Arielly Vargas Reflection 7

The reading The Triangle Sweatshirt Factory fire is a very sad and disappointed situation that was occurred because of the bad conditions that many companies, or factories offers. 146 garment workers died in the fire, including 123 women and girls and 23 men, who died as a result of the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths.The facilities of this company did not have emergency exits available, for fear of being robbed or unauthorized breaks from their working hours. I believe everything could’ve been avoided if the working conditions were safer and realistic. One of the requirements for a company to have its facilities open is that they respect the rights of workers. Its crazy how women had to deal with so much oppression and discrimination in the past and we still have to deal with a lot of things that are going on in our society. Another thing that completely move my heart was how young ladies, girls were not sought after, even as they went above and beyond to get their work done for so little, this companies were injustice about the price for hour. With this reading I realized that being a consumer of this companies means that we are supporting everything behind it. Every worker, regardless of gender and race deserves that their work is not devalued, it is important that as citizens we unite and that we fight for wage transparency.

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