#Capitalism (3) Forensic Food #Science
Outrageous: #profits = #stolenwages
(Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” eg #LabourHire racket. )
#slavelabour — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #slavelabour, aggregated by home.social.
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Advocates attack Carney government’s elimination of ombudsperson for forced labour
Sheri Meyerhoffer, the former Canadian ombudsperson for responsible enterprise, holds a news conference in Ottawa on Tuesday, July…
#Canada #MarkCarney #Canadiancompanies #forcedlabour #humanrightsabuses #Humanrightsadvocates #Ombudsperson #rightsabuses #slavelabour #TheCanadianPress
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Ottawa must do more to keep forced labour out of Canada’s supply chains, advocates say
Former Liberal MP John McKay says the existing Supply Chains Act is not being fully enforced, which could…
#NewsBeep #News #Ottawa #CA #Canada #Forcedlabour #HendryZhang #JohnMcKay #Labour #Politics #research #slavelabour #supplychainsact #UBC
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Ridpath-GreatRacesOfMankind-Vol3/pages/214-chaldean-slaves/
Chaldean Slaves (1893)
We don’t really know exactly where Chaldea was, still less how they or their slaves dressed, and the text accompanying this illustration in Redpath’s book was not relevant to it. I doubt we know whether female slaves did this work of grinding wheat or other grains to make flour or meal.
But it’s an illustration of slave labour.
#vintageArt #fobo #slaveLabour #labor #slavery #women #whip #engraving #johnClarkRidpath
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#US-UK #trade deal may open door to food made with slave labour
#UK Govt facing pressure to strengthen anti-slavery laws amid concerns its #TradeDeal with US could see #food produced by forced labour enter UK market
Lack of transparency in #US supply chain & poor enforcement of anti-slavery law in UK, raise fears #meat produced using forced labour could enter #British #supermarkets – as was recently found to happened with #China-produced tomatoes
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One of the most meticulously crafted noise-reissues I've seen is the Slave Labour – Vol. I and II 4xCD box by Dada Drumming. In addition to the excellent noise – a collaboration between Lingula (David Gilden & Richard Ramirez) and Macronympha – there is a lot of explicit content, both in text and imagery, in this box.
#SlaveLabour #Macronympha #Lingula #DavidGilden #DadaDrumming #CD #noise #NowPlaying #reissue #RichardRamirez
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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.
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15 Companies that STILL Use Child Labor
Nestlé H&M PhilipMorris Microsoft
SportsDirect BritishAmericanTobacco Apple
NewLook JTI Hershey’s Mars Hyundai
PerdueFarms Tyson Foods McDonald’s
Despite global efforts and petitions from humanitarian groups, there are still many major companies who use child labor around the world - in order to make a profit.
https://www.careeraddict.com/10-companies-that-still-use-child-labor#childlabour #slavelabour #exploitation #multinationals #corporategreed
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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
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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.
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aka #SlaveLabour
In the #LandoftheFree #Macdonald's and #Walmart are using slavery to boost their profits.
So now you know who to boycott.
#USA #America #Slavery #modernslavery
Prison labour tied to giant US food brands such as Walmart and McDonald’s, investigation finds
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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
- #WaitroseAll 4 supermarkets dispute results of the testing
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"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/
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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"
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🗣 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
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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
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🗣 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
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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
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How the Italian mafia makes millions from tinned tomatoes – video
If your tinned tomatoes come from southern Italy, it’s likely that organised crime had a hand in getting them from the farm to the supermarket shelf. The mafia controls much of the region's agribusiness, and it's big business, adding billions of euros to its yearly turnover. So how is the mafia making all this money, when tinned tomatoes are so cheap?
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Sunak’s Government Accused of Allowing UK Businesses to Profit from #Chinese Slave Labour
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For those who don't know - Butchart family wouldn't have been able to build #infamous Butchart Gardens without getting richer by #POC #SlaveLabour . Butchart's daughter was the one who saw the rampant cruelty in her family & made one of the hardest working Chinese workers at cement plant as the gardens first master gardener.
Chinese, Sikh & native workers were put into shacks & paid almost nothing, while white workers got proper housing & paid well.Remember THAT when you visit #ButchartGardens
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Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: these worker's tags, excavated from KZ Dora-Mittelbau - a slave labour camp tasked with construction of V 1 and V2s. The MW logo 'MittelWerke'.
The inmates at Dora-Mittelbau were treated brutally: working 14-hour days, being denied access to basic hygiene, beds, and adequate rations. Around one in three of the roughly 60,000 prisoners who were sent to Dora-Mittelbau died.
#DoraMittelbau #ConcentrationCamp #SlaveLabour #nazis #WorkerTags
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International student “exports” really slave labour imports #auspol #education #slavery #slavelabour #internationalstudents
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2023/06/international-student-exports-really-slave-labour-imports/
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DWP announces another NHS-based work programme
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/06/14/the-dwps-invasion-of-the-nhs-continues-gps-can-now-refer-disabled-people-for-voluntary-work-placements/?__s=43tdi5b96azmty2p7sbgWork til' you drop
#DWPCrimes
#ToryDemocide
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「前人種樹，後人乘涼」"The predecessors plant trees and the descendants enjoy the shade." – #Chinese #proverb
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6858176
#AsianMastodon #Canada #ChineseHeadTax #ChineseCanadian #ChineseInCanada #racism #prejudice #oppression #SlaveLabour #discrimination #CanadianHistory
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What the wealthy #industrialists want is not so much a race wiped out, but they will Stoke that division if it allows them cover while they make money in #slaveLabour and #concentrationCamps, which the #BushCrimeFamily were able to do for example. Their fortunes would go on to support a political dynasty of two presidents.
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@Wolven
We heard about this #copaganda project from #LeeCamp a while back and were horrified, tooting about it at the time… and we rarely toot about internal #USA affairs.It was the fascistic conflence of #BigConstruction, the questionable policing and downright disgusting #slaveLabour (ahem- #prisonSystem), and our distaste for #Hollywood propaganda that compelled us to toot.
As Lee Camp would say, "Keep fighting"!
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@jeffcliff
The #USA and particularly those states you mentioned, need more #women as #slaveLabour in their #PrisonIndustrialComplex.Probably a diversity thing.
