英语词汇wine book的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

wine book. According to an October 31, 1989 article in the New York Times, a wine book is a ledger in which the crew leaders or bosses of migrant workers “record the claims that they make on the worker’s wages, beyond the $40 or $50 per week that they charge for their meals. The name of a worker is written at the top of each page, which, except for the occasional date and odd notation is nothing but a list of numbers showing dollars and cents. But the crew leaders know what transaction each charge represents.” Transactions often include wine, of course, and also cocaine and crack, the crew leaders rarely tell- ing a worker the high price of the drugs until the money is de- ducted from his salary. Such are the more subtle ways of debt servitude today. The expression wine book has been around at least two or three decades but is not often recorded.

词汇	wine book
词源	wine book. According to an October 31, 1989 article in the New York Times, a wine book is a ledger in which the crew leaders or bosses of migrant workers “record the claims that they make on the worker’s wages, beyond the $40 or $50 per week that they charge for their meals. The name of a worker is written at the top of each page, which, except for the occasional date and odd notation is nothing but a list of numbers showing dollars and cents. But the crew leaders know what transaction each charge represents.” Transactions often include wine, of course, and also cocaine and crack, the crew leaders rarely tell- ing a worker the high price of the drugs until the money is de- ducted from his salary. Such are the more subtle ways of debt servitude today. The expression wine book has been around at least two or three decades but is not often recorded.
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