1. Summarize the article in 50-100 words, starting with the main idea.
a. Esperanza Borboa, a U.S. citizen, becomes a witness of the abuses suffered by undocumented illegal immigrants by their employers. While working in the garment industry, the author find herself working with many undocumented workers. These workers are exploited by their employers with a salary below the minimum wage, no benefits, and under well-defined gender roles and gender gap. Employers where often benefited from the immigration status of their employees when the immigration officials would create raids that would lead to the deportation of these workers before payday.
2. Rhetorical context analysis: Discuss purpose, audience, kairos, and style.
a. The purpose of the article is to illustrate a personal experience on the …show more content…
The Marxist theory follows the material dialectic from. This states that “‘...what drives historical change are the material realities of the economic base of society, rather than the ideological superstructure of politics, law, philosophy, religion, and art that is built upon that economic base’ (Richter 1088).” The actions of the employers and industry competitors of “anonymously” reporting a group of illegal aliens working in the area is not because the undocumented workers broke the law by being in the country without the authority to do so, but because of the economic benefit they will obtain. The employers are aware of their workers legal status and don’t have a problem with it because they have a cheap labor force that does not require any benefits on its behalf. They not only utilize this to avoid providing the adequate pay for the work performed, but when there are raids that take these workers away they don’t have to pay them. When a rival influences the others’ work force to be unexpectedly reduced because it was composed of immigrants that are taken away in raids. This then caused an unplanned reduction of time and employees, which leads to economic
a. Esperanza Borboa, a U.S. citizen, becomes a witness of the abuses suffered by undocumented illegal immigrants by their employers. While working in the garment industry, the author find herself working with many undocumented workers. These workers are exploited by their employers with a salary below the minimum wage, no benefits, and under well-defined gender roles and gender gap. Employers where often benefited from the immigration status of their employees when the immigration officials would create raids that would lead to the deportation of these workers before payday.
2. Rhetorical context analysis: Discuss purpose, audience, kairos, and style.
a. The purpose of the article is to illustrate a personal experience on the …show more content…
The Marxist theory follows the material dialectic from. This states that “‘...what drives historical change are the material realities of the economic base of society, rather than the ideological superstructure of politics, law, philosophy, religion, and art that is built upon that economic base’ (Richter 1088).” The actions of the employers and industry competitors of “anonymously” reporting a group of illegal aliens working in the area is not because the undocumented workers broke the law by being in the country without the authority to do so, but because of the economic benefit they will obtain. The employers are aware of their workers legal status and don’t have a problem with it because they have a cheap labor force that does not require any benefits on its behalf. They not only utilize this to avoid providing the adequate pay for the work performed, but when there are raids that take these workers away they don’t have to pay them. When a rival influences the others’ work force to be unexpectedly reduced because it was composed of immigrants that are taken away in raids. This then caused an unplanned reduction of time and employees, which leads to economic