When did corporations start forcing workers to work for them?

Question

If they don't, I fail to see how a corporation exploits someone who willingly comes to work.

Hey bottom feeder, do you know what the C in LLC stands for?

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Answer 1

They dont force anyone to work for them. I willingly work, its my choice.

Answer 2

Force is not the same as exploitation. It is possible to exploit someone based on their vulnerabilities and dependence, without using force.

Dictionary definition "exploit" -- Use or manipulate to one's advantage. In other words, take advantage of someone.

And most people do not work so much willingly, in the sense of free will, as out of necessity given the economic model for the country they live in. Thus, the corporation can (not always does) exploit that necessity to their own advantage and to the detriment of the worker.

If you're going to argue terminology, check your definitions.

BTW, the "C" in LLC can stand for either company or corporation, depending on the statute and the jurisdiction.

Answer 3

No company in America has forced people to work for them since the abolition of slavery. Of course by some standards employees are still slaves. The boss tells us when to work, where to work, how to work, what to wear, when to eat, when you're allowed to go home, and how much you will be compensated for your servitude. This, in effect, determines what house you live in, what you drive, what you eat, where your kids go to school, how much you give to charity, and what recreational activities your family pursues.

However, unlike slavery, you do have the ability to choose which master you will serve. Now I understand that in some states you have to sign contracts of servitude agreeing to work for a certain length of time, and some places have unions that further hamper your freedoms. I, on the other hand live in Texas which is a "Free-will" state. This means that at any time I can quit my job with no warning or reasons given. The flip side is that my boss can terminate me at any time with no warning and for any reason. Of course if you're a good slave this is not much of a concern as it is not cost effective for the master to do away with a productive asset.

So if I don't like the conditions of my servitude I have the free choice to go find better working conditions or compensation. If my master begins to "exploit" my labor I have the right and the ability to go out and find a better master. I can even begin looking for a better master without my current master's knowledge or recomendation. In fact, it is illegal for my current master to give a false recommendation to prevent my new master from purchasing my labors.

Not only that, but I also have the right and the ability to go into business for myself and become my own master if no other suitable master can be found. This is of course riskier, and less stable initially, and I will most likely have to work much harder than my current master requires me to work, but the option is there. Being your own master generally has a much higher compensation for servitude in the long run as well.

Can the masses be exploited by their corporate masters? Of course they can. But only if the masters are given permission or the slaves are ignorant that they have choices or the unions have taken the choices away. But even in the case of unions and employment contracts, the employee knew what the terms of servitude were before entering into bondage and willingly agreed to those terms. Any contract entered into unknowingly or unwillingly is null and void, which gives the contracted slave in the same freedoms that I enjoy in a free will state.

Answer 4

Sure, people go willingly, however, sometimes it's out of desperation. When you can't find a job and you need to keep a roof over your head and food in your stomach or if you have kids, you'll do anything. Look at Wal-Mart. They are notorious for exploiting their workers. They ask them to work after they've punched out and then don't pay them for it. They don't offer medical/dental benefits, but instead tell their employees how to go sign up for Medicaid and Medicare, which shifts the tax burden to the taxpayers. Then they exploit the tax payers by using loop holes in the laws. They rent property they own back to themselves as a "business expense." But if YOU did that, you'd end up in jail. If Wal-Mart raised the price of everything in their stores by .01 (that's ONE cent) they could give EVERY employee a $1.00 raise. With ONE percent of the Walton family fortune, they could provide EVERY single employee with Medical coverage. Now, no one is forcing people to work or shop at Wal Mart, but again...NEED outweighs want. Most people who shop at Wal-Mart are low-income and know they can save money by shopping there. BUT by Wal-Mart being there, it's actually COSTING them MORE because their taxes are higher because Wal-Mart cheats states out of property tax and then shifts the tax burden onto the people by not providing Health Care coverage. I know a man who was a manager at WalMart and he said that it was his job to go around and look at prices of competitors and then go back to his store and go lower on Wal-Marts prices than the competition. Once that competition was run out of business, Wal-Mart jacked UP their prices back to what they were. Wal-Mart will destroy retail sales competition in the US and eventually become a monopoly if not carefully watched.

Answer 5

I suppose back in Egyptian days if you consider Kings and Queens Incorporated.People today though aren't forced to work by corporations but forced to work by ownership of land or you could say laws.If you don't work you live in a box on the side of the road if they let you.After all it's knot your land.

Answer 6

Corporations don't exploit those who work for them. The labor laws in this country prohibit exploitation of workers.

Or did they not teach you that in Libertarian school?

Answer 7

The only exploitation there is the high taxes workers pay on earnings. The workers should be thankful to have a job.

Answer 8

people do willingly go...

although corporations can have strict work regulations that can be viewed as unjust

I worked at a hess 8 hour days and my first day they asked me to sign some huge 10 page form thing... of course I didn't read it and then later they told me "you signed some form waiving your lunch break... that's company policy"


It was the worst summer of my life!

Answer 9

It depends, does said corporation have a union?

Answer 10

I don't know i work for an LLC

local liability company, genius.