and IT-enabled services such as call centres - to be >essential services. > >This means workers are banned from striking. Jerry, thanks for this. In your interpretation, how much freedom can workers lose in the realm of circulation to bargain for wages before they cease to be proletarians at all? Also, Marx would have heralded the right to strike in comparison to the pompous Rights of Man, no? Yours, Rakesh Forthcoming EPW has this article (the frontline version of which I posted months ago): CONTENTS Vol 39 No 42 October 16 , 2004 Reviews Right to Strike —A G Noorani International and European Protection of the Right to Strike by Tonia Novitz; Oxford University Press, 2003
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