#incarceratedworkers — Public Fediverse posts
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U.S. Capitalist(s) State exploit #incarceratedworkers with #13thAmendment loophole since 19th century abolition of slavery and civil war period; 21st century Million+ prisoners captive workforce are the cheapest in the wage-slavery system … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
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U.S. Capitalist(s) State exploit #incarceratedworkers with #13thAmendment loophole since 19th century abolition of slavery and civil war period; 21st century Million+ prisoners captive workforce are the cheapest in the wage-slavery system … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
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U.S. Capitalist(s) State exploit #incarceratedworkers with #13thAmendment loophole since 19th century abolition of slavery and civil war period; 21st century Million+ prisoners captive workforce are the cheapest in the wage-slavery system … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
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U.S. Capitalist(s) State exploit #incarceratedworkers with #13thAmendment loophole since 19th century abolition of slavery and civil war period; 21st century Million+ prisoners captive workforce are the cheapest in the wage-slavery system … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
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Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/immigrants-trump-coerced-prison-labor#Capitalism #exploitation #incarceratedworkers #GEOGroup, #Palantir #CoreCivic
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Capitalists as always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
"The pay is £1.25 in the morning and afternoon so £2.50 for 4 and half hours. So, £11.25 for the week, for 20 hours’ worth of work!! So, you think making us stand in a workshop for 2 hours in morning and 2 in the afternoon for about £3-4 is rehabilitation? It is these big companies making millions off slave trade once again.”https://iwoc.iww.org.uk/2025/07/15/campaign-against-prison-slavery-virgin-atlantic-headsets/
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Capitalists as always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
"The pay is £1.25 in the morning and afternoon so £2.50 for 4 and half hours. So, £11.25 for the week, for 20 hours’ worth of work!! So, you think making us stand in a workshop for 2 hours in morning and 2 in the afternoon for about £3-4 is rehabilitation? It is these big companies making millions off slave trade once again.”https://iwoc.iww.org.uk/2025/07/15/campaign-against-prison-slavery-virgin-atlantic-headsets/
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Capitalists as always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
"The pay is £1.25 in the morning and afternoon so £2.50 for 4 and half hours. So, £11.25 for the week, for 20 hours’ worth of work!! So, you think making us stand in a workshop for 2 hours in morning and 2 in the afternoon for about £3-4 is rehabilitation? It is these big companies making millions off slave trade once again.”https://iwoc.iww.org.uk/2025/07/15/campaign-against-prison-slavery-virgin-atlantic-headsets/
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Capitalists as always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
"The pay is £1.25 in the morning and afternoon so £2.50 for 4 and half hours. So, £11.25 for the week, for 20 hours’ worth of work!! So, you think making us stand in a workshop for 2 hours in morning and 2 in the afternoon for about £3-4 is rehabilitation? It is these big companies making millions off slave trade once again.”https://iwoc.iww.org.uk/2025/07/15/campaign-against-prison-slavery-virgin-atlantic-headsets/
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https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/2/ice_jail_alligator_alcatraz_florida
Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States.
https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/#DeathsinCustody #Florida #Incarceratedworkers #MigrantWorkers
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Plutes, Capos, bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-49/
#labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #incarceratedworkers #prisonlabour #exploitation
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Plutes, Capos, bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-49/
#labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #incarceratedworkers #prisonlabour #exploitation
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Plutes, Capos, bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-49/
#labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #incarceratedworkers #prisonlabour #exploitation
#IWOC #iww -
Plutes, Capos, bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-49/
#labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #incarceratedworkers #prisonlabour #exploitation
#IWOC #iww -
The Alabama Solution
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/29/alabama-solution-documentary-reviewSee also Ava DuVernay’s 2016 doco The 13th (Amendment which allows slave-like exploitation of convicts)
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Meme-ing what you say is saying what you #meme ?
#ZuckerMuskian media Era
#SlopWare - dysphemism for today’s “generative” (read: plagiarative) #ai -
#enshittification #incarceratedworkers
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Democracy Now
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/14/california_wildfires_incarcerated_firefightersMarshall Project
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/11/los-angeles-palisades-prisoners-firefightersPasadena Altadena & Octavia Butler
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/13/palisades_fires#California #wildfires #LosAngeles #Palisades #Altadena #incarceratedworkers #convictlabor
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Capitalists are always keen to “reduce the cost of labor”
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/14/california_wildfires_incarcerated_firefighters
#losangeles #2025 #wildfires #firefighters #incarceratedworkers #BlameCapitalism
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“ The city’s 2024–2025 budget slashed about $17.6 million from the fire department, while increasing the budget for the city’s police force by $126 million, according to figures from the Los Angeles City Administrative Office."
https://newrepublic.com/post/189997/los-angeles-fire-fighting-budget-wildfires
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December 18, 1865: The #ThirteenthAmendment, prohibited #slavery throughout the USA. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” Jim Crow laws in the past and racial profiling today result in large numbers of African Americans and poor people being
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#IWOC - organising committee #prisonindustrialcomplex #iww -
December 18, 1865: The #ThirteenthAmendment, prohibited #slavery throughout the USA. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” Jim Crow laws in the past and racial profiling today result in large numbers of African Americans and poor people being
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#IWOC - organising committee #prisonindustrialcomplex #iww -
December 18, 1865: The #ThirteenthAmendment, prohibited #slavery throughout the USA. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” Jim Crow laws in the past and racial profiling today result in large numbers of African Americans and poor people being
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#IWOC - organising committee #prisonindustrialcomplex #iww