For an adolescent, a first job represents an exciting moment in their lives. A job teaches responsibility, the importance of punctuality, performing duties in a timely manner, working independently or in a team to accomplish a similar outcome. It promotes character, teaches discipline, and tolerance of others. Equally important, is understanding that there is an authority that must be respected and obeyed in the job site, even though circumstances prevent a mutual accordance. But the true purpose of a job, in theory, is the independence offered by receiving a salary in exchange for the hard work performed.
While money earned through employment allows for purchases of the latest fashion trends, or electronic devices, and other luxury items, for others, a job means survival to afford the essentials, like food, a place to live and to a …show more content…
It explains an industry that employed a “labor force that is 80 to 90 percent female” (introduction xix), in the maquiladoras. It is about the migration of the Mexican women, whom, after leaving their homes, acquired job skills, integrated themselves into unfamiliar neighborhoods, and along with their children survived the experience, that highlights the intent of all immigrant child, men and women, to integrate into a society that will offer the opportunities to become financially independent. Most importantly, is to show how with some determination and faith the women of the maquiladoras represent a dual femininity of the Mexican woman, the fortitude machinery and the delicateness of a flower. A reminder that change may flourish from the most oppressive
While money earned through employment allows for purchases of the latest fashion trends, or electronic devices, and other luxury items, for others, a job means survival to afford the essentials, like food, a place to live and to a …show more content…
It explains an industry that employed a “labor force that is 80 to 90 percent female” (introduction xix), in the maquiladoras. It is about the migration of the Mexican women, whom, after leaving their homes, acquired job skills, integrated themselves into unfamiliar neighborhoods, and along with their children survived the experience, that highlights the intent of all immigrant child, men and women, to integrate into a society that will offer the opportunities to become financially independent. Most importantly, is to show how with some determination and faith the women of the maquiladoras represent a dual femininity of the Mexican woman, the fortitude machinery and the delicateness of a flower. A reminder that change may flourish from the most oppressive