The first source depicts a horrendous spider wrapping a child in silk on a spider web, showcasing the typical method used by a spider to capture prey for consumption. In addition, to the right a list regarding the negatives of child labour are listed. Figuratively, the source’s author attempts to communicate how outsourcing affects children, in the nineteenth century and contemporary society. Readers decipher the author’s message that economic globalization causes an increase in child labour. The source states the process by which profit-driven corporations utilize child labour in order to increase profit and luxury through their greedy methods. Such leaves young workers in poverty, with their low wages and the ignorance and indifference shot
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Because the spider is wrapping the child, it is clearly demonstrated that the spider has greater power than the child, thus telling the reader that American corporations may treat child workers as they wish. Furthermore, a spider’s silk is hard for its prey to spot from far away, until it is too late. Applying the same concept, by using a spider, its web and spider silk, the author tells the reader that corporations entice children to work for them with the promise for a better future. Children are lured into the corporations’ traps and do not realize that they have brought themselves into a building lit on fire with no exits, until too late. In reality, multinational corporations depress earning opportunities and wages for workers. The source relates to economic globalization as it illustrates the method of outsourcing, by which multinational businesses use weak child labour restrictions in developing countries to their advantage. Moreover, the source provided relates to globalization, as globalization causes multinationals to compete with domestic companies and increases the difference between the wealthy and the poor, as the demand for skilled labour …show more content…
CO’s” briefcase, extending a sharp sword with the words sweatshop written across it, towards a man who appears frayed, weak and hanging on to the cliff with a great amount of effort. The man states to the man edged over the cliff, “I’ve come to bring you opportunity! Grab ahold!” Images constructing this picture, communicate the method by which American companies outsource to developing countries in which living conditions are hardly adequate for survival, as depicted through the man holding on to the cliff with great effort, a little away from plunging to his death. Even though American corporations bring employment opportunities in the form of sweatshops for developing countries in need, they take advantage of the weak labour laws and implement harsh working conditions. The sword held out to the man over the ledge, symbolizes how sweatshops may bring some economic reform to developing countries, yet nonetheless, by holding on the sword, the man will cut himself and bleed as he holds on to an object that will ultimately only slow down his inevitable death, and not prevent it. Using the same concept, it is implied that sweatshops do provide employment opportunities, and may even raise the standard of living of workers. However, the author communicates the idea that outsourcing does not actually provide citizens of developing countries with an improved quality of life, as the weak labour laws in
Because the spider is wrapping the child, it is clearly demonstrated that the spider has greater power than the child, thus telling the reader that American corporations may treat child workers as they wish. Furthermore, a spider’s silk is hard for its prey to spot from far away, until it is too late. Applying the same concept, by using a spider, its web and spider silk, the author tells the reader that corporations entice children to work for them with the promise for a better future. Children are lured into the corporations’ traps and do not realize that they have brought themselves into a building lit on fire with no exits, until too late. In reality, multinational corporations depress earning opportunities and wages for workers. The source relates to economic globalization as it illustrates the method of outsourcing, by which multinational businesses use weak child labour restrictions in developing countries to their advantage. Moreover, the source provided relates to globalization, as globalization causes multinationals to compete with domestic companies and increases the difference between the wealthy and the poor, as the demand for skilled labour …show more content…
CO’s” briefcase, extending a sharp sword with the words sweatshop written across it, towards a man who appears frayed, weak and hanging on to the cliff with a great amount of effort. The man states to the man edged over the cliff, “I’ve come to bring you opportunity! Grab ahold!” Images constructing this picture, communicate the method by which American companies outsource to developing countries in which living conditions are hardly adequate for survival, as depicted through the man holding on to the cliff with great effort, a little away from plunging to his death. Even though American corporations bring employment opportunities in the form of sweatshops for developing countries in need, they take advantage of the weak labour laws and implement harsh working conditions. The sword held out to the man over the ledge, symbolizes how sweatshops may bring some economic reform to developing countries, yet nonetheless, by holding on the sword, the man will cut himself and bleed as he holds on to an object that will ultimately only slow down his inevitable death, and not prevent it. Using the same concept, it is implied that sweatshops do provide employment opportunities, and may even raise the standard of living of workers. However, the author communicates the idea that outsourcing does not actually provide citizens of developing countries with an improved quality of life, as the weak labour laws in