High Stakes

Chris Beggy news at kippona.com
Mon Jul 8 08:52:10 PDT 2002


J James <jimmyjames at softhome.net> writes:


> and, in the past, i've interviewed those folks to find out why the
> epiphany didn't translate into action. why, for instance, didn't the
> downsized mgrs start to realize they were workers and organize and so
> forth. my point was that when Gar suggested I might have something to
> add to the convo, he was asking about examples from that research--at
> least I interrupted him to say as much. and Carrol's response is to
> dismiss this research as anecdotage (although apparently, it isn't
> anecdotage when it's published by someone he approves of) OR assume
> that, because it's written by me/a sociologist, then it can be nothing
> but research in the interest of reproducing the myth of the middle
> class.

Age discrimination lawsuits are another response:

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/3532881.htm

Washtech presented the anti-H1B proposal which was adopted at a recent CWA meeting:

http://www.washtech.org/wt/

Chris



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