Slavery in Contemporary America
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Many Americans complain of feeling overworked and underpaid, but few realize that serious labor abuses and even outright slavery can still be found in the United States. Journalist John Bowe visited sites in Florida, Oklahoma and the U.S.-owned Pacific island of Saipan to record employees' appalling first-hand accounts in Nobodies, an eye-opening look at the most exploited workers in contemporary America.
Purchase Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy at amazon.com.
John Bowe will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, October 9th at 7:00 pm
Upper West Side Barnes & Noble
2289 Broadway, at 82nd Street
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Comments [8]
Prisoners in the United States are legally GOVERNMENT slaves and are leased to companies as workers, both skilled and unskilled.
In answer to how can we find out where to buy things not made from salve labor (I paraphrase)
#1 do NOT shop at Wal-Mart...
#2 Look for "fair trade" items. There are businesses that work with companies overseas, esp. have-not countries, to make sure they get a fair deal.Warning- you won't pay $5 for a fair trade item of clothing-but you will know the workers are benefiting from the sale.
I will buy that book!
The time posted here for Bowe's reading is incorrect: it's at 7 pm, not 8.
i know someone who imported indentured servants and had her children marry them. true.
...and this is why the idiotic Ayn Rand inspired the "marketplace solves all", "don't regulate" philosophy is just plain stupid and wrong-headed.
Mentally retarded people make around 10 cents an hour for their labor - in Brooklyn!
Can we find out what specific products that are made by slave labor so we can avoid purchasing them?
aren't prisons selling slave labor?
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