Technocrati; Guest Worker

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 05:33 PM 2/13/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
> >--------------------------------------------------------
> >GUEST WORKER
> >
> >   Today's WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12 February 2001, pg. A17, has a
> >story about "guest" labor (from Mexico).  It's guest labor/ laborer/
> >work/ worker.
> >   I don't like the term.  Do you charge for a "guest room"?  If you
> >did charge, wouldn't that person be a "customer"?
>
>Maybe a loan translation of German "Gastarbeiter" (sp?)?
>
>--
>Jeffrey William McKeough[*]
>jwm at spdcc.com (or spdcc.net)

>Yes, therefore "guest worker" -- the term is a euphemism for cheap
>immigrant/migrant labor, and I suppose English-speaking employers, like
>Germans, think it will cover their exploitative tracks.


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