Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 03:59:46 -0800 (PST) From: Dennis R Redmond <dredmond-AT-OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> Subject: Re: comprendre On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, George Free wrote: > I don't believe that graduate students can be identified as members of the > working class by any stretch of the imagination (though a few may come from > working class backgrounds). Why not? We're non-supervisory workers, for sure, skilled laborers hired to do a job for the university because they can't afford to hire full-time professors. But we work hard for not much money and can certainly be organized into a union, and a pretty darn progressive one at that (http://www.efn.org/~gtff). -- Dennis ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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