Comments on: Torn http://standsalone.org/blog/2007/09/10/torn/ You've Got Some Free Time, Huh? Wed, 23 May 2012 02:36:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: dannygutters http://standsalone.org/blog/2007/09/10/torn/comment-page-1/#comment-493 dannygutters Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:23:35 +0000 http://standsalone.org/blog/2007/09/10/torn/#comment-493 Jeremy, why not appropriate? Not entirely, but I can see increased global operation (at least in manufacturing) as a reaction to the cost imposed by a domestic labor movemement without influence on a global scale. the wobblies had it right, and that was 100 years ago. Jeremy, why not appropriate? Not entirely, but I can see increased global operation (at least in manufacturing) as a reaction to the cost imposed by a domestic labor movemement without influence on a global scale. the wobblies had it right, and that was 100 years ago.

]]> By: brie http://standsalone.org/blog/2007/09/10/torn/comment-page-1/#comment-492 brie Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:52:17 +0000 http://standsalone.org/blog/2007/09/10/torn/#comment-492 The cat's just a little tipsy from vet-provided drugs. I really like the bit where it sits motionless for 10 seconds and then just falls over. My experience with wisdom-tooth Vicodin wasn't nearly as exciting. The cat’s just a little tipsy from vet-provided drugs. I really like the bit where it sits motionless for 10 seconds and then just falls over. My experience with wisdom-tooth Vicodin wasn’t nearly as exciting.

]]> By: jeremy http://standsalone.org/blog/2007/09/10/torn/comment-page-1/#comment-490 jeremy Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:13:52 +0000 http://standsalone.org/blog/2007/09/10/torn/#comment-490 Sidestepping the confusing exchange above--Did that cat just die? I think they killed it. It hardly seems appropriate to suggest that the ills of globalization are due to the inability of domestic labor movements to globalize at the same rate as corporate outsourcing to free-trade zones around the world. Sidestepping the confusing exchange above–Did that cat just die? I think they killed it.

It hardly seems appropriate to suggest that the ills of globalization are due to the inability of domestic labor movements to globalize at the same rate as corporate outsourcing to free-trade zones around the world.

]]> By: brie http://standsalone.org/blog/2007/09/10/torn/comment-page-1/#comment-489 brie Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:26:08 +0000 http://standsalone.org/blog/2007/09/10/torn/#comment-489 <p>I didn't mean 'Yeah!' as in I'm excited about it. I was talking about the value of debating, in a large number of books and journal articles, the degree to which it is occuring, the speed of 'the tearing apart of space from place', etc. Or doing spending my time doing something practical. </p> <p>Also think a NYT columnist isn't going to cut it in terms of intellectual theorising down here. At UniMelb, you go Stuart Hall or you go home.*</p> <p>Also, I don't know about Christians providing microloans, but that's not the <a href="http://www.grameenfoundation.org/what_we_do/microfinance_in_action/faqs/#4" rel="nofollow">thrust</a> of the industry.</p> <p>*-God. I've started making theory jokes. Someone come get me and bring me home.</p> I didn’t mean ‘Yeah!’ as in I’m excited about it. I was talking about the value of debating, in a large number of books and journal articles, the degree to which it is occuring, the speed of ‘the tearing apart of space from place’, etc. Or doing spending my time doing something practical.

Also think a NYT columnist isn’t going to cut it in terms of intellectual theorising down here. At UniMelb, you go Stuart Hall or you go home.*

Also, I don’t know about Christians providing microloans, but that’s not the thrust of the industry.

*-God. I’ve started making theory jokes. Someone come get me and bring me home.

]]> By: dannygutters http://standsalone.org/blog/2007/09/10/torn/comment-page-1/#comment-487 dannygutters Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:34:14 +0000 http://standsalone.org/blog/2007/09/10/torn/#comment-487 The other Yay Globalism go-to book is "the World is Flat". It's interesting if not overly wishfull. I think massive push towards globalization has less to do with altruism or even the white man's burdon and more to do with US labor movments failing to globalize as well as their corporate counterparts. Infact us labor orgs have pretty much failed to do much of anything lately than fight over the scraps of industry left in the US. One interesting technique in this area these days is the popularity of Microloans. Basically, the new favorite technique of Missionaries is to lend sums of money to developing nations at low interest (undercutting the WTO particularily) to develop local business instead of say just building a church. The longer term success of this idea has not been seen yet. Onward christian dollars! The other Yay Globalism go-to book is “the World is Flat”. It’s interesting if not overly wishfull. I think massive push towards globalization has less to do with altruism or even the white man’s burdon and more to do with US labor movments failing to globalize as well as their corporate counterparts. Infact us labor orgs have pretty much failed to do much of anything lately than fight over the scraps of industry left in the US.

One interesting technique in this area these days is the popularity of Microloans. Basically, the new favorite technique of Missionaries is to lend sums of money to developing nations at low interest (undercutting the WTO particularily) to develop local business instead of say just building a church. The longer term success of this idea has not been seen yet. Onward christian dollars!

]]>