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Robert Charles 1988 100,000 Allied POWs died in Japanese slave-labor camps in Thailand and Burma.
The Things They Buried James D. Hornfischer 2011
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Robert Charles 1988 100,000 Allied POWs died in Japanese slave-labor camps in Thailand and Burma.
The Things They Buried James D. Hornfischer 2011
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When everything possible has been migrated to slave-labor, people will start lamenting the fact that “nothing is made here anymore.”
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Outsourcing/use of slave-labor/disregard for safety are ALL examples of easy cost-cutting measures intended to maximize short-term profit, and the way “where” and “how” something is made are related is explicitly this: goods and services will be produced wherever the standards are lowest.
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The slave-labor system that began with Lenin and metastasized under Stalin ensnared Solzhenitsyn as a political prisoner from 1945 to 1953.
Five Best: Still Free to Think: Prison Writing Martin E. Marty 2011
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The average cost of four years of private medical education in the U.S. is well over $300,000, followed by four to seven years of postdoctoral training reimbursed at slave-labor wages.
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The system is inherently unstable, which accounts for its rigid currency policy (at root a fear of operating on other than a virtual slave-labor standard, of turning its poverty-stricken millions into consumers with real choice, and ultimately of letting go even a little bit).
Sidney Blumenthal: Challenges and Opportunities in the Coming Decade 2010
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The steepest underpay is slave-labor: free labor: work for no pay.
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First, on the "digital slave-labor pay scales" theme, we're happy to report that -- at least at this company -- we've reached the point where our full-time pay and benefits are equal to or more than those at most mainstream media organizations (not all, but most).
Henry Blodget: Some Thoughts on Digital Media and the Future of the Newspaper Business 2010
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For a year he was imprisoned in a succession of slave-labor camps in Cambodia, toiling 18 hours a day, digging ditches, hoeing weeds, fixing roads.
Only in America: Ambassador Sichan Siv - From the Killing Fields to the White House 2010
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