Dan Koeppel describes and interviews laborers who ride to work in Los Angeles.

"With User Labor, we propose an open data structure, User Labor Markup Language (ULML), to outline the metrics of user participation in social web services."

If this involves Ali McGraw in a halter top, I'm all for it.

Cat Mazza discusses her activist projects which use craft techniques like knitting to contest the role of branding and sweated labor in contemporary society.

For folks concerned about wearing sweatshopped goods, this site provides links to vendors with responsible labor practices.

This wiki page discusses the misdeeds of trendy clothing label American Apparel. Although it makes much out of the fact its shops are in the US, AA's labor relations are problematic.

Reading these articles about PhDs who work multiple temp jobs diminishes my interest in the academic life.

Tina Fey is seen protesting outside 30 Rock, but she will be on set this week shooting "30 Rock." It will be interesting to see if they can write the strike into the show.

Shawn Ryan, creator of The Shield and The Unit, discusses his decision to dis-honor his production contracts during the TV writers' strike. The self-righteous rhetoric gets to be cloying, but the comments provide an interesting view into the opinions of t

This is old, but good news.This city of Austin will not buy sweated goods in its procurement process. I wish UT - heck the NCAA - had a similar policy.

"the bigger issue is... whether the photos, text, videos, financial information and other things you put online are yours, or whether they end up belonging, in practice if not principle, to the company you use to store and/or display them.

This cool CSS design shows historical sites in Manhattan related to radical social movements.

Justin Fox examines the relationship between peer producers and the sites that profit from them.

This article from last year says "Compare unions with companies, and unions appear to lack a sophisticated up-to-date visual language capable of rising to the rhetorical challenge."

1911 visualization of economics created for the Wobblies.

I was going to blog a longer response to this, but this will have to do for now.

This interview with a Canadian doing NGO work in Oaxaca provides a nice primer of the teachers' strike there.

A New York Indymedia reporter covering the teachers' strike in Oaxaca was killed by right-wing paramilitaries last week.

I've been thinking along these lines for a while.

I was looking for videos from the N30 protests to show in class today, Students are snickering...

A map showing changes in real income over the past six years. Income has dropped in nearly all states, including a 9.9% drop in Texas.

Tim O'Reilly discusses the potential of using games to get humans to label unstructured data like images. "In 2003, 9 billion hours were spent playing solitaire. By comparison, it took only 7 million human hours (6.8 hours of solitaire) to build the Empir

Scroll down for Heather Havrilesky's demystification of office culture. Take that Mary Tyler Moore!

I want to say this looks like the worst job ever, and then I remember the people who clean up after murders or sanitize highway rest stops. Still, I wouldn't want to work for this guy.

I'm not sure it bodes well that a Chinese business is outsourcing manufacturing to my home state. The relaunced MGs will be built in Ardmore, which is about halfway between Dallas and OKC.

I've been meaning to post something about the actions in Oaxaca, and this will have to do.

Judge rules it's the equivalent of using the phone or reading a newspaper. This sounds like a good decision.

NYPD spying on union and political activities of officers.