Blue-collar worker

The politics of The Martian present a powerful counterpoint to the rise of anti-intellectualism in the United States. Whereas the heavy majority of big-budget space adventures set in present day or the near future pay little attention to scientific accuracy in the name of entertainment, The Martian is, at its core, about science. It is about the triumph of the scientific method and the value of education. Trapped alone on Mars, astronaut Mark Watney has to conduct what are essentially a series…

class, however, she believes that some companies, like Wal-Mart, should be a union and have better benefits. Also, in Mike Rose’s, Blue-Collar Brilliance, he explains that his mother was a waitress for a family restaurant, and while she was waitressing she found an interest in studying the customer’s behavior. Rose also mentions how his uncle started as an assembly line worker and ended up becoming the supervisor of the paint-and-body…

I was born in Prosser, Wa. and grew up in Sunnyside, WA. Where 82.2 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino and 15.7 percent was white (Census). Only 52.3 percent of residence were high school graduates (Census). My parents did not go to college nor finish high school. My father stopped going to school when he was in 2nd grade. When my parents migrated to the U.S. in search of a better life they ended up working the in the fields, picking fruit. The community I grew up in was mainly…

themselves, to try and understand the lives of those whom are apart of the labor force. In the case of Barbara Ehrenreich, her novel Nickel and Dimed is a compelling story that conveys her experiences while discovering what it is like to be a blue collar worker. Unlike most journalists…

In many ways, my grandfather had fewer occupational and educational opportunities than his predecessors. This was partially because of his family’s economic situation. His family’s social and economic positions might be explained by conflict theory or the Labour theories of Karl Marx. Marx viewed labour as a commodity that was always sold at a rate below its value. (Smith P. , 2013). In my grandfather’s case, there were not buyers to pay him a higher rate. My grandfather’s family was not…

Castration of the Blue-Collar Worker Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent abolitionist and clergyman, once said that “The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.” Beecher addresses how the American ideal has been skewed and the American people misguided into believing that we all should be on equal footing, believing that no social hierarchy should exist. Instead,…

The author’s irony by stating in the title that it is a “prominent bar,” made me laugh. As Secaucus is known as a grungy farm town, and there is nothing prominent about it. The setting for this poem is actually a dive bar that caters to blue-collar workers, in Secaucus New Jersey. It is about a drunken woman bragging about her fabulous and glamorous life when she was younger. She is telling her story about how she once had it all the looks, the money, and the men. Then as time passed by,…

During Industrialism the entire face of the United States changed, from the landscape of cities and towns, to the political machine, to foreign policy. One group holds major responsibility for this changes, the common working man. These people, built this country from the ground up. Not only with manual labor, but with a declarations for fair treatment. The Labor Union was the creation of the working man’s answer to big business and the Robber Barons. In There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story…

time can attract anyone to a product. That is what the beer company Keystone is going for in their commercials. Their commercial usually consist of a beautiful girl and a blue collar looking man saying something nice to the beautiful girl ultimately sweeping her off her feet. The commercial I watched used a figure head of a blue-collar man. They used a beautiful woman in distress and shows their product helping them win the beautiful woman over and the use of comedy with the weird situations. I…

company was the standard for how raw meats would be processed and distributed amongst the nation. It was the head of the meat industry; with the meatpacking industry thousands of jobs were available, yet it was because of monopoly capitalism that the workers of this company were afraid. Wages…