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The most dangerous job

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The Most Dangerous Job is a critical part of the Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, where literature sheds light to the inhumane conditions subjected to workers within the slaughterhouse and meatpacking company. The picture painted in the literature is a world characterized by huge saws and long knives, bone and blood, sweltering heat and arctic chill (Royer, 2001). Schlosser sheds light on the secret horrors trapped within the gigantic walls of the slaughterhouse. Today I will take you through concerns and issues pertaining the unethical treatment faced by the low-level and mid-level workers in the slaughterhouse. I will take a special focus on aspects such as sexual harassment and assault on female worker, encouragement of drug abuse among workers, and the dangers they live in and are unable to voice their concerns in fear of losing their jobs.

Slaughterhouse workers work in poor working conditions and risky environments. Schlosser begins his slaughterhouse a visit, an immense three-storeyed building, square and gray, with no window (Exhibit1). In his tour, he is given a chain-mail apron and gloves. Workers the line wear about eight pounds of chainmail beneath their white coats, shiny amour that covers their wrists, hands, stomach, and the back. The chain mail is designed to protect them from being cut by their fellow workers. Noises from power tools and machinery, bursts of compressed air characterize the loud sounds in the factory. He proceeds to the fab room where workers operate at a temperature cooled to about 40 degrees. The place is freezing cold.

Exhibit1

Slaughterhouse

Workers are subjected to unending pressure that contributes to the abuse of drugs. Schlosser posits that the inexorable pressure of trying to keep up with the line has boosted the widespread methamphetamine abuse among slaughterhouse workers. Workers who take cranks feel self-confident and charged and ready for anything. The pace in the meatpacking companies or the production system is highly demanding that slaughterhouse workers are constantly pressured to work at a high speed that ultimately results in injuries and accidents. What is more appalling being the fact that injuries often go unaccounted for? “Again and again workers informed me that they are coerced not to report accidents and injuries (Schlosser).” The yearly bonuses of supervisors and foremen are awarded on the basis of injuries and accident rates of their workers. Instead of enhancing safety in the workplace, the bonus schemes encourage slaughterhouse supervisors and foremen to ensure that injuries and accidents go unreported.

Lacerations are the common injuries suffered by the meat packers, who often stab themselves or colleagues working nearby (Exhibit2). Cumulative trauma disorders and tendinitis conditions are commonly suffered by slaughterhouse workers. Routine meatpacking leads to shoulder problems, back problems, carpal tunnel syndrome, and trigger finger syndrome which results from working on frozen conditions. Indeed, the cumulative trauma conditions in the slaughterhouse are higher than in any other industry. Injured workers are a hindrance to a generation of profits and revenue. This is because they are unproductive. So, their weekly wages are significantly cut, also after suffering injuries or accidents, the meat plant considers them a liability and useless that needs to be gotten rid of. In either way, it can be seen that workers and their lives are of little value to the slaughterhouse for which they take high risks to work. The image depicted by the discussion above shows that the workers are treated as tools that are used and abused until their functions diminish, after which they become useless things that are in the long run gotten rid of. Amidst the inhumane treatment, the slaughterhouse workers remain trapped serving as the only puppets with the meat plant pulling the strings however, they like.

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Chart of different various injuries in slaughterhousses

The other prime issue within the walls of the meat plant is the willful abuse of power. Every slaughterhouse has managers in each section and, each manager is like a little dictator in his or her section of the meat plant with the prerogative of bossing, firing, berating, and reassigning workers. That kind of power is detrimental and often leads to all kinds of abuses particularly when daily workers are supervised by women. Female workers also undergo sexual harassment within the walls of the slaughterhouse. Schlosser recounts women coworker’s relationships with managers and majorly consensual. The relationships are consensual because the majority of women often are grappling with stress and anxieties to keep their jobs, to secure their lives, and permanent settlements in the country. The majority of women are illegal migrants and minorities. These women are coerced to engage in sexual affairs by being threatened with job loss.

The slaughterhouse workers are subjected to unfavorable and inhumane working conditions. The outcome of the subjection is traumatic disorders, injuries, and sometimes even death. Women are victims of sexual harassment and assaults. Workers work in extreme conditions characterized by intense noise and freezing temperatures. Moreover, the workers are subjected to undue pressure and long working hours which makes most end in drug abuse to suppress the condition. The extrapolation by Schlosser is a perfect definition of the most dangerous job. It is no brainer that most of us work in extremely safe jobs, a reason to be thankful a million times.

Exhibit3

Inside in slaughterhousses