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Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America [book]
Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
This book is about the ideological and material foundations of the care crisis. It is grounded in the premise that the often untenable strains to which family caregivers are subject and the parlous situation of paid caregivers are closely intertwined and need to be examined together. The main thesis of the book is that the social organization of care has been rooted in diverse forms of coercion that have induced women to assume responsibility for caring for family members and that have tracked poor, racial minority, and immigrant women into positions entailing caring for others. The forms of coercion have varied in degree, directness, and explicitness but nonetheless have served to constrain and direct women's choices; the net consequence of restricted choice has been to keep caring labor "cheap," that is, free (in the case of family care labor) or low waged (in the case of paid care labor). Read more…
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, "Racial Ethnic Women's Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Class Oppression"
"Racial Ethnic Women's Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Class Oppression"
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Review of Radical Political Economics Vol 17(3):86-108, 1985. [PDF]
The failure of the feminist movement to address the concerns of Black, Hispanic and Asian-American women is currently engendering widespread discussion in white women's organizations. Paralleling this discussion is a growing interest among racial ethnic women [1] in articulating aspects of their experiences that have been ignored in feminist analyses of women's oppression (e.g. oral histories by Sterling 1979; Elessar, MacKenzie and Tixier y Vigil 1980; Kim 1983; and social and historical studies by Dill 1979; Mirande and Enriquez 1979; Davis 1981; Hooks 1981; Jones 1984). [2]
As an initial corrective, racial ethnic scholars have begun research on racial ethnic women in relation to employment, the family and the ethnic community, both historically and contemporarily (e.g. Acosta-Belen 1979; Mora and Del Castillo 1980; Melville 1980; Rodgers-Rose 1980; Tsuchida 1982). The most interesting of these studies describe the social world and day-to-day struggles of racial ethnic women, making visible what has up to now been invisible in the social sciences and humanities. These concrete data constitute the first step toward understanding the effects of race and gender oppression in the lives of racial ethnic women. Read more…
Marina Vishmidt, "Human Capital or Toxic Asset: After the Wage"
"Human Capital or Toxic Asset: After the Wage"
Marina Vishmidt
Reartikulacija, 2010. [link]
This is a sequence of reflections on affirmation and negation, on identification and severance: determinate negation as strategic affirmation, the identification of concrete universals and severance from a defunct relation. These lines will be explored with reference to the current situation of the waged and unwaged working class, most proximately in Britain, as "debt" becomes the ideological white noise and the practical horizon of all social and political imagination. Household indebtedness is confused with the state deficit in the spontaneous ideology of the Conservative austerity agenda, as what remains of the crisis-riddled economy is sacrificed to the "debt" – as poor people to loan sharks, so Britain to the bond investors. The nationalist narrative of "we're all in this together" eliminates any space for discussion as to who might bear greater responsibility for the crisis, and who should be paying for it. The announced cuts make it all too clear – it's the bloated public sector and welfare payments which are responsible, and those that have the least shall have even that taken away, as the Biblical parable goes. Yet a fatalistic consensus prevails for now, transfixed by a menace beyond dispute: the "debt." Read more…
María Ruido, "Just Do It! Bodies and Images of Women in the New Division of Labor"
"Just Do It! Bodies and Images of Women in the New Division of Labor"
"Representation needs to be contextualized from several points. The representation of texts and images does not reflect the world as a mirror, mere translation of its sources, but is rather remodeled, coded in rhetorical terms. (…) Representation may be understood as a visible formal 'articulation' of social order ".
Griselda Pollock, Vision and Difference, 1994
"What do you do? What is your occupation?" Although every day we all reply quite easily to this apparently simple question, if we stop and carefully think what is our interlocutor demanding, we conclude that, in fact, what he/she really wants to know is the job we have or the activity or activities we make for a living and does not expect us at all to enumerate the wide range of actions, relations and productions that we unfold throughout the day.
Defining work and its limits in abstract terms at the present time, where the times and locations of production became blurred and extended, is not an easy task. However, experiencing its consequences on our bodies seems to be less complicated, especially if we consider a definition of work that goes beyond the economistic view (whether neoclassical or Marxist) and, especially, if we understand our sustainment of a daily life and our daily incorporation of personalities and social actions as spaces and (re)productive efforts. Everything that tires, that occupies, that disciplines and stresses our body, but also everything that constructs it, that takes care of it, that gives it pleasure and maintains it, is work. Read more…
Lara Vapnek, "Desires for Distance: White Working-Class Women's Rejection of Domestic Service in the late 19th-century United States"
"Desires for Distance: White Working-Class Women's Rejection of Domestic Service in the late 19th-century United States"
Lara Vapnek, St. John's University [PDF]
This paper examines several moments when the intimacy entailed in domestic service became a political issue. The first, and most sustained series of examples comes from post-Civil War Boston, where native-born, white working-class women characterized domestic service as an unacceptable compromise of their independence as American citizens. Female leaders of the post-Civil War labor reform movement such as Jennie Collins and Aurora Phelps developed this rejection into a broader critique of class relations. Their metaphors of "wage slavery" invite us to consider how gender, racial, and ethnic identities were constituted through the performance (or non-performance) of paid domestic labor. The second part of this paper considers how these issues played out during the remainder of the nineteenth century in working-class women's continued associations of service and slavery, and in growing anxieties about ethnic and racial mixing in middle-class households. Together, the various pieces of this essay suggest how the category of intimate labor might reframe our understanding of the history of paid domestic labor in the United States. Read more…
Harry Cleaver, "On Self-valorization in Mariarosa Dalla Costa's "'Women and the Subversion of the Community'"
"On Self-valorization in Mariarosa Dalla Costa's 'Women and the Subversion of the Community' (1971)"
Harry Cleaver [Link]
One important limitation to Mariarosa's essay, in my opinion, is its failure to directly address the issue of self-valorization, either in general, or in the specific case of women's housework. "Self-valorization" is my translation of the Italian word autovalorizzazione. A more literal translation would be auto-valorization, but such a word is a bit weird in English so I prefer self-valorization even though it is a bit misleading. It is misleading for two reasons: first, because it is a term appropriated from Marx but changed in its meaning. Second, because the English prefix "self-" risks evoking the individual whereas the Italian prefix "auto" is less likely to do so and is more conducive to a more appropriate interpretation in terms not just of individuals but of groups and classes. Let me explain further.
In Marx the term self-valorization referred to the self-valorization of capital – everything involved in its expanded reproduction – which is most basically the expanded reproduction of the class relation but includes every element of that relation, e.g., every element that appears in his analysis of Volume I of Capital and reappear as moments of his analysis of the "circuits" or "reproduction schemes" of capital discussed at length in volume II of Capital, e.g., labor power, constant capital, money, exchange, work, commodities, and all the class antagonisms those elements embody and structure: exploitation, alienation and working class resistance and struggle. Capital successfully "self-valorizes" when it is able to juggle/manage the class relationships at all points sufficiently to achieve the expanded reproduction of those relationships.
When Italian autonomist Marxists, especially Toni Negri, appropriated the term "self-valorization" they changed its meaning from the expanded reproduction of capital to the autonomous, self-determination or self-development of the working class. The new use of the term was designed to denote working class self-activity that went beyond being merely reactive to capital, e.g., fighting back against exploitation, to denote working class self-activity that carried within it the basic positive, creative and imaginative re-invention of the world that characterized the "living labor" that capital-the-vampire has fed on but which is always an autonomous power that has frequently ruptured capital's controls and limitations and that will ultimately, hopefully, be powerful enough to break free completely and craft new worlds beyond capitalism. Read more…
Harry Cleaver, "On Domestic Labor and Value in Mariarosa Dalla Costa's 'Women and the Subversion of the Community' (1971)"
"On Domestic Labor and Value in Mariarosa Dalla Costa's 'Women and the Subversion of the Community' (1971)"
Harry Cleaver [Link]
A central point of Mariarosa's analysis in "Women and the Subversion of the Community" is to argue that housework, or domestic labor, or for that matter any and all labor that produces and reproduces labor power is socially productive, i.e., produces value and surplus value. "We have to make clear," she writes, "domestic work produces not merely use values, but is essential to the production of surplus value." And a footnote adds: "What we meant precisely is that housework as work is productive in the Marxian sense, that is, is producing surplus value." This is a claim which is asserted – in the section of the essay called "Surplus Value and the Social Factory" – but not really explored in her article. She demonstrates at length how housework produces a key element of capitalist society – labor power – but doesn't do so, for the most part, in terms of value. It is also a claim that was, and remains, highly controversial (and one which Polda addressed in greater depth in her book – a treatment that I'm going to leave for future discussion).
The primary objection to this claim that housework produces value and surplus value derives, of course, from contrasting her assertion with Marx who treated the production of value and surplus value uniquely in the context of workers producing commodities for capital that are sold and on which a profit is realized. This objection, and the usual reading of Marx, however, usually doesn't critically examine a key issue: what it means to "produce" value. Neither, of course, does Mariarosa in this essay. Read more…
Maria Mies, "Colonization and Housewifization"
"Colonization and Housewifization"
Maria Mies
Chapter Three, Patriarchy and Capital Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour, 1986. [PDF]
The Dialectics of 'Progress and Retrogression'
On the basis of the foregoing analysis, it is possible to formulate a tentative thesis which will guide my further discussion.
The historical development of the division of labour in general, and the sexual division of labour in particular, was/is not an evolutionary and peaceful process, based on the ever-progressing development of productive forces (mainly technology) and specialization, but a violent one by which first certain categories of men, later certain peoples, were able mainly by virtue of arms and warfare to establish an exploitative relationship between themselves and women, and other peoples and classes.
Within such a predatory mode of production, which is intrinsically patriarchal, warfare and conquest become the most 'productive' modes of production. The quick accumulation of material wealth – not based on regular subsistence work in one's own community, but on looting and robbery – facilitates the faster development of technology in those societies which are based on conquest and warfare. This technological development, however, again is not oriented principally towards the satisfaction of subsistence needs of the community as a whole, but towards further warfare, conquest and accumulation. The development of arms and transport technology has been a driving force for technological innovation in all patriarchal societies, but particularly in the modem capitalist European one which has conquered and subjected the whole world since the fifteenth century. The concept of 'progress' which emerged in this particular patriarchal civilization is historically unthinkable without the one-sided development of the technology of warfare and conquest. All subsistence technology (for conservation and production of food, clothes and shelter, etc.) henceforth appears to be 'backward' in comparison to the 'wonders' of the modern technology of warfare and conquest (navigation, the compass, gunpowder, etc.). Read more…
Precarias a la Deriva, "Close encounters in the second phase: The communication continuum: care-sex-attention"
"Close encounters in the second phase: The communication continuum: care-sex-attention"
Precarias a la Deriva
Nov. 2003 [link]
Ya, desde el famoso 11 de setiembre
Ya, en una guerra global permanente
Yo, que vivo en guerra cotidianamente
Yo salgo a las calles y digo que NO!
(to strike in A major, to the tune of "Yo te amo con la fuerza de los mares")
In the months that followed the "Grand Show" of December of 2002, we began to give shape to what all of us understood as a second phase in our exploration of women's precarious work. Some moved to other places and no longer shared the day to day of Precarias in Madrid, others joined the group or proposed particular initiatives: the publication of a text in a book or a web page, participation in a conference, collaboration in a video, or else accompanied us in organizing processes or in a mobilization.[1] This coming and going makes room for a mode of networked cooperation which is not so much about belonging, in this case to the group of Precarias, as it is about opening a field of communication and fluid action – sometimes perhaps too diffuse – which we hope will become a means of constructing a new space of aggregation: the Laboratory of Women Workers. Read more…
Precarias a la Deriva, "Precarious Lexicon"
"Precarious Lexicon"
Provisional European lexicon for free copy, modification, and distribution by the jugglers of life by some precarias a la deriva
Translated by Franco Ingrassia and Nate Holdren.
April, 2005 [Link]
Precarization of existence
In order to overcome the dichotomies of public/private and production/reproduction, and to recognize and give visibility to the interconnections between the social and the economic that make it impossible to think precariety from an exclusively laboral and salarial point of view, we define precarity as the set of material and symbolic conditions that determine a vital uncertainty with respect to the sustained access to the essential resources for the full development of the life of a subject. Read more…
Precarias a la Deriva, "Preguntas para Precarias"
"Preguntas para Precarias"
Precarias a la Deriva
How do (if at all) strains of theory (the Situationist theory of the derive, the work of Negri and Hardt) inform the work of Precarias?
Obviously, we've read a few things. But this doesn't mean that we're reading theoretical work and then looking for ways to put it into action: quite the contrary. We found ourselves in a certain situation and began to look for ways to understand it and intervene in it, and to the extent that other thinkers can provide us with tools or inspiration, we look to them. Mustn't forget that any theory worth its salt is written as a tool for action in a specific context and moment. As for the influence of particular strains, I'd say we're pretty eclectic: whatever seems useful. A lot of feminists, some operisti, some urban studies and an ongoing dialog with a number of other groups working on 'activist research' (like Situaciones in Buenos Aires). I don't know if you can get your hands on the book Nociones Comunes but in the introduction the editor (Marta Malo, one of the Precarias girls) writes a very nice genealogy of influences; maybe I can get you a copy (in spanish, haven't translated it yet) Read more…
Precarias a la Deriva, "First Stutterings of 'Precarias a la Deriva'"
"First Stutterings of 'Precarias a la Deriva'"
Precarias a la Deriva
April, 2003 [Link]
Trabajo flexible ¿Es que somos invisibles?
Trabajo inmaterial ¡Ay que estrés mental!
Trabajo de jornalera ¡Eso es la repera!
(Little song by Precarias a la Deriva in the General Strike of 20 June 2002)
Precarias a la deriva (Precarious women workers adrift) is a collective project of investigation and action. The concerns of the participants in this open project converged the 20th of June 2002, the day of the general strike called by the major unions in Spain. Some of us had already initiated a trajectory of reflection and intervention in questions of the transformations of labor (in groups such as 'ZeroWork' and Sex, Lies and Precariousness, or individually), others wished to begin to think through these themes. In the days before the strike we came together to brainstorm an intervention which would reflect our times, aware that the labor strike, as the culminating expression of a process of struggle, was unsatisfactory for us for three reasons: (1) for not taking up –and this is no novelty- the experience and the unjust division of domestic work and care, almost entirely done by women in the 'non-productive' sphere, (2) for the marginalization to which both the forms of action and the proposals of the strike condemn those in types of work –ever more common- which are generally lumped together as 'precarious'[1] and (3) for not taking into consideration precarious, flexible, invisible or undervalued work, specifically that of women and/or migrants (sexual, domestic, assistance, etc.). As a friend recently pointed out in the context of the more recent 'political' strike against the war (April 10, 2003), "How do we invent new forms of striking when production fragments and dislocates itself, when it is organized in such a way that to stop working for a few hours (or even 24) does not necessarily effect the production process, and when our contract situation is so fragile that striking today means risking the possibility of working tomorrow?" Read more…
Frances Rooney, "SORWUC" [the Service, Office and Retail Workers' Union of Canada]
Frances Rooney
Canadian Woman Studies, Vol 1, No 2, 1978. [PDF]
Women in unions? Yes, Virginia, there are women in unions but … sixty-five per cent of women in the labour force are not unionized. Most unions ignore or discriminate against part-time workers; an elite, removed from the membership, dominates many unions; members often have no direct say in decision-making and it goes without saying that the labour-union movement is overwhelmingly male-oriented and male-dominated.
SORWUC (the Service, Office and Retail Workers' Union of Canada) is doing something about all those things. The now six-year-old union grew out of the Vancouver Working Women's Association. Its purpose is to organize workers in retail stores, banks, restaurants, and the other service trades-those predominantly female occupations which have always been ignored by the traditional trade unions. Because SORWUC'S twenty-four founders were tired of insensitive hierarchies and were aware that women need to learn about the workings of unions, they designed the SORWUC constitution specifically to prevent the growth of a highly paid professional bureaucracy.
All important decisions are voted on by the entire membership through referendum ballots mailed to the members' houses. All officers are elected annually, and there is a limit to the length of time any person may hold office. And all local bargaining units are autonomous: each unit retains control over every aspect of negotiations, and the members of each unit write and negotiate their own contracts.
For the first year after certification by the B.C. Labour Relations Board, SORWUC'S one bargaining unit consisted of the employees of a small legal office. Since 1974, Local 1 has come to represent several social-service agencies, other offices, restaurants, and day-care centres. In addition to the usual provisions concerning job security, promotions, and wages, the SORWUC contracts have included several provisions designed to meet the needs of working people who must also function as members of families and of their communities. These include work weeks as short as 32 hours; full pay for maternity leave; two weeks' paid paternity leave; an extra hour at lunch-time, paid, once a month to allow women with families to participate in union meetings; protection and prorated benefits for part-time workers; and personal rights clauses prohibiting dress regulations, performance of personal chores for employers, and that most familiar function of the 'office wife', getting coffee.
SORWUC is working to evolve policies to improve the quality of the life of working people. One area of study is child care: 'We want to explore the possibilities of unions having more control of day-care centres and child-care facilities. A union of parents/working people will care for its children as industry/government never will.' Policy proposals presented to the SORWUC National Convention in February 1978 included free 24-hour child care; centres which the child can reach by her/himself and, when necessary, free transportation for both parent and child; nonsexist, nonracist training for childcare workers and salaries at parity with those of school teachers and the funding of these facilities from corporation profits. Underlying these policy proposals, which contain a statement of the rights of children, is SORWUC's view that children are part of society and, as such, are the responsibility of society as a whole. Read more…
Genora Johnson Dollinger, "'This Is the Pressure That They Used': Genora Dollinger Recalls the Flint Sit-Down Strike"
"'This Is the Pressure That They Used': Genora Dollinger Recalls the Flint Sit-Down Strike"
Genora Johnson Dollinger
Oral history courtesy of Sherna Gluck, Feminist History Project.
Strikes affect an entire community, and in the end they need that community's support to succeed. This is especially true in the case of a sit-down strike like the legendary sit-down strike at Flint, Michigan, in 1936, when the strikers occupied the GM plants. The strikers, isolated at first inside the Fisher Body Plant Number One, needed food; they also needed information and advance warning on what management might be up to. The Women's Emergency Brigade, formed during the Flint strike, proved indispensable to the union effort more than once. Genora Johnson Dollinger helped found the Women's Emergency Brigade and became one of the strike's key leaders. In this interview, conducted by historian Sherna Gluck in 1976, Genora Johnson Dollinger described first how the strike affected her family. [History Matters]
Genora Dollinger: During this period, I was renting an apartment above my mother, on the third floor of the building that my father – or the building I was raised in. And I had one little boy in school and the other little fellow was only two. Now, I started leaving him downstairs until my father became so anti-union, they'd cut off all of my father's funds at the bank, all of his business transactions. That included not only his real estate building, but also his photograph studio. He had no funds that he could write any checks. He was frozen. And he went down to see them, and they said, "Until you get that communist daughter of yours out of your apartment building, we're not going to -" This was just pressure, when I stop to think about it. Just his daughter moving out of the building? This is the pressure that they used. And it was – I remember the banker's name very well because the son-of-a-beehive was a KKK member with my father through the church minister where I belonged. And so he told him, "You get your daughter out." And so my father marched home and he said, "For God's sake, I'm frozen here. I can't move in any of my business enterprises, and your nonsense, so you'll have to move." And I said, "I'm sorry. I haven't got time to move," and who would take care of my kids anyway. So then he said, well, then he was going to shut the heat and water off, and I said, "You do that, and I'll issue a statement to the press that their grandfather is-" you know, from their grandchildren," and call the health department."
So my mother at this point didn't dare to defy my father, but she let me know that whatever I thought was right for working people, you know, she would be in agreement. She may not understand, but she understood that I had my reasons.
And what would happen is that – you know, I had two young sisters, remember. One was eight and the other one was twelve. And they would take turns. They would get up and eat breakfast with mother and dad in the morning, and then they would kiss them goodbye and go off to school. One would go to school and the other one would go up the back stairs and stay with my children during the day, and then they would take turns. And that was primarily how my children were being taken care of.
Dorothy Sue Cobble, "'A Spontaneous Loss of Enthusiasm': Workplace Feminism and the Transformation of Women's Service Jobs in the 1970s"
"'A Spontaneous Loss of Enthusiasm': Workplace Feminism and the Transformation of Women's Service Jobs in the 1970s"
Dorothy Sue Cobble
International Labor and Working-Class History No. 56, Fall 1999, pp. 23-44 [PDF]
In 1972, a group of tired stewardesses tried to explain their concerns to the incredulous male transit union officials who led their union. No, the primary issues were not wages and benefits, they insisted, but the particular cut of their uniforms and the sexual insinuations made about their occupation in the new airline advertisements. Their words fell on deaf ears. Despite their commonalities as transportation workers, the gender gap separating the two groups was simply too wide to cross. Indeed, male subway drivers could not understand why the stewardesses would object to their glamorous sex-object image. Deeply held gendered notions of unionism and politics also stood in the way of communication.
For even if the complaints of stewardesses were accepted as "real," to many male union leaders they seemed petty: matters not deserving of serious attention, let alone concerted activity. The gender gap in labor history may not be quite as wide as that between female flight attendants and male subway drivers. But many of the same processes have blocked productive communication and hindered the intellectual development of the field. Labor history scholarship still rests upon gendered definitions of work, politics, and unionism. Just as significantly, the overall narratives that dominate the field incorporate neither the history of female-dominated occupations and industries nor that of women's particular forms of collective action. Read more…
Eileen Boris and S. J. Kleinberg, "Mothers and Other Workers: (Re)Conceiving Labor, Maternalism, and the State"
"Mothers and Other Workers: (Re)Conceiving Labor, Maternalism, and the State"
Eileen Boris and S. J. Kleinberg
Journal of Women's History, 15:3 (Autumn, 2003), 90-117. [PDF]
This article interrogates the gendering of labor and welfare history as part of an examination into the meaning of work, its connection to social welfare policy, and definitions of what constitutes a "real" family in the United States. It examines the gendering of labor based upon the largely male model of waged labor and the exclusion of women of color from the early phases of women's labor history. By integrating caregiving and domestic production into analyses of work and welfare, it analyzes how the troika of class, race, and gender (especially as complicated by marriage and motherhood) have become central issues in the history of labor. It explores the racialized and gendered construction of labor and welfare legislation and the redefinition of women's "rights" in contemporary America as participation in the waged workforce, not the right to choose how to combine motherwork and economic survival. Read more…
Marvel Cooke, "The Bronx Slave Market"
"The Bronx Slave Market"
Marvel Cooke
From The Daily Compass, 1950 [PDF]
I was a slave.
I was part of the "paper bag brigade," waiting patiently in front of Woolworth's on 170th St., between Jerome and Walton Aves., for someone to "buy" me for an hour or two, or, if I were lucky, for a day.
That is The Bronx Slave Market, where Negro women wait, in rain or shine, in bitter cold or under broiling Sun, to be hired by local housewives looking for bargains in human labor.
It has its counterparts in Brighton Beach, Brownsville and other areas of the city.
Born in the last depression, the Slave Markets are products of poverty and desperation. They grow as employment falls. Today they are growing.
They arose after the 1929 crash when thousands of Negro women, who before then had a "corner" on household jobs because they were discriminated against in other employment, found themselves among the army of the unemployed. Either the employer was forced to do her own household chores or she fired the Negro worker to make way for a white worker who had been let out of less menial employment.
The Negro domestic had no place to turn. She took to the streets in search of employment-and the Slave Markets were born.
Their growth was checked slightly in 1941 when Mayor LaGuardia ordered an investigation of charges that Negro women were being exploited by housewives. He opened free hiring halls in strategic spots in The Bronx and other areas where the Slave Markets had mushroomed.
They were not entirely erased, however, until World War II diverted labor, skilled and unskilled, to the factories.
Today, Slave Markets are starting up again in far-flung sections of the city. As yet, they are pallid replicas of the depression model; but as unemployment increases, as more and more Negro women are thrown out of work and there is less and less money earmarked for full-time household workers, the markets threaten to spread as they did in the middle '30s, when it was estimated there were 20 to 30 in The Bronx alone.
The housewife in search of cheap labor can easily identify the women of the Slave Market. She can identify them by the dejected droop of their shoulders, or by their work-worn hands, or by the look of bitter resentment on their faces, or because they stand quietly leaning against store fronts or lamp posts waiting for anything – or for nothing at all.
These unprotected workers arc most easily identified. however, by the paper bag in which they invariably carry their work clothes. It is a sort of badge of their profession. It proclaims their membership in "the paper bag brigade"-these women who can be bought by the hour or by the day at depressed wages.
The way the Slave Market operates is primitive and direct and simple-as simple as selling a pig or a cow or a horse in a public market.
The housewife goes to the spot where she knows women in search of domestic work congregate and looks over the prospects. She almost undresses them with her eyes as she measures their strength, to judge how much work they can stand.
If one of them pleases her, the housewife asks what her price is by the hour. Then she beats that price down as low as the worker will permit. Although the worker usually starts out demanding $6 a day and carfare, or $1 an hour and carfare, the price finally agreed upon is pretty low-lower than the wage demanded by public and private agencies, lower than the wage the women of the Slave Market have agreed upon among themselves. Read more…
Harry Braverman, "Service occupations and retail trade"
"Service occupations and retail trade"
Harry Braverman
Chapter 16, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, Monthly Review Press, 1974. [PDF]
The giant mass of workers who are relatively homogeneous as to lack of developed skill, low pay, and interchangeability of person and function (although heterogeneous in such particulars as the site and nature of the work they perform) is not limited to offices and factories. Another huge concentration is to be found in the so-called service occupations and in retail trade. We have already discussed, particularly in Chapter 13, "The Universal Market," the reasons for the rapid growth of service occupations in both the corporate and governmental sectors of the economy: the completion by capital of the conquest of goods-producing activities; the displacement of labor from those industries, corresponding to the accumulation of capital in them, and the juncture of these reserves of labor and capital on the ground of new industries; and the inexorable growth of service needs as the new shape of society destroys the older forms of social, community, and family cooperation and self-aid. Now we must examine the labor processes of the service occupations themselves more closely.
"A service," Marx pointed out, "is nothing more than the useful effect of a use-value, be it of a commodity, or be it of labour."1 The worker who is employed in producing goods renders a service to the capitalist, and it is as a result of this service that a tangible, vendible object takes shape as a commodity. But what if the useful effects of labor are such that they cannot take shape in an object? Such labor must be offered directly to the consumer, since production and consumption are simultaneous. The useful effects of labor, in such cases, do not serve to make up a vendible object which then carries its useful effects with it as part of its existence as a commodity. Instead, the useful effects of labor themselves become the commodity. When the worker does not offer this labor directly to the user of its effects, but instead sells it to a capitalist, who re-sells it on the commodity market, then we have the capitalist form of production in the field of services. Read more…
Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, "The 'Hidden Side' of the New Economy: On Transnational Migration, Domestic Work, and Unprecedented Intimacy"
"The 'Hidden Side' of the New Economy: On Transnational Migration, Domestic Work, and Unprecedented Intimacy"
Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
Frontiers, vol. 28, no. 3, 2007
Migration is a topic that occupies the front page of every newspaper in Europe today. As one of the constantly reiterated items in television news, it engages politicians as well as scholars. In times of globalization, migration is viewed both as a cause and a consequence of the intensive exchange of commodities, goods, and capital across national borders. This phenomenon is, however, not new. After all, during colonial times,1 migratory movements occurred that were, as Kien Nghi Ha stresses, at least "bidirectional" and tied to complex relations of power.2 Today, traces of colonialism inform the patterns, modes, and cultural narratives of migration. Transnational migration has evolved in a global setting marked by postcolonial cultural, economic, and political relationships, as well as by new forms of imperial power. Within this historical context and global conjuncture I would like to discuss the "hidden side" of the new economy: care and domestic work. As Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram3 note with reference to Arlie Russell Hochschild,4 care and domestic work (and I also would suggest sex work) form part of global-gendered inequalities which "are transferred along chains of care, with care provided by Third World women in households in affluent societies."5 Read more…
Erik S. McDuffie, "Esther V. Cooper's "The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism": Black Left Feminism and the Popular Front"
"Esther V. Cooper's "The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism": Black Left Feminism and the Popular Front"
Erik S. McDuffie
American Communist History, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2008 [PDF]
Esther V. Cooper's brilliant 120-page 1940 M.A. thesis, "The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism," still stands as the most thorough sociological and historical study written on the working conditions and status of black women household workers and their efforts to unionize during the Depression.1 The "Negro Woman Domestic Worker" was a crucial part of her early intellectual foundation, helping to set the stage for her staunch support for civil rights, social justice, internationalism, and radical democracy with special concern for African-American women that were trade marks of her life's work. It also stands as a marker for what could have been a significantly different life journey for her.2
The thesis, above all, contains broad significance for understanding black women's activism and black radicalism during the Popular Front. It reveals an emergent black left feminism, a politics that centers working-class women by combining Communist Party positions on race, gender, and class with black nationalism and black radical women's lived experiences, embedded in their writings and activism. Black left feminism paid special attention to the intersectional, transnational nature of African-American women's oppression and viewed them as key agents for transformative change. Committed to the Popular Front agenda of civil rights, trade unionism, anti-fascism, internationalism, and concern for women's equality, their work anticipating conclusions drawn by "second wave" black feminism decades later.3 Read more…


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I want to star off my post by saying F U Goodell. It is funny to me that he states that players' safety is the main goal of the NFL yet, they do everything they can to cause injuries to players.
The worst thing they are doing it right now is TNF. Thus, I am extremely worried about this Miami TNF.
So I was thinking, why the NFL schedules the Thursday Night games only to the teams who just had their bye week. In this case none of the teams would have short week of recovery which would prevent some injuries those may caused by lack of recovery.
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Lily's Pork Broth with Tofu and Vegetables
This recipe, brought to us by Martha's friend Lily Mei, can be made using the broth from Lily's recipe for Twice-Cooked Pork.
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- 4 cups pork broth, can be reserved from Twice Cooked Pork Lily's Twice-Cooked Pork, skimmed of fat
- 2 large shiitake mushroom caps, cleaned and sliced 1/4 inch thick
- 1 twelve-ounce cake soft tofu, cut into 1 1/2-by-1-by-1/4-inch pieces
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1/2 pound fresh tender greens, such as watercress, pea shoots, or baby spinach
- Few drops toasted sesame oil
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In a medium saucepan, bring broth to a boil over high heat. Add mushrooms, and return to a boil. Add tofu and salt. Return to a boil. Add greens, stir once, and remove from heat. Sprinkle with a few drops sesame oil. Serve immediately.
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Hello fellow Charlotte Basketball fans! It's so nice and refreshing to come to a blog where people are actually talking about the future instead of making fun of the misery that was the 2011-2012 season. First of all, I think it's very important to change our name. I think that before the draft, Tom Benson will change the names of the hornets and then we can finally have out name back. I think this will once again re-energize the city's enthusiasm in the team. Here are some other moves I would like to see:
Nate McMillan – Because of our offensive woes, its often overlooked that our defense was awful. McMillan is the best defensive coach available. At the end of the day, defense wins championships. He also has roots in NC.
Trade 2nd overall pick + PF Tyrus Thomas to the Kings for the 5th overall pick + PG Tyreke Evans + 2nd round pick – I believe that a lot of teams will fall in love with MKG and the bobcats should create a bidding war for the 2nd overall. Kings were planning to move Tyreke Evans anyway because they don't think they can resign him. The kings might also take a chance on TT, who might play better with a change of scenery. Bobcats can grab another great prospect with the fifth pick and get a dynamic playmaker in Tyreke Evans.
Free Agency:
Sign Antawn Jamison – Jamison lives in Charlotte and has said he was would like to play for our team. He is a great leader that can be a good mentor for our younger players.
1st round pick – SF Harrison Barnes – Barnes is a great prospect that is a very efficient scorer. Barnes has a good relationship with Jordan and I think he will prosper playing in Charlotte. Just so you know, I have a huge Wolfpack fan so this is the farthest thing from a homer pick J I think he really is that good!
2nd round pick – SG Will Barton - If this guy came into the draft next year, he would be a lottery pick. He needs to put on a lot of weight to fit his 6'6 frame, but he extremely athletic and can score the ball(18ppg). He is worth the risk in the second round.
2nd round pick(via Kings) – PF Kyle O'Quinn – Kyle was one of the most efficient scorers during his career at Norfolk State. He would be a great big off the bench.
Depth chart:
PG – Tyreke Evans, Kemba Walker
SG – Gerald Henderson, Will Barton, Matt Carroll
SF – Harrison Barnes, Corey Maggette, Reggie Williams
PF – Antawn Jamison, Kyle O'Quinn, DJ White
C – Bismack Biyombo, Byron Mullens, Dasagna Diop


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Drive is pure, dreamy pulp friction – but not everyone is going to be persuaded by its stylish exterior. For some, the lack of narrative substance and cool, ironic distance will frustrate and impair the ride. Others will delight in its romantic, deliberately retro sheen and (many) surface pleasures.
When a European director gets behind the wheel of a classic American vehicle, the results are often surprising. It's definitely premature to place Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn's eighth feature amongst such exalted company as Point Blank, Paris, Texas or Repo Man but this is another great outsiders' view of American pop culture. Fusing 50s B-movie dynamics with 80s fatalistic pop-video romanticism, the result is a neon-spiked genre cocktail – a refreshing and distinctive take on a familiar classic.
This is a major breakthrough artistically for Refn – whose previous films have always been interesting, risky and challenging without ever totally coming together as a satisfying whole. Based on a novella by James Sallis, this is his most enjoyable film by miles. Man-crush du jour Ryan Gosling is the nameless driver doing stunt work by day and moonlighting as a getaway man. The icy precision of his controlled world is shattered when he meets neighbour Irene (Carey Mulligan) and her young son. Irene's husband is a jailbird who owes big money to some bad men. The driver sees a way to help out the family and by proxy win the girl. But it's a terribly misguided romantic notion – the driver as shining knight in a world of mistrust and violence – and inevitably, the journey and its consequences are far from smooth.
Refn keeps things archetypal – there's absolutely no back-story, no foreshadowing, no expositional dialogue. Hell, there is barely any dialogue at all. Good B-movie fan that he is, Refn understands that even if you slow the beats a little and strip away the dialogue you can deliver the pulp goods. With its minimalistic script and terse, uncomfortable exchanges, Drive fits comfortably into the mould of Sam Fuller and Don Siegel – with a dash of Leone. But it is Michael Mann who is surely the biggest influence here.
Refn and his leading man may have cooked up their take on the flick in a bromantic homo-eroticized haze, wanting to make 'Pretty in Pink with a head-smashing' but Drive is pure Mann(a) – covering the same emotional landscape and wearing the same air of fatalism as Violent Streets and Manhunter. And what is Gosling's twice repeated mantra to his clients – "If I drive for you, you give me a time and a place. I give you a five-minute window, anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours no matter" – but a total Heat homage/riff?
The Hughes influence is confined mostly to the hot (pretty in) pink credits and the fact that Refn mixes up the synth score and catchy euro-pop tunes much the way Hughes did. Although to be honest, you could say exactly the same for William Friedkin's cop-rock masterwork To Live and Die in LA, another evident influence on this film's look and feel.
It's exceptionally difficult for me to be objective about this film. I was born in the mid-70s and my pop-cultural sensibilities were formed through exactly the kind of things Drive fetishizes unashamedly – comic books, Miami Vice, cult movies, mid-80s synthpop. Drive is pre-programmed to push those personal pleasure buttons – which it does with often spine-tingling élan. The wide shots of Gosling brooding in his apartment and taking night drives, the way Refn and his editor cut to the synth-laden beats, replete with slo-mo, back lighting and – I am certain at one point – dry-ice, will delight 80s fetishists and nostalgists everywhere.
Newton Thomas Sigel's crisp lensing and the hypnotic, pulsating score by Cliff Martinez further heighten the film's dreamlike, nostalgic resonance. Even more hypnagogic in its approach than 2011s other 80s valentine – JJ Abram's Super 8 – Refn's paean succeeds more readily because of its sheer simplicity and the way certain framed images brings to mind a dozen reference points without explicitly homaging any one film. Unlike Abram's movie which so closely resembled its source (E.T) that it felt at times like a Gus Van Sant art-project remake.
Carey Mulligan is an unusual choice for Irene but quietly affecting in small scenes. Gosling seems to be channeling McQueen by way of Melville and is as watchable as ever. But this is not a film of dense characterisation or complexity. There is some fun to be had watching perennial nice-guy schlub Albert Brooks and Ron Hellboy Perlman play a couple of wiseguy thugs but they are never really threatening. Sexy cartoon-lady Christina Hendricks' performance is all too fleeting, but unforgettable. The violence is shocking – a mélange of chrome, bone and blood, whether gushing from a half caved-in skull or a freshly blown-off head – but it too is totally heightened, stylised and unreal.
Nothing in Drive bears any relation to reality and for some there may be a feeling that, unlike those great noirs that inspired it, the film lacks a genuinely compelling, dangerous or driven narrative. We never get close enough to the driver to care enough about him or even understand his motives. And while Gosling is a terrific natural talent, he is maybe too baby-faced to nail the lone wolf shtick. His and Mulligan's line readings are so buttoned-up they teeter into the realms of parody.
It will be interesting to see how the film holds up when taken out for repeat spins. Perhaps it won't age too well. Right now though, for this writer (and when viewed in the context of a so far uninspiring year for mainstream US cinema), this is the most exhilarating ride of 2011.


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Thanks a lot, Kent Babb. Brodie Croyle giving Matt Cassel a push at quarterback? You know you have gone too far with the B.S. speculation when Adam Teicher, the Mort of Kansas City football, is shooting down your gossip. Always been a fan of yours, but c'mon now.
Seriously, the Chiefs would have to be nuts to give up on a $63-million QB after one preseason game for a QB who can't stay healthy. Brodie Croyle making it through a regular season as a starter healthy is about as likely as Flava Flav becoming our next President. Croyle does possess a canon of an arm, but I still question both his decision making and his gonads — dude does not like getting hit. Not one bit.
Oh, and then there's the fact that Croyle was throwing to Dwayne Bowe against scrubs during the first preseason game. Most of us Addicts could have found Bowe once or twice against those second- and third-stringers. They were that physically overmatched by D-Bowe, aka Boldin Midwest.
Let's tomahawk chop this rumor before it gets rolling. Yes, the Best Boys are not huge Croyle fans, but this is about the Chiefs, about Cassel, about our future. Most of all it is about not wasting air, ink, keystrokes and time, because, barring a Cassel injury, Croyle will never be Todd Haley's starter. In fact, if Cassel did go down, my guess is that Haley would bring in a new quarterback to at least hold down the fort. He's no Herm Edwards. He won't gamble his career on Mr. Glass.
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AMBULANCE crews took one patient to Southampton General Hospital, and treated three people at the scene of three traffic collisions, this morning.
Three South Central Ambulance Service vehicles were sent to the scene of the accidents which happened at 6.39am on the M3 southbound, between junctions seven and nine, following a hail storm.
The first crash, which involved two cars, took place just north of the Winchester services.
The second, involving a BMW and an Audi car, happened on the M3 southbound near Popham.
The final crash, involving a Renault Megane and a Saab car, involved both cars rolling down an embankment.
Three crews from Basingstoke fire station were also in attendance.
One lane was closed to help emergency services deal with the accident, but has now reopened.
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"The Amazing Insider Secrets to Genuinely Effective Tendonitis Treatment… Use Proven (and Some Radically New) Methods to Eradicate Tendonitis Pain Even If You've Been Suffering For Months to Years– Guaranteed…
… If You're Fed Up With Having Painful Tendonitis, This Is Your Opportunity To Get Rid Of The Misery, The Fatigue, And The Feeling You're Plain Missing Out On Life!
From the desk of Nathan Wei, MD, FACP, FACR
Dear Tendonitis Sufferer,
Are you aggravated that your tendonitis just doesn't seem to be getting better? Are you certain you're getting the best possible treatment? Is the pain in your elbow getting to you? Are you having problems reaching up to cupboards, or dressing and undressing, or simply shaking hands?
Maybe, walking is a chore because the outside of your hip… or your knee, or your ankle makes it impossible to do what you want to do because of the pain. Are you missing out on life's little opportunities like taking your kids to the amusement park or hosting a cookout because tendonitis makes it so painful?
- To add insult to injury, do you feel like you've been taken for a ride with all the money you've spent on doctors, shots, medicines, physical therapy, and everything else that goes with it … without getting better?
- It's no joke… if you continue to pop anti-inflammatory drugs you will suffer liver and kidney damage or an ulcer!
- I hate to say this but how much longer do you have to watch from the sidelines while everyone else is "in the game"?
- How much fun is it to have to take stairs one at a time like a child?
- Do you feel like you're under the gun when your boss begins to question your work performance because you just can't do your job?
- How many cortisone shots before you get nasty side effects like a moon-face, diabetes, osteoporosis, and irreversible cartilage damage?
My name is Dr. Nathan Wei, and I'm a board-certified rheumatologist who has been successfully treating patients with arthritis and tendonitis for almost 30 years.
Treatments have changed a lot over the years and the old methods of using anti-inflammatory medicines and other pain killers and cortisone injections, while useful for some people, are not going to help many of those affected by chronic tendonitis.
It's no joke… tendonitis is one of the most common problems that prevents people from going about their daily routine. Why?
Simple… because tendonitis causes pain that limits your ability to do many of the things you usually take for granted. Like shaking hands, carrying out the trash, getting a bottle of milk out of the refrigerator, walking to the mailbox… and so on.
But what's really adds insult to injury is this… Despite the fact it's so common, it's still being treated the same old way. A lot of doctors just want to dismiss it by saying, "Well… it's just a case of tendonitis. It'll take time. Let's try physical therapy…" or they'll want to shoot you up with cortisone.
That's so wrong!!!!!
And to rub salt into the wound more, if you go to the internet to look for information, you have tons of charlatans and frauds out there who claim to have the right system or the right treatment… and it's a bald-faced lie!
With all my years of experience and study and training, I've found what works and what doesn't work for almost every type of patient. And since new treatments are coming along all the time, I've kept my hand on the pulse of new developments.
Here are some things my patients have to say…
His Pain Was Erased in Weeks…
"Before coming to the Arthritis Treatment Center and seeing Dr. Wei, it was very hard and very uncomfortable to walk even the shortest distance. After being treated , I now walk an average of 2 1/2 to 5 miles daily. I can say that I am pain free!" Kurt Botker- Thurmont, Maryland
Little-Known Cure For Achilles Tendonitis
Has Her Walking Pain-Free Again…
"Dr. Wei told me about a new procedure that could help relieve the pain in my foot that would not involve surgery. Because he had been successful with previous aches and pains, I was open to try it. The pain in my foot was affecting my daily activities and my overseas travel. The procedure took about one hour. I got off the table and was able to stand up right away with no pain. I was so surprised. It was about two weeks and I was back to my full routine. I was gardening, walking, and enjoying life." Jan Borg –Greencastle, Pennsylvania
Cutting Edge Remedy For Aches and Pains?
"Before coming to ATC, I could barely walk. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't dress myself. I couldn't even stand having a blanket on top of me. It took me two hours to put my socks on. It was torture. I was so miserable I didn't even care if I died. The first day I came in for my consultation, Dr. Wei took one look at me and knew right away what was wrong with me. Just one look, not even any testing. I was started right away on medicine and within 10 hours, I could walk. Within 4-5 days I could tell a big difference. Now in my life I can do just about anything!" Gary Young- Frederick, Maryland.
Reverse Arthritis and Tendonitis Pain …Safely
"I was in severe pain for more than two years when I came into the office. My husband had taken over the cooking at home. I couldn't do anything. I wasn't sleeping at night because of my pain. I couldn't even get from my bed to the bathroom, because I hurt so bad. I was constantly tired and I was to the point where I was tired of being tired!! The pain especially started to really get to me when I couldn't even play with my grandchildren. Then God granted me a miracle. I came to an open house that was held at ATC. I signed up that night to come in as a new patient. After coming in to see Dr. Wei, I slowly started to feel better. I can not only get on the floor to play with my grandson, but I am taking care of him! You don't know how much that means to me! I have received nothing but help from Dr. Wei. I guess one of the best things about coming to see Dr. Wei is that he lets me participate in the decisions about what goes on with my body. He doesn't just tell me what we're going to do like some other doctors I've been to – he actually discusses these decisions with me. I recommend ATC to anyone who complains about arthritis." Shirley Cunningham, Hagerstown, Maryland
I was miserable… and now I'm not…
"I couldn't raise my right arm. It was near impossible for me to dress myself, or clean, or cook. Dr. Wei told me about a new procedure that would help to get some mobility back. I was a little reluctant because I have COPD and I am on oxygen 24 hours a day. So, I'm a little apprehensive about procedures that might include any type of anesthesia. But, this procedure doesn't require you to go under anesthesia, and the entire procedure only took about 1 hour. Following the procedure I went to therapy. It's been over one month and I would say that I can see a 50 percent improvement in how well I can use my arm again. The procedure wasn't painful or uncomfortable and I would recommend this to anyone who might be considering surgery. As a result, I am able to enjoy the things I enjoy." Betty Hykes –Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
I couldn't stand the pain in my shoulder any longer…
"I had horrible pain in my shoulder. I couldn't use my arm. I heard about a new procedure, which I thought was better than the traditional surgery. I did not want to have to go to the hospital. The procedure took about 20 minutes, there was no pain. My arm was in a sling for about three weeks, and I feel much better. I've already recommended this to several of my friends because I'm not experiencing pain in my arm and able to use it again." Clara Brown –Hagerstown, Maryland
I finally got blessed relief… without having to have another cortisone shot or surgery…
"I was experiencing pain in my shoulder and Dr. Wei said that I had a torn rotator cuff. He recommended a new procedure. On a Friday I had the procedure done, and it was amazing because on the following Monday I felt almost immediate relief. Within one week I was doing well. Before the procedure, I couldn't use my arm. I couldn't life it to put away the dishes. Now, I feel no pain and I can put away the dishes." Retha Whorton –Accident, Maryland
I know what it's like from first-hand experience. Three years ago, I had agonizing elbow tendonitis. It got to the point that the pain was with my constantly… it was all I could think about. Fortunately, I got the right treatment but this is what I do for a living! I tried to imagine what it would be like for someone without my personal and medical background.
Well… what I came up with is this…
It's a gamble because you don't know if your doctor is up on the latest treatments. You don't know if the physical therapist or chiropractor is taking you along for a ride. You don't know whether that gizmo you just bought is going to work.
I' m here to tell you that you don't have to hunt for the right treatment like a needle in a haystack. I will tell you what's available- and much of what I tell you is so new, many doctors don't even know about it yet. But the information is valuable… and most important, it's effective. It'll give you ammunition so when you go to see your doctor, you'll go in with your guns blazin'!
Here's an example…
My patient, Mrs. Borg, was complaining at her office visit about how no matter what she did, her Achilles tendonitis prevented her from doing the things she really enjoyed. In fact, this one new hobby, Zumba- an aerobic exercise involving Latin-American dancing was a new passion for her… but she couldn't do it because of the pain.
And… it wasn't until she had had a tenotomy procedure with tissue grafting using platelet-rich plasma that she finally began to be pain free.
And… what's more she told me about two of her other friends who had chronic tendonitis who she was referring to me for the same procedure.
Suddenly it hit me — if there were other people out there with a similar problem, they too could get relief! And if they needed this procedure, and they had chronic tendonitis, I could help them get their lives back!
Have you ever had tendonitis and tried different treatments that maybe worked for awhile but then the darn problem came back? Or maybe nothing worked and you were told to "just live with it."
But the pain continued and your quality of life began to just suck… to the point you wanted to scream!
I've had a lot of patients come to me when literally everything they'd tried had failed and I got them better. It was a combination of the right treatment plus the right patient education that did it. Some treatments work for some people and other treatments work for others. No one treatment is right for everyone!
So… in order to better help more people, I created a definitive resource- an ebook on tendonitis.
What you'll get is a step-by-step guide to making sure your tendonitis is treated effectively, quickly, and successfully- plus dozens of helpful tips to keep it from coming back! Here's a sneak preview of what you'll discover…
- How can you tell if it is tendonitis… or something more serious?
- Relieve even the most stubborn case of tendonitis… without major surgery and the down time and the potential complications that come with it!
- Why cortisone shots are a no-no for many types of tendonitis!
- The 4 major types of ankle tendonitis and how to treat them…
- Why runners get knee tendonitis so often and what to do so it doesn't come back!
- "New mother tendonitis"- how to identify it …and how to treat it
- Why you absolutely must avoid anti-inflammatory drugs if you have this new tendonitis treatment.
Like I said earlier, even most doctors don't know about these new treatments. In fact, if you ask them, you'll get a skeptical look and a "Huh?"
How much money have you wasted already on treatments that either didn't work or only worked for a short time? How many trips to the doctor and physical therapist have you made? How many braces, splints, and other gadgets have you spent hard-earned money on that didn't take the pain away?
Add it up. I'll bet it's close to a thousand dollars. Just think what you could have done with a thousand dollars… Doesn't it make your blood boil?
Well, I've got good news for you because I've written a no-nonsense guide to tendonitis treatment that will tell you exactly what you need to do to cure yourself. You'll be armed with the latest information that will help you recover quickly and completely.
What would you be willing to pay for a source that gives you the most up-to-date information on tendonitis anywhere all in one place? No more wasted time doing internet searches… no more unrewarding and expensive trips to the doctor's office or to the physical therapist.
You'll know exactly what needs to be done. Think about it… When you add up all the hours of wasted time and aggravation of trying this treatment and that treatment without the relief you need, wouldn't you be willing to pay a hundred dollars… two hundred dollars… or even more? Maybe you've already spent that. Most patients with chronic tendonitis have spent hundreds and even thousands of dollars looking for relief.
Well, you can relax… you won't have to spend anything like that at all.
Because…if you've got $14.99 and the time it takes to read 67 pages of no-filler information, you'll have the tools you need to erase your tendonitis… hopefully, forever. That's way less than the cost of an office visit to a doctor… and a lot more convenient! Actually, it's dirt cheap!
Because, you'll also receive 5 extra bonuses that are worth more than $14.99 by themselves! When you think about it, it'll cost you less than a cup of coffee a day for a week… and it could change your life!
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The Inland Empire Basketball Program made a splash in Vegas last weekend and headed into the last week of the NCAA's Division I July recruiting period with some momentum. Led by tournament MVP Kendall Schmidt (pictured above), IEBP won the Under-17 Silver Division at the adidas Super 64 Tournament — one of the three major NCAA-sanctioned tournaments in Sin City last weekend.
The Rialto-based team lost three of its round robin games by a combined total of five points. But behind such locals as Schmidt (Moreno Valley Rancho Verde), Earl Twyman (Lake Elsinore), Brandon Holcomb (Vista Murrieta), Jackson Helms (Murrieta Valley) and Alec Carda (Citrus Valley), IEBP rallied to win its last three games, downing the Houston Celtics, a team that had won two prior AAU tournaments this year, in the finals 65-50.
Schmidt, a combo guard who's probably better suited to play the role of a scorer, may be improving his recruiting stock heading into his senior year. A mid-major prospect at best before this summer largely due to his 6-foot-3 size, Schmidt is looking athletic and capable on both ends of the floor.
Other notable finishes in last week's Vegas tournaments include San Bernardino-based Step Up Sports, which was eliminated in the first round of the Fab 48 Under-17 Gold playoff bracket.
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Original Title: Mala Moskwa
Directors: Waldemar Krystek
Polish with subtitles
114 minutes min
World Cinema
In the late 1960s, the military moves Russian pilot Yuri and his beautiful wife Vera to the town of Legnica, headquarters for the Soviet Army in Poland. While fraternizing between the Russian occupiers and local Poles is strictly controlled, Vera's enchanting performance in a singing contest ignites a deep passion in Polish lieutenant Michal and the two must choose between loyalty and love. Seeking truth and redemption in the past, Yuri and his daughter return to Legnica 30 years later.
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---- — In appreciation for their partnership with Indy Parks & Recreation, Go Ape at Eagle Creek Park is holding a Park Friends Fundraiser.
On Dec. 7 and 8, $10 of every ticket sold will go back to the park through a donation to The Eagle Creek Park Foundation.
Go Ape is a highly interactive treetop adventure where participants are equipped with harnesses, pulleys and carabineers and receive a 30-minute training session before they are turned loose into the forest canopy.
Catering to all skill levels, the courses feature a series of zip lines, Tarzan swings, rope ladders, bridges, swings, and trapezes.
"As part of Go Ape's mission to support the parks, we are happy to support organizations like the Eagle Creek Park Foundation, that are such worthwhile contributors to the preservation and sustainability of Eagle Creek and other parks across the Indianapolis region," Dan D'Agostino, Go Ape USA Managing Director, said in a press release. "I hope that everyone will join us as we raise funds for the Eagle Creek Park Foundation while enjoying this exhilarating outdoor adventure."
The Eagle Creek Park Foundation (www.eaglecreekpark.org) formed to protect, promote, enhance and support the park as a self-sufficient entity in the Indy Parks System.
Eagle Creek Park is the one of the largest city-owned parks in the nation and one of the largest parks devoted entirely to nature.
"The Eagle Creek Park Foundation is pleased to once again partner with Go Ape for a fun day out at the park's Go Ape facility," Mike Davis, foundation president, said. "Go Ape has created a fantastic outdoor adventure course that compliments the many activities available at Eagle Creek Park. We look forward to a great day out at the park on Dec. 7 or 8 to benefit the foundation."
During the Park Friends Fundraiser, guests receive $10 off their ticket when they use promo code "GIVEEC" to book online at www.goape.com or by calling 1-800-971-8271. With the promo code, every guest who books for Dec. 7 and 8 will receive a $10 discount, plus $10 of their ticket goes back to the park.
"Park Friends Fundraisers", are just one way the company supports the parks. A portion of every ticket sold throughout the year already goes back to the parks, and throughout the year Go Ape staff also takes part in park cleanups, replanting, and donating free and discounted tickets to underserved and special needs communities.
All of Go Ape's treetop adventure courses — built in partnership with public parks in Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Virginia — are also taking part in the fundraiser.
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This is What Happens When You're a unsatisfied "Fair Weather Fan"
Just thought I'd pass this article I found online awhile ago. Now, I understand the position our Halos are in right now with all the 9 games behind fiasco entering the weekend series with the Rangers. I just find it very amusing that people are already crowning a division champ. Anyways, there's the linky.


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"Innate" – One Word That Changes Everything, Baron A Rohbock
Are leaders born or made? I have the answer! Baron A Rohbock
Baron graduated with honors in Business Administration and Leadership. With a passion for training and working with teams, he entered the Learning and Development field as Director of Training for Taylor Hartman, author of The People Code (previously published as The Color Code).
With a wide breadth of knowledge in leadership, Baron returned to the training industry to combine first hand management and executive leadership experience with a passion for working with people to shape results while revealing individual and collective talent. In 2011 he started Core MotivAction, an innovative brilliant training company dedicated to people and team development.
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Dick Ruhe | Leadership Speaker
Dr. Dick Ruhe is a cherished motivational speaker, as well as a celebrated corporate consultant and trainer. Throughout his highly spirited presentations on productivity improvement, change, and customer loyalty, Dick insightfully connects with attendees'
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As a senior consulting partner for The Ken Blanchard Companies®, Dick Ruhe is the author of the training program Total Quality Leadership. He has also worked with Tom Peters, Gordon Lippit, and Paul Hersey. Dick has served as a regular columnist for Sales and Marketing magazine and has been published in Training and Development, Western Business Systems Journal, Proceedings of the Academy of Management, and Executive Excellence.
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Dick Ruhe received his MBA from the University of New Haven and his doctorate in human resource development from George Washington University. He is the author of Getting Major Results, a field book for change and leadership.
There's a difference between interest and commitment
There's a difference between interest and commitment
Harvard Business Review: #1 Key to Motivation
Harvard Business Review: #1 Key to Motivation
In a multi-year study, researchers at the Harvard Business School first asked 600 managers from dozens of different companies to rank the impact of five factors that are normally associated with motivation – recognition, incentives, support from managers and colleagues, clear goals and a sense of making progress. In this first phase of the study, recognition for good work was ranked by managers as the most important factor in motivation.
Seth Godin on the Difference Between Leadership and Management
Seth Godin on the Difference Between Leadership and Management
Bestselling author Seth Godin says that "Management and leadership are totally different things. You think you are being a leader, but you are probably being a manager."
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CHATTANOOGA (WRCB) - Looking for a place to hunt?
Opening day of dove season will begin at 12 noon on September 1st and TWRA has made looking for a place to go dove hunting a lot easier for area hunters.
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Here is what TWRA Wetlands Manager, Greg Atchley had to say about this years fields.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is excerpted from a speech by Rob Natelson given in Grand Junction, CO on March 23, 2013
The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution states that:
"A well-regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
What does this amendment really mean?
In recent years, people offering answers to that question have often focused on the militia part of the Second Amendment: "A well-regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state. . ."
But in my view, that's the wrong place to begin. The militia phrase is what lawyers call a "preamble"—a non-binding explanation of intent. It is not the effective, or operative, part of the amendment. In other words, it is only a guide to interpretation, not the actual law. The actual law is "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Notice two things about the phrase I just read. First, it refers to "THE right of the people to keep and bear arms." Like "the freedom of speech" and "the freedom of the press" in the First Amendment. The Founders were referring to a right already existing before the Constitution was ever adopted. In the Founders' view, it was a natural right, given by God and not to be impaired by government. On the contrary, it was a right that government must guarantee.
Another thing this phrase—THE right to keep and bear arms—implies is that the Founders knew the scope of the right. In other words, they understood what it did and didn't include. We can understand what it did and didn't include by examining the history of the Founding. It has always bothered me that so many judges and constitutional writers merely speculate about what First and Second Amendment rights mean, rather than going to the historical records and finding out.
I'll say more in a moment about what is and isn't encompassed by the Second Amendment.
So—this phrase refers to "THE right to keep and bear arms." It also says that this right "shall not be infringed." What does that mean? On this subject, also, there's no need to speculate. Because 18th century dictionaries tell us exactly what "infringe" meant.
In this context, the word "infringe" meant to reduce or impair in any way. In other words, government shall not reduce or impair in any way "THE right to keep and bear arms." Today, political demagogues talk about imposing "common-sense" or "reasonable" restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms. But the Constitution, properly understood, is clear that there are NO permissible restrictions on the right, however much the politicians may think they are "common sense" or "reasonable."
On the other hand, the Founding-Era record also tells us that not every use of every weapon is part of the right that cannot be infringed. So let's look now at what the right does and doesn't include.
History makes it clear that the Second Amendment is designed to serve four principal purposes.
First, it guarantees the states militia power of their own to balance the military power of the federal government;
Second, it promotes the God-given right of personal self defense;
Third, it enables the citizenry to repel foreign invasion; and
Fourth, it enables the citizenry to overthrow domestic tyrants and intimidate or discipline those who otherwise would be tyrants.
The first purpose—providing a state military balance to federal power—is more important in assessing federal gun control laws than in assessing state gun control laws. Since I'm focusing on the Colorado laws this evening, I'll discuss here the other three principles. We begin with the right of self-defense.
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1.5 Promote and Support High Quality Graduate Education (Year 3: 2011-2012)
In support of Strategy 1.5 relating to high-quality graduate education, initiatives included initiating 'dashboards' of relevant graduate program metrics that will be available for self-assessment by the programs, and will form the basis of internal review. There has been an increase of 159% in National Science Foundation Fellows from 2006-2007 to 2011-2012, and the Graduate School continues partnerships with several colleges to provide support and/or oversight for numerous externally originated awards. Additionally, the College of Medicine has reviewed six PhD programs which shared a common foundation and consolidated them into one Biomedical Sciences graduate program. This new program was launched in 2011-2012. The result has been an increase in yield for the new program, compared to the six individual programs in the past, and an increase in the diversity among the incoming students.
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THE New Year brings with it the looming January 31st deadline, which all businesses and self employed people must meet when it comes to filing their annual tax return.
And, of course, the word 'must', which features in the previous sentence, means exactly that!
While all of that is still ahead of us, the closing weeks of 2012 were marked by the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Autumn Statement. The intervening period has provided an opportunity for accountants and tax planners to more fully assess its implications. We now know, for example, that as part of the government's wish to reduce administrative burdens on small businesses, a simplified accounting scheme will be introduced from April 2013. This simplification will allow self-employed businesses and those in partnership to calculate profits on the basis of cash with no distinguishing between revenue and capital expenditure. In addition, those businesses trading as a sole trader or partnership will be able to operate a flat rate system for certain expenses.
A temporary increase was also announced by the Chancellor to the Annual Investment Allowance (AIA) from £25,000 to £250,000 for two years from 1 January 2013 for the purchase of eligible plant and machinery. Revenue & Customs has stated that special transitional rules will apply where a farmer's accounting period straddles the start date, 1 January 2013, or the finish date, 1 January 2015. As these transitional rules are expected to be complicated and apply to the accounting year of the business, not the tax year, careful planning is required in order to avoid losing some or all of the allowance.
Timing of the expenditure and the date on which the machine is first brought into use in the business are critical. The allowance applies to new or second-hand plant and machinery paid for by cash, cheque or hire-purchase and used in the farm business.
However, as farming is so price-dependent and weather-dependent, purchase of plant and machinery is not the only tax planning consideration. At this time of year farmers should extract from their book-keeping system 'year to date' figures, enabling an informed prediction to be made of the likely trading profit for the current year. This informed estimate may then be discussed with the accountant to determine the projected taxable profit for the current year.
This process of ensuring that the farm book-keeping system is complete, and up to date, and discussing with the accountant provides an effective framework to ensure that decisions to minimise tax are made in the best interest of the business, mindful of cash flow implications. An up to date and complete book-keeping system will allow the farm family and accountant to focus on issues like repairs, timing of purchasing machinery, the use of family wages, pension contributions and appropriate business structure.
The Chancellor's Autumn Financial Statement has provided a timely reminder of the necessity of good tax planning in a period of price volatility and uncertainty.


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The new film 'The Sapphires' follows an Australian Aboriginal soul quartet on their unlikely journey to perform for troops during the Vietnam War.The film is inspired by a true story and the cast says they learned a lot from working on it. "I had no idea this event had happened," said star Jessica Mauboy.
"I had known about the war in Vietnam but about these four indigenous women going to Vietnam in the middle of the war it blew me away."Click the video player to hear more from the film's stars.
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