Girls were forced to work because family’s poverty . A contract for employment, “We confirm that in return for contracting the above person employed as a female operative at your filature …, we have received the said earnest money in full.” (Doc E) Earnest money is the money that the parents of the hired girl received once they contract is signed. Parents were signed these contracts because they live in poverty, they relied on their kids to live. This is not fair, not fair for the family but more for the young girl because the contract was between the parents and factory, the girl has no choice but go off to work in the factory. From a song that was written by a Silk Worker about 1900, “Because I am poor, at age twelve I was sold to this factory. When my parents told me, “Now it is time to go” My very heart wept tears of blood.” (Doc G) The girl is sad and hurt when she was sold to the factory, however she knew her wage was an important help to her family. It is immoral that the Japanese factories hired young girls because they knew that money is important to the girls, the factories saw it as an opportunity so they took advantage of it. Silk female worker wrote this song to express her feeling of hatred of working in the cruel factories Overall, the costs don’t outweigh the benefits because the factories are taking advantage of the girls who have no…
Eva’s father abandoned her mother and five children, forcing them to live on their own in a single-roomed brick house. Eva’s family was poor. The only thing their family had was a sewing machine which Juana slaved over day and night. Her children would try to get her to stop sewing, but she would respond by saying “I do not have time to stop.”…
“The children make our shoes…knit stockings…spin and weave our cotton underwear…braid straw hats.” This statement makes one think, ethically, that what they are wearing was made by little children. Kelley used ethos to its fullest extent to further convey her message. She captivates the audiences’ hearts by pouring in sad entities that are prevalent in this harsh world. “They carry bundles of garments form the factories to the tenements, little beasts of burden robbed at school life that they may work for us.” Kelley states this in order show the harsh reality of what the children have to lose because the adults won’t stand up the child labor laws. She gives guilt to the audience in order to fully persuade them of the need of child labor laws. This was especially effective because she used this ethical appeal at a woman’s suffrage convention. Kelley used the ethos to take the hearts of the audience and pour passion into…
Her son is also possibly working in a factory and is not in school so there for it affect them both. So there for they don’t see each other as much as there would like. This is due to the fact that there are no labor laws at the time so they are working for little to no pay from the factory owner. They are also given the task of every long work hours like 16 hour shifts. On top of that the factories had no ventilation so…
Children often do not understand our parent’s intentions for growth until we are able to empathize with them. When a child is misunderstood by their parent, they feel neglected and have trouble understanding others. In the Joy Luck Club, four Chinese women immigrate to the United States in the mid-1900s during the Chinese Communist Revolutions. Settling in a Americanized country proved to be challenging due to cultural differences, language barriers, and conflicted history in China. The relationships these women formed with their daughters were influenced by new and old customs. In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan illustrates how a relationship between a parent and child can change over time due to vast differences in beliefs and expectations.…
The documentary “Mission Blue” was released in 2014. Erik H. Gordon, Fisher Stevens, Robert Nixon, Jack Youngelson, Mark Monroe, and Peter R. Livingston Jr. are the men responsible for producing such a magnificent piece of work. Executive producers include Lisa Nishimura, Adam Del Deo, Julie Nives, Andrew S. Karsch, Shannon O’Leary Joy, and Shari Sant Plummer. Two of the producers, Fisher Stevens and Robert Nixon also directed “Mission Blue”. Peter R. Livinston Jr. also had another job in the making of this documentary as the editor. “Mission Blue” can be found on Netflix as it is one of Netflix’s Originals and it has a run time of 1 hour and 35 minutes.…
In his short story "Iron Child", Mo Yan deals with the issues of industrialization of China establishing the socialist model of political system. The writer also reflects upon the most acute and burning social issues, particularly, child labor. It should be mentioned that Mo Yan creates the reality in which children appeared to be the most vulnerable in the face of decisions and choices of adults. The general tone of the novel is gloomy. The pace of revolving the plot is predominantly moderate, gravitating towards acceleration. The surrealist vision gives this short story the flavor of reminiscence, since the author, apparently, is recalling and reconsidering his…
In the first paragraph Kelley states that “two million children under the age of sixteen years” are working. She then goes further to state the gruesome jobs young children are forced to complete, such as: working in cotton-mills, coal-breakers, and shoe factories. These jobs appeal to the audience in an emotional state, in order to receive the audience’s attention. Once the attention of her audience is gained she freely talks about her wants for the change in women’s rights and child labor laws, but she constantly reflects back to emotional appeal by using imagery throughout her speech to keep the audience’s attention. Another point is when she describes the treat of little six or seven year old girls in Georgia. At this point in time Georgia had no child labor laws. Kelley uses the possible scenario of a little six or seven year old girl in Georgia whom is just able to reach the bobbins, A cylinder or cone holding thread, yarn, or wire, working eleven hours a day to create the sense of saddened pathos.…
Minors are stuck in factories working and not going to school preparing them for life as an adult. All the children will know is life in a factory and will never be exposed to life where they can live freely and do other things except for making shoes, and sewing soccer balls. Just like Hussain Naqui, a decade long employee in Saga’s shipping company, said that he is very worried for his young daughter (page6, paragraph 35). She is being deprived of her chance to be something more than a factory worker, and she will never know what she can do with her life if she never gets the proper…
Amy Chua is a mother of two daughters and the author of the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom. She is known as a “Tiger Mom”. Amy created the term to identify the parenting method she uses for her two daughters. In her book the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom, Amy Chua discusses how she has raised her two daughters a very superior way and discusses the ways of the superiority of traditional Chinese parenting over the standard western way. After reading her essay on the superiority of the Tiger Mom, I have concluded that her parenting styles are unfair and wrong. While I do not dispute with the success or results of her parenting style, I do disagree with her measure of success.…
In Dai Sijie’s novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, re-education remains a prominent theme throughout the course of the story. Children from the city are sent to nearby villages to live life like the common people reverting back to the ways of early civilizations. Very rarely are these kids ever able to return home; if they are lucky and not enemies of the state, only then do they have a slight chance. This whole concept represents the sense of communism present in China at the time. Children are forced into performing civil labor away from their homes and families. The narrator, Luo and Four Eyes are all placed into this situation without personally having done anything wrong – this represents their innocence in the whole situation. Despite the three kids being without fault, the re-education still manages to change them from their previous ways of thought as was intended by Mao Zedong. In this rural part of China, the norm is comparatively backward and absurd…
Throughout the years, children have been forced to “slavery”; forced to work and attend to someone else’s needs, and labor, foregoing child-like activities and education. Back in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s there were children as young as three years old involved in some kind of work. In between said years, child labor reached its highest peak. Becoming on…
The factories are faced with ethical dilemmas because they know that accepting child labor is bad, but they also realize that child workers are the sole providers for their families. They also know that employees in these factories work the extra hours, without overtime pay, because this is there only way to survive.…
You start out raising a question about western people wondering about the method of Chinese mothers to cultivate successful kids and then try to clarify marked and obvious differences between Chinese and Western parents. To reinforce these distinctions, you take several examples to show that “Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable and actionable to Westerners” and may have strong repercussion among Westerners.…
China Blue offered a different perspective on the working women of China in sweatshops. The quota levels and the pay was very disorganized, and called for very in-depth attention to the workers by management. In China Blue, the girl was marveled at the accommodations of the factory, and quickly realized that these accommodations, and the food provided was not free, nor were they really much better than her home life. According to Ngai, dormitory labor systems regulate the labor mobility, and control the labor force in a way that is usually not seen. Many of the laborers are migrant workers that travel from the countryside to the city to find work, and as seen in China Blue, these workers are often underpaid, and have strict regulations from being in the city. In both the article and the film, the factory controls the migrant workers, and the city provides legislation and/or policy that the factories must house them. By having dormitories onsite, the factory is almost its own little city. It provides food, shelter, and because they control every portion of the laborers life, they can force them to work late, and penalize them for bad behavior, or not meeting their quotas.…