Summary of “The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream”
In the early phase of essay, Barbara Ehrenreich found that numbers of middle class undergoing economic difficulty has steadily increased. It becomes a motive to her to discuss about the genuine relation between social backgrounds, college education and white – collar occupation, and American Dream. She decides to find whether the those settings are the absoulte and secure position as much as public believe. Ehrenreich comes up with two socioeconomic phenomena and describes them as omen that alarms instability within the middle class workforce. The first phenomenon is increasing unemployment rates in white – collar professionals. As for the evidence, she presents the change of class portion in unemployment between 2001 and 2003. During the economic depression of 2001, blue – collar workers occupied most of portion in unemployment rate. But in 2003, 20 percent of the unemployment rate was white – collar workers. The data demonstrates that there was relative growth of unemployment in middle class labor force from 2001 to 2003. Ehrenreich also suggests an accompanied result which the labor of highly educated and professional employees has depreciated in value. With the story of former computer industry executive working as sales associate at GAP, she states that numbers of white – …show more content…
The title of essay implies that this concept of American dream is distorted and contradict to what the orignal 'American dream', which one constructs his or her individual ownership,no matter with the scale, both economically and politically through self-determination with no restricted barriers. Basically, the American Dream is to exercise one's freedom by independency, not like the state of subordination to government or
In the early phase of essay, Barbara Ehrenreich found that numbers of middle class undergoing economic difficulty has steadily increased. It becomes a motive to her to discuss about the genuine relation between social backgrounds, college education and white – collar occupation, and American Dream. She decides to find whether the those settings are the absoulte and secure position as much as public believe. Ehrenreich comes up with two socioeconomic phenomena and describes them as omen that alarms instability within the middle class workforce. The first phenomenon is increasing unemployment rates in white – collar professionals. As for the evidence, she presents the change of class portion in unemployment between 2001 and 2003. During the economic depression of 2001, blue – collar workers occupied most of portion in unemployment rate. But in 2003, 20 percent of the unemployment rate was white – collar workers. The data demonstrates that there was relative growth of unemployment in middle class labor force from 2001 to 2003. Ehrenreich also suggests an accompanied result which the labor of highly educated and professional employees has depreciated in value. With the story of former computer industry executive working as sales associate at GAP, she states that numbers of white – …show more content…
The title of essay implies that this concept of American dream is distorted and contradict to what the orignal 'American dream', which one constructs his or her individual ownership,no matter with the scale, both economically and politically through self-determination with no restricted barriers. Basically, the American Dream is to exercise one's freedom by independency, not like the state of subordination to government or