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...methodical massacre in the lawyers' office was one of several grisly episodes in a savage spasm of violence in Spain last week, the worst in recent memory. It claimed a total of ten lives, including those of three policemen who were shot down by unidentified gunmen in working-class suburbs of Madrid. A purportedly leftist terrorist group called GRAPO (an acronym in Spanish for Oct. 1 Antifascist Resistance Groups) claimed responsibility for the police killings, but the initial bloody attacks of the week, including that against the Communist lawyers, were evidently the work of right-wing extremists. Said...
...dozen candidates in the Democratic primary, Markey was generally perceived as the second most liberal, Jack Leff, a former state secretary of elder affairs, was known as the candidate who was farthest to the left, but also was viewed as having little chance of winning in the suburban, heavily working-class district. Markey, however, was thought to have a better chance of winning, and had drawn support from several local politicians who were well respected in liberal circles. Perhaps the most prominent Markey supporters were Representative Michael J. Harrington '58, a Democrat who represents the North Shore district next...
Secondly, there is no direct connection between a work-sharing program and the kind of participating democracy radicals like myself advocate. Work sharing simply seems to be the best way to achieve full employment without triggering runaway inflation. It could be argued that work sharing would promote a 'collective spirit' in the working class, instead of pitting unemployed workers against employed workers. On the other hand, one could argue that high unemployment rates feed working-class discontent and thus could promote radical revolutionary consciousness. In short, I favor work sharing, not really as a means of promoting participatory democracy...
...politics of moral leadership. At times Mondale seemed to forget that inflation now comes first in Carter's list of problems to be solved. In city after city he stressed unemployment, claiming that "counting discouraged workers, there are now more people out of work than the entire population of Ohio." To a largely working-class audience in Barberton, a suburb of Akron, he declared: "Any Administration that can't promise jobs shouldn't be in office...
...most theoretically ambitious in the collection of reprinted articles. In "Work, Culture and Society," Gutman presents his most striking case for the reexamination of labor history, at least during the industrializing process in America in the 19th century. He concentrates on three important phenomena among the working class populations: the different work habits and expectations workers brought to new factories from their diverse backgrounds; the social and cultural continuities in the lives of craftsmen and artisans during America's industrializing period; and similarities between forms of American working-class collective protest and those of their "premodern" European counterparts...