Word: laborative
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...those of you who haven’t spent too much time around the labor movement, this is the equivalent to a mountaineer who’s just failed to summit Mt. McKinley telling a friend he thinks he’ll give Everest a go. But Chris was completely serious, and the more he talked the more it made sense...
These institutions, according to sociologist Loic Wacquant, have each handled “the task of defining, confining, and controlling African Americans,” but the mass incarceration society we live in differs significantly from slavery and segregation. Their purpose was to extract cheap labor from blacks while still maintaining enough social distance between races for whites to benefit materially and psychologically. Globalization, however, wreaked havoc on this pre-1960s American social order as manufacturing jobs (and social mobility) moved to the suburbs and then overseas. Pushed into benefit-deprived, unstable service economy jobs, or into chronic...
...their shareholders, therefore, have a vested interest in human beings continuing to be arrested and incarcerated for long periods. Not only do private prison companies profit, but so do phone companies that overcharge inmates and companies like IBM and Victoria’s Secret that use underpaid, unfree prison labor for manufacturing...
It’ll be something of a reprise for the once-ascendant labor group, and although their plans do not include anything as dramatic as a sit-in, a series of teach-ins may bring the issue back to center stage in Harvard labor politics...
...site was last updated in February of 2002, promising “an internal study to better understand the impact that significantly higher labor costs would have on our clients and our ability to remain price competitive in our industry...