In The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler, Shiplerbrings up topics that actual people deal with in life. One of the topics being that employers can be biased when it comes to hiring employees or even keeping them. A person’s appearance or their personal issues could cause it to be difficult to get hired. In The Working Poor, Shipler makes the book relative to people, gives examples, and makes people decide if they agree or disagree.
Shipler constructs all of his arguments in a way that it makes it relatable to the reader. He wants the reader to be able to relate to all these people in the book. Based off of the interviewer’s stories, he has somewhat of a reasonable explanation for why it may be happening. There aren’t many solutions told within the book pertaining to employers being somewhat biased about physical appearance. He has named a few ways that people could gain more education that could lead them to a promotion at work. Shipler has also mentioned that people will need consistent transportation and possibly child care in order to keep a …show more content…
Katherine Newman made opposing arguments in her article about the book. She agreed and disagreed with certain “Employers do not have to put up with confrontational characters; they just fire them (or simply don’t hire them in the first place). It doesn’t help when these temperamental problems pile on top of real skill deficits: the inability to read directions or make changes or address an envelope. Bad employment records make it nearly impossible to climb out of working poverty” (Newman). This basically says that if a worker doesn’t have certain skills or education, they could be fired. With being fired, it’s on their resume, they have to deal with being fired from one place. Then not being taken anywhere else. With the solution Shipler had on having there be more trainings and more opportunities for employers to give their
Shipler constructs all of his arguments in a way that it makes it relatable to the reader. He wants the reader to be able to relate to all these people in the book. Based off of the interviewer’s stories, he has somewhat of a reasonable explanation for why it may be happening. There aren’t many solutions told within the book pertaining to employers being somewhat biased about physical appearance. He has named a few ways that people could gain more education that could lead them to a promotion at work. Shipler has also mentioned that people will need consistent transportation and possibly child care in order to keep a …show more content…
Katherine Newman made opposing arguments in her article about the book. She agreed and disagreed with certain “Employers do not have to put up with confrontational characters; they just fire them (or simply don’t hire them in the first place). It doesn’t help when these temperamental problems pile on top of real skill deficits: the inability to read directions or make changes or address an envelope. Bad employment records make it nearly impossible to climb out of working poverty” (Newman). This basically says that if a worker doesn’t have certain skills or education, they could be fired. With being fired, it’s on their resume, they have to deal with being fired from one place. Then not being taken anywhere else. With the solution Shipler had on having there be more trainings and more opportunities for employers to give their