labour

Minds for Sale

by Brian on 03-04-2010

in civics,economics,web

This talk is causing me to reconsider many assumptions and ideals. For the most part I still believe in cultivating more creative and educational autonomy for ourselves in order to overcome the digital sharecropping and sweatshop-type mind labour that critics are warning us about. Ultimately I keep coming back to my belief (for now it is based largely on faith) [...]

There’s no way to avoid the reality that strikes will make people upset, but maybe we can do more to avoid them altogether. That suggestion was made by Larry Cornies in great column in Saturday’s London Free Press, arguing we’re overdue to consider the damage caused by strikes and lockouts, time to think more imaginatively about [...]