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5. I had forgotten about the USA workfarms

Sat Jan 25, 2014, 04:10 PM

Jan 2014

The vagrancy laws kept a lot of folks moving on...in fact, STILL happens down here in the small towns..called "Greyhound therapy".

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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

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