File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9709, message 43


Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 09:55:35 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-I: Blair's willing executioners


James Heartfield wrote:

>The internal collapse of the reformist and Stalinist movements in the
>seventies and eighties is more far-reaching for working class self-
>organisation. To qualify that, it should be stressed that the material
>conditions of the working class - at least in the advanced countries -
>are much better than in the early century.

Ok, so I'm sitting here with the results of a poll of employed U.S. workers
done by Princeton Survey Research Associates for Wisconsin Public
Television. Questions 13 & 14:

"Do you consider your work a career, or simply a job?"

career                   58%
job                      41
don't know                1

"Overall, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your current job? Are
you..."

completely satisfied     24%
mostly satisfied         62
mostly dissatisfied      10
completely dissatisfied   3
don't know                1

Is this the stuff of which revolutions are made?


Doug

--

Doug Henwood
Left Business Observer
250 W 85 St
New York NY 10024-3217 USA
+1-212-874-4020 voice  +1-212-874-3137 fax
email: <mailto:dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>




     --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---

   

Driftline Main Page

 

Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005