The purpose of this article, The Price of Nice Nails, is to denounce the inhumane working conditions that nail salon technicians endure due to the necessity to provide food and shelter for themselves and their families. The Price of Nice Nails assesses the issue from the workers point of view through their testimonies about the injustice they live. The information gathered by The New York Times from the New York Bureau of Labor Statistics and the New York city census, supports the claims being made by the workers that little or nothing is being done to help them get out of the vicious circle of cruel and merciless labor practices. This article goes beyond the surface of the nail salon industry to identify the many caveats these businesses have.
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Sarah Maslin begins by telling us that “the women begin to arrive just before 8 a.m.” to the street corners of the main streets of Flushing, Queens, New York. She also makes sure we get a good picture of the quantity of women that gather in these streets to go to work, it is not just a few women, she talks about “cavalcades” and “throngs” that are distributed by “ford Econoline Vans” across three states (Maslin). This description helps the reader picture a vast network of mostly undocumented workers that work from very early in the morning until very late at night, after “10- to 12-hour shifts” doing manicures and pedicures, probably a task the readers would not be willing to perform themselves as it is a job few people like to do …show more content…
It was also very pleasant to read the article as the sentences used by Sarah Maslin when crafting her argument were very simple and direct. For example, when she is addressing the caste system inequality she points out that “Korean workers earn at least 15 percent to 25 percent more than their counterparts, but disparity can sometimes be much greater, according to manicurists, beauty school instructors and owners” not only is she recurring to several sources to compare the inequality in pay related to nationality, but it is simple to understand the proportions she is describing (Maslin). You do not have to a mathematician to understand the ratio she is exposing to analyze the disparity in
Sarah Maslin begins by telling us that “the women begin to arrive just before 8 a.m.” to the street corners of the main streets of Flushing, Queens, New York. She also makes sure we get a good picture of the quantity of women that gather in these streets to go to work, it is not just a few women, she talks about “cavalcades” and “throngs” that are distributed by “ford Econoline Vans” across three states (Maslin). This description helps the reader picture a vast network of mostly undocumented workers that work from very early in the morning until very late at night, after “10- to 12-hour shifts” doing manicures and pedicures, probably a task the readers would not be willing to perform themselves as it is a job few people like to do …show more content…
It was also very pleasant to read the article as the sentences used by Sarah Maslin when crafting her argument were very simple and direct. For example, when she is addressing the caste system inequality she points out that “Korean workers earn at least 15 percent to 25 percent more than their counterparts, but disparity can sometimes be much greater, according to manicurists, beauty school instructors and owners” not only is she recurring to several sources to compare the inequality in pay related to nationality, but it is simple to understand the proportions she is describing (Maslin). You do not have to a mathematician to understand the ratio she is exposing to analyze the disparity in