Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead
Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead
Citing labor shortages, Alabama prisons are accused of “leasing” inmates to McDonald’s and other fast-food chains —and taking a cut of their wages.
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When I did time in 2005 I worked at a cemetery weed-eating for 24 dollars a month. My cellmate worked at the courthouse as a custodian, and some worked at a factory. I can't call it slavery because we were paid, and not whipped, but it is definitely exploitation
24 dollars a month. [...] we were paid
10c an hour. I can totally see how this is not slave labor.
I'll tell you what made it slave labor: could you quit that job?
I want to take up his point. It's much more like medieval serfdom than slavery. Such as:
- Shit salary instead of no salary.
- Can't me sold.
- Has rights (more than a slave, less than a free man)
Although serfs were bound to the land unlike US prisoners where they can be transferred from location to location.
Yes, but I lost privileges
So, you get punished if you quit. That makes it not voluntary.
Forced labor is still slavery even if you're paid and not whipped.
All labor is slavery in a system that doesn't allow the laborer to keep the value they create.
"paid"