They depended on slave labor for economic stability. Without the slaves many whites believed they were not able or should be doing the backbreaking labor. The plantation owners also needed the support of the slaves in all areas of their lives such as: cooks, housecleaners, nannies and chauffeurs. The possibility of life without the slaves was devastating. Slaves were the support system of their owners.
In document five, it is explained that wages are low from the factories because the factory workers are unattached parts of their family and only need to earn enough money to support a single person, not a whole family. This statement could be biased because of the speaker, an industrialist
Hearing of these rights, along with the rumors that they'd been freed by the king, began talk of their true freedom from slavery. Document 3, spoken by Jean-Marie d'Augy, who was strongly for slavery, says that the slaves in Haiti, were no good for anything else then to provide the labor of farming sugar and coffee, the two main products given to the French. An additional document that would provide a better look into the origins of the Haitian Revolution would be a slave's testament to the harsh labor they underwent daily. The process of the revolution was even worse than the origins. They changed the world's outlook of the Haitian people.
Most of the African Americans were just slaves to the Whites. The African Americans didn’t usually have any say in their lives because they were unequal to the Whites. The African Americans were forced to sharecrop because they could not afford their own land. Their pay was less than minimal. The African Americans were treated unfairly and they were the first group of people that were laid off during any economic downturn.
McMath, Jr., Edward C. American Populism: A Social history 1877-1898. Hill and Wang, 1992, 211 I believe that McMath wrote the book because he wanted the reader to understand the hardships of the lower classes back in the populism era. He gave us key area’s to look at such as New York and Texas. It shows how the workers and farmers were treated unfairly as well as looked down upon by the upper class. He captures the populism of that time from the strikes all the way to the farmer’s debt.
For example, in the south, African Americans had little chance of being employed against white people, due to the discrimination of employers. This trapped blacks in a cycle of poverty; if they couldn’t get jobs, they couldn’t afford to pay poll tax so they could vote for someone who would improve their employment rights. Also, southern African Americans had few employment opportunities. For example, sharecropping and other agricultural jobs were the main opportunities. African American women were treated even worse than men.
Due to the fact that illegal immigrants don’t have a legal status in the country, their options of jobs aren’t much they have to settle for low paying jobs that others with a legal status wouldn’t do(Medrano). According to Lourdes Medrano in 2004 the movie “A day without a Mexican” made many people to their eyes of how effected the country would be if the people who performed all the farm work in out in the fields in the scorching sun would not return. Not only would it affect the employers who day after day relay on their work but it will effect the economy as the agricultural industry would decrease. After all , each individual is going to have their own opinion on whether illegal immigrants should be able to remain in the country or deported. While some argue that they should be deported others believe they shouldn’t.
Immigrants obtain jobs that many Americans are too good to do such as lawn care, maintenance in the home or business, and farm work. Immigrants often get paid very little; they are very hard workers because they are usually very poor and come to America to make a better life for themselves and their families. The con’s of illegal immigrants is that they work off the books and do not contribute to social security or pay taxes. A majority of illegal immigrants rely on government assistance and this costs Americans a lot of money. New immigration reform laws have some good ways to gain control over illegal immigration; however, allowing more immigrants into the United States on top of the 11 million that are already here trying to obtain residency, is absurd.
They fight with each other to control diamond-rich territory. The tragic of the war cause many local residents lost their family members or forced to work for the military. Diamond miners who work in small scale mining or digging for diamonds in Africa produce about fifteen percents of the world's diamond. However, their wages do not equal to their work which estimated over one million diamond diggers in Africa make less than one dollar per day. For today, the extremely poverty line is $1.25 per day,
These companies violate human rights by employing people in improper working environment and providing them with low wages (Chartier 2006). Usually, sweatshops are the factories where working conditions are extremely poor and dangerous. The workers have remarkably few rights and receive a very small wage or salary for long hours of hard work. These organizations often break human rights by providing limited benefits for workers. Sweatshops are attracted by the people of rural and poor areas, immigrants and the people of rapidly growing cities