The Division Of Labour Adam Smith Analysis

"The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour, and the greatest part of the skill, dexterity, and judgement with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour."- Adam Smith
Smith is saying that the greatest improvement we have in productivity is labour, labour is the key of the great things we have now. I agree with the author because the workers are the people who help with the economic growth, and the people who make the product should get more credit and get a salary that they deserve. Labour trafficking is one of the biggest issue we are facing in this modern world. While economic globalisation has created more jobs, it is the cause for low wages and poor work-life balance
The minimum wages in many countries remain a low amount, and there are still many countries like Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland that don't have a maximum working hour. The average working hours in the US in around 8 to 9 hours, compared to a worker in China who works over sixteen hours every day, and many of them work 6 days in a week. And some of them only get 55 cents per hour for overtime, you can’t get a snack with 55 cents in the US. Most workers are poor and uneducated and that they have no idea how to stand up and fight for a better working condition as well as their small amount of salary they received. Most workers have travelled a long way to the city to work in the factory, leaving their family in the countryside, some workers are the only one who has an income in the whole family. Although there’s a minimum wage in China, most workers earn so little that they can barely feed their family. When the workers' salary differ from the amount they signed up for, they don’t know how to stand up for themselves, some factories own would threaten them that the family members of the worker would be harm if the workers report to the government. According to a worker-safety group in Korea, more than 200 cases of serious illnesses such as leukaemia, lupus, lymphoma and multiple sclerosis were recorded due to poor working environment in Samsung factories, 76 of the workers have died from illness. "In a situation where people's lives are at stake, Samsung brought uninformed kids from the countryside and acted like money is everything, using them as if they were disposable cups," said Park Min-Sook, a former factory worker in Samsung. Since 2008, 56 workers applied for occupational safety compensation and only less than 20% of those workers have won the case. Although some protest for their rights, government tend to not listen to them most of the time because they think that