The relationship across work, power and vulnerability are interdependent. The master narrative only examines the lives of workers from a macro perspective, which homogenizes and categorizes immigrant workers as unskilled workers therefore placing immigrant workers in a caste where they are to be deemed less than their counterparts with an equal set of skills. According to Marx, the worker is degraded to a commodity and is seen less than his production. Berta’s story supplements this notion, employers often regulate immigrant workers as cheap labor and are therefore valued less than the good they produce. The Division of labor as Braverman explains is determined by the productivity of the worker and “subdivides humans” and essentially devalues
