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 ---
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