Monday, October 3, 2011
Fast Food Nation- "The Most Dangerous Job"- Contradiction
In Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, Schlosser describes the relationship between the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the meatpacking industry. The OSHA is the agency that is responsible for giving the meatpacking industries' safety regulations and making sure that those safety regulations are being followed. According to Schlosser "In 1981 the agency adopted a new policy of "voluntary compliance"(179). In other words the OSHA's new policy allowed the meatpacking industries' to pick and choose the regulations they wanted to follow. This is a contradiction because the OSHA is responsible for the safety of millions of workers, yet their new policy allows the meatpacking industries' to cut corners when it comes to safety.
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This is a great unified paragraph. You made sure you introduced the the book as well as the author. I like how you used keywords from the text such as "OSHA" and also defined what it meant. Correct citations were used well in your summary and you made sure to paraphrase right after the quote. Your contradiction on OSHA made perfect sense and i definitely agree with it. Over all this was a great summary.
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