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From: robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: opportunities, women; "McDonald's `wage slaves'"
Message-ID: <230@fear.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 21:07:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: fear.230
Posted: Tue Jul 23 21:07:08 1985
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Summary: Wage slaves?

In article <1408@mnetor.UUCP>, sophie@mnetor.UUCP writes:
> > Except that the garbagemen have a union, and
> > hence get paid several times what the poor McDonalds' counter slaves get.
> > Surely this is unjust.
> > 				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
> 
> Another reason why McDonald slaves get paid so little is that most of
> them are too young to receive minimum wages (what an understatement!
> McDoonad's fortune is based on the exploitation of child labor).  One
> would hope that EPFWEQ would contain provisions to end discrimination
> based on age.  McDonald and gang are certainly rich enough to be able
> to pay decent wages or at least minimum wages.
> -- 
> Sophie Quigley
> {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie

I sincerely doubt that McDonalds exists solely because of *CANADA'S*
minimum wage structure.  In the U.S., the minimum wage covers
everyone.

In any event, claiming that part-time teenage workers are "wage
slaves" is ludicrous, when most of them are being supported, at least
in part, by their parents.  Even Marxist terms have definitions, you
know.  A "wage slave" was someone with so few prospects, such limited
mobility, and such curtailed liberty that he might as well be a slave
(in spite of earning wages).  This describes pre-revolutionary
Russian factory workers fairly well, but falls short on today's high
school students with part-time jobs.

Nice use of buzzwords, though: "wage slave," "child labor,"
"exploitation," "decent wage," "rich enough to be able to.." :-)


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