Word: labors
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...website are two long chapters about her political beliefs; the one on the economy is a 64-page diatribe against "fairy tales told by a globalized hyperclass whose destiny has nothing to do with the fate of ordinary mortals," and which gripes about "the victory of capital over labor." That's the sort of old-left ideology Blair cast out years ago. The pity is that France doesn't need a full-scale Thatcherite revolution to get it back on track. The conditions in the country are still far better than they were in Britain in the 1970s. Decline...
Searching for an activist group at Harvard is like going into a substandard ice cream shop. There are far too many flavors, they are all unhealthy, and in the end, they do not even taste good. Across the political spectrum—from the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) on the left to Harvard Right to Life (HRL) on the right—campus activists hold unrealistic goals and use tactics that are poorly designed and alienating to those who might otherwise support them. Activists would gain wider acceptance and would be far more effective if they were more reasonable...
...living wage” campaign once again is a prime example. Instead of academically engaging the notion of a living wage and trying to validate it, SLAM ignores the vast literature critical of the notion of a living wage. Instead of talking to Harvard’s famed labor economists about how wage structures work, they denounce capitalists. Instead, they work backwards to determine that the “living wage” of a single adult with two children in Boston is $29.64 per hour, an annual income of $62,589, which is about 135% higher than the median...
...most HRL members are more on the ideological fringe of the Harvard student body than their pro-choice counterparts—we do not have the membership numbers of the Harvard College Democrats or the Harvard Republican Club. Groups like the Socialist Alternative, the May Day Coalition, the Student Labor Action Movement, and other projects spearheaded by the campus left are in a similar position to HRL with respect to membership size...
Campus activism also can mean concrete transformations in the lives of people close to home. That is one of the underlying motives behind Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), the heir to the Living Wage Campaign, of which I am a member. Campus workers can be disempowered and intimidated, and have a hard time winning their demands alone. But when students support them, they can win. Such is the power of student-labor solidarity...