Analysis Of The Breadwinner By Delorah Ellis

Lyddie worked in a factory where conditions were poor. They were so horrible that many girls were trying to get a petition signed so that things could improve. I think Lyddie should sign the petition because the factory conditions are too bad. The conditions have to be so terrible for someone to just be like “The conditions are bad. Let’s make a petition”. The air is filled with dust and lint, girls are getting sick, and there has been many accidents.

In her piece Low-wage Senate workers get a raise- and then the shaft, Catherine Rampell tells the story of “low-wage federal contract workers” who carried out “a series of strikes” in demand of sufficient “living wage” and “a union.” As these events occurred at the Senate cafeteria, Rampell notes that the workers “attracted powerful allies to their cause.” However, the rest of the tale does not end as happily. Despite the combined achievements of the workers and “powerful allies”, Rampell reveals the detail the senators fail to acknowledge: the fact that “some workers were shortchanged.”

In her book Marriage a History Stephanie Coontz explains the male breadwinner family model and its dominance in family life during the 40’s, 50’s, and early 60’s. An illustration of the male breadwinner model is composed of a father, mother, and two children; typically a boy and girl close in age. Funded by their father’s well paying middle class salary, the wife and children live a comfortable life in suburbia and participate regularly in consumer trends. Perceived as the head of the household, the father was the sole financial provider. On the other hand the mother was the head of domestic life and was responsible for the children. The popular 1950’s TV show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet exemplified this family model. With regard to the male breadwinner family model, imagine having eight other brothers and sisters. Imagine growing up without a mother, and with a father who worked constantly. Then consider living this life alongside your peers who come from the “normal” male breadwinner families Coontz describes… How would your family differ from your peers? What would be your thoughts and feelings towards family life? More importantly, how would these unique circumstances change your perception of the nuclear family?

The Working Poor travels into the forgotten America. It is a book about people and places that most us have never thought about. We have our debates about these people, their lifestyles, how they raise their children and where they work but we don't really know them and for the most part don't care. How many of us notice "the man who washes cars but does not own one, the clerk who files cancelled checks at the bank but has $2.02 in her own account or the woman who copyedits medical textbooks but hasn't been to a dentist in a decade?"(Shipler,3) With this book, Shipler takes you into their lives, it allows you to understand some of their choices and their lack of options. The Working Poor makes you understand what it is like to work hard,

During Britain’s Industrial Revolution, a multitude of different jobs were opened to the working class of men, women, and children. While this era offered a wide variety of new opportunities for everyone, women were somewhat excluded in areas such as occupation availability and wage due to the cultural norms of the time period.

Emile Zola's novel Germinal depicts an unflattering view of the working class in late nineteenth century France. Zola presents a view into the terrible conditions of the working class and shows the hardships of a coal miner named Etienne. The worker is depicted as a slave to his employer who is treated unjust on many occurrences. Food was a pleasure to have and scarce, thanks to the problem of low wages. There were rampant dangers and problems around such as fines, strikes, and illness. The motto at the time of the workers was "To each according to his worth, and each man's worth determined by his works." (169). This period saw the work a man does determining his worth, and his work was done in horrifying conditions.

The world of work and the world of wonder are two worlds that play a prominent role in the lives of humans. In that sense they are commensurable to one another, yet at the same there there is a clear distinction between how the two worlds worlds operate that make them incommensurable. The purpose of this paper is to to argue that the world of work is incommensurable with the world of wonder in certain senses, but commensurable in others. This will be done by providing evidence from Leisure, the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, and works of Plato.

Throughout Cultural Perspectives, many influential texts have been read, analyzed, and discussed. One text, Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis, integrates the thoughts of quite a few authors that have been discussed this semester. Through employing a Marxist view of history—there are always the “haves” and the “have-nots”—one can see that Life in the Iron Mills exemplifies the struggles that face many “have-not” citizens throughout history. One can then see the clear connections to various authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, W.E.B. DuBois, Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels, and Adam Smith.

What are two ways women’s domestic duties are affected by those jobs performed outside the home? “Throughout history, women have made major economic contributions to their societies and families through their labor” (Lindsey, 2011, pg. 273). However, there is old rumors that state women clearly were declined the opportunities to bound in any form of clamorous work of any kind. Though, that is no longer the case today, for many women join the men in the fields, to help process the crops in order to provide much needed nutrients for their families; than ever before. “To explain the world of work for women, sociologists focus on four major types of production in which women have traditionally engaged: producing goods or services for consumption

Gender inequality is one of the central themes in the novel The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan. I think that the title “The Kitchen God’s Wife” itself recognizes that many individuals believe that a woman's role in society pertains to completing domestic chores. Her husband, the God, dominates over her actions in the kitchen. Basically, woman have no position, neither outside or inside the sphere of their home. It is revealed that social divisions between males and females in China continue from early childhood and last until late adulthood. To begin with, Winnie Louie is taught the importance of obeying others, putting others ahead of herself, and maintaining healthy relationships. When she first gets her period, her aunt tells her that a

Arranged Marriages have been around since time can remember. An arranged marriage is a marital union between a man and a woman who were selected to be wedded together by a third party. Historically, arrange marriages were the main way to marry. In certain parts of the world, it is still the primary approach. There are two types of arrange marriages. The first is a traditional marriage where the children can, with strong objections, refuse to marry their soon to be spouse. In a forced marriage, the children have no say in the matter. Bread Givers shows an excellent representation of the pressures on children from their parents to be married against their will.

Throughout the nineteenth century, the role of women began to change. Slowly the role of women went from strict domestic work, to having their own say in their own reform groups. After the American Revolution, women began to have a say in what went on during their everyday lives or the lives of their children and husbands. A woman having her own say was something new for men to have to deal with, but they were willing to listen. Women do not get the right to vote nationally until the 1920s, but the start of their suffrage and political movement begins in the nineteenth century with the changing times of the Industrial Revolution and life after the American Revolution.

1. The author, Leslie Chang, contends that “the history of a family begins when a person leaves home”. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Tell why, and then give examples from your own life or from published material outside this book to defend your opinion.

Glamour in the Age of Kardashian has an overall theme of how “glamour labor” has evolved in recent years due to changes in technology, work ethic, and fashion. “Glamour labor”, a term thought up by Wissinger, is the work an individual does, so that they are perceived as the carefully crafted image that they create and place online. It is the effort and time of shaping one’s body in order to look as put-together as they do online in their day-to-day life. “Glamour laborers” are the individuals who are practiccing glamour labor daily. Typically, glamour laborers are celebrities, because they have the means to put in the work; however, anyone can be considered a glamour laborer. Glamour laborers are those individuals who are constantly going

The woodcut Unemployment, from the Proletariat series crafted by Käthe Kollwitz presents a side of civilian life during times of war (and times post-war) that The Slaves of Solitude spoke little of. The Slaves of Solitude primarily followed the lives and conflicts of middle-class citizens who lived in the Rosamund Tea Rooms, a guest house in the fictional town Thames Lockden, during WWII. The conflicts these characters faced, although all-consuming and life-changing to those individuals, were relatively minor when compared to the challenges those who were not as well off had to overcome. The novel’s characters appear to have little problem with employment and providing for themselves; although they are not upper-class, money does not seem