We will 100% see the return of company scrip and company stores in our lifetimes. The groundwork is being laid as we speak.
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The place I used to work had a small βmarketβ where you could buy candy or a pre-packaged sandwichβ¦
Prices were exorbitant.
They had the gall to claim that market was an employee benefit.
There was a market like this at the Johnson and Johnson medical manufacturing building. It was funny. I noticed most people that worked there seemed to be immigrants that had delicious looking homemade foods for lunch. Strange juxtaposition of overpriced junk food being offered to low waged healthy eaters.
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Indentured servitude never went away. The 13th amendment didn't outlaw slavery, it just added the hurdle of a stacked courtroom on the way
This post sent me down a rabbit hole. Fun fact: company scrip/employer debt bondage in general has been illegal in England and Wales since 1464
In the US, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 outlawed it.
I'm sure it's not beyond the wit of Bezos and his teams of ghouls to reinstate debt bondage while somehow staying within the letter of these kinds of law.
I grew up 20 minutes from there, never heard of Westland before.
It's not a story they'd put in a school textbook.
Not the story -- the place. I think most people would refer to the area as Hickory or Canonsburg. I have definitely heard of company stores before, probably in school textbooks.
Cool. Labor history tends to get short shrift in school textbooks, they're all made in Texas lately.
Obglitory recommendation that you go watch the Knowing Better youtube video on company towns.