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Many people work for consumer products. But the factory environment that these people work in, is poor and suffocated. People who work in factories, get low paid for their hard work and long hours. No Sweat and Low Wages, Strong Backs focuses on low wages and some positive impact of factories, but one focuses on products and the other focuses on how the condition affects the workers. Author Garyfalakis brings out workers life and sweat factories working condition in the developing countries. To educate the consumers, she also shows the impact of boycotting sweat factory products in the developed countries. Same way author Tom Meagher speaks about the factory workers life in the U.S. He describes the circumstances that forces workers to work in the factories with low pay and its impact on their life. No Sweat talks about the low wages in the sweat factories in all the developing countries. It gives an example of sweat factory’s workers in Uzbekistan. Where children work only for 48 cents wages per day (Garyfalakis, par. 2). Author shows that the wages that the sweat shop workers receive in the developing countries that are “not enough for basic survival needs” (Garyfalakis, par. 2). Sweat shop workers have to live with that small amount of wages which is hard to survive. Author shows the real story about sweatshop workers where she proves that, the wages that workers receive is not enough for basic survival. Low Wages, Strong Backs also proves that factory workers in U.S. receives less wages for their hard work. Author speaks about the heavy weight lifting jobs which pays only “$8 an hour” (Meagher, par. 4). Author Meagher (2011, par. 6) gives an example of minimum expenditure that an individual needs for meeting all daily essenti... ... middle of paper ... ...brings out daily sufferings of factory workers and their emotional condition. Overall both the essays shows the similarity of working in a factory with poor wages and some advantages of working in a factory, but one of them raise awareness among its consumers about the products and the other tells its audience about the day to day sufferings of its workers in a factory condition. Both essays brings out the reality of factory works and its working condition. They show examples of low wages that factory workers get for their all hard work. Authors mention about positive side of working in a factory by which the workers get benefited. In general both essays shows the real picture of the factory works. References Garyfalakis, R. (2013). NO SWEAT? In COMM 1007- COLLEGE EGLISH (pp. 298-303). Toronto: NELSON EDUCATION Ltd. Meagher, T. (2011). LOW WAGES, STRONG BACKS.

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