In this book readers can easily identify the factory owners and the political machinery as playing the bad guys. There was a tremendous anger among the family of the deceased workers as they demanded in trial that the owners Blanck and Harris should pay with their lives as their bad practices caused the tragedy. Both Blanck and Harris brought to trial on the charges of murder. Charles Bostwick, Assistant District Attorney was the who was representing the triangle factory workers and Max Steuer was the attorney of defendant. Max Steuer was a genius attorney and was nations best trial lawyer; he represented Blanck and Harris in such a smart way that Bostwick had no chance of winning.
Many companies and factories don't meet their requirements when it comes to workers rights. During “the booming years” Workers didn't get all the benefits and needs they needed. Around 1911, On an average day one hundred people died on the job. The rights for the workers in the Shirtwaist factory were very poor. They got little to no rights and little to no pay.
The meat-packing industries carelessness towards their workers are physically endangering them daily. “Men who used knives on the sped-up assembly lines frequently lost fingers. Men who hauled 100-pound hunks of meat crippled their backs” (Constitutional Rights Foundation). The repetitive endangerment of these businesses’ workers highlight the industry’s unnatural greed and lack of empathy. The damages that are inflicted on their workers can be critical, life-changing or even lethal.
These workers would produce meat products that were contaminated, processed, and rotten. They would sell products that had chemicals on them but then label the package differently so the public would not know. Sinclair shows how the workers would still process the dead and diseased animals once the inspectors left the factories. “There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs. There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms” (161).
In the early 1900s, there were so many unbearable conditions that needed to be reformed such as factory injuries, overcrowded cities , starvation, wages and so on. Millions of immigrants came to the United States looking for a better life. The working conditions were inhumane and brutal since there were too many labors and those big businesses’ owners were looking for a way to minimize the input and maximize the profit. The meat packing industry was exposed to the public when Upton Sinclair published his book “The Jungle”. This industry was unsanitary and hazardous to workers and consumers.
There are times when there would be a rush production of processing meat, usually at the end of the day. These rush productions usually causes accidents because the employees do not have the proper clothing nor did they have the proper equipment to prevent hazards. The administrators of these corporations do not care about their employees. If a person were to be injured or died unexpectedly, they did not care because there are plenty of immigrants standing outside of their companies waiting to
The meatpacking industries carelessness towards their workers are physically endangering them daily. “Men who used knives on the sped-up assembly lines frequently lost fingers. Men who hauled 100-pound hunks of meat crippled their backs” (“Upton Sinclair’s”). Through the repetitive endangerment of these businesses’ workers it has highlighted the industry’s unnatural greed and lack of empathy. These damages that are inflicted on their workers can be critical, life-changing or even lethal.
This concept is similar to stealing a candy bar from a convenient store then feeling guilty and the breaking and entering the same store when it is closed to put it back. Neither murder nor putting other to death is morally right. Understandably the fact of having cereal killers off this planet for good is no inconvenience for us but who are we to decide when another human is to die. This argument also refuses touch on the scenarios of war, self-defence, and abortion. These are all instances that can be considered murder and according to Primoratz murder is murder and that is an inexcusable offence.
They were deprived of dignity, worked in harmful conditions ( long hours in a sun, exposed to poisoned pesticides), and deprived of education were “trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty” (The struggle in the Fields). Moreover, the owners (in minority), being in a position of power, oppressed, controlled and humiliated the less powerful massive group of Mexican immigrants to achieve their profits. The farm workers were subjected to ideological justification based only on their jobs and social status, and seen as “ arrogant, stupid, lazy and dirty” and in consequence poor people(The Struggle in the Field).
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a book about how racism is so ingrained into the way people think,act, how ingrained it is into our laws and government, and how society has villainized African americans. You can see this throughout time, it doesn't just stop in the 1930s, and TKAM brings a lot of this to light. The theme of the novel is to show how prejudice has been ingrained into society and the things that need to be done to get rid of this prejudice. There are many examples of prejudice throughout the books, but segregation is definitely a theme that is prevalent. discrimination that is so rooted in society, and the social difference between the two races in the 1930s.
In this case, I understand wanting to be able to invest in technology and wanting to advance this new industry. This was a great way of climbing the economic ladder, this can be seen similarly to investing in crypto or being early/consistent with social media. However, this can also be abused, as mentioned higher-ups would take advantage of this position by making themselves of only ones in control of their market making it difficult to get in or advance. Along with that since there weren’t any laws protecting workers the officials could care less about their worker's environmental conditions, only if it made them money. I’m happy that we have been able to grow and learn from this type of lifestyle, mostly and be able to protect others and our
What is Foxconn’s unethical issue? In mid 2010, Foxconn Technology Group (Foxconn) was facing a crisis of having its workers held protests and riots against the company in Shenzhen, China. Being the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer (Pun, 2010), the company exploited its migrant workers by providing them with exceptionally low pay and allowing unacceptable number of overtime working hours in the manufacturing site. Such method of raising workers’ efficiency is unethical in the eyes of many.
Is it right to kill those innocent creatures painfully? No. It’s not right to harm them for our own benefits. Every living soul have rights, this includes animals, and just because they can’t speak up for themselves doesn’t mean we can take that away from them. The fact that they can’t speak is a disadvantage, and it’s unethical for us to use their disadvantage against them for our own benefits.
On page 457, illegal immigrant are forced to stay “in a lightless, heatless shack with no bed.” However, there is no evidence that these people are being treated like the pineapple workers mentioned earlier. Agricultural work is very hot, dirty, and unsanitary work, but that does not make conditions inhumane. Another point that should be made is the fact that these workers actually want to do this work. No one is forcing them to stay on the farm and do it.
The meat packing industry disregards animal’s emotions and their rights all together by the malicious treatment of animals. The way animals are being treated is highly unfair. Being slaughtered for their body parts and suffering just to be used for protein or an asset to humans is unbearable. An animal’s life is at equal values to a human and deserve the same rights as
