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                                 The New Industrial Migrants

The New Industrial Migrants (Part I)

In the article “The new industrial migrants (Part I)” from Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser explains that in the jobs of meatpacking during the 1980s had a big offer of illegal workers came from Mexico, Central America and Asia, therefore the high offer of  workers increase the turnovers rate the same way the profits of these companies were higher.

The New Industrial Migrants (Part II)

In “The New Industrial Migrants (Part II)” from Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser states that in the companies of meatpacking there were importing and hire cheap labor from different areas of the country so the IPB denied the use of the illegal workers in these companies therefore at some point these practice concern to the Immigration and Naturalization Services.

I agree with the author statement these companies use the migrants labor in order to avoid big wages and other expenses that will increase the cost of production so this practices go in benefice of the companies with higher profits.

According to Schlosser in the 1980 companies of meatpacking were taking advantages of the immigrants labor in order to minimize the costs of the production these companies employed thousands of workers during the year this represent a greater increase to the rate of turnover and also avoiding payments of insurance vacation and salaries under the legal rates in comparison if they use American workers those cost of benefits will be increase because they have to pay benefices under the law to the permanent employees such as higher salaries, vacations and consequently more insurance. Also the office of Immigration and Naturalization Services were concern for the large number of illegal immigrants working in the industry of meatpacking. Furthermore American citizens were complaining about the lack of jobs for the middle class. Moreover these companies import workers they are living in shelters from other states like New York, New Jersey, California,Texas, New Mexico to Minnesota with the offer of rent apartments but these companies try to use the homeless shelter as a workers home so clearly they tricked those workers and call the attention from the authorities and media.

In conclusion those companies of meatpacking they took advantage of the immigrants legal or illegal in order to accomplish their financial enrichment purpose.