{"id":1545,"date":"2011-07-23T22:51:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/23\/21st-century-slaves-how-corporations-exploit\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:30:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:30:39","slug":"21st-century-slaves-how-corporations-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/07\/23\/21st-century-slaves-how-corporations-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"21st-Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor | World | AlterNet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/317289620\/21st-century-slaves-how-corporations-exploit-prison-labor-world-alternet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/OUEszkCDgOY6JTlyaVjNATl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><br \/>In the eyes of the corporation, inmate labor is a brilliant strategy in the eternal quest to maximize profit.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/world\/151732\/21st-century_slaves%3A_how_corporations_exploit_prison_labor\/?page=entire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Show original<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesIn the eyes of the corporation, inmate labor is a brilliant strategy in the eternal quest to maximize profit.Show original<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1097,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/14\/apple-press-info-fair-labor-association-begins\/","url_meta":{"origin":1545,"position":0},"title":"Apple &#8211; Press Info &#8211; Fair Labor Association Begins Inspections of Foxconn","author":"aslam","date":"February 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesCUPERTINO, California\u2014February 13, 2012\u2014Apple\u00ae today announced that the Fair Labor Association will conduct special voluntary audits of Apple\u2019s final assembly suppliers, including Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, at Apple\u2019s request. 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