Workaholics: Employment and American Work Life

In society, many make a living by working for others to get the necessities they need. Workers face many struggles such as wage cuts, horrendous work conditions, an increase in hours, due to these conditions they are labeled ‘wage slaves.’ These individuals have no choice but to work in these conditions. The growth of industry in the United States made corruption easier and made employers richer while the poor stayed poor. The employers justify their actions by arguing that the employees have a choice to go and work for someone else. However, workers do not have the choice to work for others since most employers were using the same method to make a profit. Workers are treated unfairly, but they use many effective techniques such as strikes

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

The problem is that it only makes them feel better for a short while and eventually leaves them feeling empty. We are now said to be a “harried leisure class starved for time. Economic growth entails a general increase in the scarcity of time.” They say it is as simple as this: increased susceptibility to affluenza means increasing headaches from time pressure. The pace of work has seemed to increase dramatically and we are working much faster today than we were in the past. This contributes to our sense of being overworked, frenzied, harried, stressed out, and burned out by our jobs.

Work. It seems like an insignificant part of our day. You clock in, then clock out. But on average, Americans work 43 hours per week out of a total of 120 hours, take out the recommended sleep time and we work 43 out of 80 total hours. Therefore we work more than half the time in our daily lives. The larger part of Americans believe in The American Dream. so employees believe in working excessively for the chance of being rich, having expensive objects and being successful. The problem The American Dream is getting less and less possible each and everyday.

There is a woman I know by the name Arla Finney. She has a full time job, she is a full time mother, and a part time student. Out of seven days a week, she hardly has any time for relaxation, not even on the weekends. She raises four young women to the best of her abilities as well as working her tail off to make sure they have entirely everything they essentially need. Often times she feels that she has to work over her regular time just to make ends meet when they have already been met. As far as free time goes, I’m not sure she even knows what that is. The only free time allotted to her is at night when she lays her head on her pillow. Yes, the woman I speak of is my mother. Another overdosed with work American. Many days I can see it in her eyes how exhausted and stressed out she is. Lucky for her she has a daughter like me and I try to help out in every single way that I can. But not everyone is that fortunate. It may not be a widespread subject in the news, but an excessive percentage of people won’t acknowledge that they are overworked Americans. Their stress levels are intensifying, their families are dwindling away from each other, and for some even their well-being is weakening. Some people are working so much and scarcely have anything to show for it. While people need a job to make a living, too many Americans are working entirely too much.

Joe Messerli published an article that addressed the positive and negative effects immigrants have on the U.S. Obviously, having a larger population causes there to be greater competition to obtain work, however, the majority of the positions obtained by illegal immigrants are those that are undesired by Americans; low-skilled, low-paying, labor-intensive jobs (Messerli 2). Illegal immigrants pursue careers like dishwashers, landscapers, field workers, housekeepers, and food-processing plant workers. Very few Americans have the desire to obtain these jobs, whereas, illegal immigrants fill those positions gladly and do so at decreased wages. They also stay employed in those positions for many years, normally without the possibility of promotion. Americans however, only remain in such low-skilled, low-paying jobs for a short time, seeking to advance to higher paying positions.

What’s more, the author explained the transformation of the meaning in the term “workaholism” and poses the different working attitude between Americans and Europeans again (Clausen 121). The word “workaholism” seems like

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.

Not only are the men working hard in companies, teens and women are hard workers too, because there are thousands of Latin immigrants between fourteen and seventeen years old who come to search for a job. Many of these teens come here in the United States to work and when they come here lots of them don’t attend school, they go to work even though the job is too hard for them they work longer than eight hours and sometimes they work on dangerous place such as construction. Many Latin immigrant teens don’t have a family in the United States so they first look for a job, where they don’t ask for legal papers, to get money and then look for a place where to live. Many of them live in the streets and others have been caught by the immigration department and they go to jail. Other gets adopted by people who search for

That is very true, having an unskilled worker with no chance of moving up the wage latter is beneficial to businesses, but it still takes away jobs from other legal Americans. Also, illegals have many economical punishments such as being linked to the drastic growth in US population that is crowding classrooms, limiting affordable housing, and draining our natural resources such as water, energy, and forest land (Illegal). Faris's article on illegal immigration being a crime states, “ ...job competition by waves of illegal immigrants desperate for any job unfairly depresses the wages and working conditions offered to American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees.” All that basically says is that illegals have low skill sets and are able to take the jobs away from the other low skill set legal Americans. Additionally, as stated before, more money is spent on illegals than they pay back (Fiscal). Illegal immigration brings a rise in un-unity amoung US citizens, tax burdens to loyal Americans, and an uncomfortable amount of crime. If something with this many issues is a result of us allowing them to stay after breaking our laws, then why should we even allow

There’re taking our money. There’re killing us” (Hoban, 2017, para. 2). What they don’t know is that immigrants often fill the jobs Americans don’t want. In many cases the impact of immigrant labor on the wages of American workers is low, either way undocumented workers often work the unpleasant, back breaking jobs that American workers are not willing to put up with. Illegal immigrants come to the United State seeking jobs that offer them greater opportunities, and they are often welcomed by U.S. employers who are able to hire them for wages lower than they would have to pay to hire Americans. By the law enacted in 1986 it is illegal for U.S. employers to hire immigrants, but many employers ignore it and hire immigrants in the underground economy. In other cases employers accept fake employment documentation to hire illegal as legal. Many other immigrants arrive with a visa and stay illegally to find a job that is supposed to better than the ones at home. When hiring an illegal immigrant worker, it is prevalent in a sector of the economy, as it has become the case in seasonal crop agriculture, the willingness of foreign workers to accept lower wages because of their illegal status acts to depress wages and working conditions for all workers in that

Using cheap labor from the poor countries, US companies gain the massive profit. For example, Walmart is the biggest retailer in America, because the most products of Walmart import from China. To against the competitors, Walmart reduces the prices, but to hold profit stable, the company has to use the cheap labor. Walmart has the biggest numbers of employees, which is over one million workers, but the wage and working condition are horrible. The hourly wage is three cents, and the best workers receive ten cents. Walmart’s workers also include children and women, and these workers even get paid less than a man, even though they have the same amount of work. Walmart is famous with the cheap electronic products, but the quality isn’t good as

Cheap labor is a crisis in Americans society today. It is the reason why American workers have problems finding jobs that can sustain life. Labor laws have not done enough to make the United States function any better as it relates to domesticate situations than it had prior to their creation. The question is: what is the effect of cheap labor and the influence it has on jobs in U.S. companies? Jobs in the U.S. dramatically decreased as warehouses and other plants have moved overseas as well as the wages have dropped. Low income and labor laws influence jobs and wages throughout the U.S, by giving workers low wages for their hard work. An example of this is a person working for a lawn company and they pay hourly. He or she is a

A debate that always seems to raise its ugly head when the issue of "foreign labor" is discussed concerns the types of jobs that immigrants take and whether they are actually taking these jobs away from American workers. I look at it as jobs they are "left with", not ones they are taking. The debate always shows an American family that has been displaced or lost their livelihood because they can no longer compete with cheaper labor. In reality the jobs that the immigrants get are the most undesirable, strenuous and dangerous ones. The only American workers that they compete with are the unskilled ones. I intend to explore if immigrants "taking" American jobs, if they are only taking the jobs that

(The upper limit of the number of jobs indirectly Apple, it is difficult, but the company says their rights, as well as to standardize education in 2014, Apple company behavior, at least 2.3 million workers) The following table shows how difficult it will be Apple , never completely ended labor violation, child labor and the number of forced labor or the use of floating bodies and vice versa. This latest violation of labor in the form of relatively unfamiliar in the West, but by the United Nations as a form of slavery. Foreign migrant workers and told that they have to pay "fees" for recruitment to find a job, which means that they take orders from their suppliers before they start a job, workers often confiscate passports, let them