Word: reale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CRISIS is a crock. The public has caught on to this truth, and many experts agree. The real crisis is a crisis of political institutions. Nationalization might be a sensible step for a government confronting corporations that now behave with the arrogance of mighty sovereign nations. But officials never even debate the merits and drawbacks of nationalization; it's outside the narrow range of the politically possible. One type of government enterprise with historical precedent is the crash program to cope with a crisis or meet a technological challenge. "Manhattan project" and "moonshot" are ritual utterances for politicians trying...
...committee structures directly involve only a fraction of the shop-floor work force. They challenge the hierarchical organization of daily production in only indirect ways. Such committees are potentially a useful adjunct to a union board room seat, but they don't create real shop-floor democracy...
...argued that putting Fraser in the board room is not intended to create democratic factories. Indeed, this is the whole point. Unless Fraser uses his new position to begin the process of real, lower-level democratization, he will advance the cause of "industrial democracy" in a very limited way. Employee commitment and motivation to work hard to help the beleagured company will likewise remain largely unaffected...
Worker participation programs generally aim to promote increased productivity by motivating workers through involvement in decision-making and taking advantage of their intimate knowledge of the production process. Board room seats and representative committees fall short on both counts, as they involve so few workers and generally leave the real source of "blue-collar blues"--hierarchical management--intact...
...asking what's wrong. I'd prefer to tell you what I enjoyed about this evening. It's always a pleasure to see one's work performed by enthusiastic actors with a great deal of energy. I thought the young woman who played Lilli (Belle Linda Halpern) showed real promise on the musical stage. Her voice has remarkable range and color, though she use, too much vibrato. Her dramatic timing was also excellent. The same goes for the actor who played Baptista, Katherine's father (Eric Mendelman...