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...that women cannot be trusted to give consent, but rather that mere consent does not necessarily make an arrangement just, especially when assent is driven by economic desperation. I imagine that The Crimson writers would see injustice in the conditions of third world sweatshops, where laborers “voluntarily?? work 16 hour days in hazardous working environments. It is curious, then, that they are so uncritical of the degrading character of the sex industry. Pornography commodifies and cheapens one of the most intimate encounters two people can share, and in the process harms both the viewer...

Author: By Jason C. Murray | Title: Pornography Turns All Participants Into Commodities | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

After all, what Allstate did sounds mighty coercive. During the 1990s, Allstate had attempted to convince its agents to switch to “independent contractor” status voluntarily??without much success, according to a class-action lawsuit filed by former employees. As a result of the company’s “reorganization,” however, thousands of workers signed the release and took an opportunity to keep something resembling their old jobs. How many would have taken the deal if they weren’t faced with being thrown out of work, prohibited...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Not in Good Hands | 5/22/2002 | See Source »

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