Blog # 21: Summary and Response to " The New Industrial Migrants"

The new Industrial Migrants (part I)

In this passage from the book “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser states that the food industries are hiring a lot of migrants from over countries in the 1980’s. Mr. Schlosser gives an example of this by telling how the meatpacking industries are using illegal aliens to do the dangerous work in that field. Explain how the companies hire the workers for few months and then they are let go. Mr. Schlosser states the reason for that is that they don’t want to pay health insurance for the workers; they know that insurance for that type of work it’s costly for the big company to insure its workers. He later explains some reason that the workers are fine by it, he states that most of them don’t have a background education from their native land. So they don’t know their right as human beings. Another is because they are illegal in this country they can’t complain to anyone because they are afraid they would get deported back to their native home land. And another reason that companies are getting their ways with the workers is because the workers don’t have an union to help them out, so it’s easier for companies to control their business

The new industrial migrants (Part II)

In this passage from “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser states how the meatpacking industry are recruiting migrant workers from town to town in the USA. They are targeting low income neighborhoods or poor communities, the companies are recruiting in homeless shelters in some pretty big states like New York, New Jersey, California, North Carolina, and Rhode Island. Meaning they are targeting blacks and Hispanics communities that lives in those states. They even are trying to market the companies about hiring in neighboring countries like Mexico.  The Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates about one quarter of all meatpacking workers are illegal immigrants in 2 of factories in the states of Iowa and Nebraska. They are hiring anyone with a pulse to do that kind of dangerous work, so companies are focus in getting people with no background education.  Mr. Schlosser later states that some company in Minnesota name GFI America were paying shelters to hold their workers cause they promise those workers home to live in, in which they lie and forces them to live next to homeless people. Soon after the local news heard about this and make it public to the community about this outrage.