Monday, April 2, 2012

Just Another Job-reading

I believe that domestic workers (regardless of race,creed, or legal status) should be respected just as any other employee. However, in Anderson's Just Another Job we found that this is not always the case. The article took us through the process in which women from many different places in the world travel abroad in hopes of finding some type of domestic work to help provide for their family. In other countries (including here) women will  occasionally employ other foreign women to work for them. Though some women hire these workers to help them as well as themselves, others take full advantage of their race or legality. Workers that have come over illegally are in jeopardy of being ripped off for their services because they have no documented papers and work off the books. They cannot complain about issues and have to do what they are told. Sometimes working an average of 12 hours with little pay. I believe that these conditions are unsuitable, and women who continuously work for a family should be treated as part of the family and on the same echelon as everyone else, not taken advantage of to prove your prestige over someone else. 

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