Society's Child

Still a plantation: American slave labor booming

Russia Today
Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:05 UTC

US breeds a Chinese-style inmate labor scheme on its own soil. Both state and some of the biggest private companies are now enjoying the fruits of a cheap and readily available work force, with tens of millions of dollars spent by private prisons to keep their jails full.

Comment: See also:

Slavery: A 21st Century Evil - Prison slaves

Forget the 18th century slave trade; that had nothing on today's slave trade...

UK comedian said it best: "American Prisons: Slavery By The Backdoor"...

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Joan · 2013-05-26T20:56:00Z

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Major corporations profiting from the slave labor of prisoners include Motorola, Compaq, Honeywell, Microsoft, Boeing, Revlon, Chevron, TWA, Victoria’s Secret and Eddie Bauer.

IBM, Texas Instruments and Dell get circuit boards made by Texas prisoners. Tennessee inmates sew jeans for Kmart and JCPenney. Tens of thousands of youth flipping hamburgers for minimum wages at McDonald’s wear uniforms sewn by prison workers, who are forced to work for much less.

Now you tell me with the massive unemployment in the US that the
unemployed would not give there eyeteeth to have such jobs. The answer is clear they can pay the bare minimum in wages, no benefits and there are no health and safety regulations. They make a huge profit for the shareholders and an unlimited compliant workforce.