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BOOKS Memoir of a radical journalist Boris Weintraub Walk into Carey McWilliams's New York apartment to conduct an interview, and the odds are that a reporter will find himself being interviewed...
...The risk involved in experimenting with new methods of production is generally too great, because failure means even lower production yields and starvation...
...Once the dual determinants of mass poverty are recognized, intelligent remedies can be fashioned...
...Pfeffer does not, however, fall into the easy error of suggesting that work life and the consumer culture have sapped all of the workers' will to resist...
...In the mid-1950s Senator Joseph McCarthy hauled both Belfrage and Aronson before his subcommittee...
...The East Germans remain, by a substantial margin, the most affluent...
...The nature of work affects most aspects of our lives and plays a major role in shaping our needs...
...7.95 paperback...
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...They come in the dark of night, wading naked across the Rio Grande, and carrying only a single set of clothing above the water line...
...Examples: Conservative, n. "A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others...
...Bierce's cynicism, phrased with remarkable precision, offended his contemporaries considerably more than it will today's more pessimistic readers...
...Bill Blum (BillBlum, a Los Angeles immigration lawyer, has written for The Nation, Inquiry, and other publications...
...Entertaining fare for vacation or plane reading...
...and Tom Bender's exposition of the changes in values necessary for changes in our ways of living...
...277 pp...
...But the tedium of too many names on too many lists lulls a reader to sleep, which is unfortunate, because McWilliams has far too interesting a tale to tell...
...Poison Penmanship is both a handbook and an entertainment...
...But it also had a glaring, and in the end, fatal blind spot...
...How can it be changed...
...The first two-thirds of Stepping Stones consists of essays or chapters reprinted from other sources...
...In the ninety years after 1846, for example, more than fifty million people left Europe for other lands, primarily the United States...
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...Belfrage and Aronson end up simply rehashing two important decades, without adding any significant insights either on the politics of the times or on the difficulties of publishing a political journal...
...Galbraith makes the same compelling arguments in favor of today's migrants...
...Far from bejng a source of unemployment, crime, and disease (as they are so often depicted by the media), today's migrants, be they the "illegal aliens" of the American Southwest or the "guest workers" of Western Europe, enrich their second homelands just as their predecessors did at the turn of the century...
...Scott Sanders (Scott Sanders teaches literature at Indiana University and is a fiction writer...
...by Scott Burns on household economy...
...Always McWilliams — again, unlike Adams — spoke out, participated, took an active role in attempting to change what he thought needed to be changed, explained what he felt needed to be explained, cajoled, or wheedled understanding from those whose help was needed...
...As usual, horses are involved, and the implications of the mystery are international and political...
...The great economic progress made by nations with such diverse political economies as China, Singapore, and Taiwan, asserts Galbraith, with tongue partially in cheek, "suggests that it makes far less difference as regards the causes and conquest of poverty whether a country is capitalist or communist than whether it is Chinese or not...
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...Books Briefly Hilarious muckraking Poison Penmanship, by Jessica Mit-ford (Alfred A. Knopf...
...If his views help in any way to ameliorate this country's brutal treatment of the "illegal alien," Galbraith may not achieve the theoretical advance he had hoped for in the field of political economy...
...He began to learn about the Spanish-speaking migrant workers, the Japanese-Americans, the victims of anti-Semitism, the black underclass, the cruelly treated heroes of the blacklist, and the hapless victims of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy...
...Schumacher, whose writing about work, simplicity of living, and economics, summed up in the title of his book, Small Is Beautiful, has articulated something close to the whole earth movement...
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...Belfrage and Aronson say that they did not regard Soviet policy as "flawless" but that "the facts" about the Soviet Union that are known today were not available in the 1950s and 1960s...
...What they have found instead, in all but the rarest of cases, is an existence that can only be described as subterranean, marked by minimum wages, racial prejudice, and the constant threat of deportation at the hands of the Immigration and Naturalization Service...
...Mitford is at her hilarious best in her articles on Elizabeth Arden's beauty spa and a fraudulent New York restaurant, and her dissection of the Famous Writers School is a model of skillful reporting...
...From 1955 on, he served as an editor-in-exile, working out of London and traveling throughout the world, while Aronson continued to edit the paper from New York with the help of a small and always underpaid staff...
...The new essays include Lee Johnson's call for neighborhood-based production of energy through solar and wind technology...
...234 pp...
...Galbraith's recommendations, although presented as an ingenious breakthrough, should receive more acclaim for their prescriptive worth than for their analytical insight...
...362 pp...
...Radical weekly SOMETHING TO GUARD: THE STORMY LIFE OF THE NATIONAL GUARDIAN, 1948-1967 by Cedric Belfrage and lames Aronson Columbia University Press...
...Gil Friend's account of a new agriculture that would be healthy for both soil and citizens...
...But Working for Capitalism is more than one academic's excursion into the world of blue-collar work...
...They dreamed of a large circulation and an even larger impact on political life, but they never achieved either goal...
...Galbraith's point of departure is at once arrogant and simple: "When explanations [of mass poverty] are sought," he writes, "numerous and exceptionally confident answers are given," but when examined, the answers have "one feature in common: they are all universally unsatisfactory...
...the material conditions of existence be simplified and the spiritual conditions be enriched, and that our way of life be sustainable and peaceable...
...that human actions conform to the limits of nature...
...that politics and economics be radically democratic and decentralized...
...Headquartered in New York, the Guardian reached its peak circulation of 75,000 a few years after its founding...
...After struggling to keep the paper alive during the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950s — Belfrage and Aronson were among the victims — they remained with the weekly until 1967, a time, ironically, when hopes for radicals were again high as young people moved to the New Left...
...Adventures in Moscow Trial Run, by Dick Francis (Harper & Row...
...Yet Pfeffer shows in convincing detail that the character of our jobs results from social and economic relations within the plant, and within our society as a whole...
...After disposing of the geographic determinists, Galbraith turns to those who understand poverty as a function of political economy...
...Throughout history, he writes, famine and force have resulted in mass migrations from poor nations to their wealthy counterparts...
...Here are the beginnings of that vision...
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...Collaborators Lipez (well known to readers of The Progressive) and Stein ridicule corporate waste and human greed as they push the action to a cliffhanging climax of double cross...
...Beyond the two truisms that poverty tends to last until disrupted and the poor develop outlooks of grim resignation, The Nature of Mass Poverty lacks depth and clarity...
...He is best known, of course, for his thirty years as editor of The Nation, a journal whose impact has been far Boris Weintraub is a reporter for The Washington Star...
...Francis writes a book a year, and this year's selection maintains his high level of action-packed storytelling...
...Why is work life so deleterious...
...a deep concern for racism long before the 1954 Supreme Court school desegregation decision, and early questioning of American involvement in Southeast Asia and of the conclusions of the Warren Commission's report on the John F. Kennedy assassination...
...be little less than disastrous...
...Among the Guardian's notable crusades over the years were opposition to the Korean war and to the execution of the Rosenbergs...
...A decade of feminism Essays On Feminism, by Vivian Gor-nick (Harper & Row...
...Subtitled "The Gentle Art of Muckraking," this collection of seventeen magazines articles is exemplary journalism...
...Clearly, if we are to make our technology "appropriate" in Schumacher's sense, we must work a revolution in economics, politics, education, and philosophy...
...Richard Pfeffer's book describes an unusual sabbatical experience: The author took a year off from his job as a Johns Hopkins University professor to work as a forklift operator in a large piston ring factory...
...Over the years it developed a loyal but always small readership...
...They come huddled together in the trunks of automobiles, hoping to avoid detection at U.S...
...they suffer from superficiality and a lack of research...
...Nor do most workers harbor illusions about the system...
...McWilliams makes the damage horrifyingly clear in his report of four victims, three of whom committed suicide and the fourth denied the opportunity to work in his chosen profession...
...Like a writer of speculative fiction he revels in ideas for their own sake and spins a galaxy of them around the tip of his pencil...
...They are subjected to periodic time studies which determine their productivity and, therefore, their pay levels...
...Among the reprints are pieces by Schumacher on work and simple living...
...With his renowned wit Galbraith disposes of this view by citing the standard counterexamples of Singapore, Hong Kong, Israel, and, especially, Japan, "whose catastrophic natural endowment goes unmentioned [by such theorists] only because it is rich...
...Her work is nevertheless worth reading, or rereading, for Gornick is one of the few feminists willing to identify herself as a militant who has found a mass audience...
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...All of this is what makes his newly published memoir, The Education of Carey McWilliams, such a disappointment...
...Unlike Henry Adams, who felt helpless to deal with the massive changes he saw taking place around him, Mcthe education of carey McWilliams by Carey McWilliams Simon and Schuster...
...Margaret Mead's assessment of the human resources needed for a transition to a steady-state economy...
...In her introduction, Mitford reviews the fundamentals of good journalism, including background information, picking other people's brains, skill in interviewing, organization of material, and style...
...They will be unresponsive to conventional reform programs which aim to redistribute income to the poor or create more jobs, but which leave untouched the degradation of the workplace...
...Were all the illegals in the United States suddenly to return home," Galbraith concludes in The Nature of Mass Poverty, "the effect on the American economy would...
...in these pages, we are told only that it happened, and that's that...
...Rather than pour money and technology indiscriminately into underdeveloped nations, countries like the United States can assist the poor only by rewarding the relatively few motivated members of such societies who have determined to break with the attitude of accommodation...
...by Amory Lovins on soft energy paths...
...Invariably the new immigrants had a salutary effect upon the economies of their adopted countries, both as workers and consumers...
...Galbraith weaves together a two-pronged thesis which he would have his readers believe is as novel and spritely as it is practical...
...Pfeffer's work will have to be followed by studies of different kinds of work environment...
...by Ivan Illich on the recovery of self-reliance...
...It would have been far more interesting, and far more informative, to see just what it was that moved the young McWilliams from the cultural arena, where he admired H.L...
...Even those with whom he has differed politically over the years — and their number is legion, from the not-quite-so-radical Left all the way to the far Right — have been unable to accuse him of anything worse than error as they see it...
...As for the unmentionable theories, such as the view that certain ethnic groups are inherently prone to misfortune, Galbraith reveals some covert measure of credibility, as illustrated by his pungent remarks on China and Taiwan...
...Suares (Thomas Y. Crowell...
...To put matters bluntly, the poor simply can't afford to struggle against their impoverishment...
...In comments which follow each article she is her own critic, reports on public reaction, and adds humorous and personal follow-ups...
...382 pp...
...Although it always declared itself non-communist, the paper never turned its spotlight on the Soviet Union...
...Something to Guard is an account of the founding of the National Guardian and the constant difficulties Belfrage and Aronson faced to keep the weekly going...
...A few were outstanding, and one cannot blame McWilliams for wanting to take credit for first publishing James Baldwin or Bernard Fall or even Hunter S. Thompson...
...Cold War, on Mc-Carthyism, on Vietnam...
...John Kenneth Galbraith, former Harvard economist, in his new book, The Nature of Mass Poverty, portrays the illegal aliens as heroic protagonists in the age-old battle of humanity against poverty and starvation...
...Building on this concrete and comprehensible foundation, he provides an interesting and informative critique of the best recent studies of work life...
...He understands that worker consciousness is complicated...
...Meanwhile, visionary seeds have been planted all over the continent, in the form of cooperatives, anti-nuclear coalitions, organic farms, and self-reliant households...
...Few people on the left end of the political spectrum are as universally respected as McWilliams...
...Poverty and aliens THE NATURE OF MASS POVERTY John Kenneth Galbraith Harvard University Press...
...In his memoir, McWilliams retraces each of these battles and, at a somewhat late date, attempts to convince the reader that he was always right...
...Suares...
...14.50 hardcover...
...Newspapers supported by advertisements for gimmicks and fashions are not likely to celebrate the growing retreat from consumerism...
...Galbraith's treatment of the impact of socialism and the role of Western imperialism in the Third World is particularly weak...
...This handsomely printed edition of Bierce's corrosive definitions and satire is enhanced with the witty drawings of J.C...
...More than a "thriller," Trial Run is vivid with observations of Moscow and Russians...
...The work itself is both fragmented and repetitious: "There is a Sisyphean quality to the work, as day after day the trashman confronts the waves of trash that wash through the plant and day after day he empties the filled hoppers...
...after they refused to answer questions and invoked the Fifth Amendment, Belfrage was deported as an undesirable alien...
...Blue-collar days WORKING FOR CAPITALISM by Richard M. Pfeffer Columbia University Press...
...The cycle of accommodation can, however, be broken, usually through one sort of trauma or another (famine, military depredation, and pogroms are among the most familiar...
...Though it is somewhat abridged from the original 1911 edition, which has seldom been out of print, the new volume contains all the most memorable definitions...
...He is currently doing research for a book on experimental colonies...
...by Richard Gregg on voluntary simplicity...
...It is just McWilliams's insatiable curiosity at work, wanting to know one more thing, glean one more opinion, elicit one more idea...
...What is going on out there...
...Except for several of its early years when it enjoyed the patronage of the late Anita Blaine, a rich Chicago heiress who was the daughter of Cyrus McCormick and the supporter of several radical causes, the paper never had adequate resources and constantly moved from one financial crisis to another...
...No study of a single, plant can provide a definitive picture...
...The immediate issue was halting the slaughter in Asia...
...Work at the piston ring factory dominates the workers' lives in several important ways...
...McWilliams begins by tracing his roots in the soil of Colorado, where his father went bankrupt after amassing a fortune in the cattle business...
...Many blue-collar workers feel they have paid their dues...
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...Shortly after World War I, young Carey McWilliams found himself uprooted and moved to a totally different land, the rich, erratic soil of southern California...
...Among the first group of theories is the thesis of geographic determinism, that underdeveloped countries are "naturally poor" because of harsh physical endowments and meager natural resources...
...Perhaps the most obvious example was his championship of the rights of Japanese-Americans interned during World War II, but this was merely one occasion out of many...
...Beneath the variety there are a number of shared concerns: that work be creative and serve actual needs...
...by Malcolm Wells on ecologically sound architecture...
...BOOKS Memoir of a radical journalist Boris Weintraub Walk into Carey McWilliams's New York apartment to conduct an interview, and the odds are that a reporter will find himself being interviewed by McWilliams instead...
...Contrary to the rationale of much of Western liberalism, such factors are actually consequences rather than root causes of underdevelopment...
...Corporations buy work-time from employes...
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...What was it that helped develop the native radical within him...
...Peace, n. "In International affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting...
...He and Aronson, an American now teaching journalism at Hunter College, met in Germany at the end of the war and decided that when they returned to the United States they would publish a radical paper...
...Their exodus from the old countries also improved conditions there by lessening population pressures and increasing consumption...
...Clearly, economic reforms will gain no widespread constituency until they begin to address the workplace frustrations Richard Pfeffer has so com-pellingly described...
...When the narrator (a steeplechase rider drafted into British intelligence) nears the end of his fear-ridden adventures, he reflects that Moscow's cumulative effect on him "was a powerful pervading melancholy, a sadness for so great a city entangled in such suffocating bureaucracy, such denial of liberty, such a need to look over its shoulder before it spoke...
...The advent of basic education is also important but of secondary value — a necessary but by no means sufficient stimulus...
...The boss sees to it that workers produce as much as possible and don't lose sight of their "place...
...Highly recommended...
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...What do you think will happen...
...Instead of merely protesting, hundreds of thousands of people began experimenting with alternatives...
...consistency in standing up for an unpopular viewpoint...
...Visionary seeds STEPPING STONES: APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY AND BEYOND edited by Lane de Moll and Gigi Coe Schocken Books...
...Something to Guard, unfortunately, is as disappointing as the Guardian was to so many persons who picked it up occasionally, as I did...
...Today, the United States is host to an estimated population of two to twelve million "illegals," of whom the vast majority are from Mexico and other destitute nations of Latin and Central America...
...It is with the latter variety, or "mass poverty," that Galbraith is concerned...
...Mencken observed, "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language...
...Television sponsored by oil companies is not likely to recognize the public's new romance with the sun...
...followed by the Czechs and the Slovenes...
...With similar dispatch, Galbraith fells both left and right variants of this school...
...Driven by hunger and political repression, they have journeyed to the United States in search of jobs, livelihood, and a better way of life...
...Gor-nick's philosophical pieces — usually on writers, feminist or anti-feminist — are not as astute...
...David Morris's program for urban and neighborhood self-reliance...
...It comes as no small surprise that America's "illegals" (together with their Turkish and Slavic counterparts in Western Europe) have found a staunch defender in one of the most articulate and respected spokesmen of our academic establishment...
...John Buell (John Buell is an associate editor of The Progressive...
...Mencken and wrote a biography of Ambrose Bierce, into the political world...
...out of proportion to its circulation figures...
...But he will have made a solid and unexpected contribution to the eradication of a national disgrace — an accomplishment, no doubt, of equal worth...
...that technology and communities and institutions be redesigned on a human scale...
...Nor, he believes, can the persistence of mass poverty be attributed to shortages of capital and a scarcity of trained technical labor...
...5.95 paperback...
...On the last page of Stepping Stones, Ty Cush-man writes, "What we miss is something as simple as a vision of how we will live in the future...
...Unlike some conventional academic analysts, workers know that on the shop floor, it is "them versus us," management against labor...
...The deeper issues were putting an end to militarism, redistributing power and wealth, dismantling the corporations, simplifying our way of life, and restoring balance to the ecosystem...
...The essay on women's attitudes toward financial management and independence is a classic...
...border inspection stations throughout the Southwest...
...In the end, one senses that Galbraith has confused the conditions of poverty with its causes...
...While a few are dated, most address issues still worthy of debate...
...But Pfeffer shows in some detail the relationship between patterns of production in a specific plant and the attitudes of workers within that plant...
...The Guardian fought the good fight and probably had some impact on the world of the 1950s and 1960s...
...Thus, tasks are fragmented both to facilitate monitoring by managers and to prevent workers from gaining a broad understanding of the production process...
...In any event, is it really necessary to fight all of these battles once again...
...Belfrage, who now lives in Mexico, is an Englishman who worked in the United States before World War II...
...The education of McWilliams is complete, but he has failed to do as much as he might have to assist us in ours...
...the last third is made up of articles written for this collection...
...Cedric Belfrage and James Aronson founded the National Guardian as a radical weekly newspaper in 1948 when Henry Wallace ran for President on the Progressive Party ticket and hopes were high for the development of a progressive post-World War II movement...
...This, unfortunately, makes the book disjointed, and the reader never gets the full story of the Guardian...
...In these places you can find the values that will prevail in the Twenty-first Century, if anything like civilization is to endure that long...
...If workers look for escapes from their jobs, they also constantly strive for greater margins of dignity and autonomy in those jobs...
...Those who misjudge the depths and currents never make it...
...This, perhaps, is the most unnerving aspect of all for a reader who has nothing but admiration for McWilliams's perpetual skepticism and hi...
...In the last year alone, the bodies of more than two dozen would-be "illegal aliens" have washed ashore on the Texas side of the international frontier...
...Rather than rage against the inevitable, the world's poor become "accommodated" to their lot and learn to exist with their subsistence from one generation to the next...
...In the process, he began to be "educated" — the allusion to Henry Adams is deliberate — to a world he didn't know existed...
...The evolution of communism in Eastern Europe, Galbraith argues, has had virtually no impact on the relative states of development: "The same journey today [which might, on occasion, employ the same railway carriages] would show virtually the same relative states of prosperity and poverty...
...Their decision to leave the paper was mainly due to a generational, ideological dispute between younger staff members and the founders...
...I offer this catalog to suggest the range of issues and writers represented in Stepping Stones...
...This excellent book of readings, Stepping Stones: Appropriate Technology and Beyond, demonstrates that changes in the technology of energy production or manufacture or farming entail a transformation in our entire way of life...
...There is no flattery involved here, no manipulation...
...Indeed, in his brief treatment of this question, he can only combine the old theories of exploitation, capital shortage, climate, and overpopulation in a curious and indecisive blend...
...No one has ever doubted his integrity, his loyalty, or his courage in speaking up for what he believes...
...by Wendell Berry on farming, and by Tom Bender on the patterns of consumption...
...In the final analysis, Galbraith can be applauded for the stand he takes on the volatile issue of world migration...
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...The mass media, preoccupied with violence and personalities, have largely ignored this slow building of a more humane future...
...An ingeniously plotted gambol, Grand Scam is a satire of an oil company's corporate shenanigans and a spiteful robbery that is the "biggest heist in the history of the world...
...In particular, he has called for an "appropriate" technology, by which he means one that is conserving of resources, cheap and simple enough to be accessible to everyone, compatible with human needs for creativity, and nonviolent in its relationship to nature...
...One of the most influential has been that of the late E.F...
...Like its companion volume, Rain-book: Resources for Appropriate Technology (Schocken Books, 1977), Stepping Stones maps out paths leading to a future very different from the one dreamed of by the corporations and the Federal Government and the military...
...The reader gets the feeling that they started out to write one book but in mid-passage decided to switch the book's emphasis...
...It deals with a basic fact often neglected in conventional studies of our economic life: Industrial capitalism produces not only goods and services but people, too...
...Unlike the homogenized pablum that serves for mass culture, this growing alternative culture is varied, decentralized, resistant to labels...
...Wherever a voice has been needed in the last half century to speak up for the poor, the oppressed, the underprivileged, or simply the dissenting minority, Carey McWilliams has been heard...
...When the war ended, the opposition ceased to be so public or so dramatic, but it did not disappear...
...Flow long until Saturday...
...Mass poverty, like industrialization, is self-perpetuating...
...Galaxy of ideas The Medusa and the Snail, by Lewis Thomas (Viking Press...
...20 hardcover...
...Williams repeatedly made the effort to understand and to cope with, even to attempt to alter, what was happening...
...Although the book is subtitled The Stormy Life of the National Guardian, details of the paper's life quickly give way to accounts of the personal troubles of Belfrage and Aronson...
...Throughout the book, what the reader is given is pure chronology (after doing this, I did that...
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...A reporter might consider such questions, coming from anyone else, an attempt at flattery, or at manipulation...
...And then there is the attempt to credit everyone who ever worked with McWilliams on The Nation...
...There is barely an indication on any of his pages that he was ever anything but right...
...Other studies have discussed the nature of the work process and the consciousness of American workers...
...Today too many people have little conception of what Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his cohorts managed to destroy in that witchhunt period...
...The articles range from her first, in 1957, in The Nation, to one in 1979, on a trip to Egypt, and they do not date on a second reading...
...But long before that, for twenty years in California, McWilliams was there when needed...
...Workers turn to consumption and to their private lives for creativity and satisfaction...
...Witticisms, illustrated The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce...
...There is, however, an important lesson here...
...Frustrated workers, who often find themselves treated like children in such jobs, feel that time itself always hangs over them: How long until break...
...Just how interesting The Education of Carey McWilliams can be is illustrated in one section of the book which is riveting: his accounts of four personal friends who were victims of the Cold War hysteria of the late 1940s and early 1950s...
...These blossomings have been recorded by the Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution Quarterly, Rain, Mother Earth News, and kindred journals...
...This eclectic group of articles, many of them first published in the Village Voice, reflects the growth of the contemporary women's movement over the last decade...
...204 pp...
...Illustrations by J.C...
...Here Lewis Thomas meditates on medicine and mistakes, on ponds and punctuation, on music and the miraculous ballet of consciousness, and on just about anything under the sun that catches his fancy...
...But there is no such explanation...
...But this book does offer activists on the Left both hope and a warning...
...Such aid, moreover, would operate on two fronts: technical and material assistance to the motivated few who decide to remain in the home country, and, even more importantly, liberalized immigration policies aimed to assist those who opt for escape...
...We will have to find out elsewhere...
...The Vietnam war provided a focus for revolt against the dominant forms and values of American society...
...Ultimately, however, these theories are dismissed and gently swept back under the carpet of polite conversation and academic respectability...
...His pretensions to enduring literary recognition must still rest on his best short stories, but The Devil's Dictionary contains, as H.L...
...It has many voices...
...Conventional economic views often suggest that work life is a product of technology, which marches with a momentum of its own...
...It is not just that McWilliams delivers on the promise made early in the book that he will not dwell on his private life...
...Galbraith never seriously attempts to explain why certain parts of the world have been successful in eradicating poverty and why others have not...
...It is not much of an excuse...
...But if the standard explanations of mass poverty are all dreadfully inadequate, what are the real causes...
...Cliff hanger of double cross Grand Scam, by Richard Lipez and Peter Stein (Dial Press...
...He sees himself, accurately, as a man who has continued a long tradition of quirky, lonely, native American radicalism out of the West, uninfluenced by alien ideology, and who has followed his instincts and experience to a pragmatic course of action on behalf of the voiceless of this land...
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...With a biologist's awareness of nature and a poet's love for metaphoric leaps, he dazzles us again...
...157 pp...
...Julius Duscha (Julius Duscha, formerly a reporter on national politics for The Washington Post, is director of the Washington Journalism Center...
...Which future we inhabit depends in large part on which social experiments we honor, which inventions we encourage, which voices we heed...
...it is that he has apparently conceived of this book as the opportunity to justify almost everything he has done in his public life...
...With forced overtime and time for commuting, workers often devote more than seventy hours a week to their jobs...
...They are subject to contradictory practical experience or they confuse cause with consequence, or, while they serve casual conversational purpose, no one wishes to risk them in serious scientific discourse...
...The real barrier to economic progress, charges Galbraith, is "the equilibrium of poverty...
...Coming from Carey McWilliams, a reporter merely shrugs...
...There is hope in the growing awareness, at least among some workers, that work life is not fulfilling and that the shop floor is a battlefield...
...Pfeffer's book is by no means unique in conveying this message...
...There are long lists of all the people who wrote articles on the...
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...In this sparse, and overpriced, essay of 140 pages, the former economic adviser to President John F. Kennedy attempts a systematic examination and critique of existing theories of economic underdevelopment.' According to Galbraith, there are two forms of poverty: one affects the minority ir, the world's industrialized societies, and one affects all but a minority in the world's poor nations...
...Virtually no attention is given to the relationship between multinational corporations and underdeveloped nations, a feature which operates to sanitize the phenomenon of mass poverty and to absolve the United States and other western countries of any responsibility for the plight of the world's poor...
...140 pp...
...The biology watcher who dazzled a great many readers with The Lives of a Cell has gathered twenty-nine more essays in this new volume...
Vol. 43 • August 1979 • No. 8
