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It was not "blacks" who continued and enhanced the sla
very
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)
[quote]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)[/quote]
How it began
[quote]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)[/quote]
There's some movements and its leader who tried to stop the
Westernization before. See this post :
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