An account of an argument - Essay Example

Download file to see previous pages The fire engine from the New York fire department with its ladders could not go beyond the sixth floor and the safety nets that had been put in place could not sustain the weight of the people jumping in to them. A question that remains unanswered is where are the children who were working in the factory since official reports of the dead workers did not include children in it. The report was modified to include some few teenagers who died in order to meet the requirements of labour law in those days. Another recent tragedy happened in 1993 in Thailand when the factory of the Kader Industrial Toy Company was burnt. Among the 188 victims of the fire, most of them were described as teenage girls, however the actual figure may never be known, as a large number of workers in such factories are children. In another fire incident in November 25, 2000, at the Chowdhury Knitwear and Garment factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed 52 people, 10 of them were reported to be girls aged between 10 and 14 years. A more recent case is in the KTS Composite Textile factory fire in Chittagong, Bangladesh where the official reports record the death toll at around 50 but other sources claim the number of deaths was more than 80 (Weber, n.d).
One of the argument strategies that the author has used is the inductive style, which is a form of logical argument that uses examples to illustrate the main point. This form of argument uses examples from the beginning to the end and the main question that the readers ask themselves is whether there are enough examples and whether those examples are relevant to the issue being addressed. In the ‘factories of lost children,’ the author has used several examples of fire tragedies where the casualties, who are mainly underage children, have not been reported due to labor laws regarding child labor. The main examples that the author has used include the fire tragedy in Asch building, which is in Washington square in ...Download file to see next pagesRead More