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dixiegrrrrl

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3. In Britain, they had the workhouses.

Reply to El_Johns (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 25, 2014, 03:02 PM

Jan 2014

No job, no money? In ya go.
and never get out again unless someone bails you out.
Oh, and they were run by...private contractors. So much per head from the state.
Well, city, actually.
Ironically, kids were put in poor houses, families were separated into adult male and female areas, children male and female areas,
but when a kid turned legal age ( 18? 21?) they were released, sent out into the world with no skills, no money.
revolving door.

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Greece's response to high unemployment: Slavery, and banishment. [View all] dixiegrrrrl Jan 2014 OP

The North American equivalent will be debtor's prisons.nt Earth_First Jan 2014 #1

Why would anyone work for free? How would they live? El_Johns Jan 2014 #2

In Britain, they had the workhouses. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2014 #3

Yes, but at least in that case you got food & shelter. In this case it appears they're proposing El_Johns Jan 2014 #4

I had forgotten about the USA workfarms dixiegrrrrl Jan 2014 #5