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    Essay on Child Labor Around the World

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    Child Labor Around the World Child Labor in Mexico Eight to eleven million children under the age of fifteen work in Mexico. There is a small number under fourteen. The children are employed in export oriented maquiladoras, or assembly factories between Mexico and the United States. Maquilas are affiliates of American owned companies that assemble goods for export, transportation equipment, electrical and electric products, toys , sporting goods, textiles and furniture. The work

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    Emotional Labor

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    jobs is emotional labor, which is an act that many partake in, without realizing. They assume that it is simply expected to greet all customers with a smile and to suppress any negative emotions that may arise while working. Some of the jobs that involve emotional labor include working in retail, fast food and so forth. In this paper, the job I will focus on is working at a call center. I will discuss the emotional labor that takes place, and my experience performing emotional labor. I will begin by

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    Child Labor and Slavery Rough Draft “Each year, as many as 2.7 million healthy years of life are lost due to child labor.” Imagine that you are being held as a slave and forced to do dangerous labor as a child. Many people are being held captive and are being forced to do perilous things, sweating their lives away, not taking breaks, and being put in adult like situations. In fact right now there are 15-20 million children working as slaves. Although it provides children and families with money,

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    Body First and foremost, what is emotional labor? University of California, Berkeley sociologist Arlie Hochschild, who created the term “emotional labor” in the late 19th Century. According to her definition, emotional labor is managing your emotion to create a fair and visible facial and physical expression. employees who need to service to the customer had to do with their physical or psychological responsibilities. They need to be showing their positive state which including, smiling eye contact

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    Emotional Labor

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    had a good results pertaining to service jobs and emotional labor. Brotheridge and Grandey (2002) Received more accurate results when they compared their research to Hochschild. Brotheridge and Grandey (2002) Hochschild (1983) proposed a list of emotional labor jobs invoke frequent customer contact and emotional displays controlled by the organization. However, Brotheridge and Grandey (2002) claimed Hochschild’s list to nonemtional labor jobs was not effective in predicting stress and burnout. Hochschild’s

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    For the past few years there has been a rise of awareness of major western corporations that tend to exploit their workers in third world countries. On one hand it’s significantly cheaper having labor overseas than back home, but the treatment of these workers ' is unjust. All these major companies care about is making a quick buck, they could care less how these workers are treated, the conditions they work in, and how it is affecting their way of living. The way these major companies treat their

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    divided in a household in order to improve productivity. Division of labor is not only part of workforce labor but it can also be noticed in a household labor. Some advantages for the division of labor are, a greater increase in technology and time saving for labor; disadvantages are, loss of responsibility as workers are assigned to a particular task and no one takes a responsibility from any mistake. In the household division of labor, tasks are usually divided between men and women of the household

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    division of labor creates opportunities for individual cooperations to cooperate and improve manufacturing and individual labor productivity. While the corporations can maximize their benefits through surplus value owing to selling product, the workers have opportunities to get job more easily as well as professional working enviroment by using modern technology, however, exploitation, effecting workers’ health and uninspiring job significantly influence on the workers and even labor productivity

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    Emotion Labor

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    is shared among the members in the organisation (Olusoji et al. 2012). For example, companies set the culture of smiling while working may indirectly became a habit to the employees after doing it repetitively. Important of Emotional Labor Emotional labors are very important to one organization because it allowed the manager to understand that one jobs require various skills. According to Karen (2012), she said that if one person knows how to handle their emotion then it might help diffuse

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    world children are being forced to work in unthinkable conditions. Many are born into areas ravished by poverty or civil war. Child labor exists in today’s society. Though many in the United States may be numb to the effects of child labor, the reality of it stretches across

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