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  2. History of unfree labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The plaçage system developed from the predominance of men among early colonial populations, who took women as consorts from Native Americans and enslaved Africans. In this period there was a shortage of European women, as the colonies were dominated in the early day by male explorers and colonists.

  3. Exploitation of labour - Wikipedia

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    Exploitation is a concept defined as, in its broadest sense, one agent taking unfair advantage of another agent. [1] When applying this to labour (or labor), it denotes an unjust social relationship based on an asymmetry of power or unequal exchange of value between workers and their employers. [2]

  4. Wage slavery - Wikipedia

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    Salary protest by the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union in the United Kingdom in January 2016. Wage slavery is a term used to criticize exploitation of labor by business, by keeping wages low or stagnant in order to maximize profits.

  5. List of historical acts of tax resistance - Wikipedia

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    I meet this American government, or its representative, the State government, directly, and face to face, once a year, no more, in the person of its tax-gatherer; this is the only mode in which a man situated as I am necessarily meets it; and it then says distinctly, Recognize me; and the simplest, the most effectual, and, in the present ...

  6. Unfair election - Wikipedia

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    An unfair election is a concept used by national and international election monitoring groups to identify when the vote of the people for a government is not free and fair. Unfairness in elections encompasses all varieties of electoral fraud , voter suppression or intimidation, unbalanced campaign finance rules, and imbalanced access to the media.

  7. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Across the two and half years of the war, 1812–1815, the federal government took in more money than it spent. Cash out was $119.5 million, cash in was $154.0 million. [101]: 77, 79 Two-thirds of the income was borrowed and had to be paid back in later years; the national debt went from $56.0 million in 1812 to $127.3 million in 1815.

  8. United States labor law - Wikipedia

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    Government committed to create full employment and a system of social and economic rights enshrined in federal law. [44] But despite the Democratic Party 's overwhelming electoral victory, the Supreme Court continued to strike down legislation, particularly the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 , which regulated enterprise in an attempt ...

  9. Economic system - Wikipedia

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    An economic system, or economic order, [1] is a system of production, resource allocation and distribution of goods and services within a society. It includes the combination of the various institutions , agencies, entities, decision-making processes, and patterns of consumption that comprise the economic structure of a given community.