Re: Aviva Chomsky on Immigrant Workers & the Newspaper Business (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 11:29:11 -0800 (PST)
 > 
 > I thought this was interesting about the newspaper deliverers

Ah, interesting.  Another case where labor is being degraded by technology?

I'll download it.

 >  > From: [** utf-8 charset **] FAIR<http://www.fair.org/~fair>
 >  > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:42:33 +0000
 >  > 
 >  >  Aviva Chomsky on Immigrant Workers & the Newspaper Business
 >  > 
 >  >  MP3 Link ,
 >  >  http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=b916d40b35&e=beda9fa1ae
 >  >  ,
 >  > 
 >  >  Boston Globe delivery workers rally (photo: North Shore Labor Council) ,
 >  >  http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=3314cad021&e=beda9fa1ae
 >  >  , This week on CounterSpin : US politicians and media talk about 
 >  >  immigration all the time, but unless Thomas Friedman meets a chatty cab 
 >  >  driver, we donâ??t very often hear from immigrants themselvesâ??and rarely 
 >  >  at any length or with much substance. Thatâ??s a problem in its own right, 
 >  >  but the invisibility also makes it much easier to demonize immigrants, 
 >  >  particularly the undocumented, and to tell stories about the role of 
 >  >  immigration in US history that simply arenâ??t true.
 >  > 
 >  >  This set of issues was forced into the daylight at the Boston Globe 
 >  >  recently, when a labor disruption by the paperâ??s deliverersâ??yes, lots 
 >  >  of people still get the physical newspaperâ??broached the dividing wall 
 >  >  between reporters and the people whose difficult and undercompensated labor 
 >  >  brings those reportersâ?? work to much of the public.
 >  > 
 >  >  The story was recounted by Professor Aviva Chomsky; she teaches history and 
 >  >  is coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University in 
 >  >  Ma. Chomsky is author of the books Undocumented: How Immigration 
 >  >  Became Illegal and â??They Take Our Jobs!â?? and 20 Other Myths About 
 >  >  Immigration . Her article, â?? All The News Thatâ??s Fit to Print: How 
 >  >  Media Hide Undocumented Workers ,
 >  >  http://fair.us10.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=cc1ccc98d3&e=beda9fa1ae
 >  >  , ,â?? appeared on TomDispatch.com .