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		<title>Have you done free archaeology (or irrelevant labour) on workfare? Do you know someone who has? Out the &#8216;employers&#8217;!</title>
		<link>http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/free-archaeology-workfare-name-shame-employers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samarkeolog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I explained before, there is a long-running, cross-party effort to consolidate and normalise unpaid labour, in which the cultural heritage sector is both victimised and (more or less naively or cynically) complicit. The coincidences of and clashes between &#8220;unpaid voluntary work&#8221; and &#8220;workfare&#8221; (work-for-welfare) highlight the realities of both cultural heritage work and workfare. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conflictantiquities.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26396264&#038;post=3603&#038;subd=conflictantiquities&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syria: antiquities-for-arms trade &#8211; Sky News interview</title>
		<link>http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/syria-illicit-antiquities-trade-sky-news-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samarkeolog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Illicit Antiquities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Sky News invited me to give a live television interview (at lunchtime today) on the illicit trade in Syrian antiquities, which was nice but a bit daunting, as I&#8217;m inarticulate at the best of times and even worse around strangers or in public. In the end, they got someone from the World Monuments Fund [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conflictantiquities.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26396264&#038;post=3580&#038;subd=conflictantiquities&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>free archaeology: institutionalised exploitation in the museum sector</title>
		<link>http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/free-archaeology-unpaid-internship-institutionalised-exploitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samarkeolog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from my post on the precarisation of cultural heritage work, I want to look in detail at what seems like institutionalised exploitation of unpaid interns at the Victoria and Albert Museum (and another unnamed museum); and to highlight resources, movements and opportunities for positive social change. The Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conflictantiquities.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26396264&#038;post=3478&#038;subd=conflictantiquities&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>free archaeology: precarisation, privatisation, austerity and workfare in the Big Society</title>
		<link>http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/free-archaeology-precarisation-privatisation-workfare-big-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thought and practice regarding the voluntary worker wage exemption appear to be closely connected with much larger efforts at privatisation, workfare and the breaking of the British social contract. Much like its subject, this has been cut in half; but it&#8217;s still tldr. Plutonomy and neo-feudalism Since the Second World War, Britain has developed a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conflictantiquities.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26396264&#038;post=3476&#038;subd=conflictantiquities&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syria: &#8216;Men With Guns&#8217; in the antiquities-for-arms trade</title>
		<link>http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/syria-antiquities-for-arms-trade-men-with-guns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samarkeolog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just a note on the &#8220;Free Syrian Army&#8221; (or Free Syrian Armies, or Men With Guns) and the discussion of which armed groups were involved in the Syrian-Lebanese antiquities-for-arms trade. Men With Guns (MWG) Paul Barford (@PortantIssues) is quite reasonably concerned to highlight Paul Danahar&#8217;s observation that &#8216;the FSA&#8230; does not exist&#8216;, only [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conflictantiquities.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26396264&#038;post=3524&#038;subd=conflictantiquities&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>free archaeology: drawing the line between work experience and work; identifying structural disadvantage and exclusion</title>
		<link>http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/free-archaeology-unpaid-internship-work-experience-disadvantage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samarkeolog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I begin, I want to make clear that I am not using these case studies as examples of worst practice (though they are not all examples of best practice), or even as examples of consciously exploitative practice. I know people who have worked at all three of these museums (and indeed at the cultural [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conflictantiquities.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26396264&#038;post=3502&#038;subd=conflictantiquities&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>free archaeology: ensuring that your workers don&#8217;t get minimum wage &#8211; not-necessarily-illegal unpaid voluntary work</title>
		<link>http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/free-archaeology-unpaid-voluntary-work-national-minimum-wage-exemption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samarkeolog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intern Aware judge that &#8216;many internships in the charity sector do not abide by the specifications that state volunteers should be free to choose their working hours and tasks and [should] not report to a boss and receive training like workers&#8217; (and No Pay? No Way! agree). No Pay? No Way! believe that &#8216;charities use [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conflictantiquities.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26396264&#038;post=3479&#038;subd=conflictantiquities&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>free archaeology: simply illegal unpaid internships</title>
		<link>http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/free-archaeology-unpaid-internships-illegal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 11:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samarkeolog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I raised the issue of unpaid internships, an employee of the Department for Work and Pensions observed, &#8216;it&#8217;s almost a two-tier system now.&#8217; (I did raise my eyebrows at almost.) &#8216;If you can afford to work for free, you can get lots of experience and you can get a great position; if you can&#8217;t, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conflictantiquities.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26396264&#038;post=2982&#038;subd=conflictantiquities&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syria/Lebanon: Syrian-Lebanese antiquities-for-arms trade</title>
		<link>http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/syria-conflict-funding-lebanon-illicit-antiquities-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samarkeolog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past week, two investigations have explored the Syrian antiquities market in Lebanon. One has found material evidence that armed groups are managing to fund their fighting through looting, smuggling and selling antiquities; the other has gathered further testimony from illicit antiquities traders that (at least some of) the armed groups who are selling [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conflictantiquities.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26396264&#038;post=3407&#038;subd=conflictantiquities&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greece: Nazi antiquities looting and austerity politics</title>
		<link>http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/greece-nazi-antiquities-looting-austerity-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 11:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samarkeolog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tend not to discuss historical cases of illicit excavation or illicit possession of antiquities because, almost by definition, they are not urgent. Also, almost inevitably, they have been severely politicised (and pushed into public consciousness through their politicisation); it can be difficult to discuss them without spreading at least part of the underlying political [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conflictantiquities.wordpress.com&#038;blog=26396264&#038;post=3374&#038;subd=conflictantiquities&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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