Week 3: Domination

When I was reading the domination metaphor, and how it "turns our attention to how organizations use and exploit employees, damaging employees' health and intruding on their personal lives." I once did a research report in one of my classes based on the Bracero Program. The Bracero Program was something that began back in the 1940's in the U.S, employees in the U.S contracted Mexican workers to work in the fields, railroads, etc. It was an agreement between the U.S and Mexico that would let Mexican workers come legal to the U.S while men were off fighting the war. The employers that hired Mexican workers were dominating, they told them what to do and when to do it, many times these men worked for long hours out in the sun that they would get dehydrated, and many would get sick and die. After some time many of these men began to fight back and demanded justice. All this goes to show that the domination way to run a business does not work. People need to be treated with respect, especially if they are helping run a business, because without them everything would fall apart.