Blue Collar Workers

As the future approaches, automation and technology are quickly evolving and diminishing the amount of jobs available for Americans. American work-life has evolved drastically over the years. Certain jobs are being replaced by drones and robots, leaving many Americans unemployed. It has caused a slight shift in how we work. However, the continuation of work is still alive. In the article “A World Without Work,” (2015) the author Derek Thompson expresses how people are losing their jobs. Nevertheless, they’re using their hobbies and talents to generate money. Someone might sell their poetry and written work when they have lost their job generating income while also fostering creativity. President Nixon’s “Address to The Nation on Labor

Mike Rose has spent most of his life watching those defined as “blue-collar” workers with much appreciation. He would watch his mother, Rosie, and his uncle, Joe, work to their fullest potential with skills he had never really seen anywhere else except in their “blue-collar” world. Mike believes that the way his family worked, as well as others considered “blue-collar”, are intelligent in their own ways and are underappreciated compared to the way he sees them.

When writing a collection of poems, most poets chose to focus on maintaining certain themes throughout their literature and Cornelius Eady is not an exception. Cornelius Eady’s collection of poems in Brutal Imagination focus on issues such as racism, family crisis, internal conflict, and death. The first part of the collection circles around a servant who works for Susan Smith and is the caretaker for her children. The story centers around the perspective of the servant who is also the overarching narrator. The story describes old version of United States when racism was still bluntly present and affected individuals identities and financial opportunities. Based off the information presented in the collection, the servant can possibly be male. The general plot follows deeply into the difficult life of the male servant through examining the issues he faces. The first poem within the collection set-ups the rest of the story with context for the readers giving them a few expectations about what they should look forward to reading further. Eady draws the reader through integrating an origin for the male servant and his connection to Susan Smith’s family.

Do you believe in the American Dream? Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed, used to believe in it, which changed after she replaced her identity as a writer and a biological scientist with a divorced, childless, middle-aged woman and worked at the bottom of the society for several years. Serving in Florida was an excerpt from Nickel and Dimed, describing her experience as a restaurant waitress in Florida. In the excerpt, to show the harsh working condition and busy working schedules of the impotent working poor in America so as to reveal the inequality of the society, Ehrenreich uses imagery, builds up an urgent tone, and utilizes irony on page 394 to 396.

My perceptions of blue-collar Americans were transformed by Nickel and Dimed. By reading this book, I feel like I’ve begun to understand more about waiters, maids, and salespeople. I notice some people don’t really appreciate them but only see them as someone who serves them. I personally don’t really recognise blue-collared Americans but when they serve me, I usually say thank you. I haven’t really thought about how their life may be but how I am being served. However, in Nickel and Dimed, it’s a different story. When Ehrenreich was working as a maid, people looked down on her. They didn’t talk to her or even give her one look. However, there was one person who offered Ehrenreich a glass of water. I think I would’ve done the same if she was

When people think about of America society they thought are prosperity, equality and freedom. However, today in American society many people who are less privileged in different areas of their lives face discrimination by others. The segregation that people experience involves violence, inequality in their jobs and even in the neighborhoods. George Saunders in his article, “Exhortation”, argues the sadness that many people face in their jobs because they feel like slaves because the salary and condition of job makes them to realize that in order to get their check; they need to give their lives on the job; in his article, “Sea Oak”, he argues how Bernie sees that her lives is nothing because in order to be a part of the American system the people need to be happy being exploited. Finally in “Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz”, he argues how the happy zone helps makes people face their emotions in front of the stress they experience’s every day in their jobs and how people are manipulate by their emotions in order to kept their values away in order to protect their jobs. George Sanders effectively argues the idea of exploitation in people lives. He states that the America ideals that people believe are not true because in order to succeed in the society they give their lives to the system.

While reading the poems “Richard Cory” and “Ezra Farmer”, it is almost immediately evident which poem is an original and which is a parody. Both poems are clearly about men that are popular among those he meets, but once the reader looks beneath the surface, they notice how the diction plays an important role in relaying the theme to the audience it is presented to. In the poem “Richard Cory” written by Edwin Arlington Robinson, the theme being portrayed is that people are not always as how they seem.

In Jessie Wilmore Murton’s poem Song of the Builders, the author discusses the builders that worked in dangerous conditions because of the money that will proceed from the job. Murton believes that both the working conditions and little pay are unfair to the hard working and poor workers. Although she uses multiple strategies to convey this belief, the most effective strategies include repetition and descriptive details.

Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.

I felt satisfied while reading, yes! , someone had a more positive yet, factual perception of what it means to be unemployed in America. Too often, we refer to those who are unemployed as lazy, but we forget the lack of jobs opening and trainings for them to reenter the economic mainstream. Brown’s perspective of what most unemployed men experience is reprehensible. However, I am confident that it speaks to the lack of awareness of what is really going with the unemployed population such as who are getting laid off, how/ why are they are getting laid and what type of services or agencies can feasibly work with the individual and inspire the household that they will be financially stable in the near

The sounds of the morning had been replaced with grumbles about cheating houses, weighted scales, snakes, skimpy cotton, and the dusty rows” (492 Angelou). Having a negative tone fits the theme of the story, which is to do whatever it takes to get a living, because finding a

To ensure a community's survival, it's very much dependent on the employment of the community. In one part of Brooklyn, New York, a number of unemployed Puerto Ricans were living in extreme desperation state. However they are living next to the employed blue collar workers who have provide them the necessities of community's social institutions. As long as it does not become overbearing in the economic reality, the community would still be able to accept the

The industrial era of factories was present in the mid 1900s in Detroit. As factories rose to power, they became a wide source of employment. Levine’s poem captured the essence of Detroit by saying “no one wakened or died, no one walked the streets or stroked a furnace” (Levine 27-28). This description shows the false lives that people lived because they did not have other options. Either it be living or working, Levine’s work depicts the people of Detroit in 1948 living for the wrong reasons.

Sheehy was the manager at Bloomingdales wherever the usual age of the sales associates where 18 to 25 years old. On that time many of the employees interested the work as something to do until they got real jobs, or until they certified from college. Many of the younstar it unsuccessful to meet up the economic and professional standards a college graduates envisioned their college education would, or should allow them. Concept with Sheehy’s analysis, assignment like sweeping, vacuuming or wiping down glass table were more popular than waiting on customers and restocking shelves with merchandise and all assignment got longer to finish than required. All links were standard and looked for any chance to get over on the system and do the slightest

Whether it 's through direct contribution, or simply through an ad on T.V, we have all seen or caught wind of the anguish that destitute individuals involvement in their day by day lives.Though we feel massive sensitivity for the individuals who can 't even secure the essential necessities of life, it is not reasonable to take the well deserved cash from the rich to help poor people.