They are trans formed into an urban poor who work for subsistence wages in sweat shops and factories. In the view of many analysts, the multinationals virtually rob their host countries of resources and labor power. At the same time, they engage in modes of strategic management that increase the dependence of these countries on their continued presence. Industrial accidents, occupational disease, pollution, and general degradation of the people and the land continue to occur at a level that vividly reproduces the conditions of raw exploitation and human despair experienced in the worst industrial centers of England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Again, the logic of economics and the imperative of making large profits tend to be the dominant concerns.