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GMO giant hires retired cops to hunt down farmers
The glories of the intellectual property imperium! (from Occupy Monsanto) GMO giants DuPont have contracted dozens of retired law enforcement officers to begin patrolling farms in the US next year to...
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Tech skills are risky
Readers of this blog (yes, you are legion … waves to crowd) will know that I think investment in skills can be risky, and that because of this the social insurance framework – how generous are...
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Manufacturing logic for football skills
There is a select group of people who can’t take seriously any sentence with the word “skills” in it because, at an impressionable age, they were exposed to Napoleon Dynamite. ND being a film about a...
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San Francisco escaping zero (hours)
Two weeks advance notice, or you get paid more. Image from silentsketcher.deviantart.com, via Fast Food News. San Francisco is the latest American jurisdiction to find an answer to what are called,...
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Fast food ≠ low pay
Continuing the fast food theme (yum): BK in the USA vs. BK in Denmark, fast food work can provide living wages, if the institutional environment is right. Read the report by Liz Alderman and Steven...
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Ordinary surveillance, inequality, and fear
Our friends Giorgio and Gemma, visiting here from Rome, had this impression from a recent trip to New York: workers in New York are scared. Security staff enforced seemingly trivial rules – don’t step...
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Robots may not want your job – they like to watch
Paul Krugman says the decline in truck drivers’ wages is “not a technology story … robot truck drivers are a possible future, but not here yet … the obvious thing: unions.” Certainly, the collapse of...
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