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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
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Go for it, we're all really interested
And he chickened out.
I did not...
https://lemmy.world/post/31819557/17828907
The children of indentured servants were eligible to be free citizens
Indentured servanthood had a clearly defined period of service
Freed indentured servants could petition to become full members of the household and inherit the master's estate.
Being an indentured servant to a prestigious master was a social mark of standing, elevating them in some periods even above free citizens of low standing. Never the case in chattel slavery
Indentured servants and their families were owed damages when the violence was deemed unjust or resulted in permanent damage or death.
the status of your child does not tell us whether or not you were a slave
this is just false. Foreign slaves were kept for life.
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somw slaves having a "better life" than some free people is a common whitewashing tactic, which doesn't make it not slavery.
having restrictions against the cruelest and most injust masters does not mean it isn't slavery.