Prison Labor is Industry’s “Best Kept Secret in Outsourcing” and What Has Killed Your Job
Prison Labor is Industry’s “Best Kept Secret in Outsourcing” and What Has Killed Your Job
April 20, 2015 * by Mac Slavo * DC Clothesline
There’s “free trade.” There’s “fair trade.” And then there’s what’s really happening. The realities of globalization have made the price of labor somewhere between rock bottom and worthless.
Since the days of NAFTA, the WTO and a flood of cheap Chinese goods, major corporations – American-based and all the rest — have offshored production, taking advantage of virtual slave labor and the only edge that this kind of competition brings.
But now, American companies are taking advantage of something better than low-wage offshore labor – straight forward prison labor may be the best of both worlds for mega-corporations.
Don’t think they think they see it that way?
Now they are proud of it. Just see this promotional video: https://vimeo.com/125010485
They boast the ‘advantages of domestic contact centers at offshore prices.” It just isn’t fashionable to call it slave labor anymore.
Bad news for the honest, law abiding worker.
Of course, the inmates aren’t getting rich. They work for pennies which gradually go towards heavy fines and fees levied on inmates inside the private prison system that must be re-payed, along with the time they are doing.
This treasure trove of privatized slavery is managed by UNICOR, a government corporation managed under the Federal Prison Industries, who are officially “dedicated to employing inmates across the U.S. and providing them the job skills needed to succeed in life.”
Link to whole article: http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/04/20/prison-labor-is-industrys-best-kept-secret-in-outsourcing-and-what-has-killed-your-job/#more-47642
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If they lock us all up to work for free, who will buy their goods? They are killing the Golden Goose with their one-quarter-ahead thinking. The everything-for-profit modes is going to kill everything. Greed is the worst of the 7 sins. 
said that one state allowed prisoners to work for free to take time off their sentences. And we thought competing against low wage Chinese workers was tough. 
Corporations suing gov't jurisdictions because of some rule or regulation that "prevented" them profiteering at 100% of their "potential". This one is particularly odious because it involves the enslavement of citizens to do the labor.
Thank you for the link, and the info. I appreciate it. 
Only this time, it's mostly blacks (instead of Jews) who are being targeted.
"Even before the war began, the Nazis imposed forced labor on Jewish civilians, both inside and outside concentration camps. As early as 1937, the Nazis increasingly exploited the forced labor of so-called "enemies of the state" for economic gain and to meet desperate labor shortages. By the end of that year, most Jewish males residing in Germany were required to perform forced labor for various government agencies."
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005180
