Sunday, January 25, 2015
Chapter 3 Connections
In Chapter 7, Schlosser points out that wages have decreased recently in meat packing plants and the work that used to draw middle class citizens is now primarily taken by lower class immigrants that are new to the country and need any work they can get. This strategy of hiring workers in need of their jobs, and who are often uneducated, is similar to the strategy of fast food businesses in chapter three. Fast food corporations tend to hire immigrants and teenagers who are less inclined to unionize and demand higher wages and more fair treatment by their employers. This is just another example of the loss of morality in large corporations and the desire for only one thing: money.
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I see what you mean in the loss of morality in large corporations for money, but just to see the flip side of things, moves like this have to be made for the companies to stay afloat. If they don't hire the immigrants and teenagers, other companies will and they will be able to afford lower prices due to their lower productions costs, ultimately driving the original company out of business. There are bad conditions in place that could change though, like minimum There is no easy fix to this problem, but some steps are available for improvement.
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