Patrick Neveling: HAU and the latest stage of capitalism @FocaalBlog

"So if academics want to have a thorough debate on open access (OA) publishing and criticize multinational giants such as SAGE and Elsevier, they may want to also consider the working conditions of printers in Asian or African sweatshop presses, and the salaries and access options of copyeditors and language editors, of transport workers, and of others along the chains that produce the monographs and journals on which we thrive (and, from an eco-socialist angle, we may wonder about those servers that host our OA outlets and the energy and labor they consume)."