@rl_dane @nlarson830 #Zuck's #NSAbook are top donors to #Trump, so they'd get away with anything.
After all, the #ForProfitPrisons & #PrisonIndustry in the #USA are well-known to sell labour to corporations cheaper than any callcenter in #India!
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/history-slavery-and-early-colonisation-south-africa
#SA became not just a society in which some people were #slaves, but a fully-fledged #slavesociety…the institution of #slavery touched all aspects of life, as slavery was central to the social, economic and legal institutions. As the boundaries of the Cape Colony expanded…slaves were put to work on the #wine and #wheat farms of the south-western Cape…the #colonial economy could not function without the use of #slavelabour, and therefore slave-ownership was widespread.
Labour u-turns on slave labour? Probably not, but they have the odd restless MP to keep placated - after all they with to use their tame MPs to subdue the British population (used purposely, devolution is worth diddly squat when Westminster farts)
#SlaveLabour #Labour #Ukpol #ScottishIndependence #WelshIndependence #IrishIndependence #YorkshireIndependence
A bunch of scummy companies lieing to consumers about their safety.
I knew #Nissan for years threw away reports of dangerous faults in Nissan vehicles.
And that #VW lied about emissions.
Maybe trusting companies that grew with Nazi and Japanese #SlaveLabour during WWII was never a good idea?
Or is it that modern corporations are becoming and more fascist and put #ProfitsBeforePeople.
Destruction of #Trust
Alexander MacFarlane (c. 1702 – 23 August 1755) was a Scottish astronomer, merchant, mathematician, judge, politician and #planter. Born in #Scotland, MacFarlane graduated from the #UniversityOfGlasgow in 1728 and immigrated to the British #colonyOfJamaica, where he settled down to a career as a merchant and acquired several #sugarPlantations operated with #slaveLabour. In addition to working as a judge and politician, MacFarlane also pursued an amateur career in #astronomy in #PortRoyal.
They are attempting to create a desperate and hungry slave worker class. They despise us.
Full list of tomato products linked to Chinese forced labour on sale in #UK
Products described as containing #Italian #tomatoes could actually contain tomatoes grown in #China using #ForcedLabor
The investigation found 17 tomato products including purée sold in UK & #German markets are likely to contain Chinese tomatoes
Of those, 6 are sold in
- #Asda
- #Tesco
- #Morrisons
- #Waitrose
All 4 supermarkets dispute results of the testing
#TuesdayColumn: As the #WorldRobotConference lubes up Beijing for more industrial #robots to provide "new productive forces", I think we should wonder as to why humanity dreams so insistently about #SlaveLabour... #writing #philosophy #politics
Dreaming of Servitude:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2024/08/27/dreaming-of-servitors/
"Fifty-seven per cent of Americans say they are addicted to their phones, 71 per cent spend more time with their #phones than with their lovers. We've created a $500 billion-dollar industry producing #addiction machines that don't fit in our hands and are effectively made on the back of #slavelabour – the role of #smartphones in contemporary life feels increasingly, and profoundly, #stupid."
https://www.dezeen.com/2024/08/21/smartphones-opinion-phineas-harper/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/01/greece-introduces-growth-oriented-six-day-working-week
Companies in countries worldwide may be toying with the idea of implementing shorter working weeks, but in Greece employees have been told that, henceforth, they can put in a sixth day of labour in an unorthodox step aimed at turbocharging productivity
#JoinAUnion #CorpGreed #SlaveLabour
@Hunterrules0_o then you obviously want to purposefully misinterpret my words, because #facism doesn't require a #dictatorship - see #Poland under #PiS and #Hungary under #Orban...
They ain't a dictatorship in the sense of Russia or the "P.R." China where dissidents get forcibly disappeared or suffer "tragic accidents" for not licking the rulers boots so hard it reflects the grin of the wearer...
Also there's a fine line between bullshit law and facist law in that a bullshit law is absurd but at least has some in theory merits, whereas facist law solely exists to generate #VictimlessCrimes and revenue for the #PrisonIndustrialComplex by pushing people into unbearable fines and jailing them for legalized #SlaveLabour...
Unless in both cases the perpertrator is a rich white heterocisbinary #wanker...
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21120476/jeff-bezos-washington-dc-renovate-apartment-home-parking-tickets
Going back to the original post people in any reasonable juristiction would collectively refuse to follow such facist ordinances and literally #seedbomb public spaces so hard with "illicit crops" that the rules have to be scrapped entirely...
Haiti's violent #history not likely over
" #Slavery had died out in #Europe during the Middle Ages, but when the opportunity arose to #getrich by using #slavelabour to grow sugar cane on West Indian #plantations, #Europeans were more than happy to go back into the business.. at least 10 million #slaves were sent west across the Atlantic in the next 2 centuries.. The ones that went to #Haiti died very fast, because it was cheaper to work them to death & just buy some more"
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-haitis-violent-history-not-likely-over
Just watched a TV reportage about the horror many of the foreign workforce working as Housekeeping staff (maids) in Saudi Arabia experience.
Then I see an article about the ongoing Saudi Ladies International (Golf).
These Golfing women are nothing less than prostitutes!!
Golf Whores!
#saudi #saudiarabia #womensrights #humanrights #sport #golf #prostitution #slavelabour
🗣 The call for papers for the workshop "The gains of their sorrow: Slavery, the slave trade, and the rise of capitalism in the other South" will close on 31 January.
The aim of the meeting is to open a debate on bridges connecting research focused on the Middle Passage and the one focused on mines, plantations, urban jobs, etc.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/gains-their-sorrow/
#Histodons #Slavery #SlaveTrade #Capitalism #CFP #Escravatura #Capitalismo #MiddlePassage #SlaveLabour #SlaveLabor
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#Children as young as eight picked #coffee beans on farms supplying #Starbucks
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/01/children-work-for-pittance-to-pick-coffee-beans-used-by-starbucks-and-nespresso
"#Brazil’s seasonal harvest labourers report routine of low wages, cold food and even #slavelabour on farms that supply the world’s most famous #coffee shop chain"
@réporterbrasil: Behind Starbucks Coffee
https://reporterbrasil.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/monitor_starbucks_coffee_slave_labor_ENG.pdf
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Czu9TcrulrW/?igsh=MWx0Zmpkb3duZXBwNQ== this post just a few weeks old however once again how effective is a boycott!?! Or what! 🙀 #bravosouthkorea #bravo #southkorea #humanitarian display of #supportpalastine #boycottdisney #boycottdisney #boycottdisney and don’t ever return to #boycottdisney as #disney has always been a monster #slavelabour #whitewashing #zionist
🗣 We have an open call for communications for the workshop "The gains of their sorrow: Slavery, the slave trade, and the rise of capitalism in the other South", which seeks to open a debate on bridges connecting research focused on the Middle Passage and the one focused on mines, plantations, urban jobs, etc.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/gains-their-sorrow/
#Histodons #CFP #Slavery #Capitalism #Colonialism #MiddlePassage #Mines #Plantations #SlaveLabour #HistoryOfSlavery
Another example of Chinese companies treating foreign workers as dirt, refining nickel for electric vehicles.
“ For Mr Ding, who ended up leaving his job in Indonesia without his passport and got a new one at the embassy, the Chinese companies in Indonesia's nickel industry view workers as disposable resources.
The workers are the same as the ore, they are digging for 'nickel' and we are their 'human ore', both of which have no value after being dug up and consumed," he said.”
#mining
#china
#WorkerExploitation
#SlaveLabour
#ElectricVehicles
