“Made in Hell”, written by Dana Liebelson, is an article in which she describes the sumangali condition in painstaking detail and provides a complicated story that challenges the reader. Their exploitation is explained in a way that makes the reader stand face to face with the consequences of their own consumption and the acknowledgment of where their goods come from. This is done to make the reader empathize with the sumangali worker whose lives and bodies are exploited in the process. Liebelson takes on a vast topic and uses a few rhetorical appeals that effectively make the reader understand the sumangali life while simultaneously dissecting the corrupt system they are forced into.
Beginning with Ethos, three examples have been identified.
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The appeal to reason is one that Liebelson uses liberally by commenting on the workers’ sexual abuse, meager pay, and dangerous work conditions. The author talks about a 16-year-old that “was badly injured by a machine belt that snapped and hit her eye”, workers being subjected to “between 8 and 13 hours daily, plus overnight shifts”, and much more (Liebelson 49). By writing about these conditions extensively, Liebelson appeals to the reasonable reader who understands them. At no point does she outright denounce the mills or their connected companies, but she does give the necessary context for the reader to formulate their own opinions against them. Liebelson is more focused on the impact the factories had on the workers than the factories themselves and because of this, she makes it a secondary point to make an argument against the mills. However, in a way, she is telling the reader to think rationally and that there is no need for a case to be made - the factories are intrinsically evil. To support her article, Liebelson often cites statistics and uses numbers to aptly describe the nature of the situation. Most notably she cites the ages of the sumangali workers and statistics regarding money. She states that the girls can begin working as young as 13 and this number is repeated in different contexts multiple times to nail home the point of child labor. Making a child work all day long at such a young age, in an extremely dangerous environment to boot, paints a picture that Liebelson uses to her advantage. She also talks about how they are often promised salaries, such as “250 rupees (about $4)”, and are actually paid much lower salaries, like $2.50 a day (Liebelson 48). The evidence that she provides bolsters her argument and makes for a compelling read that is not just based on emotion, but verifiable facts. The main focus
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If a worker whined about their low wage or the long hours spent working they would be fired, and the owners would hire a new worker. Most of the time the workers didn’t get any time off for breaks or even going to the bathrooms. It wasn’t just young women who had to work in the harsh factory conditions. Children also worked in the factory because their families need
By examining the conditions at the factory, one can see that the fire stirred the need for labour reform in factories, making Americans aware of the problems of industrial capitalism; this is important because it changed the face of labour and rights of workers for generations to come. In Conditions at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, historians have compiled five separate accounts that detail the working conditions and give look into the lives of those who survived the fire. These accounts provide the reader with a glimpse into the abuses that workers endured day in and day out, painting a visual snapshot of a worker in the factory. The need for reform in workplaces was
The age range of the women workers were from age fifteen to age twenty-four and very few male workers worked in this factory. The reasoning for these women workers to work long, hard hours helped them by “sending brothers to high school, to art school, to dental college, to engineering courses” (p. 96). Most of the work was as simple as “cutting threads, which can be done by an unpracticed girl of fourteen” (p. 44). Despite the harsh conditions of this factory, they only paid their workers six dollars a week and extra money could be made if they worked the whole week. These workers would hunch over hefty and risky sewing machines that only worked by foot pedaling.
Through this rhetorical strategy Kelley is trying to encourage readers and her audience to support regulations for child labor. If they fight together then more regulations will be enforced, eventually ending child labor. The effect of this strategy was placing the idea that many children would be working just to survive while these people are sleeping carefree. To achieve their survival they had to work late, riks their lives daily, and work in perilous
Kelley explains, “We have...two million children under the age of sixteen years who are earning their bread”. By her use of statistics, she has grabbed the audience’s attention. With large numbers like two million, one already begins to question child labor. Kelley then goes on to
Irony in “The Destructors” This essay is going to be about the presence of irony in “The Destructors” by Graham Greene. Irony is a key element to this short story, there are multiple examples toward the end of the story when the gang destroyed Mr. Thomas’s house, such as when Mr. Thomas scraped mud off of his shoes to avoid getting his house dirty, when Mr. Thomas heard sounds of destruction, and when Mr. Thomas’s horoscope said destruction may be on the path. In the next few paragraphs, these examples will be explained. “He didn’t want to soil his house, which stood jagged and dark between the bomb sites, saved so narrowly, as he believed, from destruction.”
The work was also dangerous with not much supervising by the government. Workers, on the other hand, had little or even no bargaining power to leave the unsafe conditions. Nowadays, When Americans only pay attention when extreme work strike, levels of abuse are the norm hidden in the factories around the globe. Although the condition seems much improved, consumers don’t know the true fact- “Today, American citizens simply cannot know the working conditions of the factories that make the products they buy.
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere”. There is so much bad form and enduring, shouting out for attention victims of yearning, of racism and political abuse in Chile, for occasion, or in the occasion journalists and artists, prisoners in such a large number of terrains administered by the left and by the
“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time” (Grace Abbott). The issue of child labor has been around for centuries. Its standing in our world has been irrevocably stained in our history and unfortunately, our present. Many great minds have assessed this horrific issue and its effect on our homes, societies, and ultimately, our world.
About one hundred thousand workers from six hundred different mills were on strike there. The strikers wanted their work cut from sixty to fifty-five hours. About a sixth of the strikers were children under sixteen.” ( 5, Josephson). As a result, she gathered a large group of mill children and their parents, shaming the mill owners of their actions.
“Terrible Things” is a powerful allegory that tells a tale to warn the readers about the Holocaust. Eve Bunting writes this story using forest animals to not only convey the horrors of the Holocaust but also to depict the consequences of inaction in the face of oppression. Throughout the story, the events that occur and the animals’ reactions reflect and symbolize what happened during the Holocaust. Firstly, the birds were taken, and “now there were no birds to sing in the clearing. But life went on almost as before.
In a future totalitarian society, all books have been outlawed by the government, fearing an independent-thinking public. Fahrenheit 451 is a futuristic novel, telling the story of a time where books and independent thinking are outlawed. In a time so unenlightened, where those who want to better themselves by thinking, are outlawed and killed. Guy Montag is a senior firefighter who is much respected by his superiors and is in line for a promotion. He does not question what he does or why he does it until he meets Clarisse.
Child labor was a great problem in the Industrial Revolution. Factory owners usually hired women and children rather than men. They said that men expected higher wages, and they suspected that they were more likely to rebel against the company. Women and children were forced to work from six in the morning to seven at night, and this was when they were not so busy. They were forced to arrive on time and they couldn’t fall behind with their work because if they did they were whipped and punished.
But not all work done by children should be accepted as child labor. In other words, if a work doesn’t harm child’s health or personal development (educational issues), it is generally accepted as something positive and useful. Such activities develop children’s skills, provide experience and formulate them to be part of society. The term “Child Labor” is when children do work that damages their health or hamper mental or physical