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5ead the given text by 1aomi .lein
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TASK:
$nalyse / examine how 1aomi .lein uses language to illustrate the
inhumane working conditions and its eIIect upon the reader
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+ighlight sentences or passages that help you to identiIy the
central message oI the text
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Underline the stylistic devices which are used and name them
next to the text
Cavite
ŋ a city oI southwest /u]on Philippines on 0anila Bay
southwest of Manila
buy-in-bulk
ŋ the purchase at one time and oIten at a reduced price
oI a large Tuantity oI a particular product
bargain
– something bought or offered at a low price
swath
– der Landstrich
eerily
ŋ spooky Irightening
clamoring
ŋ giving oII a permanent loud noise
EPZ
ŋ (xport Processing =one SonderwirtschaIts]one
mesmerizing
ŋ hypnotic
vast
ŋ great in Tuantity
contractor
ŋ a person or company who agrees to Iurnish materials or
perIorm services at a specified price
abusive
ŋ extremely disrespectIul
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Manufacturing is concentrated and isolated inside the zone as if it were
toxic waste: pure, 100 percent production at low, low prices. Cavite*, like
the rest of the zones that compete with it, presents itself as the buy-in-
bulk* Price Club for multinationals on the lookout for bargains* – grab
a really big shopping cart.
Inside, it’s obvious that the row of factories, each with its own gate
and guard, has been carefully planned to squeeze the maximum amount
of production out of this swath
*
of land. Windowless workshops made
of cheap plastic and aluminum sidings are crammed in next to each
other, only feet apart. Racks of time cards bake in the sun, making sure
the maximum amount of work is extracted from each worker, the max-
imum number of working hours extracted from each day. The streets in
the zone are eerily* empty, and open doors – the ventilation system for
most factories – reveal lines of young women hunched in silence over
clamoring
*
machines. […]
Regardless of where the EPZs* are located, the workers’ stories have
a certain mesmerizing* sameness: the workday is long – fourteen hours
in Sri Lanka, twelve hours in Indonesia, sixteen in Southern China,
twelve in the Philippines. The vast* majority of the workers are women,
always young, always working for contractors* or subcontractors from
Korea, Taiwan or Hong Kong. The contractors are usually filling orders
for companies based in the U.S., Britain, Japan, Germany or Canada.
The management is military-style, the supervisors often abusive*, the
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