Child labor, Coffee, Fair Trade, Farming, Labor, SBUX, Starbucks, Wages, Working conditions
In Wages, Working conditions on October 28, 2008 at 4:32 pm
If you are a complete waste of a labor monkey unless your day starts with a cup of coffee, you aren’t alone. We consume an estimated 500 billion cups of the stuff world-wide every year.
The trouble is, coffee is one of those labor-intensive commodities because the bright-red cherries that will later be roasted and slapped with a high-end label and price tag, are usually picked by hand — the hand of men, women and unfortunately children — in exchange for only a few dollars a day.
Labor, Blogging, blog, starting a blog, business blog, business, monkey, monkeys
In Blogging, Misc. on October 26, 2008 at 8:51 pm
What a relief it is to finally realize where you stand in society.
No more pretending that we are something we are not.
We here at 40-hour monkey are not mistaken any longer and that’s ok. In fact, it’s a good thing.
We are monkeys in the labor force. Labor monkeys make the world go ’round.
Here we go.
