Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past year this has proved overwhelmingly true of De Gaulle's personal dominance of the state. While De Gaulle was off on a junket to Rumania French students last May burst into insurrection against the retrograde bureaucracy of the universities. The revolt gained ominous momentum when the labor unions, restive at static wages and rising prices, joined the students. It seemed, during those weeks of the barricades, that De Gaulle might be deposed while absent from the country. In settling the insurrection and the general strike, the government had to accept sizable wage increases; all of this had caused...
...proposals), it was a thoughtful and impressive start. Nixon asked Congress for $61 million for the task-or $25 million more than the Johnson Administration had requested. Part of the extra funds will be used to hire more FBI agents and federal prosecutors and start a special Labor Department investigation of mob influence in unions...
...further law outlined by Feuer states that every student movement must have a "carrier" movement--either a nationalist, peasant, labor, or civil rights cause. Student patronage of such causes tends to distort them, inflame them, or deflect them. Student activists look for and require some oppressed class with which they can identify. They seek to offer themselves in a self-sacrificial way to an excluded group, whether it be the proletariat or a racial minority...
...born with these characteristics; they have to be acquired through training. In the earliest phases of industrialization, this socialization process was carried on largely in the workplace itself, as evidenced by the widespread use of child labor. But actual education in the workplace is ultimately more expensive and less efficient than collectively organized socialization in public schools. Schools, then, developed primarily as mechanisms by which economically desirable patterns of behavior could be imbued in children before they enter into productive activity. The school is a model of the workplace...
...technique for insuring that students learn things that they need to know, and grades encourage students to learn these things. But if schools are primarily designed as teaching models of modern economic enterprises, then grades become the hard coin of the scholastic marketplace. Students learn to sell their labor for money by selling their labor for grades. Exactly as in an office or factory, the school encourages students not to think about the intrinsic pleasure or displeasure of the work that they are required to do, but to respond solely to the easily controllable incentive system provided by the authorities...