The article I found for his weeks Marx Blog Post is titled Disney toys made in ‘sweatshops’. This article basically outlines the issue of Disney using sweatshops to produce their toys and other merchandise. It has been long argued that many companies outsource jobs over seas, and some have been accused of hiring sweatshop labor. When we think of sweatshops our moral radar automatically goes off and we assume the worst. Well in this article it only confirms our worst fears. The biggest highlights and key phrases that jump out to alarm me are the horrible standards in which these human being must work in order to stay alive. The article describes workers working up to 18 continuous hours sometimes from 7am until 2am the next morning with barley any time for bathroom breaks unless they want to be penalized. These workers sustain these long hours for little pay that amounts to about 47-68 lira a month! From this wage workers must PAY their employers for their forced housing conditions and for their food, which can amount to about 9 lira a month.
This articles issue on sweatshop labor directly correlates with Marx point of view on labor. Marx claims that you sell your labor power. For these people they just obviously under valued their labor power and got stuck in the on going circle of poverty similar to the folks in Harlan County. In Both circumstances the capitalist is making it impossible for employees to rise up and find something better for them. The capitalist (Disney) is only paying its labors a wage that will sustain their biological life and reproduction. I think Marx would be unhappy with this picture but it does not go against his theory of wage labor.