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Tens of thousands line up at Amazon job fairs as Dow tops 22,000 - World Socialist Web Site
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How the other half lives in 2017
Tens of thousands line up at Amazon job fairs as Dow tops 22,000
3 August 2017

“Long ago it was said that ‘one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.’”—Jacob Riis, 1890

Two scenes played out across America yesterday, providing a window onto two separate worlds: one occupied by a small, wealthy elite; the other by the working class, who comprise roughly the bottom 90 percent of the population.

Shortly after the opening bell on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average broke the 22,000 mark for the first time in history, a milestone that was greeted with exuberant headlines in the establishment press and made the lead story on NBC’s evening news program.

#amazon #emploi #travail #multinationales #monopole

Essay & Bibliography | Prison Obscura
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The works in Prison Obscura direct audiences toward creativity and activism, calling for a responsible consumption of images. While the artists in the exhibit co-create and capture experiences, their works press on a more conventional documentary tradition so powerfully shaped by the efforts of Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis. In their wake great documentarians such as Danny Lyon, Bruce Jackson, and Ethan Hoffman plugged images of prisons into the discourses of race and class inequality during the sixties and seventies. In the past few decades, however, such documentary photography has come under scrutiny for commodifying tragedy and hardship; for parachuting into grave situations and leaving just as quickly; and for being the reserve of Western photographers and white, male patriarchy. The debate is of course more nuanced, but the foundational criticism is that a constant flow of silver gelatin prints serves to codify catastrophe as happening elsewhere, anesthetizing the viewer to the individuality of human suffering.

Can Photos of Prisons Actually Improve the Lives of Prisoners?
▻https://medium.com/@brookpete/can-photos-of-prisons-improve-the-lives-of-prisoners-9e978092c58e

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#photographie #prisons #usa #essais