"I owe my soul to the company store" = #debtbondage / #Scrip system paid with non-transferable credit vouchers for goods sold at the company store; workers had no cash savings. Struggling in company-owned dormitories & houses, rent was automatically deducted from pay. Debt bondage persisted until the #strikes of the newly formed United Mine Workers and affiliated #unions forced an end to such practices.
16 Tons (about)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Tons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjevsnCRQ_A&list=RDfjevsnCRQ_A&start_radio=1
“I owe my soul to the Company store.”
16 tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
How the Coal Companies Impoverished Harlan County
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1901
16 Tons (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1980WfKC0o
#BooksOfMastodon #Capitalism #FossilFuels #HarlanCounty #LabourMovement #organize
#Scrip
Happy TRC day in Canada!!! Please learn about an Indigenous culture near you and how you can help the reconciliation process today. Here is a great website about the Metis which has a great section on "Métis Scrip". Do you know what scrip was and who it was given to? Click the link below to begin your learning journey!
#trc #orangeshirt #orangeshirtday #reconciliation #michif #metis #scrip #land #chinuk #chinook #indigenous
🎬 La filosofia di #DavidLynch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqDcdBctMI
#scrip #cinema #filosofia #psicologia #surrealismo #sogno #inconscio #frammentazione #Male
Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Babysitting_Co-op
#economy #currency #recession #krugman #capitolhill #scrip #allegory
Technological innovation is fueling the resurgence of community currencies
“Local currencies can provide a testing ground for these [central bank digital currency] initiatives.”
"With new technologies and the hard work and vision of social entrepreneurs and economists, alternative currencies might find their way into the mainstream."
#IMF #CommunityInclusionCurrency #CIC #Scrip #CommunityCurrency #LocalCurrency #CBDC #Sarafu #Kenya #IMF
Peter Riley
BC Métis Man ✅ 🙉🙈🙊⚖
Relax Milano 😴📍
DTrasler Writing
Kevin Karhan 
Wyatt Brege
KenyaCoin ☑️