Summary Of Born Worker By Gary Soto

Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz’s, Labor and Legality is a book written on the Mexican immigrant network in the U.S. She centers it on the Lions, a group of Mexican men from Leon, Mexico that all share their lives and help explain the many networks and strategies that are used in order to excel and gain happiness. There have been many different sorts of misconceptions about immigrants, and in recent years about undocumented immigrants from Mexico. The U.S. has made a sort of war on illegal immigrants and has made it a seemingly high priority in the media and in politics. Therefore, many Americans have been mislead and ill-informed about the history of immigrants/undocumented immigrants. Gomberg-Muñoz’s Labor and Legality helps set us straight. She unveils undocumented immigrants for the people that they are instead of the criminals that the media leads many to believe. Although she doesn’t have a wide range of participants for her study, I believe that she addresses many of the misconceptions and just plain ignorance that American people have of people that are undocumented; why stereotypes are supported by the people themselves, why politicians include stronger illegal immigration laws, and everything in between. Many of her topics reveal a sort of colonialism that the U.S. practices on Mexico; the exploitation of undocumented peoples to the benefit of the U.S. through economics, hypocritical laws and campaigns, and the racist and prejudice consequences.

The essay "How Immigrants Become 'Other'" by Marcelo and Carola Suarez-Orozco illustrates the issue of immigrants never truly being accepted by natural born citizens of America. In the essay, it is discussed that immigrants are and have been treated differently. The different ways immigrants are treated differently is almost an unintelligent question to ask. Instead the question, “How aren’t immigrants treated differently?” should be asked. Even the names politicians and society have created to describe immigrants are alienating and harsh, “Illegal, undocumented, alien.” The idea of a human being illegal is something that most people overlook, but the reality is, no human is illegal. This idea of immigrants being associated with names that have such negative connotations is one of many ideas discussed in the essay "How Immigrants Become ‘Other’.”Even though America is known as a “melting pot,” immigrants will never truly be accepted as a part of society no matter the amount of assimilation due to the blatant racism, segregation, and prejudice that non-immigrants have against immigrants.

What are the point of stories? Well, to teach a lesson of course! The story called “The Jacket” by Gary Soto teaches the lesson to be grateful for what you have. Gratefulness means warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful. In Soto’s short story “The Jacket” the main character says, “I threw my books on the bed and approached the jacket slowly, as if it were a stranger whose hand I had to shake.” This main character is so full of himself that he doesn’t think about the fact that his mother worked enough to pay for his jacket, and that the jacket will keep him warm and dry. Some stories, such as “The Jacket”, help teach us life lessons. The literary elements, simile/metaphors, tone/mood, and the symbols help determine the main lesson this story gets across.

United Farm Workers: The United Farm workers are a labor union that was created solely for the farmworkers in the United States. The origins of this labor union came about from two different existing organizations known as the “Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee led by Larry Itliong and the National Farm Workers Association led by Cesar Chavez, and Dolores Huerta. These two organizations decided to work together to fight stronger together for their rights. This term relates to our reading because they are known for the “grape strike” that took place in 1965 in Delano, California. The labor union wanted to fight for their rights against the social injustices between the owners, and the farmers. In our text’s we have seen this constant mistreatment of owners, and their workers, through poor pay, rights, and belittlement because of their cultural ethnicity.

Throughout the autobiographical narrative written by Gary Soto, many different literary elements are used to recreate the experience of his guilty six-year old self. Different elements such as contrast, repetition, pacing, diction, and imagery. Soto narrates this story as a young boy at a time when he seems to be young and foolish, Soto foolmaking mistakes, but at the same time hoping to learn from them. Soto uses each of these devices to convey different occurrences in the narrative.

In the chapter, Working Hard, the main idea of the chapter is paying attention to advancing through the workplace. Roberto, one of the Lions, say that the work ethic of many Mexicans when they arrive in America is to work endlessly for whoever their employed to. Not only doing the tasks that’s listed under the job description, but even doing things outside of that description as in helping in other areas of the employer. For example, Roberto was hired as a busboy but has also assisted the restaurant in taking down and

During the chapter of Bienvenidos we get to see a glimpse into the main character Hector. Hector is portrayed as an immigrant man who is a day laborer, cheater, unhappy, and get taken advantage of by its contractors. There is a section where Hector contemplates that during the time he is working around other day laborers that he makes“ calculations away from the other men --- they hate anyone who uses pencils and clipboards.”(Pg.8) This passage shows how Hector has prior knowledge that distinguishes him from the rest of laborers by being able to do minimum of the heavy work but, being hated by the folks around him. This reminds me of my father Delfino because when he moved to the United States he was coming with a mechanical engineering degree from Morelia, Mexico. Despite the degree not being validated here in the United States he still had the knowledge that would give him the upper hand when staring for a construction company called Anning-Johnson. I remembered how he mentioned that less than in a month he was promoted to supervisor because of his knowledge and how people who had been working for the company for many years despised him for getting such promotion that they dreamed of. My father would mentioned that as someone who doesn’t have paper having such position was great but that most of his work colleagues would have a passive aggressive attitude towards him that made him feel uncomfortable. In-spite Hector having good work ethic and knowledge to give him an upper hand in the job, however a theme displayed in this particular section was taking things in vain. Hector displays such theme by foreshadowing

The book ‘Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network’ by Ruth Gomberg-Munoz explains the hardships that surround the Mexican immigrant network. Over the years the ‘undocumented’ workers coming to America from Mexico has increased which has gained the attention of the American government and the media, as it is ‘illegal behavior’. Gomberg-Munoz attempts to create an understanding of the lives of these workers by telling individual’s personal stories. The author reports the workers undocumented lives rather than reviewing their status as this is already covered in society. The author’s main topic revolves around the principle that undocumented workers strive to improve their quality of life by finding employment in the United States (Gomberg-Munoz 9). Gomberg Munoz also presents the daily struggles the works face daily, and how these struggles “deprives them of meaningful choice and agency” which effects their opportunity and futures (Gomberg-Munoz 9). This ethnography shows their social identities through work, the reasons why their position is illegal and how they live their everyday lives under the circumstances.

In the article This day in Labor history: June 26, 1894 by Erik Loomis talks about the American railway union that Eugene Debs led, which was known as a nationwide boycott in solidarity with their member from Pullman, Illinois The actions led a minor strike turn into one of the major labor actions within the nation, this finished when President Grover called the united states military as a private army for the railroads which ended the strike

Furthermore, in the Richard Rodriguez’s passage entitled “workers”, was a young man and final year college student. This young man wanted to work during the summer but he was looking for a well paying white colored job to do in the Summer. Since he did not know what to do in order to get a summer job, without hesitation he was alerted by his friend about

Throughout reading the book “Undocumented: A Dominican Boy Odyssey” one situation that caught my eye exceptionally would be page 34, where he was explaining the situation where his mother didn’t want any other family members to acknowledge the struggle that she had to go through. Reason why she didn’t want her children to mention the situation they’re in would be that she doesn’t want to receive any sort of pity, questions or help. Yando’s mother is a strong independent woman who is not only capable of providing for her family without anyone else’s help but she knows it too. This struck me because my mother is as strong as the Yando’s mother. She does her best to provide for us even if times were tough. As I was younger, I didn’t understand

For the American laborer, factory worker, and farmer, the early twentieth century addressed a wide multitude of social and economic issues all across the board. Immigration, World War II and all of its supports and anti-war protests, the strong governmental reinforcement of laws that prohibited alcohol, radical literature, and any behavior that was considered “unpatriotic,” this century was full of revolutionary change. But one of the most notable issues of this time was the public growth of Socialism, an economic theory in which manufactured goods and delivery were governed not by the elite, but by the community as a whole. Between 1915 and 1920 especially, Socialism was beginning to pick up speed, as it had originated from the tense cracks that had begun to grow and fester between the working class and bourgeois. While the elite enjoyed the lavish wealth and ample opportunities that were available to only them alone, working class Americans gradually grew dissatisfied by their unsanitary conditions, 10 to 12 hour dangerous workdays, and very little pay. It was no wonder that during this time, the IWW and the phenomenon known as “strike fever” was born.

In the story The Jacket by Gary Soto the jacket has a bad effect on the kid who owns the jacket. In paragraph 4 the author wrote “I looked ugly.” This supports my claim because the jacket was ugly and when he was wearing he was ugly. Also because other people will think he is ugly and that can be bad. The author also said in paragraph 6 “The next day I wore it to the 6th grade and got a D on a math quiz.”

What are the differences between work and labor? There are many differences between work and labor. At the same time, it is complex to point out these differences because they are subtle. To illustrate one difference between work and labor, here is an example from a building site. The manager or contractor organizes the structure of the tasks that need to be executed. The laborers are those who are doing the heavy work, laying bricks, digging the holes and carrying the lumber. The manager, foreman and the laborers, however, are all working at the site. It is only those doing the heavy work that would be considered to be laboring.

Brithsh embassy staff should meet with the migrant domestic worker personally and explain their rights in the UK to working for another in the same mission. However with the new visa rules the employee has to leave the country if their employer does.