The latest issue of Disability & Society 17 (6) carries a moderately
interesting paper by C. Brownlow & L. O'Dell, entitled "Ethical issues for
Qualitative Research in On-Line Communities." This has a couple of dozen
references, some being on line. It doesn't say anything very exciting, but
it does chew over the 'ethical ishoos' that Mairian S-H originally raised
several hours back.
While on ethics and journal papers: the same issue of Dis & Soc has a
serious paper by Alan Roulstone on how organized capitalism proposes to
screw the disabled workforce more effectively, which opens with the well-
known exhortation, "Wheelchair users of the world unite: you have nothing
to lose but your grip!" (Err, no, I made that up. It starts with the first
line of the Communist Manifesto).
Anyhow, the author really does cite "Lash & Urry", who supposedly
wrote "Disorganised Capitalism", published in 1987 at Oxford by Polity.
Further down the ref list there is one "Offe, C." who purportedly
wrote "Disorganised Capitalism" in 1985, brought out by Polity at Cambridge.
Lash & Urry are presumably hard-faced factory foremen driving up the work-
rate of their exploited labour; while "See Off: Disorganised Capitalism"
seems to have strayed from a placard on the edge of a political cartoon.
I've looked down the rest of Roulstone's references for suspicious-looking
combinations, like:
"Handy: The Empty Raincoat" (as the economic skies cloud over?)
"Moody: Workers in a Lean World" (tightening their belts...?)
Regretably, Google rebuts any speculation that maybe Comrade Roulstone had
been pulling the party leg, rather than toeing the party line. There is a
Lash, there is an Urry, and there is an Offe. None of them wrote exactly
the titles listed after their names (though Offe's not far offe); but they
ain't no way fabrications.
This is a thoroughly ethical issue of Dis. & Soc.
m99m
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