Month: January 2018
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Housing Racism and Skid Row
Down on the corner of 6th and San Pedro, there’s a building named for Ben Weingart, and maybe his story could explain Skid Row a little better.
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
Back in 1889, John W. Lovell was attempting to create a “book trust”, or a cartel of book publishers to control prices by limiting competition between the publishers.
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
Congress now has a Microbusiness Caucus, but does it represent workers? I’d say “no”. It’s for Etsy and those other companies, first, and only secondarily for people who sell on Etsy, and, lastly, for all the workers involved in producing for the Etsy marketplace platform.
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
Congress now has a Microbusiness Caucus, but does it represent workers? I’d say “no”. It’s for Etsy and those other companies, first, and only secondarily for people who sell on Etsy, and, lastly, for all the workers involved in producing for the Etsy marketplace platform.
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US Taps Strategic Popcorn Reserves for Extended Bannon-Trump Flame-War
In response to a sudden shortage of popcorn at US supermarkets, the US Navy responded by releasing 10,000 tons of microwave popcorn from the strategic popcorn reserves in Indiana. Popcorn consumption rose on January 2, on reports of a brewing feud between President Donald Trump and former Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon, as Bannon started…