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It definitely gives perspective.
But Id argue modern pharmaceutical companies are just as bad today.
They rely on immigrant slave labor in deceptive and dangerous environments - and hire armies of lawyers to subvert justice in elaborate schemes. And they own the media companies so they will probably never be called out for it.
We live in strange times where nearly everything you hear is a manufactured lie.
agriculture companies are no better. a staggering number of immigrants die from heat exhaustion or are maimed by equipment each year.
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Dramatic stories of immigrants injured or killed while working in dangerous jobs abound. For example, two Ecuadorian brothers who worked as window washers in New York fell 47 stories when their scaffolding collapsed. One died, and the other was gravely injured (McFadden and Schweber 2007). A migrant farm worker died of heat stroke after picking tobacco in 110 degree weather in North Carolina. His internal body temperature was recorded at 108 degrees (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health [NIOSH] 2007). A 14-year-old undocumented worker was partially decapitated and crushed by machinery in a plant in Tennessee. The youth, who had presented forged documents indicating that he was 19 years old, had received no safety training (NIOSH 2005). In addition to workplace accidents, more than 3,000 foreign-born workers were murdered on the job between 1992 and 2005, making homicide the leading cause of workplace fatalities among immigrants (Franklin and Little 2006).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831347/