#labour studies

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New jobs in specific sectors, notably the most watched industries of manufacturing and services, are categorised based on the employer or company, not the actual job itself. As a result, if a manufacturer hires for a designing job, it would be captured as an addition to the manufacturing sector, instead of what it really is, which is an increase in service jobs. That could provide the government and policy-makers with misleading trends.

Madhura Karnik, 'The real problem with India's jobs data is that they hide more than they reveal', Quartz

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From "The Capitalist System"

Another excerpt from the Bakunin reading I'm doing for my essay:

...the mass of the proletariat, growing as a result of the general increase of the population — which, as we know, not even poverty can stop effectively — and through the increasing proletarianization of the petty-bourgeoisie, ex-owners, capitalists, merchants, and industrialists — growing, as I have said, at a much more rapid rate than the productive capacities of an economy that is exploited by bourgeois capital — this growing mass of the proletariat is placed in a condition wherein the workers are forced into disastrous competition against one another.

For since they possess no other means of existence but their own manual labor, they are driven, by the fear of seeing themselves replaced by others, to sell it at the lowest price. This tendency of the workers, or rather the necessity to which they are condemned by their own poverty, combined with the tendency of the employers to sell the products of their workers, and consequently buy their labor, at the lowest price, constantly reproduces and consolidates the poverty of the proletariat. Since he finds himself in a state of poverty, the worker is compelled to sell his labor for almost nothing, and because he sells that product for almost nothing, he sinks into ever greater poverty.

Yes, greater misery, indeed! For in this galley-slave labor the productive force of the workers, abused, ruthlessly exploited, excessively wasted and underfed, is rapidly used up. And once used up, what can be its value on the market, of what worth is this sole commodity which he possesses and upon the daily sale of which he depends for a livelihood? Nothing! And then? Then nothing is left for the worker but to die.

[soycrates]

Cheer Up, College Kids.

Business Student: Do they sell lemons? Are they lemon farmers?

Labour Studies Student: A Leninist? No, LENIN, not lemon.

Business Student: So... what do they sell?

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Fashion Student: Why don't you try that jacket in leather?

Philosophy Student: You don't think stepping into the dead burned skin of a once living, sentient being - then having it shipped all the way from India with oil from a country under US military attack - might be just a tad wrong?

Fashion Student: What? Leather isn't people, silly. It's a material.

Philosophy Student: Where do you think that material comes from?

Fashion Student:... the leather store?

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Health Sci Student:... not like those holistic hacks with the magic beads and-

Holistic Nutrition Student: You know our school has a holi sci department, right? And that they study just as much in terms of government approved scientific claims as the health sci students?

Health Sci Student:... oh. I actually didn't know that. Then why do we have both departments? What's the difference?

Holistic Nutrition Student: One department aims to see patients get better with long-term results. The other department is Health Sci.

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Feminist Studies Student: No vagina, no opinion!

Queer Theories Student: Uh.... *backs away slowly*

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History Student: How would studying english ever get you a job? They're just hipsters.

*has bought entire Harry Potter Series* *owns numerous writing style guides* *Is a history student*

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Labour Studies just might be the death of me...

Oh my lanta at least it's my last final. Cannot waaaait for summer.