Word: workers
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...peace settlement turns out to be a useful political weapon in North Vietnam's and the PRG's hands, it will be their triumph, not ours, no matter how much we helped. In the same way, we are not going to wake up some morning to find a student-worker alliance has developed overnight. First, we must build our student-student alliances as a beginning. Second, like the Vietnamese, the American poor will liberate themselves--with our help, I hope, but with their leadership, I am sure...
...understanding the new problems brought to the fore by the social movements of the 1960s. Thus, the assumption that human nature, as expressed in individual preferences or consciousness, can be treated as independent of the structure of economic activity, is an unfortunate starting point for an economic analysis of worker alienation, sexism or racism. A discipline whose main analytical tool is the concept of equilibrium and whose conceptual apparatus does not admit the notion of power proved to be a misleading guide to the study of inequality or imperialism. A school of thought virtually devoid of tools of dynamic analysis...
Paradoxically, Mitterrand comes from a conservative Roman Catholic background, and concedes that "my socialism did not come easily." One of eight children of a railway worker from the southwestern province of Charente, Mitterrand says that in his youth "we talked about Communists as if they were men from Mars." When reproached for his "reactionary past," he replies: "I deem it more honorable to have evolved from right to left than vice versa." In spite of his impoverished beginnings, Mitterrand has gathered degrees in law and political science...
...Supreme Court heard the case of Christine Sniadach, a Milwaukee assembly-line worker whose wages had been garnisheed by a loan company trying to recover a debt; the court ruled that such garnishment was illegal unless the victim first got a due-process hearing. Last year the court reviewed Florida and Pennsylvania statutes governing the repossession of furniture and other merchandise and ruled that no creditor could get a court order or a sheriff's help in taking back his goods without first giving a hearing to the customer accused of being delinquent. Since then, repossession statutes have been...
...nart, 89, staunchly progressive bishop of the industrial diocese of Lille for four decades; in Lille. A champion of social reform in France long before he won a red hat in 1930, Cardinal Liénart was an active supporter of trade-unionism and a leader of the worker-priest movement that sent Catholic clergymen to live among French laborers. Undaunted by either the opposition of industrialists, who dubbed him "the Red Cardinal," or the Vatican's termination of the worker-priest experiment in 1954, he became a leading proponent of church decentralization during Vatican...