Tag Archives: Labor
You should go on strike
Throughout history employers have never voluntarily paid their workers. If left to their own devices employers will pay as little as they can get away with out of their own pockets. This was evident in the prevalence of the slave … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Labor, Living wage, Poverty, Slavery, work
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You are paying to work
Because I have a lot more time on my hands than most I tend to do a lot of thinking. The other day I realized just how many things in a person’s life are centered around their job. Then I … Continue reading
Posted in Insane Mutterings
Tagged African American, Black, Book of Numbers, East Florida, Family, Florida, Food, food stamps, Health, job, Labor, Living wage, Minimum wage, Orlando, poor, Poverty, Slavery, United States, Wage, White people, working poor
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Who do you work for?
I don’t mean “who are you employed with?” I mean just what I said…Who are you working for. What is the goal of you going to work each day? Whose financial future are you really enabling and securing? Is it … Continue reading
Posted in Insane Mutterings
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Africa, African American, agrarian society, AT&T, begging, Business, capitalist system, Comcast, DoubleTree, Employment, Family, food stamps, gender equality, hunger, Labor, Living wage, McDonald, Minimum wage, National Minimum Wage Act 1998, Overtime, Paycheck Fairness Act, poor, Poverty, United States, Wage, white collar, working poor
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Now She Can Rest
This is Maria Fernandes, she was 32. She died in a parking lot between one of her four part time jobs. She just wanted to make ends meet. Instead, she died in a parking lot trying to catch a … Continue reading
A Letter Concerning a Slave, a Sister, and a New Republic
In his book, Heaven’s Soldiers, Dr. Frank Marotti mentions a letter sent from my uncle Fredrick A. Clarke to my uncle James W. Clarke. It’s sent from Cowlitz Landing in Washington to Florida in April of 1854. The state of Washington … Continue reading
Posted in History(ish)
Tagged African American, Black, Family, Florida, Free Negro, Haiti, Heaven's Soldiers, James W. Clarke, James Washington, Labor, Living wage, poor, Poverty, Racism, Spain, United States, Washington, Zephaniah Kingsley
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Poverty Overload: A depressing purge since I can’t stop crying
Yesterday I got the news that my uncle David is dying. Some people will be cynical about how much he means to me because of the fact that I’ve probably only spent a handful of days of my entire life … Continue reading
Posted in Insane Mutterings
Tagged Business, CEO pay, Child poverty, Facebook, Family, Florida, Food, food stamps, Fuck, Health, homeless, Homelessness, hunger, Internal Revenue Service, iPad, Labor, Living wage, Minimum wage, Personal, poverty wages, Tax incidence, Tax return (United States), TurboTax, United States, Wage, welfare, work, working poor, writing
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Vomiting Subway Employee: Industry Standard
You’ve probably already heard the story of Elizabeth Taff, a 24 year old employee for the Subway sandwich chain who was fired when she left work after being taken to the hospital for a, very contagious, stomach virus. Everyone outside of the … Continue reading
Posted in Insane Mutterings, Uncategorized
Tagged begging, Clothing, Elizabeth Taff, Facebook, Family, food stamps, Freeport Texas, Gastroenteritis, Grocery store, Health, Home warranty, hunger, Labor, Laundry, LinkedIn, Living wage, Minimum wage, Parenting, Poverty, Self-service laundry, Subway, Texas, Vomiting, WalMart, Washing, Washing machine, work, working poor
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