How Shoes are Made

[Winter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esTx_jPMpNg

BTW, how do you embed youtube videos on here?

[Dr Mindbender]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esTx_jPMpNg

BTW, how do you embed youtube videos on here?


hit ctrl c when you select the url you want on the address bar and then when you start the post and press the you tube button it will automatically bring up the cursor in the appropriate place.
Just hit ctrl v again and the video will be embedded in your post.

Works for me.

[DancingLarry]

I used to work in a shoe factory, back when we had such things as shoe factories in the US. The thing I couldn't help noticing in the YouTube was the almost complete lack of machinery in that plant. While the machinery in the factory where I worked was hardly modern, it did reflect some sort of 20th century organization of production, Taylorism, an orderly process. The pics in that video look like something out of Engels' Condition of the Working Class in Manchester.

[Winter]

hit ctrl c when you select the url you want on the address bar and then when you start the post and press the you tube button it will automatically bring up the cursor in the appropriate place.
Just hit ctrl v again and the video will be embedded in your post.

Works for me.

Thanks!

[Winter]

I used to work in a shoe factory, back when we had such things as shoe factories in the US. The thing I couldn't help noticing in the YouTube was the almost complete lack of machinery in that plant. While the machinery in the factory where I worked was hardly modern, it did reflect some sort of 20th century organization of production, Taylorism, an orderly process. The pics in that video look like something out of Engels' Condition of the Working Class in Manchester.

Yeah, it really shows the difference between the first-world and the third-world.

[loveme4whoiam]

Great link - I went with a friend shoe-shopping today (fortunately he didn't get any, as the mark-up was far beyond his pocket) and that video really throws into light the contrast that exists between those who work, and those who buy. Unfortunately, I wonder if watching that would stop him from heading to the same shops tomorrow :(

However, proliferation of videos like that can only be a good thing - nice link.

[Pablosdog]

I knew thing's were bad in the third world due to sweatshops but wow, the conditions in there look horrid.

[Winter]

I knew thing's were bad in the third world due to sweatshops but wow, the conditions in there look horrid.

Agreed. I think it is important to remind ourselves how horrible things really are, especially within the third world ( I'm not saying conditions in the first world are perfect, mind you ) in order to strengthen our revolutionary intentions for change asap.