PORQUE ES IMPORTANTE CONTAR CUENTOS animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade Source: slavevoyages.org For the full interactive version, use a larger device. Interactive by Andrew Kahn. Usually, when we say “American slavery” or the “American slave trade,” we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations. History of American Slavery, Ep 2: The Atlantic slave trade during its heyday and the remarkable life of Olaudah Equiano. There are a few trends worth noting. In the 1700s, however, Spanish transport diminishes and is replaced (and exceeded) by British, French, Dutch, and—by the end of the century—American activity. In the final decades of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Portugal reclaims its status as the leading slavers, sending 1.3 million people to the Western Hemisphere, and mostly to Brazil. Enroll now in a different kind of summer school.
Lectura y Vida Como o jornalismo empreendedor está decolando no Brasil Quando o jornalista brasileiro Fernando Mello quis divulgar o lançamento do Brio, sua nova startup, no mês passado, ele fez o que a maioria dos jornalistas empreendedores faz. Escreveu um post no Medium. "No momento em que o jornalismo passa por transformações e incertezas, nosso grupo de repórteres, editores, designers, desenvolvedores e engenheiros... lança um projeto que pretende ser uma janela de oportunidades", Fernando escreveu em um post no Medium (em inglês e português). O lançamento do Brio é um sinal dos tempos no jornalismo brasileiro: jornalistas brasileiros estabelecidos estão cada vez mais optando por lançar suas próprias startups de mídia. "Esse é o momento da minha vida para tentar fazer isso", disse Fernando, que já trabalhou na Folha de S. O Brio publica jornalismo narrativa detalhado e divide os lucros (US$3,99 por artigo) com o autor. No Brasil, o jornalismo nacional é dominado por alguns jornais conservadores, como a Folha de S. Think Olga Ponte Jota Torcedores Porvir
A pior profissão do mundo Todo ano, o site americano CareerCast.com elenca uma lista de 200 profissões, classificando-as da melhor à pior a partir de cinco critérios: ambiente de trabalho, salário, nível de estresse, exigência física e condições de contratação. Pois bem. Em 2013, após alguns anos figurando entre as dez piores, a profissão de repórter de jornal chegou ao fundo do poço, ficando em 200◦ lugar na lista, atrás de lenhador, militar e trabalhador de fazenda de gado. A pesquisa, que não tem lá muito critério científico, é mais um sinal da percepção de que a indústria do jornalismo impresso está em crise no mundo. Um relatório recente do instituto Tow Center, da Universidade de Columbia, constata que se “anunciantes nunca tiveram interesse em apoiar agências de notícias”, a relação entre as receitas de publicidade e salários de jornalistas sempre esteve em função da capacidade das editoras de extrair lucro. Sobre isso, leia também Dos jornalistas atuantes na mídia, 59,8% possuem carteira assinada.
Embraer: sucesso, globalização e… ataque ao trabalho [Este é o blog do site Outras Palavras em Carta Capital. Aqui você vê o site completo] A Embraer é uma das maiores empresas aeroespaciais do mundo. A Embraer passou por diversas reestruturações, financeiras e produtivas, que trouxeram crescimento de produtividade, ainda que sob crescente insatisfação, principalmente dos empregados da produção. Paradoxalmente, o quadragésimo quinto aniversário da empresa — o ano de 2014 — ficará marcado pela maior greve [1] realizada pelos trabalhadores da Embraer no período pós-privatização (1994). Em setembro, a mobilização já havia ocorrido na planta da avenida Faria Lima, em São José dos Campos (SP) e ocasionado atraso na produção. “Um insulto aos trabalhadores da Embraer. Em 2014, a empresa dividiu a título de PLR (Participação nos Lucros e Resultados) R$ 16 milhões entre oito diretores (dois milhões pra cada). Ações mais valiosas A Embraer conta com mais de 19 mil empregados espalhados pelos quatro grandes continentes. Depois da privatização
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace While the Amazon campus appears similar to those of some tech giants — with its dog-friendly offices, work force that skews young and male, on-site farmers’ market and upbeat posters — the company is considered a place apart. Google and Facebook motivate employees with gyms, meals and benefits, like cash handouts for new parents, “designed to take care of the whole you,” as Google puts it. Amazon, though, offers no pretense that catering to employees is a priority. Compensation is considered competitive — successful midlevel managers can collect the equivalent of an extra salary from grants of a stock that has increased more than tenfold since 2008. As the company has grown, Mr. Of all of his management notions, perhaps the most distinctive is his belief that harmony is often overvalued in the workplace — that it can stifle honest critique and encourage polite praise for flawed ideas. Amazon, though, offers no pretense that catering to employees is a priority.
Amazon's brutal work culture will stay: bottom lines matter more than people | Mike Daisey Like a clone army of Captain Renaults, the world woke up last weekend to the astounding New York Times story that Amazon’s workplace was brutish, nasty and cultish. And like that unforgettable character in Casablanca, the world was “shocked – shocked!” to discover there was ugliness in the machinery of such a tech darling. The analogy is particularly apt because the crux of the scene is that Renault, a moment after blandly asserting he’s shocked by gambling, is handed his winnings. Many of the same media outlets telling this story of Amazon’s bad behavior have similarly lionized Jeff Bezos and Amazon for decades. This pretending to be surprised is convenient and ridiculous. This latest piece isn’t coming out of a vacuum. I know how far the record of Amazon drudgery stretches back, because I created a theatrical monologue and a memoir 13 years ago about my time working there, from blue-collar customer support to white-collar business development.
Take A Reverse Tour Of The Global Gadget Supply Chain With These Stunning Photos For three weeks last summer, the "nomadic design studio" Unknown Fields took a reverse tour of the global supply chain, riding a massive cargo ship from Vietnam to a shipyard in Shanghai, visiting a Christmas decoration factory in China, and exploring a mine in inner Mongolia. Together with a group of filmmakers, journalists, scientists, and artists, they documented each step of the journey of a typical tech gadget made in China. Here's a stunning time-lapse video, from filmmaker Toby Smith, of the two days they spent on a cargo ship. "The work we are making is really an elaborate portrait of a city," says writer and educator Kate Davies, who co-founded Unknown Fields with artist and architect Liam Young in London. The filmmakers wanted to tell their story in reverse—an "unmaking of" a smartphone from sea to source, from "final gleaming object of desire" all the way to the "refineries and toxic waste dumps where their ingredients are forged" and the spaces in between.
10 Ways To Stop Being A Slave And Bring Down The Pyramids Of Control Source: www.activistpost.com | Original Post Date: May 24, 2012 – There are very real conspiracies in the world, and those conspiracies are always conducted by people “in the know” against those who are ignorant or naive of back-room machinations. Past slavery was largely based on force (thus was much more obvious), but modern-day slavery is actually more widespread because global slave masters use all of the scientific tools at their disposal to win hearts and control minds, convincing us that our hands and feet are free, so we must be living self-directed lives. There are signs that the mind-pyramids that technocrats have built to enforce their 21st-century global plantation slave system are crumbling as they press harder upon our cognitive ability to make sense of words and actions. Here are 10 ways that you can help collapse all of the pyramids of control. 1. Information is knowledge and knowledge is power — this is where it all starts. 2. 3. 4. Always be willing to adapt and move. 5.