Sweatshops are racist

ᜐ᜔ᜉᜍ᜔ᜆᜈ᜔ ᜇ᜔ᜌᜓ︀-193 · 6 months ago

Sweatshops are racist

deathtoreddit · edit-2 6 months ago

Remember Das Kapital Chapter 15 ? (Note that before the third world was fully dominated into a bunch of plantations, sweatshops, the western capitalists ate at their own ‘white’ race)

The exploitation of cheap and immature labour-power is carried out in a more shameless manner in modern Manufacture than in the factory proper. This is because the technical foundation of the factory system, namely, the substitution of machines for muscular power, and the light character of the labour, is almost entirely absent in Manufacture, and at the same time women and over-young children are subjected, in a most unconscionable way, to the influence of poisonous or injurious substances.

I do agree that sweatshops have a racially-tinged nature, but I think it is placed as a post-hoc justification by the industrialist capitalists to enforce unequal exchange upon the global south

Also, congrats, you’ve learned about unequal exchange enforced upon the Global South; here are some resources.

Unequal exchange

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169 (Poverty and Capitalism)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X (Unequal exchange)

2.2 trillion$ worth in money gone from the Global South per 2017

Furthermore Global South countries lose far more through unequal exchange than is made up by Aid by a factor of 30”

“The results show that in the year 2015 the North’s net appropriation from the South totalled

12 billion tons of raw materials,

822 million hectares of land,

21 exajoules of energy (equivalent to 3.4 billion barrels of oil), and

188 million person-years equivalents of labour (equivalent to 392 billion hours of work).

By net appropriation we mean that these resources are not compensated in equivalent terms through trade; they are effectively transferred gratis.”

Industrial ecologists hold that global extraction and use of materials should not exceed 50 billion tons per year (Bringezu, 2015). In 2015, the global economy was using 87 billion tons per year, overshooting the boundary by 74% and driving ecological breakdown. This overshoot is due almost entirely to excess resource consumption in global North countries. The North consumed 26.71 tons of materials per capita in 2015, which is roughly four times over the sustainable threshold (6.80 tons per capita in 2015).

Our results indicate that most of the North’s excess consumption (58% of it) is sustained by net appropriation from the global South; without this appropriation, material use in high-income nations would be much closer to the sustainable level.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59bc0e610abd04bd1e067ccc/t/60642e4f3bd29a1c5bb36e31/1617178208144/Hickel+et+al+-+Plunder+in+the+post-colonial+era.pdf

P.S

Just remember to not always focus on idpol, but modern geopolitics and the neoliberal economy western-dominated capitalism has taken the form of…