Negro Women To Be Put To Work c/o The Greenville News (1918)

Key Takeaways

“negro women who are not at work and who refuse employment when it is offered them, the result being it is exceedingly difficulty for families who need cooks and laundresses to get them.” [archivist interpretation] → The dependency on exploited labor informs the gaslighting and policing of the laborer to be dependent on an employer rather that interdependent through cooperative intercommunalism.

“they can get along without working” [archivist interpretation] → We can make do without it by working amongst ourselves.

“they derive a living from illegitimate means” [archivist interpretation] → What determines legitimate ways to derive a living? Who and how is legitimacy determined? When forced labor defined as legitimate, what is the value of “legitimacy” to the labor force?

“others have flatly refused jobs without giving any reason whatever.” [archivist interpretation] → Yeen gotta explain sh*t (plead fifth).

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The Greenville News

Greenville, South Carolina (02 Oct 1918, Wed)