Working class

Throughout the early twentieth century, labor conditions in Chile were often complex and difficult for working-class women. During this period, men and women in the workforce encountered unjust conditions and were often exploited in their jobs. Chilean women experienced even more difficult conditions in the workforce because of their gender, which often resulted from a patriarchal led society. To overcome these difficult conditions, Latin American’s in the workforce were influenced by…

unions were increasing rapidly in the United States during the 1880s. This was a time when working conditions often were dangerous and physically exhausting while wages were extremely low. The American labor movement during the industrial age included a mixture of socialists, communists and anarchists who believed the capitalist system should be changed. The capitalist society oppressed and exploited the working class, which had essentially built America. Since technology and new inventions…

make ends meet with their six or seven dollar an hour salary. This ended up sparking her project, spanning multiple months, where she put her life on hold and left everything behind to enter the field of service work. Travelling to various states working different minimum wage jobs, and seeing how she fares on the amount of money she is paid, Ehrenreich documents her endeavours in her book. Along with her journalistic skills, she helps illuminate the underside of capitalism. Using various…

overzealous German soldiers. The U.S. Department of Labor: WWI Poster seemed to a farmer/average working person and a soldier on each…

Labor Board during World War II. During this era, the lower and middle class started to earn more while the higher class earned less. There was no foreign competition for American manufacturing, the U.S. workers were skillful, and trade unions were stronger around this era, keeping the income generally higher than before. It wasn’t until 2011 when the Great Divergence became a serious issue in America, causing the middle class earners to stay at a constant lower proportion to that of the higher…

gap has only gotten bigger and bigger and will continue to do so until the lower class take a stand to their “superiors”. After reading The Communist Manifesto I have confirmed the reality of parting social classes and…

changes come with industrialization, and the growing working class will have the power to influence democratic institutions in their favor without having to overthrow the wealthy capitalists. This fundamental belief created a division between the more moderate revisionists and the orthodox Marxists. In addition to the strong Marxists and the less severe revisionists, a group of rising socialist women emerged during this time period. As the working class grew and the role of women changed during…

Throughout this class, we have gotten to know many examples of characters that truly embody the working-class spirit and hold certain values as critical parts of their lives. Two great examples of characters who give the reader a clear picture of a working-class person are Easter from The Coal Tattoo and Henry English from American Rust. These characters represent different aspects of this very important group of people. With Easter, religion, family, and memories are deemed as essential to her…

Working conditions for workers amid the Industrial Revolution were truly difficult. Laborers needed to work for over 10 hours a day for the entire week without any breaks or get-a-ways. Their occupations were exceptionally risky too. For the individuals who worked in the mine, they needed to bring coal from underground where it was more than 100 degrees! There were no safety issues or updates. The workers were seen as machines. Be that as it may, dissimilar to machines, they required rest and…

Richard Rodriguez’s article, “The Achievement of Desire,” is a dynamic piece about many hardships Rodriguez faces while growing up in a working class family that is very different from him. Rodriguez’s parents worked as laborers, an occupation that made it very difficult to live off of. With this idea in mind, Rodriguez learned to push himself to the top of the class when it came to school. Rodriguez’s had a strong desire to learn, which led Rodriguez to learn at higher levels, foreign to the…