From: "FRANCO BARCHIESI" <029FRB-AT-cosmos.wits.ac.za> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:34:55 GMT + 2:00 Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Comment on Franco's"RESULTS OF REPORT-BACK MEE Chris, > just one thing -- many people in the "One Big Union" (IWW) like myself do > not emphasize and in fact actively struggle to change the "vanguardist" > flavour of the One Big Union, but since the OBU and IWW are so > intertwinded, I wanted to let you know in case you also dismiss the IWW as > "vanguardist" (which I hope you know we are definately not!). Yes, you are right. But, as I wrote, my message was originally intended for a South African public, and it was in particular addressed also in reply to a particular group here in Jo'burg and "their" notion of industrial unionism that is quite different, *I think*, from yours and from the wobblies' tradition and *practice* as OBU, for which I have the highest respect and admiration. I apologize for any misunderstanding. Franco Franco Barchiesi Sociology of Work Unit Dept of Sociology University of the Witwatersrand Private Bag 3 PO Wits 2050 Johannesburg South Africa Tel. (++27 11) 716.3290 Fax (++27 11) 716.3781 E-Mail 029frb-AT-cosmos.wits.ac.za http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/aut_html http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~mshalev/direct.htm Home: 98 6th Avenue Melville 2092 Johannesburg South Africa Tel. (++27 11) 482.5011 --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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