Wage slavery

The first job someone has is often memorable in many ways, they are earning their own money, accepting a new form of responsibility, and they’re usually treated horribly because their position is seen as inferior. In today’s world, people who work jobs that don’t require a degree are looked down upon. It is often ignored that the resources that are needed to obtain the education that is required for a white collar job, are not available to everyone. A certain intelligence that comes of blue…

her editors to try to survive with a series of lower wage jobs. Ehrenreich wrote the book in the late 1990’s as Congress was passing legislation to push people off the welfare rolls and getting them back to work. Along the journey, Ehrenreich encounters other women who are in the similar situations as the one she has placed herself into. Dr. Ehrenreich succeeds in her goal of being able to survive on her lower wages but learns that she must put in long hours to be…

Most people are employed, as it is a necessity- but it’s not always an enjoyable experience. The workplace can be a dismal and strenuous environment. The poem “The Postman” by Sadhu Binning, is an embodiment of this statement, in which it shows that the reality of being a postman is a dull and lonely way of life that comes without reward. “The Postman” explains the circumstantial aspects of the postman described in the poem, and what will become of him based on those factors. In addition, the…

resonant with the article if laziness should be interpreted as unwillingness to enhance one’s skills rather than to work in general. In his article, Autor claims that the major reason for rising inequality in the US is the recent drastic growth of the wage premium related to higher education and…

Graduating high school students are faced with many challenges as they prepare to leave high school and move on into their adult life. The most urgent of these is, will you attend college? The norm now is that all students should continue their education through college, but some believe that we are encouraging too many students to this and they should instead get an entry level, low skill job or train to learn a trade skill. We are not encouraging too many students to go to college because…

Whose land is it now and will it forever be? Meaning this land was made for everyone, but is becoming the upper-class. According to Ehrenreich, if a place is truly beautiful, ordinary people can’t afford to be there. As a result, the upper-class is what caused this dilemma in life for the working-class. However, leaving many people unaware of how the upper-class are financially deteriorating the working class by raising prices, leaving no affordable houses, and inadequate for opportunities. In…

The Gilded Age was an age of prosperity for wealthy businessmen while it was a time of despair for others for immigrants and other low class people. Industrialization continued to take place and it helped increased railroads as well as technology. Items such as the light bulb were developed to provide lighting in factories and homes. The economy was mostly dependent on the robber barons who owned large corporations that resulted in large incomes for these businessmen. (Pierpaoli) Some of these…

In “35 Soul-Crushing Facts about American Income Inequality”, the author, Larry Schwartz, makes it clear that the ever-increasing income and tax cuts the wealthiest Americans receive, as well as the decline in labor unions, results in the rest of the nation’s citizens to fare worse economically than those of previous generations. The writer shows that economic inequality, the difference between incomes across a population, has currently reached peak levels unprecedented since the Roaring…

While in the introduction Sinclair is described as a “realist,” it is difficult to ignore the fact that some things he describes wouldn’t have as much of an impact if it weren’t for his skill as a writer as well. For example, on page 65 he describes the changes in the scenery as Jurgis gets closer and closer to the stockyards and his writing has a way of making the imagery much more vivid. This is not to say that what he is writing about has no truth to it, but it wouldn’t be as effective a…

There is a lot to appreciate about winter it is that time of the year when you get an extended holiday break, but really, winter can also be a lot of hard work. Nobody really enjoys removing the snow that piles just outside their doorsteps. But snow removal is something that simply has to be done, either in the morning, just before going to work, or at night, before going to bed. Does it make sense do hire a professional service to get rid of the snow, instead? Well, there are a couple of…