Based on Massachusetts House Document no. 50 We gathered many facts in relation to the Hours of Labor. The average each day in the Lowell mills—twelve and a half. Sarah Bagley works by the piece. Chief evil: shortness of time for meals. Next evil: no time to cultivate the mind. Dr. Wells, city physician found less sickness here than elsewhere, fewer dying in Lowell this year than […]
Holly Guran | Regulations
Regulations Lawrence Manufacturing Company, 1833 No one may be dishonest, dissolute, indolent. All must refrain from ardent spirit, gambling, any desire to smoke Egyptian cigarettes. Fire we must prevent. From public worship, no one may be absent. All must obey Sabbath rules, this we require. No one may be dishonest, dissolute, indolent. For advice, those far from parents may apply to the Agent. To the utmost […]
Derrick Jensen | Claims to virtue
IT’S NOT POSSIBLE to commit deforestation, or any other mass atrocity—mass murder, genocide, mass rape, the pervasive abuse of women or children, institutionalized animal abuse, imprisonment, wage slavery, systematic impoverishment, ecocide—without first convincing yourself and others that what you’re doing is beneficial. You must have, as Dr. Robert Jay Lifton has put it, a “claim to virtue.” You must be convinced—as the Nazis were convinced that the elimination of Jews […]
Movies You Might’ve Missed | On the need for disobedience
Two fairly recent films illustrate the need for citizens to act as their own authority in matters of morality and ethics. One, The Reader, achieved mainstream success. The other, Even the rain (Tambien la lluvia), illustrates that “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Many have undoubtedly seen The Reader, a 2008 German-American film based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink. Starring Kate Winslet, whose […]
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