“Must Earth Intervene in Company Towns: In the Asteroid Belt, exploited workers are working in dangerous conditions”
Title | “Must Earth Intervene in Company Towns: In the Asteroid Belt, exploited workers are working in dangerous conditions” |
Year for Search | 2019 |
Authors | Tomlinson, Patrick S. |
Secondary Title | The New York Times |
Date Published | September 9, 2019 |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | The sub-title tells the story. With Earth law not extending into space, workers are both directly exploited by being required to live in company housing and buy from company stores and treated as expendable parts. |
URL | https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/opinion/future-space-mining.html. |
Info Notes | One of a series of “Op-Eds From the Future” that began May 27, 2019, and continued regularly through the rest of the year, with most, but not all, with eutopian or dystopian elements. |
Illustration | Illus. John Karborn |
Holding Institutions | Online |
Full Text | 2019 Tomlinson, Patrick S. “Must Earth Intervene in Company Towns: In the Asteroid Belt, exploited workers are working in dangerous conditions.” Illus. John Karborn. The New York Times (September 9, 2019) with twenty over comments. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/opinion/future-space-mining.html. One of a series of “Op-Eds From the Future” that began May 27, 2019, and continued regularly through the rest of the year, with most, but not all, with eutopian or dystopian elements. The sub-title tells the story. With Earth law not extending into space, workers are both directly exploited by being required to live in company housing and buy from company stores and treated as expendable parts. |