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| | SIMONS, SOCIAL FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY, CHAP. 20 |
 | | It was also urged that such a reduction in price would enable the chattel slave owners to compete with the wage system in the settlement of new territory to the west. | | | There is no legislation except for the benefit of slavery and slaveholders. | | | But there is an inherent contradiction in chattel slavery, as within the competitive system, and this was the first time in the history of society that chattel slavery, on a large scale, had entered into the competitive system. |
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| | Slavery in the Modern World |
| | Sometimes referred to as bonded laborers (because of the debts owed their masters), public perception of modern slavery is often confused with reports of workers in low-wage jobs or inhumane working conditions. | | | Though most Americans believe slavery was abolished with the Emancipation Proclamation more than a century ago, the horrors of human beings held in bondage flourishes today. | | | The Arabs consider it a traditional right to enslave southerners, and to own chattel slaves (slaves owned as personal property). |
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| | India |
| | Both slavery and debt bondage grant significant powers of ownership to the master: the worker cannot seek employment elsewhere, the worker cannot refuse to work, the worker is subject to the master's demands twenty-four hours a day, and the master controls the worker's family. | | | Were the value of the child's labor to be counted as gradual payment of the moneyadvanced-and were it calculated honestly, at the official minimum wage established for beedi rolling (30.9 rupees per thousand beedies)-the agent-employer would recoup in labor value the original debt in about six weeks. | | | The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act was enacted in 1986 and defines a child as "a person who has not completed their fourteenth year of age."69 It does not prohibit child labor per se, nor does it set a minimum age for the employment of children. |
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| | Lauber, Indian Slavery in Colonial Times. Ch. III |
| | De Vaudreuil, governor-general of Canada, throughout the first quarter of the eighteenth century was urging the Abnaki to wage war on the Illinois to obtain slaves for him. | | | Such lack of notice on the part of the monarch was due to the insignificance of American affairs in general, and to the unimportance of the institution of Indian slavery in particular. | | | It has been held, however, that it was the proceeding of the Canadian courts, consistent with the rising public sentiment in England and France against slavery, rather than the actual state of the law, which reached the slave owners’ claims, and finally broke them. |
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| | A respectable trade? Slavery and the rise of capitalism |
| | The hundreds of thousands of signatures collected by the reborn abolition movement following Napoleon's reintroduction of slavery are testament to anti-slavery's ability to act as a lightning conductor for the latent and open antagonism between capitalists and landowners on the one side and independent producers and wage labourers on the other. | | | Napoleon's reintroduction of slavery in 1802 should have reasssured the British as it was just one example of how he was shearing the popular revolution of its radical implications. | | | For Thomas the end of the slave trade came not because, as the French historian Claude Meillassoux put it, slavery as a means of production hindered agrarian and industrial growth, but because of the work of decent individuals. |
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| | White slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | White slavery is a term that was originally used in the 19th century to denote the enslavement to wage labor experienced by workers in industrializing Britain. | | | Although sexual slavery did and still does occur, "white slavery" is usually used to refer to the original use of the term in a moral panic in late 19th century and early 20th century United States, where there was a perception that this form of abuse was a danger to every young woman. | | | The term white slavery is also used in revisionist and white supremacy literature to refer to any slavery of people with light skin. |
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| | FBC- Dale Tomich, CV |
| | "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. | | | Slavery and Emancipation in the Americas (Universidade Federal de Bahia, Universidade Federal de Paraná): 1983; (Universidade Estadual de Campinas): 1988; (Universidade de São Paulo): 1998. | | | Comparative Slavery in the Americas: (Princeton University): Spring, 1999. |
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| | M-TH: Slavery |
| | So how, then, is it permissible to speak of slavery producing only rent, since rent is defined as being not new value but only an alienation of a portion of existing s-v, all of which is and can only be produced by waged labour? | | | When slavery becomes assimilated to the world market and its products commensurated 'as if' they were the products of free wage labour, slavery loses its autonomy and is revealed as a mere historical anomaly. | | | Classical slavery with its legal categories of rent-producing assets (instrumentum mutum [plough], instrumentum semi-vocale [ox] instrumentum vocale [slave]) raised the mystification of rent as the source of wealth to its highest degree, but this was based on the material reality of the predominant slave mode of production which had its own social logic. |
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| | OpinionJournal - Taste |
| | And just as people once argued that slavery could be good for people, today we have folks who defend prostitution as an "empowering" career option. | | | Irving Kristol once joked that, confronted with an 18-year-old girl having sex on stage, a liberal's only question would be whether she was being paid the minimum wage. | | | And the act includes an international prod, in the form of a requirement that the State Department report on how other countries measure up: Show up in the bad category and it will take nothing less than a waiver issued by the President of the United States to keep your nonhumanitarian aid. |
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| | United States History - Slavery and Sectionalism |
| | Southern publicists insisted, for example, that the relationship between capital and labor was more humane under the slavery system than under the wage system of the North. | | | Slavery was inherently a system of brutality and coercion in which beatings and the breakup of families through the sale of individuals were commonplace. | | | In the end, however, the most trenchant criticism of slavery was not the behavior of individual masters and overseers toward the slaves, but slavery's fundamental violation of every human being's inalienable right to be free. |
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| | Metroactive News & Issues Chocolate And Child Slavery |
| | Global Exchange is encouraging American candy companies to adopt Fair Trade Certification, essentially an agreement to pay cocoa farmers a guaranteed minimum price of $80 dollars per pound, which would, in theory, allow cocoa plantations to pay their workers a living wage. | | | The flyer announced that 43 percent of the world's cocoa comes from plantations on the Ivory Coast, a part of the planet where child slavery is very much in practice. | | | The polite-as-punch trio was, in fact, standing out in the heat on behalf of Global Exchange, the remarkably well-organized political action alliance that puts pressure on companies engaging in questionable trading practices in regards to human rights and fair wages. |
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| | Slavery |
| | Wage slavery Wage slavery is a term expressing disapproval of a condition where a person feels compelled to labor in ord... | | | Slavery in Canada Slavery in Canada was first practised by the aboriginal nations, who routinely captured slaves from ne... | | | Slavery and State's Rights Slavery and States Rights was a speech by American Civil War causation and is generally under... |
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| | Wage |
| | Wage slavery Wage slavery is a term expressing disapproval of a condition where a person feels compelled to labor in ord... | | | Riders of the Purple Wage Riders of the Purple Wage was a Anne McCaffrey. | | | Living wage Living wage refers to the hourly wage deemed necessary for a person to achieve a basic standard of living. |
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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. | | | "Wage slavery is the state where you are unable to perceive choices and create courses of action different from the grind of the job." | | | The point here, of course, is that we don't have a single agreed-upon definition of wage slavery. |
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| | Wage slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | 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. | | | Instances of wage slavery that show the most similarity to chattel slavery occur in societies where educational opportunities are limited, unionization is violently suppressed, and property may be arbitrarily confiscated. | | | The use of the term "wage slavery" is also a rhetorical device to draw parallels between modern work and the historical institution of slavery, specifically to chattel slavery wherein one person owns another person as property. |
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| | portland imc - 2004.01.29 - imagine a world without wage slavery |
| | Wage slavery allows humans to exploit fellow humans, with the logical end result being a few with everything, and all with nothing. | | | Wage slavery is the root cause of the genocidal inequalities inherent in a capitalist system. | | | If a business uses wage slavery, then it exists and profits from the exploitation of its human drones. |
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| | Parties, Free Labor, and Civil War |
| | Slavery, as a form of involuntary work, some bracketed in with wage labor, saying both took away the freedom of the workers. | | | Despite the Missouri Compromise limiting slavery in the area, Douglas and others wanted the area to be open to popular sovereignty, where the inhabitants of the territory would choose whether they wanted to be a slave or free state. | | | This decision made slavery national and freedom local, for it forced free states to recognize slavery. |
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| | Wage slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Wage slavery is a condition in which a person is legally (de jure) voluntarily employed but practically (de facto) a slave. | | | 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, in order to merely subsist. | | | Instances of wage slavery that show the most similarity to chattel slavery occur in societies where educational opportunities are limited, unionization is violently suppressed, and property may be arbitrarily confiscated. |
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| | G.1 Are individualist anarchists anti-capitalist? |
| | Such opposition to wage slavery was a common thread within the individualist anarchist tradition - indeed, given its regular appearance, we can say it is almost a defining aspect of the tradition. | | | This opposition to profits as a form of exploitation, wage labour as a form of slavery and property as a form of theft clearly makes individualist anarchism anti-capitalist and a form of (libertarian) socialism. | | | The individualist anarchists identified capitalism as "wage slavery," (like social anarchists) because they saw that profit, rent and interest were all forms of exploitation. |
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| | Chattel - Definition of word from Investor Dictionary - Define meaning of Chattel |
| | Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery: The Anglo-American Context, 1830-1860 (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures ; No. 22) | | | The Wages of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to Wage Labour in Africa, the Caribbean, and England | | | From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas |
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| | Slavery Guide: Bibliography |
| | The Wages of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to Wage Labour in Africa, the Carribbean and England. | | | The Decline of Urban Slavery at the Cape, 1806 to 1843. | | | Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry. |
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| | Slavery Guide: Bibliography |
| | Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery: The Anglo-American Context, 1830-1860. | | | Slavery and the Catholic Church: The History of Catholic Teaching Concerning the Moral Legitimacy of the Institution of Slavery. | | | Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. |
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| | FBC- Dale Tomich, CV |
| | "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. | | | "Slavery, Race and Labor in the Political Economic Discourse of Francisco de Arango y Parreño" presented at the Symposium From Colonial Plantations to Global Peripheries: A Century of Transformations in the Caribbean and Tropical Asia, Caribbean Resource Center, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, P.R. October 8, 1998. | | | Slavery and Emancipation in the Americas (Universidade Federal de Bahia, Universidade Federal de Paraná): 1983; (Universidade Estadual de Campinas): 1988; (Universidade de São Paulo): 1998. |
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| | Why Work? // Index |
| | If you start asking yourself "why work?" you may see a connection between wage slavery, misunderstandings of leisure, lifestyles based on consumption, corporate welfare, education that often amounts to little more than conditioning, and the global social, environmental, and economic crises we are now facing. | | | We actively promote alternatives to the wage slavery mindset and what we call "The Cult of the Job" which automatically equates having a job with making a living. | | | We're a pro-leisure and anti-wage-slavery group of people dedicated to exploring the question: why work? |
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| | F.2 What do "anarcho"-capitalists mean by "freedom"? |
| | And this also applies to wage labour, which many workers today accept as a "necessary evil" (like the state) but, as we indicate in section F.8.6, the first wave of workers viewed with horror as a form of (wage) slavery and did all that they could to avoid. | | | However, the authoritarian relationships and the continual violation of autonomy wage labour implies are irrelevant to "anarcho"-capitalists (indeed, attempts to change this situation are denounced as violations of the autonomy of the property owner!). | | | In free competition between artisan and wage labour, wage labour only succeeded due to the use of state action to create the required circumstances to discipline the labour force and to accumulate enough capital to give capitalists an edge over artisan production (see section F.8 for more details). |
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| | Overthrowing the New Slavery |
| | Wage slavery is the condition in which a person must sell his or her labor-power, submitting to the authority of an employer, in order to merely subsist. | | | The stark reality of "wage slavery" is that the owners of the means of production (capitalists) are now taking the jobs of American workers to chattel labor nations such as China, Mexico, and many others. | | | The phrase "modern slavery" describes a number of conditions involving control of a person against his or her will, enforced by violence or other forms of coercion. |
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| | WORKERHANDBOOK.com - Wages |
| | Wage slavery is a condition in which a person is legally voluntarily employed but practically a slave. | | | Living wage refers to the hourly wage that one deems necessary for a person to achieve a basic standard of living. | | | In the United States, wages for most workers are set by market forces, or else by collective bargaining, where a labor union negotiates on workers' behalf. |
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| | wage |
| | See also: minimum wage, salary, Wage slavery, Wage-labor. | | | A wage is an amount of money paid to a worker for some specified quantity of labour, often expressed with respect to time. | | | Wage and Hour Division (WHD) - Employment Standards Administration - U.S.... |
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