Life on the Global assembly Line
A good way to start out for this article would be wow. Why I am saying wow is because I didn’t know people still got treat like they where next to nothing. For this passage “Life on the global assembly line” I got a good sense of how gender plays a major role in these third world countries doing most the first worlds countries work. Everything about this article is degrading and knowing how these women are being treated is terrible. The women in these third world country aren’t like women in the United State where they wake up, got a nine to five and come home and he with there families, the women in third world countries who work for these “sweat shops” go to work from seven to when ever there quota is met.
From the article women have to leave there homes and live in dormitories that fit maybe four people but they pack 20 in each room to sleep. While one set of women are working on there shift the next set is sleep and visa versa. The condition in these textile shops are deadly, there is poor ventilation, poor lighting, and these women are working on top of each other. There are some more modern shops that have air conditioning and radio but it is not for the workers it’s to preserve the machines and keep the noise down.
The biggest problem in these factories is how sexist they are. They typically on give job to young women under the age of 23 because it’s cheaper. They use “oriental” women because there hands are small, they work fast, and they use a lot of care. But the real reason is they are easy to boss around. A young man would quit or fight back, but a young female may cry a little bit and get back to what she is doing. Gender is the key factory on how these third world countries get there workers. They say there is a good side to it and that is women are making money and getting a new experience, in my eyes this is the wrong experience to give someone.
In my own words this article gives a great example on how women are degraded at the expense of the American consumer. Women are playing these rolls of major globalization because they don’t have the courage to fight back. The government is playing the biggest role in globalization but this kind of globalization I do not approve o
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