Show Notes for CS 227 and CS 228: "The End of History" (Patreon)

These are the show notes for episodes 227 and 228.

The page explaining how to send the SEIU comments that Courtney requests people flood  the NLRB with: http://seiufacultyforward.org/graduate-workers-attack/

Daniel Bessner and Michael Brene's original article, "A Moral Stain on the Profession":  https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Moral-Stain-on-the/246197

Three responses to Bessner and Brene's article: 

• "Scholarly Associations Can't Be Unions - It's Illegal" by Allison Miller https://www.chronicle.com/article/Scholarly-Associations-Can-t/246218
• "How Not to Confront the Jobs Crisis" https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Not-to-Confront-the-Jobs/246231
• "Attack on the AHA Couldn’t Be More Wrong" https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/letters/attack-on-the-aha-couldnt-be-more-wrong/

Bessner and Brene's responses to the responses: "The AHA's Mission Needs to Change" https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-AHA-s-Mission-Needs-to/246243

"Facing uncertain future, graduates continue fight to organize" https://www.thestrikewave.com/original-content/2019/9/25/facing-uncertain-future-graduates-continue-fight-to-organize

Caitlin Rosenthal's paper on the link between slavery and modern management theory: 

• The original paper by Caitline Rosenthal, "From Memory to Mastery: Accounting for Control in America, 1750–1880" sci-hub.tw/10.1093/es/kht086; Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DGJPVLL/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 and Slavery's Capitalism, a book which has an essay in it by Rosenthal called "Slavery's Scientific Management" https://www.amazon.com/Slaverys-Capitalism-American-Economic-Development/dp/0812224175/ref=sr_1_1?crid=251D4JB4BTWR7&keywords=slavery%27s+capitalism&qid=1575257341&sprefix=slavery%27s+capi%2Caps%2C266&sr=8-1 
• "How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management" by Caitlin Rosenthal http://bostonreview.net/race/caitlin-c-rosenthal-how-slavery-inspired-modern-business-management
• "Why Management History Needs to Reckon with Slavery" https://hbr.org/ideacast/2018/11/why-management-history-needs-to-reckon-with-slavery
• "Slaveowners vs. Modern Management: Can You Tell the Difference?" https://www.topmanagementdegrees.com/slave-management/
• "Slavery and Scientific Management" by R. Keith Aufhauser paper sci-hub.tw/10.2307/2116787

Taylorism:

• "Scientific Managment" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_managementand "Frederick Winslow Taylor" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor on Wikipedia
• "Taylorism and The History of Processes: 6 Key Thinkers You Should Know" https://www.process.st/taylorism/
• "Taylorism" on RationalWiki https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Taylorism
• "The New Taylorism" discussing how scientific management survives even today https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/02/amazon-wristband-surveillance-scientific-management

Adolph Reed articles on black biopics and historical fiction:

• "Django Unchained, or, The Help: How “Cultural Politics” Is Worse Than No Politics at All, and Why" https://nonsite.org/feature/django-unchained-or-the-help-how-cultural-politics-is-worse-than-no-politics-at-all-and-why
• "The James Brown Theory of Black Liberation" https://jacobinmag.com/2015/10/adolph-reed-black-liberation-django-lincoln-selma-glory
• "The Trouble With Uplift" https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-trouble-with-uplift-reed

Twitter thread of student discussing his Black history professor recommending "Harriet" https://twitter.com/timagotchi_/status/1191432415287349248

Lauren Oyler's review of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist book http://www.bookslut.com/features/2014_12_021016.php and an angry response to the review: http://www.carlawaslike.com/book-reviews/2015/9/17/coming-soon-bad-feminist-by-roxane-gay

Eminem "8 Mile" Final Battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh1ROLEDyP4

T's thread on Shea Serrano and his pride in not knowing anything about film before 1980 yet writing a film book https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1184472376324567043

"What Did Baudrillard Think of the Matrix?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf9J35yzM3E

Discussion of random reinforcement/intermittent rewards. I put a lot of links about this because I think this is basically how the job market works now in a neoliberal gig economy, where you keep grinding for gigs and erratic short-term employment and sometimes you get a big payoff and sometimes you don't:

• "Reinforcement" https://allpsych.com/psychology101/reinforcement/
• "Reinforcement Schedules" https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-psychology/chapter/reading-reinforcement-schedules/
• "How Reinforcement Schedules Work" https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-schedule-of-reinforcement-2794864
• "Intermittent Reinforcement" https://www.alleydog.com/glossary/definition.php?term=Intermittent+Reinforcement
• "The Most Powerful Motivator on the Planet: Intermittent Reinforcement" http://psychopathsandlove.com/intermittent-reinforcement/
• "Intermittent Reinforcement: The Powerful Manipulation Method That Keeps You Trauma Bonded To Your Abuser"  https://thoughtcatalog.com/shahida-arabi/2017/11/this-powerful-manipulation-method-keeps-you-bonded-to-your-abuser/
• "Intermittent Reinforcement (Why You Can't Leave The Relationship)" https://tealswan.com/resources/articles/intermittent-reinforcement-why-you-cant-leave-the-relationship-r210/
• "Love Me, Love Me Not: Intermittent reinforcement is addictive" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-after-50/201701/love-me-love-me-not
• "Intermitten Reinforcement" https://outofthefog.website/what-not-to-do-1/2015/12/3/intermittent-reinforcement
• "Reinforcement" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement
• "Use Unpredictable Rewards To Keep Behavior Going" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-wise/201311/use-unpredictable-rewards-keep-behavior-going