Sunday, October 12, 2008
Re:Sweating out the words
In response to Alali Dagago, I also agree in properness. It is deserving other thing to operate in said country and hire employees so minuscule, they cannot provender themselves or educate their children so they are not cornered in the downward spiral of wage slavery. It refers to the similarities between owning and renting a person, and denotes a hierarchical in which a person chooses a job within a coerced set of choices, primarily working for a boss under threat of starvation, poverty or status diminution. There, a Mexican, most likely a young woman, stood by a table or hunched at a computer, handling your paperwork and earning as little as 80 cents an hour for her time. A generation ago such work was done within the country that generated the paperwork. Women in the United States did most of the keyboarding then, and many still do, for $7-$10 an hour. But in the late eighties, their jobs began emigrating as employers discovered satellites and other telecommunications technology. Before these innovations, a company interested in cheap Third World labor would have had to ship hard copy abroad at great expense in transport and turnaround time. Now, paper is optically scanned and the images zapped to computer screens thousands of miles away, where the relevant information is keyed in by foreign workers and the digitized material speedily returned to the home office.
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