Sentences with phrase «cruel peonage»

@Readin, On consideration, slavery is still on the political spectrum, albeit on a different axis of theft (of human resources), where the extreme would be slavery on one end, moving over to various forms of cruel peonage, then to sweatshops, then to low pay dead end jobs with wage theft, the same without wage theft, the same with benefits, and so on up, the opposite side being no theft at all so that a given laborer is paid their fair share.