Labor

Over the past few centuries of mistreatment and oppression on African-Americans, labor such as the treatment of Black slaves and laws pertaining slaves have evolved and have significantly impacted the social organization of Black communities. Social organization regards to the composition of a community- politically, socially and economically in regard to the greater scope of society. Labor impacts the social organization of Black communities by oppressing African-Americans, dehumanizing slaves…

was John Lewis a devoted workers’ rights advocate who fought for many advancements we take for granted today. B. 1. America is built and founded off labor. A lot of advancement in the workplace today have been won by unions and the efforts of labor organizations. John Lewis founded one of the biggest institutions that is at the forefront of the labor movement, the CIO (Committee for Industrial Organizations, now the Congress of Industrial Organizations.)…

35,160 males). A good amount (56%) of Upper East Siders living in this zip code area is working (35,989 out of 63,536 people 16 years and over, i.e. 56.6%), while 43% are not in labor force (27,547 out of 63,536 people living in the area). According to the United States Department of Labor, “many who are not in the labor force are going to school or are…

Aesthetic labor requires that service workers “look good and sound right” for the job, it highlights “the enjoyment associated with shopping and downplays the drawbacks of working in a substandard job” (Williams and Connell, p14). The demand of aesthetic labor also justifies “continued job segregation, holding responsible workers and customers – and not employers – for the sorting of workers on the basis of class, race and gender” (Williams and Connell, p14). We can see aesthetic labor in field…

doing their work from home in today’s society. Sometimes one parent working from home can blur the line between work and family because the two become intertwined. These two things, working home and small-scale artisan labor, can be very similar. Working from home and artisan labor can be compared to capitalism. According to Dalton Conley in, “You May Ask Yourself,” capitalism is an economic system in which property and goods are primarily privately owned. Working from home can…

Autonomous labor could mean big changes in the future for the workforce. Robots are on a steady slope to eliminate millions of jobs over the coming decades. Stowe Boyd, lead researcher for GigaOM Research, believes by 2025 “Pizzas will not be delivered by teenagers hoping for a tip. Food will be raised by robotic vehicles, even in small plot urban farms that will become the norm, since so many people will have lost their jobs to ‘bots. Your X-rays will be reviewed by a battery of Watson-grade…

In recent years the apparel industry has faced accusations over the use of sweatshop labor in the production of their apparel. In some cases, it is true because the business uses foreign suppliers. When this happens, the foreign supplier uses sweatshops to produce mass quantities of the products. For managers that are purchasing the manufacturers, they must make it very clear that they are not using the sweatshops (Emmelhainz, & Adams, 1999). They must make the customer know that their products…

Before we can understand the labor dynamics of what Filipino immigrants faced in the United States, we have to retract to earlier history between the formation of the United States and Philippine relationship. In 1898 after Spain surrendered the Philippines to the United States, President McKinley issued the Benevolent Assimilation program “…which promised that the Americans came as friends and not as conquerors” (Mabalon 29). This eventually opened the gates of Filipino migration to the United…

Emotional labor affects employees everyday. It especially affects employees that work in retail sales or wait on tables at a restaurant. Employees are expected to project a friendly demeanor and smile. Most of the time employees fake this. Emotional labor is a situation in which an employee expresses organizationally desired emotions during interpersonal transactions at work. Every job has a different emotional labor that is expected of them. Flight attendants should be happy while funeral…

Child labor is a worldwide issue which damages the physical and mental development of children. It deprives children of their self-worth. Many children work under exploitative conditions that have harmful effects on their health such as agriculture, mining, and economic activities such as domestic service, farming, street hawking, vendors, laborers, etc. Child labor should be abolished in the Southern part of Nigeria because children engaged in child labor expose themselves to conditions that…