New Orleans Casual, temporary, irregular (Korea), part-time, and informal are all terms of art in different countries describing everywhere essentially the same global workforce phenomena in the race to the bottom for public and corporate employers sweating labor from workers on a come-as-you-are, no benefits, we-will-call-you-whenever-we-need-you basis. We learned from hours of intensive dialogue with …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Who is that Masked Woman – and Why?
New Orleans Rifling through the papers on my return, I am confronted by a picture of women on the beach in ski masks. What’s up with that? Flip a couple of pages and there are even more of them, as if it is a blooming fad of some kind. Reading further it was some of …
Industrial Tourism Ghost Towns: Another Sports Hustle Revealed as Mirage
New Orleans There is no bigger industrial tourism hustle than what we witness with regularity around the hype connected to major international sporting events. The Olympics are grand quadrennial fare with plenty of “bread” for the masses and are quite moving for the athletes, as indicated by NBA and USA center, Tyson Chandler’s comment that …