On May 30, 2:47�pm, Douglas Johnson wrote:
harry wrote:
Bit about Chinese workers rights here. You are in cloud cuckoo land.
Do you just make these statements to be contrary?
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/work...a/wr_china.htm

There doesn't seem to be any mention of slavery in that article. �Yes, Chinese
workers have fewer rights than US or UK workers. �That was one of the points I
was making. �"Workers Rights" �require restrictions on employment, such as
minimum wages. �Whether that is a good thing or not depends on your point of
view. �Actually, I think the debate is more about how much rights/restrictions
are a good thing.

There was no slavery in the UK, laws prevented it, unlike in the USA.
However these laws did not extend to places like Jamaica where slavery
certainly went on.
Bit here on the topic if you're that interested.
http://www.lonympics.co.uk/serfdomadefinition.htm

Why don't you check out your facts before blurting out such crap?
Took me two minutes to find these.

Actually, I did. � �You said that

harry wrote:
The problem is the Chinese slave workforce. ?And the fact they hold
don't allow their currency to float. ?These sort of things never went
on in Smith's day.

Adam Smith wrote "Wealth of Nations" in 1776. �The UK did not abolish slavery
until 1833 in most of the Empire. �They outlawed the slave trade in 1803. � The
US did not outlaw it until 1865. �So it certainly went on in Smith's day. � Even
your second citation says "1799 Scotland ends serfdom again, after James VI
restarted it in the 1600s"

-- Doug

Serfdom is not slavery. Not that I consider eithr to be a good
thing. There's people babbling away here seem to want it for America.