<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2>hi doug:  did you ask him on what he bases his opinion?  i'd be interested in knowing this along with whatever facts you discover to make your argument.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2>R</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dhenwood@panix.com href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">Doug Henwood</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 19, 2003 11:13 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] literacy</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>After we were on a panel together at CUNY a couple of weeks ago, <BR>Giovanni Arrighi told me that U.S. workers were more literate a <BR>century ago than today. I found that very hard to believe, but I <BR>didn't have the facts to make the argument. Does anyone here know <BR>about this?<BR><BR>Doug<BR>___________________________________<BR><A href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>