Working class

invest in business’s which will supposedly generate more jobs. Yet if this is in fact true then why is it that the living conditions are still bad and jobs are at an all-time low. It is promoting inequality and creating a bigger divide between the working class citizen and the super-rich. According to research done by (YouTube video) Britain is the only economy that has grown…

The church unified medieval Europe and touched everyone’s lives no matter what age, or what class someone was. (Doc. 3) There were certain acts that the Catholic people were expected to follow. For example a couple days after a baby was born they were baptized. At a young age children were taught to pray, go to church every week, and learn their…

While reading MacLeod’s “Ain’t No Making It,” I was able to make connections to Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, even though Ehrenriech and MacLeod conducted their research in different ways. In “Ain’t No Getting By,” MacLeod works at a camp program in a low income neighborhood housing project, where he studies two groups of boys, the Brothers and Hallway Hangers through interviews with them mainly about their aspirations or expectations for the future. While reading MacLeod’s study, I wondered…

it because they have no choice and it is an ultimate necessity. The minimum wage they earn is barely getting them by every single day. The upper and middle class are not aware of their circumstances because their situation is distinctly different. They are distinctly different due to their level of education, but what happens when an upper class person decides to become and underemployed employee? Barbara Ehrenreich decides to put this to the test by hiding her identity in Nickel and Dimed and…

For these reason I dislike him. J. B. Priestly’s message (told via the inspector) tells us that we should have collective responsibility, and share our duties equally between us all. Do we really want to live in a world where those of higher class choose our fate, or do we want to choose our own fate? His message is still relevant today, as I think we still live in…

phone calls and most agencies closed before she departed from work. Discovering which programs a worker qualifies for and then obtaining the assistance, demands time. A study executed by the United States Department of Labor observed that of the working poor who qualify for assistance, only one-third receives it; many are unaware they qualify for these benefits. Several states even require a person to visit an agency twice before awarding food stamps, which consumes additional time (Kim).…

plight of the common laborer to actively show how labor was assembled, deployed, and exploited. The accumulation of labor was indispensable to the development of early Baltimore. With a rising population, employers found they had more power over the working man. Workers were forced to bend to their will. Men would have to “know where to line up for construction labor, which newspaper published the most help wanted ads (p. 45)”, and what jobs hired…

Rich people were excluded from the list, and it only affected those that were in middle class and the poor. The immigrants, African-Americans, farmers and the women right. Those people in the lower class were highly affected as they were also many in the society as a result of the increased professional employment that had led to increased demand for employees. For the immigrates they had low salaries…

Picture this; one day you are driving through a nice neighborhood, filled mainly with middle-class families. Every day you drive through this neighborhood and notice how it is changing from day to day. The first day it was a clean neighborhood, manicured lawns, friendly people waving hello, and maintained homes. Soon this neighborhood shifts, there are more homes for sale or foreclosed, this once pristine neighborhood has turned into abandoned homes, overgrown lawns, and fewer and fewer…

In a 2011 poll, “75% of Americans said “the American Dream was still possible and achievable for other people like you.”(Strain) A 2014 poll showing, “ A whopping 63 percent of adults ages 18-34 believe the American Dream has become impossible for most people to achieve.”(Strain) As with the tanking of our economy a few years ago, Americans have gotten back from much worse things like the Great Depression and the Civil War. In which in one case it may have just been the economy but having a…