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El_Johns

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

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 25, 2014, 03:22 PM

Jan 2014

people should work for free for a year & not even get that.

BTW, my stepfather spent some town at the county workhouse during the Depression as a child. The US had plenty of workhouses & poorfarms too.

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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