Lit Assessment

I read an article named "Fight for fair treatment of workers: Don't buy Nike". This article is about how the worker who make the shoes are treated. There are many problems in this world. One big problem is workers rights. Are workers treated fairly? At Nike workers are getting paid almost nothing and are being treated unfairly. They have violated the rights of the worker. They have abused the workers both physically and mentally. In the article it claimed that the workers only get paid $1.25 a day. They work in these harsh abusive conditions and only get paid that! The workers can get basic necessities like rent an 8-by-8-foot one-room apartment, obtain drinking water, secure transportation to work and buy two meals of chicken, rice and vegetables. These are good but if the workers need other things like cleaning products or medicine they have to starve in order to afford these things. The workers are also getting shoes thrown at them, kicked, slapped, and workers stand in the hot sun for making mistakes on the job. 

I also read a poem named "The Sweatshop". In this poem the writer argues that while working in the sweatshops she is treated like a machine. She has no feeling, no thought, and no understanding. She expresses how the minute she steps into the factory she is turned into a machine. She is forced to do the same thing over and over. The poem was different then the article because it makes you understand more how the writer felt. The words flow smoothy through your mind.