1.) Slaves are treated as subhuman- employers in this case treat their workers as subhuman. As is obvious from their policies, treatment, and total lack of respect for workers, they see and use them as objects or machines- tools to be drawn upon for the good of their own company. 2.) Many of them are illegal immigrants. Without papers, corporations can pay them whatever they want to. And it is not hard to make the case at all- illegal immigrants, no matter how much Americans tend to demonize them, are people- just as human as American citizens. It is a violation of basic rights to force people to work that hard and live that horribly. How can one argue that an illegal immigrant is less entitled to those basic rights than an American citizen? Did we as American citizens do anything to deserve more rights? As far as I can tell, we just happened to be born in America.