Ben Hampers is a former employee in GM (General Motors) factory and he also is the author of Rivethead: Tales From The Assembly Line. Hampers is the third generations worker in GM from 1970s to 1980s, he believes that every day working in the assembly line is very monotonous and boring, so he and his colleagues will always come up with interesting ideas to ease the boring work. In addition, he faces layoffs in the automotive industry and some controversy with his factory’s management. The automobile industry has always been an important player in the US economy, but in the end of the twentieth century the competitiveness of the US auto industry was weakened by the resource crisis and intense competition among its peers. He was fired by the
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I grow up in China, a socialist country. When I was young, I remember my elementary school has been instill various kinds of political thought to us, for example, socialism is superior to capitalism, all people in western countries under the capitalist system has a very hard life, life with injustice and high crime rates and Communism is the most perfect and ideal ideology, etc. When I was 16 years old, I believed that textbook knowledge is difficult to solve various problems in life, I become very upset because I cannot understand why there is kinds of social problems in my country. Reading newspapers is one of my hobbies in high school period, so I read newspapers every day I think reading newspaper can get more information and detail than news reports on the television. Unfortunately, Chinese news reports have no freedom, all of the news reports must meet strict government standards. If there are journalists to report on the government scandal or have sociologists and economists to speech about China 's economy and people 's livelihood issues, so they will be arrested and sentenced by the government’s trumped-up charges. I fear about the government 's brutal heartless behavior and I feel …show more content…
Because of the unfair distribution of capitalist system, caused the social wealth disparity and serious polarization. On the other hand, if capitalism is inequality, unfair and not free to the poverty and working class, so I think that capitalism and socialism is not significant difference between the two. In my country, although China 's political system is the socialist system, but the life of the poor and working class in China is much more tragic than the people live in western capitalist countries (for example, Canada and United State). In my opinion, I think as a blue-collar workers in Canada is far much better than engage in the same profession in China. Although Canada’s high taxes , but the government provide a lot of care and allowances for blue-collar workers (for example, construction millwright,carpenter and electrician) such as medical care, unemployment insurance, etc. However, the situation in China would be opposite with Canada. Because in China, the working class cannot get the respect of society and people 's understanding. The vast majority of people think that the working class is the lack of education and come from the poor families, however, the interests of the working class is lack the protection of law and social concerns, workers ' wages
I grow up in China, a socialist country. When I was young, I remember my elementary school has been instill various kinds of political thought to us, for example, socialism is superior to capitalism, all people in western countries under the capitalist system has a very hard life, life with injustice and high crime rates and Communism is the most perfect and ideal ideology, etc. When I was 16 years old, I believed that textbook knowledge is difficult to solve various problems in life, I become very upset because I cannot understand why there is kinds of social problems in my country. Reading newspapers is one of my hobbies in high school period, so I read newspapers every day I think reading newspaper can get more information and detail than news reports on the television. Unfortunately, Chinese news reports have no freedom, all of the news reports must meet strict government standards. If there are journalists to report on the government scandal or have sociologists and economists to speech about China 's economy and people 's livelihood issues, so they will be arrested and sentenced by the government’s trumped-up charges. I fear about the government 's brutal heartless behavior and I feel …show more content…
Because of the unfair distribution of capitalist system, caused the social wealth disparity and serious polarization. On the other hand, if capitalism is inequality, unfair and not free to the poverty and working class, so I think that capitalism and socialism is not significant difference between the two. In my country, although China 's political system is the socialist system, but the life of the poor and working class in China is much more tragic than the people live in western capitalist countries (for example, Canada and United State). In my opinion, I think as a blue-collar workers in Canada is far much better than engage in the same profession in China. Although Canada’s high taxes , but the government provide a lot of care and allowances for blue-collar workers (for example, construction millwright,carpenter and electrician) such as medical care, unemployment insurance, etc. However, the situation in China would be opposite with Canada. Because in China, the working class cannot get the respect of society and people 's understanding. The vast majority of people think that the working class is the lack of education and come from the poor families, however, the interests of the working class is lack the protection of law and social concerns, workers ' wages