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| | Slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Slavery almost always occurs for the purpose of securing the labour of the slave. | | | In Tahuantinsuyu (or Inca Empire), workers were subject to a mita in lieu of taxes which they paid by working for the government. | | | Thus it seems that this is also a turning point in history, where all commodity markets can slowly lever licensing and other requirements to ensure that slavery is eliminated from production, one industry at a time, as a sectoral simultaneous policy that does not cause disadvantages for any one market player. |
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| | The call for higher wages took into account the needs of the worker as a consumer, and even brought into account the worker's family and their comfort. | | | Increasing wages, as a government mandate, puts some financial strain on businesses that are affected. | | | If a city enact a living wage ordinance, businesses might just look elsewhere, thus, the city looses these businesses on account of the mandate. |
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http://www.lclark.edu/~soan221/01wlc/lowwage/livingwage.htm
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| | New Forms of Exploitation of the Working Class in Argentina in the Name of &‘;Greater Labour ... |
| | Decrees 435 and 612 in 1990 fixed a ceiling on the wages of all public sector workers, regardless of whether or not this contradicted the provisions of previous collective agreements. | | | Decrees 1477 and 1478 in 1989 reduced employers' social security contributions by allowing up to 20% of wages to be paid in the form of grocery vouchers carrying no liability to social security contributions. | | | They take from the workers 11% of their wages, of which they credit them with 7.5%, keeping for themselves 3.5% on account of expenses and commission. |
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| | Inequality at the Margins: The Effects of Welfare, the Minimum Wage, and Tax Credits on Low-Wage Labor Markets |
| | And for the same reasons: the minimum wage is not indexed to the cost of living and workers lack the political clout necessary to get Congress to raise it every time prices rise. | | | [9] Regardless of the wage rate, a parent's credit is 40 percent of her earnings up to a maximum credit of $3,556 ($2,152 if she has just one child). | | | All attempts to manipulate the minimum wage are predicated on the belief that the added labor cost will not motivate employers to eliminate workers. |
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http://www.msu.edu/user/dorman/hout1.htm
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| | WORKERHANDBOOK.com - Wages |
| | A wage is the amount of money paid for some specified quantity of labour. | | | The Fair Labor Standards Act requires a minimum wage at the Federal level although states and cities can and sometimes do set their own higher minimum. | | | Several countries have enacted a statutory minimum wage rate in an attempt to prevent the (some say supposed) exploitation of low-paid workers. |
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http://www.workerhandbook.com/wages.html
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| | Political Economy: A Communist Critique of the Wage System. A Progressive Labor Party Pamphlet |
| | Therefore the wage paid to us for our labor power (based on the exchange value of our labor power) is lower than the total price of the commodities we produce (based on the exchange value of the commodities, which in turn is based on the total time we spend laboring for the capitalist each day). | | | Sweatshops, layoffs, minimum wages, schemes to circumvent minimum-wage laws, elimination of benefits, moving production to lower-wage-rate countries, and, most important of all, intense racism and sexism to divide the working class and "justify" huge wage differentials--all of these forms of exploitation are rooted in the nature of capitalism. | | | The short-term gain of automation (smaller outlays per product in wages) for one company leads to a long-term decline in the rate of profit for all companies, as more and more capital has to be laid out for each productive worker who is put into action. |
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| | Irregular Times: Wage Slavery in the USA |
| | H.R. 965, sponsored by Democrat George Miller, would phase in the U.S. Minimum Wage, require good working conditions and wages as a condition for tariff forgiveness, and require U.S. standards of labor be met for the awarding of a "Made in the U.S.A." label. | | | Still, it's encouraging that some members of Congress have stuck to their principles and offered legislation that would ease the horrific conditions of the Marianas sweatshops. | | | For an American public that is increasingly wary of foreign-made goods because of their association with sweatshop conditions, that "U.S.A." label is seen as a sign of ethical production. |
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| | Overthrowing the New Slavery |
| | "Slavery is a booming business and the number of slaves is increasing. | | | Gains were particularly evident in financial services and telecommunications sectors, in which most countries have pursued deregulation. | | | The owners want to pay even less for labor than they now are and they want cheaper production costs as well. |
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http://www.new-enlightenment.com/new_slavery.htm
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| | Bad Subjects: Working for Welfare in the Antipodes: An Incarnation of Wage-Slavery |
| | The main criticisms of the Australian Council of Social Services, the social-democratic Australian Labor Party and the Greens is purely functional — that the work-for-the-dole scheme fails the test of improving employment prospects and that it devalues voluntary community work. | | | It is also equally self-evident that it is in the interest and preference of the capitalist to employ labour at the lowest possible cost — the cost of maintaining the worker for the period of employment and no more — the "iron law of wages" as David Ricardo famously put it. | | | Viewed in this perspective, the attacks on the welfare-state and the introduction of work-for-the-dole schemes is simply a return to capitalism as usual; more unemployment as the ratio between constant capital and variable capital is reduced; and unemployment used to produce a downwards pressure on wages. |
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http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2004/69/lafayette.html
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| | TAP: Vol 14, Iss. 7. A Shameful Harvest. John Bowe. |
| | It would require a raise of $3,203 a year for every farmworker today to earn the minimum wage. | | | Most farm laborers are denied overtime pay, medical insurance, sick leave or the right to organize. | | | The 1935 Wagner Act, allowing workers to organize unions without interference from employers, and the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act both excluded farmworkers. |
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http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/7/bowe-j.html
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| | Just a Bump in the Beltway: Wage Slavery |
| | The report also criticized department officials for letting Wal-Mart lawyers write substantial parts of the settlement and for leaving the department's own legal division out of the settlement process. | | | Responding to its inspector general, the Labor Department said it "strongly disagrees with the report's overall characterization of the effectiveness of the Wal-Mart child labor settlement agreement." | | | It added that agreeing to let Wal-Mart jointly develop news releases about the settlement with the department violated Labor Department policies. |
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| | Wage slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Extreme critics of capitalism argue that the same basic relationships are present in all capitalist societies, even if their impact is lessened by various traditions such as state accountability to the people and the establishment of a mixed economy. | | | In terms used by critics of capitalism, wage slavery is the condition where a person must sell his or her labor power, submitting to the authority of an employer merely to subsist. | | | Critics of capitalism may view the working class to be slaves if employers have unrestricted power to fire individual workers; this is especially true if they can blacklist them from other employment (such blacklisting of suspected communists was instituted by employers during the McCarthy Era in the United States in Hollywood and other sectors). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
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| | G.1 Are individualist anarchists anti-capitalist? |
| | The individualist anarchists identified capitalism as "wage slavery," (like social anarchists) because they saw that profit, rent and interest were all forms of exploitation. | | | The worker would receive the full product of his/her labour, so ending the exploitation of labour by capital. | | | Moreover, such an aim logically implies a society based upon artisan, not wage, labour and workers would, therefore, not be separated from control of the means of production and so sell the product of their labour, not the labour power itself. |
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http://www.spunk.org/library/intro/faq/sp001547/secG1.html
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| | IS MINIMUM WAGE MODERN SLAVERY? - BestAndWorst.com |
| | Most of the jobs that pay minimum wage are aimed at entry level skilled or teenage workers. | | | Lucky me, it was when I was fifteen, and didn't have a family to feed and bills to pay. | | | There are those who do, and don't have the abilities to pursue the further education needed to compete for those higher-paying jobs. |
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http://www.bestandworst.com/r?id=70768
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| | Maquiladoras: Frontier Wage-Slavery |
| | Money, goods and managers are free to cross the borders at will, but laborers are not. | | | Immigration laws and the INS make the maquiladoras profitable, just as the run-away slave laws and the slave-catchers of the 19 | | | But most important was the wages for which Mexicans would work and the conditions of work they would put up with. |
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http://www.lclark.edu/~clayton/commentaries/maquiladoras.html
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| | Chapter 5 Hi Tech, Low Pay[Sam Marcy]: (1986) |
| | Now, with the development of telecommunications, the government wants to ditch that part of the service which is no longer lucrative for big business and high finance, and retain that portion which still facilitates big business, while holding a club over the heads of the postal workers through compulsory no-strike mediation and arbitration. | | | At the same time, notwithstanding the government's bold talk about private enterprise standing on its own feet, it has continued a long line of luscious contracts to the big corporations which supply the materials to the Postal Service. | | | Slavery was static, fixed and extremely rigid in its form of production. |
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http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/samtech/hitkhtml/chap5.htm
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| | FBC- Dale Tomich, CV |
| | "Slavery and Slaveries: Bonded Labor and the Transformation of the Nineteenth Century World Economy," paper presented at the Tenth Annual Political Economy of the World System Conference. | | | The Second Slavery: Global Process and Local Histories in the Remaking the American Plantation Periphery, 1815-1888. | | | "Reconstructing the Labor Process: Planter Control and Worker Resistance in Post-Emancipation Martinique," presented at the conference on From Chattel Slavery to Wage Slavery, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, London, England, May 9-10, 1991. |
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| | portland imc - 2004.01.29 - imagine a world without wage slavery |
| | If a business uses wage slavery, then it exists and profits from the exploitation of its human drones. | | | Imagine a society in which wage slavery has been abolished. | | | Let's be sure that before we show our face to the world in an effort to help those who struggle, to be sure that we don't get that glory on someone else's back. |
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| | WAGE SLAVERY |
| | The income generated by their capital is their "wages". | | | A Capitalist is someone who uses their capital to "earn" a living. | | | SPENDING GOBBLES UP EARNINGS AND OFTEN BEYOND - INTO A LIEN ON FUTURE EARNINGS, I.E. Send mail by clicking |
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| | Wage labor as bad as slavery - Sean Hannity Discussion |
| | and the third, which will transform the working class into free men by eliminating the commodity charcter of labor, ending wage slavery, and bringing the commercial, industrial, and financial institutions under democratic control. | | | A democracy where people have a say over decisions to the extent that they are affected by those decisions. | | | In the 60s, the numerous friends who weren't going to be sell outs and wage slaves happy to sleep on the floor in their ratty sleeping bags and raid my fridge. |
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http://www.hannity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4359
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| | American Experience The Time of the Lincolns A Rising Nation |
| | And the percentage of them who worked as unskilled laborers doubled. | | | And from their meager earnings, Northern laborers had to pay for every one of life's necessities. | | | These manufacturing jobs were repetitious and sometimes hazardous. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/nation/es_wages.html
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| | Slavery - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | Slavery was a very normal thing more than 150 years ago, but now most people know it is wrong, and most countries do not allow it. | | | Slavery is when a person owns another person. | | | Different types of slavery still exist today in some poor countries. |
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| | Slavery Guide: Bibliography |
| | The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery. | | | Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. | | | Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution. |
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http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/slavery/topics.html
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| | The Socialist Party And The Working Class |
| | The divided vote of labor is the abuse of the ballot and the penalty is slavery and death. | | | The united vote of those who toil and have not will vanquish those who have and toil not, and solve forever the problems of democracy. | | | When industrial slavery is as dead as the issues of the Siamese capitalist parties the Socialist party will have fulfilled its mission and enriched history. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1904/sp_wkingclss.htm
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| | Why Work? // What is a wage slave? |
| | Many of us prefer to focus on wage slavery as a state of mind, while others prefer to focus on the external aspects of wage slavery such as the wage economy. | | | Permission is granted to keep one copy of material on this site on a personal computer for private, home use only. | | | "Wage slavery is the state where you are unable to perceive choices and create courses of action different from the grind of the job." |
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http://www.whywork.org/about/faq/wageslave.html
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| | Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery: Bertrand Russell Page |
| | This is the morality of the Slave State, applied in circumstances totally unlike those in which it arose. | | | It is obvious that, in primitive communities, peasants, left to themselves, would not have parted with the slender surplus upon which the warriors and priests subsisted, but would have either produced less or consumed more. | | | Because work is a duty, and a man should not receive wages in proportion to what he has produced, but in proportion to his virtue as exemplified by his industry. |
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http://www.uic.edu/classes/engl/engl160/Readings/Russell.htm
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| | Organise! - Issue 44 - News and Analysis |
| | The Agreement states, amongst other things, exactly what you will do to find work, the lowest wage you will accept and how far you are prepared to travel to a job, which will apply for up to 13 weeks after the agreement is signed. | | | After this, you can be forced to take any available job or face loss of all benefits. | | | As far as the effect on pay is concerned, if claimants are forced into taking any old job the employer can think of at whatever wage, as will be the case under JSA and perhaps even worse under Project Work, this can only force down wages across the board. |
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http://www.libcom.org/hosted/af/org/issue44/jsaclass.html
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| | Boutang's From Slavery to wage labour reviewed by Barchiesi |
| | Forms of servile, enslaved or indentured labour are far from representing mere archaisms, transitory adjustments or residues of backwardness in ‘traditional’ societies destined to be wiped out by ‘modernisation’ in the name of which a large part of last century’s reformisms supported various colonial and neo-colonial regimes-. | | | In this perspective, the function of formal guarantees of individual worker’s rights and freedoms, with corresponding duties was to enable whilst simultaneously masking the exploitation inherent to the selling of labour power that, in relation to those rights and freedoms, is prior and constitutive in its essentially economic dynamic of expropriation and domination. | | | The questioning of the concept of ‘wage labour&; leads Moulier Boutang to a conclusion that has an enormous theoretical relevance and political significance: the proletariat as abstractly unitary subject of capitalist oppression intended in Marxian vulgate as the premise of liberation and teleological horizon of resistance tends to disappear from view. |
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| | American Experience The Time of the Lincolns Teacher's Guide |
| | How does this excerpt help explain why the issue of racial injustice would continue to be a serious problem for the United States, in both Northern and Southern states, even after slavery had been abolished? | | | Review the three maps showing the nation's changing policies toward slavery in the territories between 1820 and 1854. | | | Do you think the government should be permitted to restrict civil liberties during wartime? |
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| | How many hours a week do you work?: Law Vault Message Board (wage slavery) |
| | the differnce between my salary and a governement salary is really chump change in perspective (don't get me wrong, its a lot to me) but nothing compared to the partner income and my wage slave salary. | | | Perhaps you will only have to put in hours like that for a few years and you will have the riches you deserve for making that sacrifice and more choices down the road. | | | How many hours a week do you work? |
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| | IPA in the News Bastion of wage slavery |
| | Economic Freedom of the World: 2005 Annual Report | | | Effectively, unions say that the law must stop equality. | | | But in this traditional environment of worker versus bosses ideology, it might seem an odd thing to allege that unions have become both the last bastion of wage slavery and lobbyists for institutionalised exploitation. |
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| | Chattel and wage slavery |
| | Exceptions there may be, but this is true of religious slave-holders as a class" | | | When Douglas goes to work as a caulker in a shipyard in Baltimore, and works besides white wage workers, he writes about the resentment of white workers towards the black slaves: | | | We reproduce three passages from his book because we think it draws parallels between chattel slavery in the USA over a hundred years ago and the position of a modern wage slave: |
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| | END WAGE SLAVERY Employment in Winnipeg Winnipeg Metro Manitoba @ Adpost.com Classifieds > Canada > END WAGE SLAVERY ... |
| | Outgoing person with leadership skills, not afraid to speak in front of small groups, all training provided, six figure potential, must be online, toll free 1-866-465-9818 or 204-981-9630. | | | END WAGE SLAVERY Employment in Winnipeg Winnipeg Metro Manitoba @ Adpost.com Classifieds > Canada > END WAGE SLAVERY Employment in Winnipeg Winnipeg Metro Manitoba,free,canadian,classified ad,classified ads | | | Content copyright © 2006 Adpost.com END WAGE SLAVERY Employment in Winnipeg Winnipeg Metro Manitoba |
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| | BUMPER STICKER, IT'S NOT JUST A JOB, IT'S WAGE SLAVERY by Gaia-Love Graffiti |
| | Please write your comments and suggestions to: dreamtime@insight-books.com | | | Every mother hopes that someday her children will grow up and take care of her as lovingly as she has cared for them. | | | BUMPER STICKER, IT'S NOT JUST A JOB, IT'S WAGE SLAVERY by Gaia-Love Graffiti |
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