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  1. The rise of micro-labour - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Micro-labour isn’t a clever way of describing a recalcitrant colleague’s deficient work practices. And it has nothing to do with nano-technology either. It’s about using the Internet to outsource small tasks to eager workers – sort of like a digital notice-board for odd jobs and errands. It sounds like the perfect way to earn extra income. But could its growing popularity erode working conditions and lead to exploitation?

    Guests:
    Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Co-Founder and Director, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society.
    Jamie Viggiano, Senior Director of Marketing at TaskRabbit.
    Tim Fung, Founder and CEO of Airtasker.
    Scott Kirsner, Boston Globe columnist and blogger.
    Catherine Ruckleshaus, Legal Co-Director, National Employment Law Project, US.

    Further Information:
    Jonathan Zittrain’s profile (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/jzittrain) Jonathan Zittrain’s (PDF) paper on ubiquitous human computing (http://iis-db.stanford.edu/evnts/5812/Zittrain_Paper.pdf)
    Scott Kirsner’s article on micro-labour (http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2012/04/my_life_as_a_micro-laborer_exp.html)
    Taskrabbit (https://www.taskrabbit.com/)
    Airtasker (https://www.airtasker.com/)
    Catherine Ruckleshaus profile (http://www.nelp.org/site/about_us/legal_co_director)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-rise-of-micro-labour/4581550

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  2. Episode 153 – 14th September 2012 » The Pod Delusion - A Podcast about Interesting Things

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  3. Party over for Labor? - Rear Vision - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Labor’s recent drubbing in NSW and Queensland and its likely loss at the next federal election cast a cloud over the party’s future. Rear Vision plots the story of the ALP to see why it - along with some other well-known labour parties - is struggling.

    Guests:
    Professor Stuart Macintyre, Ernest Scott Professor of History, University of Melbourne

    Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno, Associate Professor in History, Australian National University

    Dr Clare Griffiths, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Sheffield

    Associate Professor Stephen Robertson, Department of History, University of Sydney

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/party-over-for-labor3f/3974316

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  4. The 3-D Printer - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    3-D printing techniques offer a chance to make manufacturing more efficient and flexible, but as we’ll hear they also pose challenges to traditional labour relations and to intellectual property rights.

    Guests:
    Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist
    Bre Pettis, Co-founder of Makerbot Industries
    Michael Weinberg. Staff Attorney, Public Knowledge
    Professor Berok Khoshnevis, Engineering, University of Southern California

    Further Information:
    Economist article on 3-D printing (http://www.economist.com/node/18114221)
    Makerbot Industries website (http://www.makerbot.com/)
    Thingiverse website (http://www.thingiverse.com/)
    Centre for Rapid Automotated Fabrication Technologies (http://craft.usc.edu/Mission.html)
    Behrokh Khoshnevis profile (http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~khoshnev/)
    Public Knowledge website (http://www.publicknowledge.org/)
    Public Knowledge resources on 3D printing (http://www.publicknowledge.org/3d-printing-bits-atoms)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-3-d-printer/3667402

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  5. Background Briefing - 6 November 2011 - Qantas and the ghost of Workchoices

    Qantas has opened a new industrial relations battlefront. The Labor government’s Fair Work laws are being put to the test but there are bigger political implications for the Opposition, which is split over whether to re-embrace Workchoices, the IR policy that many believe brought an end to the Howard government.

    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2011/3353325.htm

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  6. Unsure about Sure Start 11 Jul 11 (BBC - Podcasts - Analysis)

    The government says that despite budget cuts it is committed to Sure Start Children’s Centres - one of the defining policies of the New Labour era. But in this week’s Analysis Fran Abrams asks what the service - loved by parents - has really done for their kids.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/analysis

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  7. Gordon on Ants, Humans, the Division of Labor and Emergent Order

    Deborah M. Gordon, Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, is an authority on ants and order that emerges without control or centralized authority. The conversation begins with what might be called the economics of ant colonies, how they manage to be organized without an organizer, the division of labor and the role of tradeoffs. The discussion then turns to the implications for human societies and the similarities and differences between human and natural orders.

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  8. Hindsight - 26 September 2010 - The rise and fall of the 8 hour day: part two, the trade-off

    There is no precise date recording when we lost the 8 hour day, but there is no doubt that by the 21st century, Australia was clocking up among the longest working hours in the OECD.

    In fact by 2004 a report by the Australia Institute found Australians worked the longest hours in the industrialised world — an average of 1,855 hours a year, compared to an international average of 1,643 hours.

    Of course, the statistics never tell the full story, and along with the growing number of overemployed is an increasing number of underemployed — the two million plus casuals, who’ve never enjoyed the hours won by the stonemasons 150 years ago.

    Part two of The rise and fall of the 8 hour day investigates how unions often traded free time for pay increases under Enterprise Bargaining in the 1980s. We hear why some unionists believe the trade-off was inevitable under the pressure of globalisation, and that failure to change would have quickened the decline in union membership. Others bitterly condemn ‘EB’ deals as being the beginning of the end of the union movement.

    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/stories/2010/3018680.htm

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  9. Hindsight - 19 September 2010 - The rise and fall of the 8 hour day: part one – 888

    When stonemasons walked off the job on the site of Melbourne University on 21 April 1856, they were among the first in the world to achieve the 8 hour working day. Others before them – in Sydney and New Zealand – had paved the way, but it was in Melbourne, then a boom city fuelled by the Gold Rush, that the idea really took off and quickly spread across Australia, laying the foundations for what was to become one of the strongest trade union movements in the world.

    The journey from convict colony to what became known as ‘a workers’ paradise’ was inspired by English factory owner Robert Owen’s credo for a full and healthy life – 888: ‘eight hours labour, eight hours rest, and eight hours recreation’. As we approach the 150th anniversary of the Eight Hour Day Strike, Hindsight explores the rationale behind a movement which came to symbolise democracy in the workplace.

    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/stories/2010/3010037.htm

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