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It was not "blacks" who continued and enhanced the
slavery
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: October 2, 2022, 7:23 am
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Its "whites". See this information below about how Industrial
Revolution which results from so-called "Enlightement" movement
gave the "whites" and the "Eurocentrist" people a new way to
enslave people :
Source : Disposable People New Slavery In The Global Economy -
Kevin Bales, published on 2000
Link/URL to online reading :
HTML https://archive.org/details/disposablepeople0000bale/page/n5/mode/2up
(Accessed on Sunday, 2th September 2022)
How it works
(If you not have time to read all, just read the sentences which
given bold symbol)
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> The new slavery mimics the world economy by shifting away from
ownership and fixed asset management, concentrating instead on
control and use of resources or processes. Put another way, it
is like the shift from the "ownership" of colonies in the last
century to the economic exploitation of those same countries
today without the cost and trouble of maintaining colonies.
Transnational companies today do what European empires did in
the last century - exploit natural resources and take advantage
of low-cost labor - but without needing to take over and govern
the entire country. Similarly, the new slavery appropriates the
economic value of individuals while keeping them under complete
coercive control - but without asserting ownership or accepting
responsibility for their survival. The result is much greater
economic efficiency : useless and unprofitable infants, the
elderly, and the sick or injured are dumped. Seasonal tasks are
met with seasonal enslavement as in the case of Haitian
sugarcane cutters. In the new slavery, the slave is a consumable
item, added to the production process when needed, but no longer
carrying a high capital cost.
>
> (Page 24 on Archive.org, Page 25 on the book)
>
> ...
>
>
> ...Globalization means that values dominating the Western
economies have been injected into developing countries. The idea
that profit is its own justification, that success conveys
respectability, drives new businesses, which therefore ignore
the human cost. State activities that were previously nonprofit
(everything from law enforcement to famine relief) are being
turned into profit-making businesses. As politicians and
businesspeople share the new revenue, corruption sets in.
>
> (Page 244 both on Archive.org and the book)
>
>
> ...
>
> Major economic changes of the last ten years have pushed
global business into greater contact with oppressed, even
enslaved, workers. International trade agreements (especially
the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the North
American Free Trade Agreement) have broken down barriers to
trade and capital movement between countries. The overarching
and compelling logic of always using the cheapest raw materials
worked by the cheapest labor now drives corporation across
borders. "Capital has wings," New York financier Robert A.
Johnson explains. "Capital can deal with twenty labor markets at
once and pick and choose among them. Labor is fixed in one
place. So power has shifted." As international business now
seeks to buy labor at the lowest cost, often through
subcontractors, some of these contractors achieve the lowest
cost by using slave labor. Meanwhile, the companies ask
themselves : Why pay $20 an hour for a factory worker in Europe
when one will work for $1 an hour or less in India? Why buy
sugar from U.S. farmers when it is much cheaper from the
Dominican Republic (where enslaved Haitians do the harvesting)?
Building materials such as bricks are so cheap in Pakistan - why
not build there? ... The businessperson can just say: "My job is
to get the best deal, I can't worry about local problems."
>
> Major companies around the world have been repeating that
phrase. But the late 1990s controversy in the United States over
child labor in swearshops making clothes and shoes for household
names like Nike and the Gap has helped change this attitude
dramatically.
>
> (Page 236 both on Archive.org and the book)
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How it began
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> The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America brought
a population boom and enormous social change. As Greider has
noted, "Some human beings were set free, while other lives were
turned into cheap and expendable commodities." The same thing is
happening in the developing world today. In the ballooning
populations, rapid economic change is bringing some people into
modern world of good medicine and technology, "Western"
lifestyles, and a new sense of self and achievement. Other
people are being consumed, often from childhood, by the
industries driving this change. The sheer volume of people in
the developing world compared to the number of new industrial
jobs means that many of them are, as the English worker says
he's been fired, "redundant."
>
> (Page 234 both on Archive.org and the book)
--- End Quote ---
There's some movements and its leader who tried to stop the
Westernization before. See this post :
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/hitler-the-face-of-anti-tribalism/msg14747/#msg14747
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