Heavy Shifting By Richard Rodriguez Summary

Writer Gregory Mantsios in his article “Class in America”, talks about these things, and how wide the gap is between the rich and the poor and also discusses how the rich continue to get richer, while the poor continue to get poorer. Mantsios gives his readers the profiles and backgrounds of three hard-working Americans, two of them are white males, whose family background as well as education played a role in their success, while the other person is a black woman who is just above the poverty line despite her work as a nurse’s aide. Through these profiles, Mantsios article shows exactly how sex, race and shows how your parental and educational background of a person can play a role in the things that you achieve. Mantsios also talks about one’s performance in school and the level of school completed can suggest whether or not class that person may belong in.

It is hard when you are a middle class family, and eventually a good life passes to be a low income family. Not just a Paycheck from Unnatural Causes describes how unemployment, and change on class & income can transform people 's health. The film presents how a middle white family started seen discrepancies among being working class and the rich. In fact, they start to understand what mean being unemployment. Basically, the film briefly explains the reasons why companies have to move to different places not matter the wellbeing of their workers. Thus, what really matter in this industrialized world is profit, and that 's what company holders are seeking at cost of anything. Clearly, companies do not care what is going to be the life of an unemployment because chair holders never have to experience it generally. In reality, the closure of companies directly constitute to a negative impact on the rate of jobs and the stress level on the people who lose their jobs which is connected to the health of the US.

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.

America is the land of opportunity and equality. Many people grow up believing this to be absolutely true, but Stephen Marche feels otherwise. He wrote “We Are Not All Created Equal,” arguing his point that opportunities in this country are strictly determined by the fate of ones class in society. Marche starts off making a strong case by mentioning the United States’ third place ranking for the least amount of social mobility. In further attempts to prove his point he outlines how class determines the fate of Americans place in society by comparing it’s rigid divisions to those of the aristocracy in Britain. There is a repeating idea throughout the paper that many people in the upper classes love to assume that the poor should fault themselves for their predicament due to their lack of hard work. Marche knocks that assumption out the park with statistical evidence to back up his claims. Although he made a very convincing argument with facts, he had a host of overgeneralized statements throughout the paper, which ultimately weakened his argument of class being the only determining factor of success in America.

The work that these laborers did was degrading and dehumanizing. They were given one small task to complete a bigger goal, but they were never able to get the satisfaction of completing a product. This was very detrimental to the mental state of the workers and did not help them to make better quality products, because they only had one small insignifiant job in the whole process. They were easily replaceable and the work was so simple that children could easily do it. Document C shows that ten years before this time people specialized in a job, but as time progressed the job was subdivided and subdivided until the point that instead of knowing the whole trade, the workers know one small part of the whole job. The owners did this for cost cutting and to make production faster. No matter how hard one worked they often did not find joy in their work and they were unable to advance very far in the company. The labor unions did little in helping them to move up in the world if anything it made it harder for the workers. They had to sign contracts saying they would not join unions or else they would lose their jobs. Document D shows the contract that many had to sign saying they would join or be affiliated with the labor unions while employed, the companies tried to make it sound appealing, giving the guise that they would make life better and change things for the better if the workers

For example, when interview, William Cooper at the age of 10 “had no time to go to day school,” (Document 1). Because of the lack of education, Cooper would not have been able to go on to work as a teacher or a doctor in order to support a family or better society. Instead, he can only read, but not write. Because he was illiterate, he couldn’t write resumes, he couldn’t read and understand complex texts, and he couldn’t think thoroughly, which hindered him by keeping him from receiving any higher paying work that could raise him from the working class into the middle class. Moreover, without a decent supply of money, one would have to live in the slum areas, where typical workers would have to live.

The society is in such a way that it falls into categories of people who belong to different social classes and this creates a difference in the way individuals lead their lifestyle, and in the way individuals interact with each other. The working poor refer to a social group which develops as a result of the social inequalities which exist in the society. The population comprises of individuals who put a lot of effort in their activities but still fail to witness growth and development in their socio-economic being. It is normally wrong to categorize such persons as being lazy, and instead, one may argue that nature dictates the fate of these beings.

In the article” Why Americans Won’t Do Dirty Jobs”, Elizabeth Dwoskin indicates the social phenomenon that even though illegal immigrants leave the United States and give up their works, the Americans still refuse to take these jobs because of the lower average wage and the inferior evaluation they put to these works. Dworkin first emphasizes the fact that the United States actually have available jobs for unemployed people, and then point outs the reasons for the Americans rejecting to accept these jobs. At last, she reveals the negative influences and difficulties of these business owners.

She believes “they have not been sufficient to bring low-wage workers up to the amounts they were earning twenty-seven years ago” Ehrenreich 203). Specifically, the poorest workers are the ones who have made the least amount of progress. Workers do not quit because “at a new job, you have to start all over, clueless and friendless” (Ehrenreich 205). Low-wage workers are also restrained by their immobility.

​The father figure depicted in this story could be viewed in a few different ways. At first I thought the authors father was kind of a stuck up, rude man, who was sour about the advantages of living a normal life in American society. I felt that he had made his son feel like he could never do what he had down. If a parental figure makes you feel like that, there tends to be a reaction. It could be positive or negative. In Rodriguez’s case he took what his father said, and harnessed it into a positive learning experience. When I thought about more in depth, it became clear that Rodriguez’s father wasn’t putting his son down at all. He was simply explaining to his son how different their worlds where. He was stressing that although his son had more opportunity, and was presented with much greater potential to be excellent, that the work he did growing up was much harder, and tough than most people realize. His father was just making it known that in his working years he did not have many options as to career choices. But on the other hand I can easily see why the author felt that his father had challenged him. Much like I felt my father was challenging me. Rodriguez felt like he needed to prove that he could perform the same task that his fathers use to do to provide for their families. Working with you’re your hands, completing messy, strenuous, sometimes painful jobs was almost a part of Hispanic culture. A part of

In the example Mustapha demo straights the jobs many lower classes have from sitting down and constantly doing something over and over to simple jobs that

In the article “Low-Wage Workers Are Finding Poverty Harder to Escape,” Greenhouse (2014) pointed out that worker who is older and more educated are making low wages. In recent years it has become a high poverty rate and that because of the strength low-wage work on the state and also convert demographics and other factors. The spread of low-wage jobs to the high rate of poverty has contributed there are some graduates do not find jobs suitable to their testimony. Also, he mentions that students who want to get new job by high school face problems when employment due to the evolution of machinery. He also said that there are many to display instead of paying study costs paid to treat children who suffer from diseases and health problems.

In the reading, it states that different economic class of status have a different social impact and in this case it is very accurate. When Dev’s father grew up in India, the atmosphere was very strict and very anti-social. He was disciplined into going to school and working hard. On the other, Dev who was born in New York City and is from a high class when compared to his father. One can see that Dev’s surroundings are completely different. Dev is not disciplined into only focusing on work and school. Dev also like to have “fun” which is a non-material culture that doesn’t exist in his father’s culture. One can see a direct correlation between higher economic classes and self-direction. This agent of socialization reinforces the cultural norms of the characters in the program. His father’s authoritative family reinforces the significance of education and emphasizes the idea of work. While Dev who grew up in New York, experiences self-direction and isn’t solely focused on education and work. He likes to explore new things and have

P2: Such laborers' future progression is fixing to the proceeded with development of organizations reliant on the presence of destitution.

Although something is already hidden that not everyone can see, like the how is the literacy level between the upper-class and the working-class people is different, and the social statues and the respect level is different between the different people. As the author have shown that the one is poor might spend the same amount of money on the entertainment, and the one is depositing and saving the same amount of money for further usage, years after the years, the generational difference of their amount of money will be a lot different. In the survival of the working-class people should find a way of distribution their money into a better place, as the bank. As what I have seen that if I go to Starbucks for a venti green tea latte every day, I will need to spend an extra of money annually. Which is, I can use the same amount of money in the better