It was only over for about 10 years in the USA, until white supremacists rallied. They mostly refused to hire black people for paying jobs, passed new laws against vagrancy and loitering that basically made being unemployed a crime... the punishment for which was forced labor; in other words, right back to slavery again, but no one (who was white and mattered) protested because these weren't "slaves" now, they were "criminals". This relabeled slavery system continued until... uh... oh, yeah... is STILL CONTINUING.
The Penal Labor system does the work of about 19,000(*) jobs in the USA, rarely is it voluntary, and when there IS pay, it's pennies on the dollar of a proper wage, well below even minimum wage. Prison workers have none of the basic rights of free employees, despite doing the same jobs, and are almost constantly abused and overworked.
(*)I keep getting different numbers from different sources for this number... I think that's a bit low, honestly. It would imply less than half a % of America's incarcerated work penal labor.
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It was only over for about 10 years in the USA, until white supremacists rallied. They mostly refused to hire black people for paying jobs, passed new laws against vagrancy and loitering that basically made being unemployed a crime... the punishment for which was forced labor; in other words, right back to slavery again, but no one (who was white and mattered) protested because these weren't "slaves" now, they were "criminals". This relabeled slavery system continued until... uh... oh, yeah... is STILL CONTINUING.
The Penal Labor system does the work of about 19,000(*) jobs in the USA, rarely is it voluntary, and when there IS pay, it's pennies on the dollar of a proper wage, well below even minimum wage. Prison workers have none of the basic rights of free employees, despite doing the same jobs, and are almost constantly abused and overworked.
(*)I keep getting different numbers from different sources for this number... I think that's a bit low, honestly. It would imply less than half a % of America's incarcerated work penal labor.