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Alternatively, you could simply vote with your wallet and not increase demand for exploitative industries. The world is rife with stories of menial workers who
by vacri 10y ago
Alternatively, you could simply vote with your wallet and not increase demand for exploitative industries.
The world is rife with stories of menial workers who were lured to international job roles that turned out to be lies. One common one is subcontinental workers lured to the gulf states to work on construction, and when they arrive they have their passports confiscated and a treated like slaves. Another common one is southeast Asian women lured to first-world countries and similarly tricked, but into sex slavery. These are the worst-case scenarios, but there's plenty of versions without the idea of 'slavery' - the international 'maid' industry, for example. A lot of south east Asians go to other countries and become maids, where they are frequently abused - and it's hard to get home when you haven't been paid since you arrived, may not have your passport, may be physically isolated, and don't speak the local language.
Ah, but no, "it's a job and someone's doing it, so clearly they were fully informed before they went in and no-one is exerting undue leverage over them"...
- paulddraper 10y agoThose stories involve immigration. Cruise ship workers don't do that. They will the world and return home to tell all their friends about the experience.
- alphonsegaston 10y agoYou can literally just google "cruise industry immigrants" to find that this isn't true: http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/04/17/health-and-family/travel/the-dark-side-of-the-cruise-ship-industry.html http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/04/17/health-and-fam...