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#2 a room of one's own class conflict corruption

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  • Connor P on 12 Oct 11
     
    Virginia Woolf ties in the two classes of women and low wage workers. She understands the full comlpexity that workers esp. women are taking advantage of and used for their labor while compensated for with lousy pay. Knowing the the bosses are cheap with their money as seen in the other novels read, they know they can get away with stiffing heir employees as there are many other people wanting for jobs to open up
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#1 a room of one's own class conflict oppression

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  • She herself lectured only to women and working-class people. She gave lectures to women students and fellow professional women, to the Workers' Education League, and to the Working Women's Cooperative Guild.
  • Connor P on 12 Oct 11
     
    This quote here shows Woolf's target audience which combines not only women but also working-class people. This shows that her ideas of oppression and the need to rise up can be intertwined in both groups of people as they are completely differnet yet united by a set of beliefs. Therefore, the workrs of The Jungle, Fast Food Nation etc. can follow Woolf's principles
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#5 nickel and dimed grapes of wrath anger sympathy

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  • This might mean that Ehrenreich’s calls at the end of the book for workers to rise up, make demands, form unions, and get angry are wasted
  • Connor P on 03 Oct 11
     
    This again shows the connection between Nickel and Dimed and The Grapes of Wrath. Both Steinbeck and Ehrenreich are in favor of evoking the readers passion and having the people try to rise up. By using passion and feelings to motivate the people and display the poor treatment of workers
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#4 nickel and dimed 'grapes of wrath anger sympathy

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  • Though Ehrenreich still sees hope and a strong drive to succeed within this community, she fears a future uprising as people "are bound to tire of getting so little in return and to demand to be paid what they're worth. There'll be a lot of anger when that day comes, and strikes and disruption."
  • Connor P on 03 Oct 11
     
    This quote can be seen as the modern day version of The Grapes of Wrath. As the cyclical theory repeats itsself in history, the people of modern time are experiencing the same problems as the migrant workers. The author again evokes the passion to show the consequences of the poor treatment of workers
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  • She made $6.65 an hour, but the company charged customers $25 an hour. In the book, she describes one day when a co-worker injured her ankle on the job and could barely walk, but refused to go to the hospital because she was worried about losing any wages.
  • Connor P on 03 Oct 11
     
    This shows the negative consequences of the poor treatment of workers. The irony in this is outstanding as the coworker refuses to seek medical care for an injury that occured on the job so she wont lose his low wages from that same job. The author evokes the readers sympathizes and leaves them pitying the workers
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#2 all books workers nickel and dimed

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  • the work they perform is back-breaking, the pay is low, and job security is nonexistent. As one of the author's coworkers says about corporations, "They don't cut you no slack. You give and you give, and they take."
  • Connor P on 03 Oct 11
     
    This shows the unfair treatment of a companies employees. The people are seen as animals as described by this quote in which they before diffiuclt manual labor and receive the bare minimum to be kept alive. The corporations and the managers define their selfish qualties unlike the poor who believe in the universal theme of helping others
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#1 Nickel and Dimed corruption government workers

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  • Ehrenreich earned just over $1,000 per month. After paying for basic needs, however, she was left with $22. In addition to being low-paying, the two jobs required workers to be on their feet all day, with breaks only for restroom use, no facilities for lunch, and no health or retirement benefits.
  • Connor P on 03 Oct 11
     
    This shows the hard conditions that the workers have to go through even in modern times. The laissez faire style of the government is seen in which upper management can act corruptly toward the workers and get away with their behavior.
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#5 fast food nation consumers

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  • According to an alternative version, high-pressure marketing promotes junk food that makes everyone fat, resulting from the heartless unloading of unskilled and dangerous work on youthful racial minorities.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote is designed for the consumers, as the businesses show no care for what happens to the people. As long as they provide the profits, the business can let them live unhealthy
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#4 fast food nation poor treatment workers consumers

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  • While cataloguing assorted evils with the tenacity and sharp eye of the best investigative journalist, he uncovers a cynical, dismissive attitude to food safety in the fast food industry and widespread circumvention of the government's efforts at regulation
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source shows the the government does not care about its food safety thus leading to the endangered lives of the workers and consumers. The government shows it evils by aiming for profits rather than helping the workers
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#3 fast food nation poor treatment workers

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  • Meatpacking workers tend to be the most vulnerable of the vulnerable: mostly non-unionized, mostly poor white and Mexican, often undocumented, easy prey for a meatpacking industry that doesn't shy away from intimidation.
  • role in spreading beef-borne pathogens--particularly the deadly E. coli 0157:H7--and its attempts to skirt government oversight
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This shows that the workers and consumers are at the dispense of the businesses as they dont have the power to overcome them. Due to their social and economic situations, the corporations can control their products and working conditions however they want
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#2 fast food nation poor treatment workers

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  • Such cutthroat business practices ultimately have the twofold effect of hurting workers while also poisoning the meat with the cow’s own feces, which leads to the outbreak of E. coli bacteria illnesses.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This is the "kill to birds with one stone" philosphoy but in a negative way. By the greed that pursues the corporations, it not only gives the workers poor conditions but endangers the lives of the consumers also. the lack of ethics which hurt the people are not important to making profits
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#1 fast food nation poor treatment workers

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  • the industry basically exploits its workers because they have no other options: the industry "now employs some of the most disadvantaged members of American society … people who can barely read, whose lives have been chaotic or shut off from the mainstream."
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    Source combines all three novels to describe social injutice. It talks about how the workers are exploit due to the overflow of labor and shows the management can do what they want because the supply of labor flow so freely
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#5 grapes of wrath poor treatment workers

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  • Steinbeck shows no California cities in the novel, but reveals the contrast between the bountiful fields and the “Hoovervilles,” the temporary camps in which migrant workers are forced to live without adequate water or sanitation in California’s great Central Valley. “There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation,”
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    Steinbeck shows the pain of the people through poor treatment by using dictions such as "denunciation" and "crime". As the tangent is established between the fields and the "Hoovervilles" is seen, it shows the contrast between the lives of the rich and the poor and how poor working conditions affect them
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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
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#3 grapes of wrath poor treatment workers helping

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  • The Grapes of Wrath is a bitter tale of humans against nature and against a brutally exploitive society, but it is also a tale of nobility, of self-sacrifice, and ultimately of hope.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote shows the constant battle between humans against nature and society. Nature and society is symbolic of the poor working conditions and few jobs that they must overcome. By displaying the theme of the fight for better conditions, Steinbeck parallels this with his theme of helping others to show their differences
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  • Certainly, he paints the oppressive economic system in bleak colors. Many critics note, however, that Steinbeck was basically a reformer, not a revolutionary. He wanted to change the attitudes and behaviors of people — both migrants and economic barons — not overturn the private enterprise system.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    The oppressive economic system is symbolic of the poor treatment of the workers by the nasty aristocrats. Steinbeck was in favor of changing the images of the migrants and economy and therefore he used the plight of the migrant workers.
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#5 jungle poor treatment workers helping others

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  • He witnesses the greed and corruption in the industry and the deterioration of the lives of many workers. He is also shocked by the unhealthy handling of the meat. The novel presents graphic descriptions of diseased animals and rotting meat being sold to the American public.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote displays the images of the poor treatment of the workers and the consumers during the early 20th century. Not only were the workers repressed, but the bosses did not care about their consumers. As long as they bought the product the bosses did not worry and the lack of the universal theme of helping others is left out
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#1 grapes wrath poor treatment workers

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  • working conditions
  • Living conditions are also difficult for migrant farmworkers. Wages for farmwork have not kept up with inflation; consequently, it is difficult for families to afford basic necessities like housing, food, health care, and education for their children.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote displays the tangent between the poor working conditions of the farmers in the 30s and of now. The workers are treated horrible and no one can help them because they are independent workers or their buyers stiff them. Due to the oppression they receive, the theme of helping others is again ignored
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#4 jungle poor treatment workers corruption

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  • To these men, any money spent on employees—whether in terms of wages, benefits, or sanitary and safe working conditions—meant less money for their own pockets. The connection between healthy, happy workers and high levels of productivity was not obvious in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote does a great job of bringing in the time period of the Gilded Age. This time peroid is symbolic of corruption and greed which proves people would do whatever it takes to get ahead. By doing this, they forget the universal theme of helping others which led to the horrid conditions for the poor workers
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#3 jungle poor treatment workers

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  • Large corporations grew prosperous, but their wealth failed to trickle down to the worker, whose real wages dropped behind steadily rising prices. Faced with unsafe, unsanitary, and tenuous working conditions, factory workers lacked both economic and emotional security.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This underlined quote displays the conditions the workers of the early 20th century had to overcome. Coming from poor areas and having nothing, their jobs could not supply them with any form of security but rather put stress into their lives and destroyed families.
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