A friend was included in the purge of 30 tenured faculty from Emporia State University last year. AAUP just released a jaw-dropping report.

Here's a spicy Kansas Reflector piece which summarizes the report, then a link to the report itself, which is definitely worth reading. It lifts the veil for the general public on a lot of what faculty have been seeing from the inside.

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/05/01/emporia-state-university-kansas-board-of-regents-members-unfit-to-lead-investigation-finds/

https://www.aaup.org/report/academic-freedom-and-tenure-emporia-state-university-kansas

#AcademicFreedom #WorkConditions @edutooters

‘Like slaves’: Zimbabwe farmworkers lash out at work conditions https://andrewhansen.au/like-slaves-zimbabwe-farmworkers-lash-out-at-work-conditions/ #WorkConditions #LatestNews #AlJazeera #Zimbabwe

#workconditions #anticapitalism #antiwork

The #gaslighting #rhetoric which tries to pretend #work is not exploitation is so fucking weak you have to wonder why anyone imagines it would be effective.

The rhetoric was always cringe-worthy. The only thing keeping most people at work is the power imbalance. But when you shit on people too much and they have nothing to lose you lose your leverage over them.

Calling workplace home and co-workers family is a plain lie. Take it, shove it. #Strike!

@qwosl He would rather spunk money on #vanity projects than pay his employees a #livingwage and provide #decent #workconditions. #wealthdistribution now!

#labour #workconditions #exploitingworkers
#animalrights issue
#Porkopolis: The Human and Economic Tragedy of Manufactured Meat (1)
#book
#capitalismIStheproblem
#AlexBlanchette's Porkopolis (2020, Duke #UniversityPress) has had more than the usual impact for a book that started out as a dissertation. Blanchette spent...

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