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Workers Rights

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Exploitation   taking advantage of some else's misfortune for one's gain  
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Family Wage   enough for one adult to support a family  
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Three Elements of a Just Strike   last resort, non-violent, not interfering with essential needs of society  
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Subsidiarity   worker, product, and consumer have a close relationship  
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Outsourcing   a means of cutting costs by sending production overseas  
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Saint Joseph   organization the researches labor practices of companies  
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Modern Slavery   not by choice, not fairly compensated - more slaves today than pre-civil war  
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Vocation   calling from the Latin root: vocare- to call  
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Labor   the subjective aspect of work - people  
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Capital   the objective aspect of work - resources - production - means of production  
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Minimum Wage   the lowest possible wage set by the government - Vermont minimum wage: $14.01  
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Remuneration   pay in proportion to the work done  
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Subsistence Wage   pay in order to survive (day to day)  
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Living Wage   enough to support one adult  
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Cesar Chavez   - workers rights advocate - 25 day water only fast - 340 mile march for grape farmers - Motto: "Si, se puede"- yes, we can  
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Dita Sari   Young Indonesian woman who led nike factory workers to strike for higher wages and better working conditions (in behind the swoosh)  
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The average person spends ____ of their lives at work   30%  
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Exploration Paradigm   the more space between the worker, consumer, and product the more exploitation  
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We have the _____ to work. We have the _________ to employment.   duty, right  
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3-Fold Significance of Work   1. earn a living 2. achieve human fulfillment 3. contribute to the greater good  
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rural flight   movement from farm to urban industrial area - easy to go to cities, hard to go back  
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monotown   single industry in an area  
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cutting costs   saving money, time, or materials through resourceful thinking - good  
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externalizing costs   Shifting expenses, monetary or otherwise, to someone other than the individuals or groups who use a resource. ex: dangerous product, worker salary/safety - bad thing  
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Globalization   interactions between peoples and companies from different nations  
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Traditional Role of Injustice   Victim, Bystander, Unwitting Accomplice, Knowing Accomplice, Explorer, Perpetrator  
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Rights of Workers   employment, just wage, rest, safe workplace, association- union (strike), Health care  
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Church Minimum for a Just Wage   food, clothing, shelter, insurance, healthcare, single-family income  
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Ford Pinto   the cost-benefit analysis that allowed the cars to stay out and harm people because it was more economically sound  
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Triangle Factory Fire   (1911) 146 women killed while locked into the burning building (brought attention to poor working conditions)  
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Garment Factory Collapse   In Bangladesh 2013. Clothing brands H&M and Gap had clothes that were manufactured in the unsafe building.  
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Distributism   private ownership of property and capital distributed into the hands of as many people as possible (between Marxism and capitalism)  
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Purchasing Power   limited consumption, buy used, DIY/grow your own, educated consumer (investigate, subsidiary, fair trade, be aware)  
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