Reaction to Day Laborers and the Issue of Poverty

Class today was centered around the issue of poverty, particularly the hardships of day laborers in Mexico. The people in the video experienced deprivations in a disheartening fashion to witness. They essentially serve as slaves to these corporations, like Driscoll’s, who pay them next to nothing to toil under some of the harshest conditions imaginable with no benefits whatsoever.

We saw that one mother who locks her children in a shed of some sort to protect them at home while she goes out to work. She still hardly makes any money and is forced to leave her kids in such dire conditions that’s also a fire hazard.

These are the same people who produce the items that are shelved in our grocery stores. Some of them are even small children who have no business being required to fill that occupation at their stage of life. It makes you wonder as a consumer when you purchase such products if it was made by someone like these people. It ultimately gave me a different life perspective and something extra to think about when I’m in the store.