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ApaulD

Burkino Faso’s Traoré 👏

How the media presents Africa as impoverished, incapable. A tool for billionaire corporations, to enable the new extractive colonialism.

Crystal clear as to how, in a continent as rich as Africa, people remain poor. Incredible speech.
#Africa #colonialism #politics #exploitation #media #money #poverty
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Nonilex

But the #PERM system also takes a toll on its supposed beneficiaries, the temporary #employees seeking permanent residency. Even after their PERM applications are approved, they must typically wait >10yrs before getting a #GreenCard, a long wait even by the standards of the US #immigration system. In the interim,it can be hard for them to leave their sponsoring employers,exposing them to overwork at jobs that often pay less than what their American counterparts receive.
#labor #law #exploitation

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Nonilex

This makes for a highly ironic juxtaposition: pages of print ads paid for by #tech #employers, many of them the same Silicon Valley giants that have helped eviscerate newspaper classifieds & drive down print newspaper circulation to the point that it can be hard even to find a place to buy a paper in many communities.

#immigration#labor#law
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Nonilex

It’s no surprise that the efforts at this point can be less than sincere.

This is where the [endless & deceptive] newspaper ads come in. Under US Dept of #Labor rules dating back to the era before the worldwide web, employers must post the #job for which #PERM certification is being sought for 30 days with a state workforce agency & in 2 successive Sunday newspapers in the job’s location.

#Immigration#law#exploitation
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Nonilex

It is a process that nearly everyone involved admits is nonsensical, highly vulnerable to abuse, as well as a contributor to inequities among domestic & foreign #tech #workers.

Yet the system has endured for decades, largely out of public view. There is occasional debate over the ~120k workers from overseas who are awarded #H1B #visas every year for temporary high-skilled employment.

#Immigration#law#exploitation
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Nonilex

US #SupremeCourt to review GEO Group's loss in immigrant detainee *#ForcedLabor* [#slavery] case

#SCOTUS on June 2 agreed to decide if #GEOGroup can quickly appeal a judge's ruling denying the #PrivatePrison operator #government #IMMUNITY in a class action claiming #immigrant detainees were forced to work & paid $1 a day.

#immigration #law #CivilRights #HumanRights #exploitation #PenalLabor #PrisonLabor
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History June 1 is the day that U.S. labor law officially allows children under the age of 16 to work up to 8 hours per day between the hours of 7:00 am and 9:00 pm. Time is ticking away, Bosses. Have you signed up sufficient numbers of low-wage tykes to maintain production rates with your downsized adult staffs?

The reality is that child labor laws have always been violated regularly by employers and these violations have been on the rise recently. Additionally, lawmakers have weakened existing, poorly enforced laws to make it even easier to exploit children. Over the past few years, the number of children employed in violation of labor laws rose by 37%, while lawmakers in at least 10 states passed, or introduced, new laws to roll back the existing rules. Violations include hiring kids to work overnight shifts in meatpacking factories, cleaning razor-sharp blades and using dangerous chemical cleaners on the kills floors for companies like Tyson and Cargill. Particularly vulnerable are migrant youth who have crossed the southern U.S. border from Central America, unaccompanied by parents. epi.org/publication/child-labo

Of course, what is happening in the U.S. is small potatoes compared with many other countries, where exploitation of child labor is routine, and often legal. At least 20% of all children in low-income countries are engaged in labor, mostly in agriculture. In sub-Saharan Africa it is 25%. Kids are almost always paid far less than adults, increasing the bosses’ profits. They are often more compliant than adults and less likely to form unions and resist workplace abuses and safety violations. Bosses can get them to do dangerous tasks that adults can’t, or won’t, do, like unclogging the gears and belts of machinery. This was also the norm in the U.S., well into the 20th century. Many kids began work before they were 10. They often had missing limbs and died young from work-related injuries and disease. However, when the bosses abused them, they would sometimes walk out, en masse, in wildcat strikes. And when their parent went on strike, they would almost always walk out with them, in solidarity.

In my novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill,” the protagonist, Mike Doyle, works as a coal cleaner in the breaker (coal crushing facility) of a coal mine at the age or 13. He is trying to find a new home for his family before his alcoholic uncle kills one of his siblings. So, he takes a job with a union leader, who is also a gangster, while secretly courting his daughter, and quickly learns that the gang leader, cops and rival gang all want him dead.

You can pick up a copy of my book here:
keplers.com/
greenapplebooks.com/
christophersbooks.com/
boundtogether.org//
historiumpress.com/michael-dun

Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy!

#workingclass #LaborHistory #children #childlabor #exploitation #capitalism #nike #AnywhereButSchuylkill #coal #mining #books #fiction #novel #hisfic #historicalfiction @bookstadon

Image of a large man in a "Nike" t-shirt, wielding a nike swoosh machete, lords over a group of child laborers in a shoe factory.
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A. Rivera

> AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers
pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/ran by @pluralistic

Meanwhile, in the #BadEconomy and the #AISlop that so many in #academia and #HigherEd, including #librarians who should know better, are rushing to embrace.

On side note, this is timely given I just started reading the book 'Fulfillment.'

pluralistic.netPluralistic: AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers (27 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
#AI#tech#exploitation
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InformactionsMC

Eaux et rivières de Bretagne
Projets miniers breizh ressources
Eau & Rivières de Bretagne s’oppose à ces projets et, dans l’attente des décisions concernant les PERM, invite dès à présent toutes les personnes concernées, propriétaires ou locataires, à les bloquer ainsi que le droit l’y autorise en refusant les opérations d’exploration sur leurs terrains.
mcinformactions.net/projets-mi
#mines #extraction #biodiversite #exploitation

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