Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> At 3:00 AM +0000 10/1/02, Justin Schwartz wrote:
> >>3) Because mindless overwork is easier than facing the
> "void"?
> >
> >Waxing Heideggerian, are we, Joanne? Is the void less
> empty in France and Germany?
>
> US workers have been unable to win even the right to void
> when they want -- no wonder we have the longest workweek
> in the industrialized world.
>
> ***** Lavatory and Liberty
>
> The secret history of the bathroom break
>
> By Corey Robin, 9/29/2002
>
> IN HIS NEVER-ENDING quest for control of the workplace,
> Henry Ford confronted many foes, but none as wily or
> rebellious as the human digestive tract. Hoping to tame
> what he called the body's ''disassembly line,'' Ford
> wheeled lunch wagons into his auto plant in Highland
> Park, Mich., and forced workers to wolf down a 10-minute
> sandwich on the job. So industrialized was ingestion at
> the plant that workers growled about their ''Ford
> stomach.'' But where Ford sought to speed up the meal's
> entrance into the body, his successors - from store
> managers in the Midwest to fashion moguls in New York -
> have concentrated on slowing down its exit.
>
Reminds me of that Charlie Chaplain movie whos name escapes me --- Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za]