I just like the phrase 'Faragian pact'.

Jonathan Freedland

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Little creepy… and some irony here too given current unemployment in the US - #may1 #mayday #labour #obama #whitehouse

A Shanghai consulting firm advertises software to help Chinese factories pass the labor audits required by Western companies, saying it can generate "real and fake books" and "irregular attendance records that match factory testing standards completely."
 
 
The firm is part of a cottage industry of audit-assistance firms that has sprung up in China as Western companies demand high labor standards but low prices from factories that make and assemble their products. These consultants advise factories on audit standards, working conditions and employee records. But some also help factories lie and fake documents to pass increasingly rigorous audit standards and get the business of Western companies, auditors and labor rights groups say.

Occupy Activists Breathe New Life Into May Day

Icky soundbite speech.

Incl history of Los Angeles, labour history

Having quite justifiably played his joke at the expense of the bourgeois economists and their interminable Robinsonnades, Marx would have done well to examine his own use of the Crusoe myth. For by opposing the obscure mysticism of commodity value to the simplicity and transparency of Crusoe’s relation to his wealth, he fell into a trap. If one hypothesizes (as Marxists do) that all the ideology of bourgeois political economy is summed up in the myth of Robinson Crusoe, then it must be admitted that everything in the novel itself agrees with the mystical theology and metaphysics of bourgeois thought, including (and above all) this “transparency” in man’s relation to the instruments and products of his labor.

"The Labour MP for Walthamstow has made a name by campaigning against payday loans – an example of her traditional approach to fighting for the dispossessed, she says."

= Instagram as an island economy