Quintero-Ramirez On Precarious Working

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precarious (low job security, poor wages, irregular hours, or unsafe environments) industries. It will be the objective of this paper to show that while she was correct in stating that migrant women working in Canadian sweatshops and Mexican women working in Mexican sweatshops have few other employment opportunities which has lead to them taking precarious work, she is wrong in her assertion that it is due to discrimination. While there may be discrimination in various areas of the labour market it does not adequately describe the “why and how” of the rise of women in precarious work. Instead, this paper will argue that it is the overall trend of efficient business to create precarious work and that it is simply the attempt to maximize profit …show more content…

However, Quintero-Ramirez does a poor job of explaining what this means, but it may refer to how many manufacturing jobs are very monotonous or require dexterity and that women correlate to them by being seen as especially skilled in those areas. In her opinion, the growth of women being able to take such a large percentage of precarious positions in these manufacturing fields was a result of this discrimination against men. Quintero-Ramirez asserts that women are seen as being more flexible and suited for precarious work because of the assumption that they are more accepting of change. As a whole, Quintero-Ramirez’s first premise is extremely weak. While women have been getting massive amounts of precarious work in the maquiladoras industry it is not because they are being segregated based on their gender. A person’s gender is largely irrelevant because the issue isn’t gender, the issue is poverty the education available to the poor. CITATION FOR UNIVERSITY GRADUATES DEMOGRAPHICS IN MEXICO. A very large portion of jobs that a poorly educated person in Mexico could get would have been precarious anyway. Even if people are being split up into different industries based on their gender, it Is beyond the scope of this essay and frankly, not of concern to the context of how women are being integrated into precarious labour. When most jobs are …show more content…

It is the nature of business and competition to make the greatest profits possible while also controlling the largest amount of power within the marketplace. It is for this reason that precarious work is so popular right now. Low skilled, poorly educated people are abundant and are easily replaceable so it is in the economic interest of business to use them in whichever way makes them the greatest profits. This way happens to be precarious work. Free Trade is an aspect of this business ideology that takes advantage of workers so that profits can increase. However, it is not the fault of business because it is clear that it is the success criteria of a business to make the most money possible, it is the fault of legislation for allowing such things to occur. If it were viable, businesses would outsource all jobs to acquire cheaper labour, luckily this is not viable but the point stands that, like water in a glass, business will form around what confines it. Any law or loophole that may lend itself to an increase in revenue will be used to the greatest extent possible and the only way to stop businesses from doing whatever they can to reduce overhead is to reduce what it is possible for them to do. This ends up relating back to women and integration into precarious work because the companies exploiting cheap foreign labour do so without consideration for the lives of those they are allowed to exploit.

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