One thing about the labor market in the United States is that there is so much unbelievably horrifying exploitation going on in ways that you wouldn't even think of. Now that it is expanding back into the open use of child labor, it is getting...
guestworkers
I remain amused and frustrated over the conversation about labor shortages at the same time that there are millions of people desperate to enter the United States. But is alleviating.
Of course: As Donald Trump prepares to assume the presidency after campaigning to restore American jobs, a Virginia winery owned by his son, Eric Trump, has applied for permission to.
Usually when I talk about unfree labor, it's overseas in supply chains producing products for western markets. But the U.S. has several of its own systemic versions of unfree labor--widespread use of prison labor, sweatshops in Los Angeles, etc. Another is in the seafood industry...
Guestworker programs have no history of working well for the workers because they lack legal protections, the right to quit and stay in the country, and access to legal services..
North Carolina is great at two things these days. One is rampant labor exploitation. The other is horrendous wingnut state legislators. I wonder if we can combine those issues? Of.
When people talk about the undocumented immigration "problem" outside of Republican debates calling for giant fences to keep out brown people, politicians and pundits often speak of a guestworker program as a way to provide the cheap labor American businesses want without forcing people to...
While I am open to an argument that part of an immigration reform package should include a guestworker program, I am extraordinarily skeptical. Why? Because guestworker programs have ALWAYS been.