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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