Someone Is Stealing Your Life                                      -Michael Ventura

In your journal, spend ten to fifteen minutes discussing whether you agree with the following statement: "unskilled workers around the world are always exploited by those in power." When you are finished, share share your ideas with several classmates.

Ans: I agree with the statement that if workers have no skills they are sure to be exploited by persons who hold economic and power. Their labour is used without offering them an adequate compensation. People are forced to sell their labour to the powerful entity, such as the state, a corporation or any other private company. If they do not sell their labour in the labour market, they cannot survive. So they are easily exploited.
A skilled worker can move to other place, if he is exploited. But an unskilled labour cannot move to another place. He is exploited by making him volunteer for extra assignments, work unpaid overtime, and work harder, but he gets paid less than his counterparts.
Managers and supervisors manage the factories. Many workers are employed in the factories. Most are young women. If they did not have the jobs, they would have to return to unpaid labour in agriculture back in their home village.
Dangerous health and safety conditions are common in factories, such as exposure to hazardous chemicals without protective equipment and working with unguarded machinery. Management forces workers to work long hours, often requiring double shifts of 16-hours workdays.