Re: the role of forced labor

[Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

juanita shever wrote:

> >So, from this post do we conclude that "forced labor" has >been abolished as
> >a component of the capitalist mode of production?  Juanita.
>

Technically, it should be. but there are still different forms of  forced labor 
today.
Yesterday, I gave the example of Vietnamese women working in Nike company under 
the
threat of physical coercion. Probably, they are waged but they are still forced
(because
they were literally beaten according to the article I read). Other example is 
forced
prostitution in South East Asia (and elsewhere in the world). Women are 
trafficked from
place to place in sex industry; not a new phenomenon. They are bought, sold, 
raped,
etc...

Child labor is another one.


Xxxx





>
> >From: Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: the role of forced labor
> >Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 14:30:14 -0500
> >
> > >  >Wage labor has expanded as capitalism developed.  Chattel slavery,
> > > while >expanding in the period of the mercantile system, got abolished
> > > with the >development of industrial capitalism & the doctrine of
> > > laissez faire (see Eric >Williams, _Capitalism and Slavery_).
> >
> >This is not true. I don't know what Williams thinks about it though, but
> >in the 18th century slaves were still the charectertic of labor force in
> >Caribbean Islands when the doctrine of laissez faire was already
> >developing. Slavery *coexisted* with industrial capitalism for sometime
> >because it was *integral* to British industrial growth, not antagonistic
> >to it. Agrarian "plantation capitalism" and  "industrial capitalism"
> >were not two different social systems. They were rather two phases of
> >capitalism. The same applies to US (northern industrialists versus
> >agrarian capitalists, not liberalizing bourgeosie versus feudal elite)
> >
> >
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