Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SOME 70 miles south of the site of the vicious four-hour battle between Soviet and Chinese border guards lies the enormous Chinese prison camp called Hsing Kai Hu, a complex of nine state farms and dozens of villages, all manned by penal' labor. A former prisoner there recalls the climate as terrible: temperatures hovering around 40° below zero in winter and soaring to a humid 95° in summer. During the warm seasons, mosquitoes from the myriad swamps of the area forced prisoners to wear long-sleeved jackets and full-length trousers despite the heat...
Fighting Lethargy. The communes are already hurting: they have to feed an estimated 20 million former urbanites -including millions of now undesirable Red Guards-whom the regime has recently sent into the boondocks for lengthy spells of physical labor. The peasants' response to Mao's latest brainstorm so far seems to have been remarkably unenthusiastic: troops had to be sent to a commune in Szechwan province to "overcome local lethargy...
...best answer seems to be that the Columbia administration was unusually arbitrary in its decision-making, excluding faculty and students from its deliberations almost entirely. Kirk, comments Ted Kheel, the labor arbitrator, was a "typical weak manager afraid to confront his board of directors." Policy-making was a matter between Kirk and the trustees. It was not unnatural for him to withhold from release a student-faculty advisory policy on indoor demonstrations. Kirk substituted him won rule--a blanket ban on indoor picketing and demonstrations, whose enforcement against five SDS leaders in the IDA demonstration was the grievance...
...obtain satisfaction from an intrinsic interest either in the process of production or in the resulting product of their work. Nor do they obtain satisfaction from the social usefulness of the product. Instead, they are motivated by the prospect of an external reward--wages received in exchange for labor power. In the workplace, the need to substitute external incentives for intrinsic interest arises because of the separation of the workers from control over the production process and its products. Grades play a important role in preparing young people for this kind of work environment. We object to both a economic...
...directors will be medical specialists--physicians, chiefs of staff and other hospital officers, and doctors from local medical schools. Another third of the directors will come from the consumers of the health plan. None of those members has been chosen yet, but seats are being saved for representatives of labor unions, insurance subscribers, and Medicaid patients who enter the plan...