The Real Slum Dog Millionaire Essay

From watching the films in class, it shows the impact that the development of capitalism do to the working class whose countries are targeted for capitalist investment or in countries that are industrial capitalist. Far from actually helping these people, it actually caused harm. These people struggled to support themselves and their family while the capitalist society takes advantage of them. In “Behind the Labels”, women from different parts of Asia (China, Philippines) were sent to Saipan to work in sweatshop factories in order to get money to pay off debt from their home country and provide the necessities for their family. They were given false hope and broken promises of getting paid high amounts of money. Because there is no labor laws that can protect them, they’ve experience so much abuse. They’ve been exploited by paying high fees to work, getting paid less, forced to work overtime, living in unsafe regulations which cause many to get injured while working. When they tried to protest or tell the higher
The term “slum dog” is offensive and it basically dehumanizes the people who lives in the slums. Dharavi is given a bad reputation by the industrialized areas. It is the largest slum that is located between the economic hub and Bollywood industry of Mumbai. Most of the people makes a living by doing recycling jobs like rag picking. It is a dangerous job because of the exposure of waste, chemicals, fumes, and objects such as needles that carries diseases. Even though they have a recycling business, they don’t get paid nearly enough compared to the business in Mumbai since they are being exploited. People also work in factories, which is also unregulated and exploited. Industries also are trying to wipe out the slum which many homes would be destroyed. It will only benefit the rich and middle