Slaves in Industry
The
whole idea of slaves is cheap labour. Good old English industry exported and
imported them all around the world so fat cats could get even fatter. Really to
consider the English as racist is wrong; we never discriminated as to where we
got the slaves from, in fact most of the English people back in the nineteenth
century were slaves themselves, they just didn’t have the physical chains. Is
it worse to toil in cotton fields rather than crawl on your belly half a mile
underground sweating like a pig and choking on coal dust in a coal mine for
coppers.
The
interesting thing about importing cheap labour is the feel good (cash) factor
for business but this only lasts for a limited time. We have imported Asians;
we have imported Africans; now we are importing East Europeans. We get them to
do the jobs the English will no longer do. We put them in the fields to rip
vegetables out of the ground or something similar on minimum pay. Great idea
isn’t it? Well no! No one would deny how hard this new batch of slaves work but
the trouble is a time comes when they think they are equal to us, probably
because they are and they no longer want to spend their days in fields fighting
with veg on minimum pay. They want to be just like us; swelling the dole queues
from ankle deep to knee deep.