Border control is central to global capitalism’s logic of exploiting cheap labor

Evidence

This encouragement is necessary to his doing his utmost: but more than this is not necessary. It is necessary every exertion he makes should be sure of its reward; but it is not necessary that such reward be so great, or any thing near so great, as he might have had, had he worked elsewhere. The confinement, which is his punishment, preventing his carrying the work to another market, subjects him to a monopoly; which the contractor, his master, like any other monopolist, makes, of course, as much of as he can. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 211 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Economic migration has been criminalized as the underbelly of globalization; American slavery was a forewarning of how capitalism would exploit global labor; Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Economic migration has been criminalized as the underbelly of globalization #corroborates (0.85)
• Confinement creates a labor monopoly that lets the contractor set wages #corroborates (0.85) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 211
• American slavery was a forewarning of how capitalism would exploit global labor #corroborates (0.80)
• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital #expands (0.78)