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Taylorism

August 1, 2014

BEZOS’ COLD, MICROMANAGED, time-motion approach to the workplace is a direct descendant (and extreme extension) of a theory of “scientific management”... Read more...

The birth of Amazon

August 1, 2014

LEGEND HAS IT that Amazon is a classic story of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. In 1994, a bright,... Read more...

The Stratfor File

April 1, 2012

What: Strategic Forecasting, Inc. is a for-profit, mini-CIA. It uses a web of paid informers around the world to gain... Read more...

Our taxes pay spies to work for rich shareholders– and pay for the corporatization of war itself

April 1, 2012

On the last day of last year, Austin’s daily newspaper led with a story that it tagged as an “Internet Privacy”... Read more...

Immigrants come here because globalization took their jobs back there

January 1, 2008

THE WAILING IN OUR COUNTRY ABOUT the “invasion of immigrants” has been long and loud. As one complainant put it, “Few... Read more...

The Bushites have outsourced our government to their pals

June 1, 2007

THE SPRAWLING $43 BILLION HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT (HSD) is known chiefly for being the agency in charge of America’s color-coded terrorist-threat... Read more...

Let’s look at our economy by the numbers

July 1, 2006

George W keeps buzzing around like a maniacal mosquito on a hot summer night, pestering us with speeches and photo... Read more...

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