Happy #mayday !! I’ve been working on this assortment of images as part of my #draweveryday efforts, for the SF Bay Area #iww chapter. #sabocats reject the bullshit that is killing us all! #sabotage now! Reach out to your local #industrialworkersoftheworld chapter today and #organize ! Now is the time! #fightfascism #oligarchy #union #unionbusting #cat #blackcat #billionaires #fascism #amazon #prisonlabor
(1 of 3)
Today In Labor History April 8, 1864: The 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, banning chattel slavery. However, it permitted a continuation of wage slavery and the forced labor of convicts without pay. And on this date in 1911, 128 convict miners, mostly African-Americans jailed for minor offenses, were killed by a massive explosion at the Banner coalmine near Birmingham, Alabama. While the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which occurred just two weeks earlier, elicited massive public attention and support for the plight of immigrant women working in sweatshop conditions, the Banner explosion garnered almost no public sympathy, probably due to racism and the fact that they were prisoners.
American prisons run on forced labor. For @bolts, historian Robert Chase answered reader questions about the legal basis for paying incarcerated people below minimum wage, whether the Americans with Disabilities Act applies in these circumstances, who has the authority to stop prison labor, and more.
https://boltsmag.org/the-past-and-present-of-prison-labor-your-questions-answered/
#Broligarchs want to do the same things on both planets #Earth and #Mars, except that on earth, they want to use #prisonLabor or #slaveLabor instead of microbes — Small difference!
"Using digital blueprints, a computational biologist explains how #microbes could #colonize space, produce #drugs, and generate #energy—highlighting how these models could shape the future of #biotechnology, #medicine, and #space exploration."
Modern day slavery. Undercutting the labor market with workers who are given no other choice, and where their earnings are largely gobbled up by the state. And being a hard worker means you will be denied parole.
Alabama has earned hundreds of millions of dollars from prison labor since 2000.
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-alabama-3b2c7e414c681ba545dc1d0ad30bfaf5
@mk30. Thank you for sharing the rotten Alabama prison labor practices. #Alabama, #prisonlabor.
yup
the way the #GOP will "solve" the #immigration "problem" is it will imprison immigrants, then use them as free #prisonlabor
#MAGA morons think people will be sent back to their home countries
nope
1. establishing what country they are from isn't easy,
2. those countries won't accept them,
3. moving them is a huge cost
instead #Republicans will set up a scheme to rob people of their #labor:
imprison immigrants and work them for free rather than paying them
#Prisonlabor is legal in the United States due to a loophole in the #13thAmendment of the U.S. Constitution, which banned #slavery, except for people convicted of crimes.
https://apnews.com/article/prisons-labor-lawsuit-investigation-b41d72f87dc22e0a351a1a8f5345b9bc
‘#Florida loves #PrisonLabor’: why most incarcerated people still work for free in the Sunshine state https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/21/florida-unpaid-prison-labor
End legal slavery in the US.
“And though members of Congress denounce imported goods made with prison labor in places like China’s Xinjiang province, the offices of many government agencies in Washington and elsewhere are stocked with furniture and supplies made by prisoners in this country.”
“Labor that people have no meaningful right to refuse and that is enforced under conditions of total control is, unquestionably, slavery.”
Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to #Meatpackers, #McDonalds (No parole if you’re still profitable.)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/alabama-slavery-prison-labor-incarcerated-company-exploit-capitalism-lawsuit
Photographs: Guards supervise a group of convict-lease prisoners in Birmingham, Ala. & Convict-lease prisoners at the Banner Mine in Alabama.
Source: BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
#FightLikeHell book cover
#alabama #capitalism #exploitation #prisonlabor #USSW #RWDSU #union
#inthesetimes #kimKelly
Today In Labor History April 8, 1911: 128 convict miners, mostly African-Americans jailed for minor offenses, were killed by a massive explosion at the Banner coalmine near Birmingham, Alabama. While the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which occurred just two weeks earlier, elicited massive public attention and support for the plight of immigrant women working in sweatshop conditions, the Banner explosion garnered almost no public sympathy, probably due to racism and the fact that they were prisoners.
Slavery.
Not even 'slavery by another name', since the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution allows slavery as punishment for a crime.
"""
Intricate, invisible webs link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year AP investigation into prison labor that tied hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of agricultural products to goods sold on the open market.
"""
The US economy demands labor, but refuses to pay for it at market prices. The solution? Slavery.
And you wonder why there's such a push for long mandatory minimum sentences and other "tough on crime" policies -- it's to provide slave workers
Hidden prison labor web linked to foods from Target, Walmart
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e #prison #slavery #labor #prisonlabor #economics #food #walmart #target #mcdonalds #cargill #kelloggs #aldi #wholefoods #riceland #slavelabor
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
https://apnews.com/article/c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e #prisonlabor #ap
