Working Conditions

In Bangladesh, the amount of remunerations that employees received as a compensation for their service in garment factories highly differed according to personal skills of the employee. It’s worth noting that the amount of remuneration received by Bangladesh employees was much better than their fellow British counterparts. It is clear that during the 19th centuries, most of the employees in the Bangladesh sectors were children of barely 10 to 11 years. Though they could prefer to be in school, the economic conditions of their supports could not sustain their schooling (Appelbaum pg. 417). However, due to the international pressure, the Bangladesh sectors have abolished the involvement of child labor in factories. It’s worth noting that workers in Bangladeshi and British are mostly beaten up and sucked if they actively get involved in trade unions. This makes it hard for them to control the existing struggles.
Though both the equipment and work are common both in the past and in the recent period, the gap between the amount of remuneration and pay might scarcely be broader. It is clear that most of the women garment employees in Dhaka are physically mistreated through physical abuse, long working hours and also the factory fires have exterminated the lives of more than 400 workers in the past years. In the same way, 141 girls and men were burned to death by the fire tragedy that occurred during their service in the triangle waist corporation. On the other hand, women in the Islam garment plants were treated like machines packed together in a single room.

On the same note, many of General Slocum victims were women working in the same common room like machines. It is also clear from the Slocum incidence that women were still treated as machines with long working hours even on Saturday a day when other employees in other factories were on rest. Though other employees had left before the fire broke out at 4.30 pm most of the women were still on service.
It is also worth noting that during the 19th century; most of the middle and upper-class women were not involved in paid activities except for respectable works like nursing. Women of this category were required to be married and remain at home looking after their children. However, this changed in the early 21st century where both middle and upper-class women were involved in most of the paid professional jobs.
Additionally, in the 19th century, the working hours were expected to commence at 6.30 during summer period where only an hour was allowed for rest. However, it should be known that, though the working conditions changed in the early 21st century with the construction of the modern fireproof factories, the death of people due to fire was experienced though the cases were minimal.
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Considering the problem of sweated labor, the owners of the industries have developed resistance for any pay increased. For this reason, they have developed a solution of importing employees from countries such as China, Morocco, and Indonesia to replace the existing labor force. This is done to counter the argument of employees for the pay increase. However, in my opinion instead of importing cheap labor from other countries, industry owners should consider the claims of the already existing employees and give remunerations that are equal to the worker’s input in the organization. Moreover, the social groups and unions in the industries should be encouraged. This is because the unions help in airing the feelings and grievances of the employees in the company. Knowledge of the employees’ feelings in the organization helps owners to restructure the company operations to fit into the worker’s needs so as to increase their productivity. Furthermore, laws should be formulated to govern the relationship that exists between employees and the owners of the company. These laws help to control the action of the company as well as employees demand from the company. In this case, the laws will ensure that employees are not underpaid and also restrict them from demanding excess payment from the company. To reduce the problem of child labor, the company should increase the minimum age limit that one needs to meet to be employed in service in the industry.
Regarding the fire tragedy in waist factory, measures such as the construction of the fireproof building were put into place to reduce cases of fire occurrence in the factory. However, as a matter of fact, the construction of the fireproof building is not enough to completely eliminate cases of fire occurrence. The factory during the induction process of employees should include in their sessions that involve training of employees on how to avoid, report and behave in case of fire occurrence. Additionally, the company should install firefighting equipment such as extinguishers that can be used to stop the spread of fire. Finally, restrictive rules should be passed to hinder any use explosives and such things as cigarette butts that may be the source of fire in the factory.
Work Cited
Appelbaum, Richard P. “Fighting sweatshops: Problems of enforcing global labor standards.” Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research (2000).
http://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/primary/newspapersMagazines/nyt_032611.html?sto_sec=fire