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caring labor: an archive | power to the caregivers and therefore to the class
A great archive of works on caring and domestic labour.Thu Dec 21 13:48:12 2017 - permalink --
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https://caringlabor.wordpress.com/
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Meet New York’s beloved mass transit bandit | New York Post
"Darius McCollum impersonates transit employees, steals their subway cars and buses, then drives off on the correct routes."Wed Nov 15 18:53:05 2017 - permalink -
It's more than a waste that the MTA thinks it is better to keep this guy in prison for years than to cut him a paycheck.
Wikipedia entry for Darius McCollum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_McCollum-
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https://nypost.com/2016/11/17/meet-new-yorks-beloved-mass-transit-bandit/
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My Whole Foods nightmare: How a full-time job there left me in poverty - Salon.com
(I can't see how the title matches the article at all. But the article is worth reading; it's about Whole Foods workers in CA organizing with the IWW.)Mon Dec 8 11:23:59 2014 - permalink -
"Organizing with the radical-syndicalist union, the Industrial Workers of the World, Whole Foods employees are shunning traditional unions that represent the majority of workers at Safeway, Alberson’s and other national grocers. In doing so, they have given up access to the deep pockets of United Grocery Workers and the like, but have the added agility to stealthily maneuver. The IWW is also the only union to have successfully created union shops at Starbucks."-
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http://www.salon.com/2014/12/08/my_whole_foods_nightmare_how_a_full_time_job_there_left_me_in_poverty/
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Work: an introduction
libcom.org's short introduction to work.Tue Jul 29 10:44:26 2014 - permalink --
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http://libcom.org/library/work-introduction
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South by Southwest’s unpaid labor problem: Why it’s risking a class action lawsuit - Salon.com
'With ticket prices so high and labor costs rivaling those of a Cambodian sweatshop, how much money does SXSX Inc. actually make? “As a privately held company, SXSW doesn’t release any financial information,” said spokesperson Elizabeth Derczo when I called her up.'Sat Mar 22 16:56:05 2014 - permalink --
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http://www.salon.com/2014/02/26/south_by_southwest%E2%80%99s_unpaid_labor_problem_why_its_risking_a_class_action_lawsuit/
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Work It | Jacobin
"Simply saying we should improve the quality and reduce the duration of work doesn’t allow us to ask whether that work needs to exist at all."Thu Feb 13 10:33:54 2014 - permalink -
"giving workers voice within the institution of wage labor can never fundamentally call the premises of that institution into question. For that, you need the real right of Exit, not just from particular jobs but from the labor market as a whole."-
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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/02/work-it/