Hard Labor: An Analysis of Different Occupations

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Introduction

This is an analysis of different types of occupation where hard labor is required.

Analysis

The mineworkers, the courier/food/newspaper delivery personnel and even the prisoners of whom hard labor is required are considered the oppressed. In the correctional centers the director has the authority to require that each able-bodied prisoner under commitment to the state department of corrections engage in hard labor for not less than forty hours per week. Besides that not more than twenty hours per week of participation in an educational, training or treatment program may be substituted for an equivalent number of hours of hard labor as prescribed by the director of the state department of correction. In this article, what I mean by "hard labor" means compulsory physical activity for the attainment of some object other than recreation or amusement. A tight labor market and a record number of inmates being released from prisons have a lot to do with the labor jobs. "They have to feed families and if they don't have jobs, they're going to end up back in the system...

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