To illustrate Marx's argument that profit is not in fact the wages of management, I wanted to tell a little story I made up about the 19th century mill owner in the small hill town of Haydenville, MA who owned a factory on the Mill River and built himself and his daughter a pair of impressive white homes with Greek columns across the street from the factory.
So: using GoogleMaps I cruised Rte 9 until I found the factory and the homes [which I used to drive past in the '60s on the way to a little country home I briefly owned.] Then, guided by an informative video found online, I took a screenshot of the factory and homes, copied it onto my desktop, loaded it onto the website of my UNC course on Marx, and sent a message to the students to check it out before next class.
Here it is:
You understand how important visuals are to students!
ReplyDeleteI doubt that most 11YOs know how to do this. The received wisdom about "tech savvy" kids is highly exaggerated.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I despise Google, I enjoy the virtual stroll in Maps. Sitting in Southern California, I've shown my 92YO mother the Toledo, OH, home in which she grew up. I also use it to locate sites I'm reading about even in old literature, e.g., Boswell on Johnson.
Great use of google maps. I used Google Earth to map all the important locations of both my parents' lives. After they passed away, I inherited all their journals and paperwork and from those, I mapped the houses, schools, places of work, etc. and shared the kml files with family and friends. I even located (it's still there) a tree my mother wrote a poem about.
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ReplyDeleteI have driven by there a hundred times. I even worked on the "factory side," making dyed T-shirts. The dye went directly into the brook. After talking up this problem and not pulling my weight, I was fired.
ReplyDeleteThere was talk, 35-40 years ago, that they would develop the old factory buildings into boutique retail. Glad everything looks the same.
Jerry, that is fantastic! I think it was boutique shops for a while. Thanks for the memories!
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