(GF MLA handout 01.04.11.doc)
Handout for Grover Furr’s Presentation
"What the cutbacks are and what actions we must take to fight them"
Session 22. Class Dismissed: Economic Policies, the Academic Workforce, and Student
Access to Higher Education
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 406A, LA Convention Center
This talk: http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/pol/cutbackstalk0111.html
This handout: http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/pol/cutbackshandout0111.html
| Late-Breaking Reality Check: "Ultimately, he [Governor-elect Sandoval] says, cutting the system's fiscal and regulatory ties to the state creates the possibility of severing the relationship between Nevada and its public colleges entirely." - "Colleges to Confront Deep Cutbacks". – CHE January 2 2011 - http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-to-Confront-Deep/125782 |
Basic fact: the absolute inverse relationship between labor costs and profit:
(For more detail see The Inverse Relationship Between Profit and Labor Costs In Any Enterprise )
Further Reading:
A few things for further reading, self-education, and – vital – educating our students and colleagues:
- "How The University Works" - This is Marc Bousquet’s invaluable blog, with many important articles. A fine fighting resource!
- "Students, Profs Battle CUNY Bosses’ Tuition Hike."
- Grover Furr. "Don’t Cut The Budget. We Need a Progressive Tax." Independent Press (Bloomfield, NJ). December 10, 2009, p. 4.
- Doug Henwood, "How to learn nothing from crisis."
- "Deficit Hypocrisy." Editorial, New York Times December 29 2010
- Robert C. Lieberman, "Why the Rich Are Getting Richer. American Politics and the Second Gilded Age." Foreign Affairs January-February 2011 -
More articles by Grover Furr on related topics:
"Academic Repression in the First Person: Lies, Damn Lies, and David Horowitz." The Advocate (CUNY Graduate Center) November 2006.
"United Front in U.S. Labor Struggles." The Montclarion October 19, 2006 p. 23.
"Oppose the Flat Tax" (Letter to the Editor) The Montclarion September 29 2005.
"What Can We Learn from the Teens? Protest, Rebellion, Commitment: Then and Now". Counterpunch April 26 2004.
"Vietnam to Yugoslavia: What I Learned." April 1999. Opencopy
"Corporate Ideology and Literary Criticism: How the New Right Pushes the Ideology of Exploitation in the Field of Literary Studies and What To Do About It". NST: Nature, Society, and Thought Vol. 9, No. 3 (1998), 311-325.