Category: World Civ-Industrialization
Dawn of the Digital Sweatshop
All over the world, workers are paid pennies to do menial online tasks in a largely unregulated, multimillion-dollar industry. Welcome to the Internet’s factory floor.
Lecture: The Industrial Revolution in Europe
Lecture Outline:
- Overview of the IR
- Proto IR
- Why England?
- Spread of the IR
- German IR
- Effects of the IR
- Proletarian Responses
- Government Responses
- Questions?
The Revenge of Karl Marx
Marx is so embedded in our Western cast of thought that few people are even aware of their debt to him. Everybody I know now believes that their attitudes are to an extent a creation of their material circumstances … “that, on the contrary, their social being determines their consciousness”, as Marx wrote—and that changes in the way things are produced profoundly affect the affairs of humanity even outside the workshop or factory.
Read Hitchens’ piece (from The Nation, 2009)