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White Colar Sweatshop Research Paper

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Ah Christmas that magical time of year when people seem to forget about the blistering cold and start warming eachothers hearts with kindness and giving. However when I was in the 2nd grade there was only one thing on my mind that year. The Barbie Dream House. Yes i know how cliche of little seven year old me to want a barbie dreamhouse but I did. I wanted it more than anything, I was convinced that as long as I got it my life would be complete. When christmas finally rolled around and I tore the paper off the thing I wanted most I thought that there would be no more troubles and i’d be happy forever However after a little while the novelty wore off. All my friends had already come over to play with it, I lost some of the pieces, and what was left seemed to break. I didn’t like it anymore and ended up just playing with what I had before. At that young impressionable age I learned a very important lesson, material items couldn’t bring me long term happiness. In a foreword by Richard M. …show more content…

As peoples need for material items grow they increasingly need more and more money to serve this need. This is causing people to stay extra hours at the office so they can afford their seven year old daughters dream gift. In White- Collar Sweatshop by Jill Andresky Fraser , Fraser talks about how people nowadays get stuck in jobs that they hate just because it may pay a little more and how overwork is becoming an epidemic. These people then get home have less time for their children and spouses or ignoring them when they do by turning to media for a stress reliever. I mean I love my trashy reality tv too, and I know you have just need to find out if camille with ever stop crying because her children will have to share a wing of their new home, but family should come first People then try to compensate for the loss of human connection through material items and it becomes a never ending

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