Factory Workers

"Then came the pictures,all drawn with Harpo's scientific precision. The crowd began to murmur. What did it mean? Who were these skeleton people lugging stone in a quarry? Who were those beasts with twisted faces beating workers emerging from the slit of the dam foundations? Was this the the way their dam had been built? These ghosts in white, were they the ones filling bottles of bubble Blue Mountain? Those bodies on the factory floor, were they actually dead?" (395.Adlington)

With the corruption of unfair factory labor exposed to the whole community, they were all flabbergasted. While the society was drinking their delicious Blue Mountain beverage, they had no idea that the people working in the factory was being abused. Luckily, an escaped factory worker and some friends exposed the horrible conditions of the factory to everyone. Q Essnid, the governor was aware of what was going on in the factory, but tries to hide this secret from everyone that admired him. Q Essnid tries to deny the fact that he knew anything about the conditions of the factory, but he definitely was aware. Factory labors has been around for a fairly long time. Till this day there are still factory labors with people working crazy hours and getting extremely low pay, like in China. But not as bad as the one described in the book. I predicted that in the future, working conditions would improve, just like how they improved from the past. But, it got worse, and the factory only brought in a certain race to do all the labor work. That is a combination of both inequality and corrupted work labor. Apparently in the future, racism and horrible work conditions will get worse, not better. If workers are starving to the point that they look like skeletons, and dead bodies are on the ground, than factories have really reached their limits of providing any rights to the people. Are there factories somewhere in the world that is like this? And we as the people, are not aware? People in prisons now, even have a better condition than the workers in the book. Might as well be in prison and get fed then working for hours without any pay or chance to leave.