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Connor P

Literary Reference Center - powered by EBSCOhost: The Grapes of Wrath - 0 views

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#4 grapes of wrath economic injustice

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  • The Joad women thus demonstrate that all of the suffering poor are their family, to be nurtured and sustained in the unending struggle for economic justice in an economically unjust America.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote shows that the economic system in America in unjust and provides poor condtions for the worker. The women of Grapes of Wrath are seen as symbols of the poor and demonstrate the theme of economic injustice
Zaji Z

Abuses Against Workers Taint U.S. Meat and Poultry | Human Rights Watch - 2 views

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fast food nation the jungle ethics treatment of the worker

shared by Zaji Z on 01 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • In meat and poultry plants across the United States, Human Rights Watch found that many workers face a real danger of losing a limb, or even their lives, in unsafe work conditions.
  • “A century after Upton Sinclair wrote ‘The Jungle,’ workers in the meatpacking industry still face serious injuries,” said Jamie Fellner, director of the U.S. Program at Human Rights Watch.
  • “When workers try to defend themselves by forming unions, employers use fear and intimidation to stop them,”
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  • “The meatpacking companies hire immigrant workers because they are often the only ones who will work under such terrible conditions,”
  • Zaji Z on 01 Oct 11
     
    Reports are out: modern day meatpacking is still considered to be one imposing extreme hazard to the worker. This is only one of the many modern instances of ethical injustice as employers continue to intimidate their workers from creating unions, as described with Fast Food Nation and McDonald's. It is a marriage of Sinclair's eye-opening description of the meatpacking industry and Schlosser's depiction of contemporary business ethics. 
  • Willie C on 04 Oct 11
     
    This is a great source and annotation showing how the horrors of the meatpacking industry first brought up in the Jungle, and later in Fast Food Nation are still going on today. The terrible ethics of these big businesses are still a problem to this day.
  • Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    You guys bring up valid points. Honestly it gets frustrating hearing the same topic being incessantly repeated, but it still is a good source about these novels and the poor treatment of the workers. I like how your second quote even relates it to modern times, just like FFN
Zaji Z

WA Minimum Wage Soon to Top $9 an Hour - 0 views

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nickel and dimed workers wage

shared by Zaji Z on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • The minimum wage in Washington state goes up 37 cents on Jan. 1, to $9.04 an hour. Washington is one of only 10 states that ensure by law that their minimum wage keeps up with inflation
  • For a full-time worker, the higher minimum wage will mean about $770 more dollars a year.
  • Zaji Z on 04 Oct 11
     
    While many of modern society's economic talk, including Ehrenreich's experience, are of the injustice corporations and the government impose on the people with low wages that cannot even sustain a family for a month (or barely, at least)... they are overlooking the smarter state governments that do adjust their minimum wage policy to match inflation. Even if it may only be a few cents of a raise per hour, one can nearly earn a thousand, which definitely helps in sustaining a family. 
Zaji Z

Wal-Mart Workers Speak Out - 0 views

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Wal-Mart nickel and dimed workers

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  • I work so my husband and I can support our three children. I was really excited when I started working at the Wal-Mart in Kingsville, Texas, in 1996. During orientation, they made it sound so wonderful, like you’re going to get this and that, and they’re really family-oriented. They painted a pretty picture—but it’s not.
  • The managers were always telling us we’d better not go into overtime. But if you actually clocked out when your shift was supposed to be over, it would be like asking to lose your job. I knew the hours I worked, and the overtime would not be in my check.
  • Zaji Z on 04 Oct 11
     
    Though Ehrenreich includes some bias in her social experiment, the situation in which she puts herself in is very real and many people in the lower-class workforce deal with it. The corporation lures one into the trap, and when they're there, the poor workers are put under the mercy of the monster-- a beast of injustice. 
Emily S

Malcolm x and Islam - 2 views

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Malcolm X

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  • Emily S on 05 Jan 12
     
    The narrator, in Invisible Man demonstrates total naivety towards the beginning of the novel. He does not realize the harm that is being done to him by white people and even by his fellow black people. The theme of communism is present within the narrator's work with the Brotherhood.
  • Emily S on 09 Jan 12
     
    Malcolm's supposedly stated that white people did not approve of the religion of Islam because it reminded them of the injustices that they served to the African Americans. This shows the bitterness that Malcolm eventually gained towards white people. The irony of the matter is that Islam originally preached forgiveness as a high value. He using religion as a crutch for bigotry.
David D

Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789 - 0 views

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racism invisible man

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  • David D on 05 Jan 12
     
    This timeline, and the following pages which bring the information to current day, serves the purpose of providing accurate information on the history of slavery and racism in the United States. Starting with the original enslaving of Africans in Jamestown and other colonies, it describes the gross injustices committed by whites throughout the years.
Evan G

The Outsider Writers' Book Review: Upton Sinclair: The Jungle - 0 views

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the jungle treatment of the worker ethics

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  • Sinclair's book is a muckraking expose of the institutionalized inequality, corruption, privilege, sickness and slavery needed to keep the machine running that runs beneath he thin veneer of the American dream of freedom and success.
  • It's a losing battle, of course, and work in the packinghouses brings poverty, disease, death, injury, injustice, rape, jail and exploitation to the Rudkus family.
  • In the drive for even a half-penny of profit spoiled meat is bribed past inspectors, men are crushed and killed, waste is driven wholesale into public drinking water and, like the meat the process, every ounce of worth in a human being is taken before being discarded in favor of fresh meat
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  • Jurgis also is glad that he is not a pig – only to realize at the end that he and all the working men were treated as cruelly and as senselessly as the animals, driven to the point of death to churn out meat faster and faster and then discarded.
  • better to be a homeless vagrant than in service of the Trusts.
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    This site is AMAZING for topics regarding treatment of workers. It literally describes in vivid detail the cruelty and carelessness of the corporations, as well as the insignificance and disposability of the worker. No one matters; the companies see people in terms of dollars, not faces or names. People are just a means to an end, a way to get profit. Once the profit ceases, the people are discarded in search of even better workers, which will be discarded in their time as well
Ellen L

U.S. Writers, Too, Drove Social Change - New York Times - 0 views

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the jungle fast food nation grapes of wrath tyranny

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  • ''it is tyranny that has most often drawn writers into politics.''
  • tyranny indeed draws intellectuals into political conflict, so do economic, racial and social injustice.
  • Ellen L on 30 Sep 11
     
    Response to a Times article defending the changes brought upon by American writers. The original article stated "it is tyranny that has most often drawn writers into politics," this tyranny can be found in the Bosses from the Jungle, the plantation owners from GOW and the corporation owners in FFN.
Emily S

Timeline of women's rights. - 1 views

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ethics treatment a room of one's own women's rights

shared by Emily S on 13 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Emily S on 13 Oct 11
     
    Virginia wolf demonstrates her frustration about the slow progress of women's rights. This document specifically showcases exactly how slow this progress is. Like the reform movements of other cases of social injustice, change is hard to come about. In the Grapes of Wrath, the migrant workers wait forever for change to occur in their awful lives.
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