What kind of workers are we quickly becoming?

[ThomWV]

Lets say a man or woman has worked for years but gets laid off and loses their home. Our person has burned up savings and is desperate for income. Lots of people are in this situation, I'll just call them "they". They will go where ever the jobs are, they will work for whatever the employer wants to pay, they will work at jobs that are unsafe, they will work "under the table", meaning for cash while their employer cheats on their tax obligation.

What do we call such a person? In most places we call that migrant labor, that's what we call it. It is the ultimate aim of our corporate driven body politic.

[patricia92243]

1. I call them desperate - the nationality does not make a difference.

[Thor_MN]

5. Migrant worker means someone who travels to where the works is.

Has nothing to do with the nationality of the worker. IMmigrant worker is someone from another country, migrant worker says nothing about where they came from, just that they travel to find work.

Either way, they sacrifice home for wages, so yes, desperate.

[WinkyDink]

2. Desperate. Impoverished. Scared. Abandoned. Need more?

[leveymg]

3. Obsolete, redundant, surplus labor. Marxists call it, "reserve army of the unemployed"

to describe the "increasing immiseration of the working classes". I used to think that terminology was dated, at least in the US, but it's now very much back in fashion.

[Uben]

4. American workers

Our overlords are solving the problem of illegal immigration. Since they were brought in to do jobs Americans didn't want, they just eliminated the jobs Americans wanted.......manufacturing! Now, with so many Americans out of work, they can get domestic labor. Ta-daaaaa! A labor class that is easily disposable and readily available.

[madmax]

6. My son is married to one. Here's the kicker

she defends this major Drug chain. Oh fuck it, I'm naming them WALGREEN'S. One of the worst schedules I've ever heard of - working 7 days straight, no o.t. 2 days off work 1 or 2 and then another 7 days for minimum wage. What bullshit!

However, this ding bat insists this ok and is anti-union.

[Jim__]

7. Revolutionaries, I hope!

It's time.

[Brickbat]

8. The Economist had an article about a year and a half ago that hailed the rise of the migrant,

spewing all sorts of crap about how the "freedom" and "flexibility" to "move from job to job" was a "uniquely American" institution and something that most American workers "appreciated" and "coveted." It had a still from the "Grapes of Wrath" to go with the article. I checked to make sure I wasn't reading the Onionomist.