After watching the videos about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, and doing the reading, my disappointment towards laws around the world has deepened. There are so many things that contribute to the mistreatment of workers around the world, and much of it has to do with corporate greed. Companies that make billions of dollars are unwilling to pay their workers a livable wage, and unwilling to provide safe conditions for these workers as well. I definitely feel like misogyny, classism, and racism definitely tie into how these workers are treated.
To make matters worse, politics are so heavily influenced by powerful men who couldn’t care less about what happens outside of the United States, and have a general disinterest towards women’s issues — or any issues that don’t concern them at all. When laws that could make conditions better for certain groups of people are proposed, there’s no guarantee that they will even be passed or given the time of day. Even if they are passed, which is sometimes very unlikely, it can take years for some of these laws to take effect. Not to mention that a law can pass in certain states and not pass in other ones, which makes things very complicated. Overall, the state of the world’s laws is very frustrating. Not enough is being done, and we’re repeating history.