Michelle Malkin's Sold Out

Looking at the insight from historians such as: Roy Rosenzweig, Nick Salvatore, and Lizabeth Cohen, on the history of American labor, we can better understand the issues, challenges, and successes of ordinary Americans during a time when industrial capitalism and corporations took over as the leading principle in American society. The depth of character of immigrants or ordinary Americans to meet the demanding needs of what an industrial society requires is truly amazing. I have reviewed three historical monographs in accordance to their copyright and each describe how persistent ordinary, working class Americans confronted or beat back those demanding needs. The order is as follows: Eight Hours For What We Will by Roy Rosenzweig; Eugene

Some argue that immigrants will take our jobs after the allowance of legalization and attendance of postsecondary education. It is a true fact that those who become legal in the labor market will demand better treatment, respect, increased wages, and employee benefits. Those, who already have a degree, and clean houses for living due to their status, will apply for jobs equal to their education. Although the fact that they will take our job is true to some degree, it is a rhetoric marketed exaggerator, installed to create fear, and lead to an opposition to immigration reform. The legalization will affect most companies that benefit from a mistreatment of undocumented immigrants and will affect businesses that profit from underpaying their hired laborers, documented or undocumented. According to Aviva Chomsky, “Governments have made sure that there are people without rights to fulfill business’s need for cheap workers and high profits” (126). Businesses tend to oppose restriction on immigration today because inequality maintains a population of poor people who lack access to resources, and who may have little alternative but to accept jobs under the worst of conditions (15). “The answer to the low-wage problem is not to restrict the rights of people at the bottom even more (through deportations, criminalization, etc.) but to challenge the accord between business and government that promote the low-wage, high-profit model” (27). Immigrants have always flooded America, to work as a cheap labor, work under strenuous conditions, send remittance to their home countries, and return home. The fact that people believed immigrants come to steal the American wealth is altered by the globalization of the economy, and it hurts to have a vulnerable nation labor force to compete with other countries. According to Chomsky, “As of 2005, Social Security was receiving about $7 billion a year through false social security numbers provided by illegal immigrant workers” (38). This fact is based on a low-income/low immigrant wage. Therefore, allowing immigrants to access higher education and better-paid jobs will result in higher income taxes, higher real estate and consumer’s taxes, community involvement and volunteering. If the

Today, the United States is home to the biggest migrant population on the planet. Despite the fact that Immigrants s adapt rapider in the United States contrasted with created European countries, immigrants policy has turned into a profoundly antagonistic issue in America. While a significant part of the civil argument focuses on social issues, the Economic impacts of immigrants are clear: Economic analysis discovers little support for the view that inflows of outside work have lessened occupations or Americans ' wages. Economic theory prospects and the greater part of academic research affirms that wages are unaffected by immigrants over the long haul and that the financial impacts of immigrants are for the most part positive for natives and for the general economy. Immigrant’s s have dependably been fundamental advantages for the U.S. economy and contribute enormously to the country 's aggregate financial yield and duty income. In the last year, for instance, workers added $1.8 trillion to U.S. total GDP (Kwon, 2013). Business analysts have found that Immigrants s supplement native conceived laborers and increment the way of life for all Americans. Moreover, as buyers in neighborhood groups, Immigrants make interest for private ventures and strengthen the economy. Immigrant’s business people have additionally assumed a critical part in progressing economic development and making organizations.

Issues like downsizing and overseas relocation had always seemed distant to me until my co-workers at one factory told me that the unit I was working in would be shut down within six months and moved to Mexico, where people would work for 60 cents an hour”, in this statement he gives the readers reasons for factory work being a hard way to live. Lastly, this statement he made, “The things that factory work has taught me how lucky I am to get an education, how to work hard, how easy it is to lose that work once you have it are by no means earth-shattering” the author is giving examples of the different lessons that leads to my main claim about his purposes for writing his article.

In the United States of America there are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the U.S. Many industries depend heavily on immigrant labor , legal and illegal, to achieve productivity. The construction industry, nationally , employ at a fast rate about 1,000,000 illegal immigrants; almost one in five illegal immigrants work major industries. (Passel,2006). Immigrant reform will undoubtedly reduce the supply of illegal immigrant by encouraging enforcement of current laws by creating new legislation with harsher penalties for illegal immigration. The enforcement of the new laws will allow for industries to allow employers to recruit and hire foreign born workers only with signs of identification. However for the industries

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.

Immigrants are educated on exactly what their economy is in their own country as well as what going on in America. The lack of education, in relation to the economy, displays an unfortunate example of what Americans are being taught in today’s society. Citizens of this country should be informed on exactly how our economy works instead of foreigners migrating here and operate under those success principles and achieve that so-called ‘American Dream.’ Migrants come with a clear sense of exactly how to truly be successful by creating personal wealth. Immigrants are nearly 30 percent more likely to start a business than nonimmigrant’s, and they represent 16.7 percent of all new business owners in the United States. Nearly 30 percent of all new business owners per month in New York, Florida, and Texas, are immigrants. (Fairlie et al., 2008)

Did you know that “the nation has lost more than 2.5 million manufacturing jobs and more than 850,000 professional service and information sector jobs, due to overseas shipping since 2001? (Aflcio)” It is clear to me that some big business companies don’t value the protection of employees very highly. By some big business, ill single one out and state that Goldman Sachs has shipped approximately 500,000 American jobs overseas in the past few years. That’s about half of the total net job loss during these past years (Aflcio). This shows that companies are reluctant to stay in American and scared of the current economic situation. It upsets me to see American jobs being shipped overseas at such a rough time

‘Is your job next?’ headline blared, followed by the disturbing preview of the article inside: “A new round of globalization is sending upscale jobs offshore. They include chip design engineering, basic research— even financial analysis. Can America lose these jobs and still prosper (R. Hira, 2008, p-1)?” The reaction of this news was swift and divided. Definitely large corporations that will be outsourcing will make huge profits in the long run but “what about the American citizens?”

“Making it in America”, by Adam Davidson, illustrates how technology and machinery are interchanging humans in the workforce. Machines are taking over factories and leaving more employees out of work. Davidson also points out that the wage-gap is considerably increasing between un-educated and educated laborers. Corporations and companies all over the world, including the Americans, Europeans, and Chinese, are purchasing machines over hiring workers to save money.

The American Dream has been drilled into the heads of almost all Americans and quite a few foreigners. The idea is that “Every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative”. The most common misconception foreigners have about America, is that the streets are paved with gold and poverty does not exist, when in reality the streets are not paved at all. As an American citizen, I cannot full-heartedly believe that people are determined by the country they were born into because I believe that if someone is determined enough to succeed, such a person will. Living in a third world country undoubtedly has its setbacks but it is not a set determination of one’s fate. The essay, “I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave” by Mac McClelland fully supports the idea that people have to fight for what they desire in life, while the other essay’s “My Summer at an Indian Call Center” by Andrew Maran, and, “The New Mecca” by George Saunders suggest that success is determined by place of birth. Although the essays disagree about the foundation of success, they have many similarities regarding how people’s identities are affected by demanding jobs. All three essays demonstrate that the workers’ identities are distorted because they are forced to sacrifice their own wants and needs, and to adopt an identity according to their companies’ preference, so that the shoppers, tourist etc. will be satisfied with the customer service

These leaders misguidedly create an unfair standard that makes skilled immigrants not qualified of an American job and actually believe and stand by the idea that they are stealing American jobs away. On the contrary, for example, evidence is beginning to prove that skilled immigrants implement the bulk of Silicon Valley startups which result in the creation of numerous jobs. According to entrepreneur, Vivek Wadhwa, improper and burdensome U.S. immigration policies are creating a buildup in the granting of permanent resident visas, ensuing in the dismissal of countless highly educated entrepreneurs, which end up placing these entrepreneurs and the potential for economic improvements outside of the United States. Vivek Wadhwa’s article shows us how the U.S. continues to remain oblivious to the economic benefits it can acquire through the retaining of skilled immigrants. Wadhwas demonstrates that other countries are aware of the potential growth skilled immigrants can bring to their country and the United States needs to wake

He is very convincing that blue collar work is hard and tolling, rather than applying one’s self to essays and school work. The author states factories move or downsize causing jobs to be unreliable. Machines breakdown also causing downtime in your work. While being away at school is far less stress and sleeping in rather than being at the factory bright and early in the mornings.

The dark side of the American dream has, from the country's beginnings to present day, involved immigrants working menial jobs for long hours at poverty wages.” The most prominent reason why it’s difficult to achieve the American Dream as an immigrant are the working conditions. Immigrants always take the jobs that are left that nobody wants to do, and get little to nothing for it. Undocumented immigrants are held hostage by employers, giving them very little money for labor. Undocumented immigrants have to turn to businesses that don’t desire to pay them an acceptable amount of money, and with no way to report this to the authorities, they have no choice but to be held

He laments the loss of thousands of jobs and foretells of an economic collapse as jobs grow stagnant. Berman predicted, correctly, that low skilled jobs would never return in demand, and that the economic security of all low skilled workers was at risk. And that high skilled jobs would become the new standard. We are rapidly approaching a time in which an average worker is an unemployed worker. A vast array of skillsets and creativity will become the new base requirements for even the most minimalistic of