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Originally Posted by mdmarvich
How so?8
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Without workers protection laws in place (including reasonable religious accommodations) employers could say you have to work 80 hours a week. No overtime pay. No safety standards etc. All under the guise of "this is part of the duties of the job. If you don't like it, leave."
"And the migrants streamed in on the highways and their hunger was in their eyes, and their need was in their eyes. They had no argument, no system, nothing but their numbers and their needs. When there was work for a man, ten men fought for it— fought with a low wage. If that fella’ll work for thirty cents, I’ll work for twenty-five. If he’ll take twenty-five, I’ll do it for twenty. No, me, I’m hungry. I’ll work for fifteen. I’ll work for food. The kids. You ought to see them. Little boils, like, comin’ out, an’ they can’t run aroun’. Give ’em some windfall fruit, an’ they bloated up. Me, I’ll work for a little piece of meat." Grapes of wrath