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[PEN-L:6069] Re: Long Hours....



Brad DeLong wrote:

>I don't know about this. It seems to me that in historical
>perspective--relative, say, to being a field slave at
>Monticello--conditions of work here and now under modern industrial
>capitalism are pretty good...

to which Ian Murray replied:

>Tell that to migrant farm workers who grow your pesticide infested
>broccoli...

By "here and now" Brad was probably referring to being tenured faculty in
the Economics Dept. at UCBerkeley. They don't grow broccoli in Economics
Departments.


regards,

Tom Walker
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm




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