Reflection 7

I insist that the Triangle Shirtwaist factory incidence is a tragedy that most definitely could have been prevented. Was the need to have locked young women in the factory without the logical thinking of the having to take breaks from the long hours of working. No decent thought towards the workers. Was it because they were women, or was it for the intention that they were young or immigrants, or was it just all of it combined? Did the supervisors enjoy seeing people survive? This was an extremely bad situation although it had a good outcome. The Amendments of those rights of those workplaces. The lives that were lost through this circumstance forced people to fight for what was right. They fought for amenities we enjoy today. Though the situation has been fixed in the United States, there seems to be so many countries that have company owners taking advantage of their workers in very which way. Like the similar fire situation in Bangladesh. If there had been proper care and important measures taken in the other countries as well, the situation could have been prevented. The sad reality is that, even in today’s century, the big and luxurious brands we were today are made from countries like Bangladesh, specifically in factories were people work for endless hours in severely bad conditions, even worse than that of the shirtwaist factory. They do this severe manual work and are paid so poorly, that it affects their living conditions. They do not seem to have a break; they move from poverty to poverty. They work till their backs crack yet they do not enjoy the benefit of their labor one bit.

One thought on “Reflection 7

  1. Brianne Waychoff

    Yes! I don’t think the owners cared about the workers for all of those reasons. But also I don’t think owners care about the workers to this day in the USA. People are still working like this, though they are paid more, the physical toll on their bodies is huge and the wages they make are still largely poverty wages. There are just some laws in place that force owners to make workplaces safer. My own father worked in a factory my whole life. He suffered at least three majors injuries that I can remember and which put him in the hospital and on workers’ compensation. So he was “taken care of” but he still had to go back after each incident and the conditions didn’t change much.

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