krispin and i have long been on an anti-sweat shop kick but have been too lazy to research child /
slave labor conditions in the food industry.
Not exact matches
And how well did that work for
slaves the first 300 years, child
labor exploited and coal miners and factory workers suffering horrific working
conditions and safety issues in the early 1900's, women still fighting the glass ceiling that exists, etc.?
You must be mistaken... why, the conservatives HAD to be at the forefront of assuring the rights of freed
slaves, ending the deliberate government policy of destroying native cultures, extending the vote to ex-
slaves and women, ending child
labor, creating safer and better working
conditions for laborers, etc?
The
conditions that make human trafficking possible and profitable arise not just in the poor countries that supply
slaves but wherever the demand for unprotected
labor is outmatched only by the wealth and greed of those who pay for it.
As part of their
labor series, their documentation has covered the cruel
conditions of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a former
slave - breeding plantation named for the African nation from which «the most profitable»
slaves, according to
slave owners, were kidnapped.
Sugar cane has not been immune: of the 5,877 workers freed in 2007 from
conditions analogous to
slave labor in Brazil, 2,947 had been sugar - cane cutters.