Sixteen tons what do you get

Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Sixteen Tons. View source. History Talk 0. Background The song plays during a montage which shows Stephen Stotch 's daily routine as an employee at the new South Park 's Amazon Fulfillment Center. Under this system workers were not paid cash; rather they were paid with unexchangeable credit vouchers for goods at the company store, usually referred to as scrip.

This made it impossible for workers to store up cash savings. Workers also usually lived in company-owned dormitories or houses, the rent for which was automatically deducted from their pay. In the United States the truck system and associated debt bondage persisted until the strikes of the newly-formed United Mine Workers and affiliated unions forced an end to such practices. A dispute exists regarding the authorship of "Sixteen Tons". While the song is generally attributed to Merle Travis, to whom it is credited on his recording, George S.

Davis , a folk singer and songwriter who had been a coal miner in Kentucky, claimed when he was recorded for Folkways Records in to have written the song as "Nine-to-ten tons" in the s. Ammunition Apparel and armor C. Administrators Account management Discord Vault Academy.

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