Originally Posted by highthief

The $5 a day workers were getting in Dubai to build that great new tower is astonishing in a place of immense wealth like Dubai.

Originally Posted by roachboy

from the 1920s onward, the dominant industrial logic in the united states tended toward relatively high wages. folk say that the logic extended outward from ford's 10-dollar day policy, which was linked both to limiting labor turnover in detroit during the 20s and enabling the creation of a credit system that enabled workers to acquire debt and so become consumers of the cars they produced.