Re: Back to slavery

[andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's a joke, Jim. A joke. . . .


--- "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Contrary to the JKS's headline, the authors aren't
> pro-slavery, seeing instead Athenian slavery and the
> treatment of women & foreigners as an "Achilles
> heel" of the system.
>
> The book seems to be an effort to make money out of
> the humanities by entering the field the
> pop-management literature. It won't go far, since I
> doubt that corporations will like the idea of
> choosing the CEO by lot...
>
> ------------------------
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &
> http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: andie nachgeborenen
> [mailto:andie_nachgeborenen@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:48 AM
> > To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [PEN-L] Back to slavery
> >
> >
> > From the Tigertown e-news
> >
> > Ancient Athens provides model for contemporary
> > workplace
> > Classical history scholars may not seem the most
> > likely candidates to write a book on the modern
> > workplace, yet Princeton Professor Josiah Ober and
> > co-author Brook Manville have done just that --
> > demonstrating that ancient Athens can serve as a
> model
> > for potentially powerful organizational practices.
> > http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/03/0519/3a.shtml
> >
> >
> >
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