Capitalists always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
https://jacobin.com/2024/10/mcdonalds-slaves-caxton-fast-food
Convict labour cheapest?
https://jacobin.com/2024/09/alabama-convict-labor-fast-food
McD’s Stress Biz Mode
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/fast-food-stress-business-model
#fastfoodworkers #Capitalism #minimumwage #workingpoor #exploitation #caxton #Alabama #convictlabor
The dire conditions of fast-food work cause enormous staff turnover, which puts franchisees in a constant search for desperate workers. It’s no wonder that one McDonald’s in England failed to notice that it was employing victims of human trafficking.
@Instrument_Data Adding a direct link to the #BritishLibrary announcement, since it has delightful images from the Chaucer manuscripts & early printed books: https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2023/10/chaucers-works-go-online.html
Here's #Chaucer depicted in the initial "W" of the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales: "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote..." from Lansdowne MS 851, c.1410.
#14thCentury #CanterburyTales #15thCentury #manuscript #Caxton #OpenAccess #medieval @medievodons @bookstodon
I knew I missed something last night when I release the new directory mapping functionality.
Re that last retoot—the text from #Caxton is certainly evocative:
“[…] and he [the priest] smote tybert [ie, the cat] with a grete staf / Ther receyuid tybert many a grete stroke ouer alle his body / mertynet [again, the priest] was so angry that he smote the catte an eye out / the naked preest lyfte vp and shold haue gyuen a grete stroke to tybert”—
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