Response to Genawang

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was a factory that consisted of many female workers that were young and old immigrants. There were 500 workers who worked in that factory.  In this factory, the workers would work very long hours, between 11-12 hours every single day. However, in the year of 1911 tragedy struck when a fire started in a bin  of cotton. There were 146 people that died either from burning, smoke, inhalation, and jumping to their death. This tragedy happened as a result of carelessness. Many times when people work, their environment is not properly taken care of for the workers. Many managers or bosses ignore the worker’s safety. Imagine working in a factory with hundreds of workers and a fire breaks out and you are trapped because there is barely a way out. Imagine working somewhere where the fire extinguisher was locked or broken and there was one elevator that worked that day that only held 12 people. As a young woman who also works I can relate to what the man was saying in the video. At my job not only do we do a lot of work that requires more pay. However many times the environment is not very safe. It is often cold, slippery and the foods sometimes have rat marks, expired food, and a dirty environment. This can affect the workers because there are many elderly women who work at my job, if anything happens ( For example if someone falls, or gets sick from expired foods or foods with bugs on them). Not only will the workers be affected by this but the whole company can be sued and possibly go out of business because of this negligent act. Another example is when we are dealing with a company that is worth billions of dollars yet the workers are underpaid and treated unfairly. Workers rights go hand and hand with human rights because we have the right to be better and be treated fairly. 

I agree with the Genawang post because many women back then were making less money than men. This is something that goes on in many places. Men would work the same job and get paid more than the woman. This is unfair because just like men women also have responsibilities. We deserve higher wages, better working environment and conditions. Finally we deserve the right to have break time in between shifts.