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The History of Women's Rights - 0 views

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AROOO

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    "the conditions in factories were hazardous, and their pay was lower than that of a man. In fact the husbands controlled their wives wages. At the same time the middle and upper class women were to stay idle and only to be decorative symbols of their husband's economic success." In the lower classes, women worked for low wages in dangerous conditions; in the higher classes, respectable women were not permitted to work, and were simply symbols of their husbands' success. Regardless of socioeconomic status, women were controlled, and had to be prim, proper, and feminine without appearing too independent or self-reliant.
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1929: NY TImes Review - 0 views

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room of one's own woolf

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  • What Mrs. Woolf has traced, of course, are the reasons for the very limited achievements among women novelists through the centuries. Why did they fail? They failed because they were not financially independent; they failed because they were not intellectually free; they failed because they were denied the fullest worldly experience.
  • Evan G on 10 Oct 11
     
    The site points out that Woolf points out that women were inhibited from success, and typically doomed to failure as a result of the restrictions placed upon them from society. They couldn't be financially independent, so they never had time to learn and experience the world, so they weren't intellectually free, etc.
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SparkNotes: A Room of One's Own: Analysis - 0 views

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  • These conditions—leisure time, privacy, and financial independence— underwrite all literary production, but they are particularly relevant to understanding the situation of women in the literary tradition because women, historically, have been uniformly deprived of those basic prerequisites.
  • She writes a history of a woman's thinking about the history of thinking women: her essay is a reconstruction and a reenactment as well as an argument.
  • Evan G on 10 Oct 11
     
    The site points out that women of back in the day were often unable to write a book simply for lack of three conditions that even modern day workers often take for granted. They were always kept too busy with simple preoccupations to bother with spending some free time writing books I also think the site made an interesting point in remarking that her style of writing is odd: she isn't talking about women's history, she's talking about thinking about it. Of course, it makes the book much more boring; however, it's a new and creative method of writing.
Evan G

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fast food nation grapes of wrath treatment of the worker the jungle ethics poor nickel and dimed workers america treatment
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    #1 Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    I've clicked on a bunch of your titles, and perhaps 5 or 10 of them lead to a blank page asking me to sign in or provide a username/password combination. These sources seem fairly useless, as the link to your so-called "quotes" just bring me to a blank page. Is there a way to fix it?
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    #3 Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    Wow! Thanks, I honestly would never have guessed any of them on my own!
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UniversalJournal/AYJW - Articles, Papers, Essays - Association of Young Journalists and... - 1 views

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nickel and dimed

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  • With the mass production of low wage jobs, businesses have the ability hire their lackeys by the dozen.  Corporations thrive on the cheap availability of their employees and never feel compelled to increase pay allotments, simply because they know new, more desperate applicants will be coming through their doors to replace the previous groups.  For employers, low wage jobs are perfect; employment is high, and paychecks are low—great for overall profit of business. 
  • Evan G on 03 Oct 11
     
    Relating to every novel so far, it defines business. Pit the workers against each other so they don't notice that the corporations are the ones to blame. Workers get so focused fighting each other over jobs that they fail to see that it's the suppliers of the job that are manipulating them and using them.
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http://www.natefacs.org/JFCSE/v20no1/v20no1Domenico.pdf - 0 views

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nickel and dimed

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    She finds most of these jobs are physically and mentally exhausting. Employers overwork employees in return for low wages, few benefits, and minimal health care coverage.  She notes that it is not uncommon for many Americans trapped in the low-wage workforce to juggle two or three jobs to make ends meet.  Just like pretty much every secondary source site, it sums up the primary source and repeats the same information in a different manner. Employers abuse and take advantage of their workers, milking them for all they're worth. Big surprise. Who would have thought?
Evan G

Book Documents Poverty of Means and of Spirit Among Low-Wage Workers - Knowledge@Wharton - 1 views

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nickel and dimed

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    Many people condemn homeless/poverty level people because they assume that their low status is their own lazy fault. They assume that because there are tons of jobs out there at the entry level, it's easy for the workers of these jobs to survive. However, this isn't the case, as they work harder than the majority of middle class people and struggle to eke out a living. It not only destroys their wallets but also their souls and willpower.
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'Nickel and Dimed' Ehrenreich urges Central Oregon unions, activists to build economic ... - 1 views

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nickel and dimed

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  • "Every job takes skill and intelligence and deserves respect." But respect is hard to come by at $7 an hour, she added. "Employees have a work ethic. But employers don't have a pay ethic."
  • "We need to understand that the market doesn't solve all of our problems," she added. "We can get hundreds of shades of lipstick and all kinds of breakfast cereal. But the market doesn't provide basic needs for people."
  • Evan G on 03 Oct 11
     
    People that work tend to actually try to achieve their tasks and goals. They put time and effort into their jobs, no matter how low paying. However, companies don't invest the same care into their workers, and basically leave them to fend for themselves.
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Blog.amhill :: Book Reviews :: Nickel & Dimed (part 1 of 2) [Book Review] - 0 views

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  • It seems completely counter-intuitive: we are told time and time again this Protestant mantra that hard work is the path to prosperity; that the poverty-stricken and homeless are the way they are because of sloth or carelessness and bad choices; that having a job will logically lead to having a home and ultimately a life. But the reality is far less simplistic.
  • For them, a typical day is filled with only work and sleep. The worst part is that, for most of them, their work is not building towards anything at all – they will likely never make it to management, they are not attending classes as I was (no time to do it!), and they live paycheck to paycheck.
  • They are in stasis, effectively just biding their time until they are old enough to collect a modest social security check. (And they will likely continue to work after that).
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  • they are essentially donating their time, their lives, to make other people’s lives better, and they do so in a way that is rewarded in a disproportionately unfavorable way.
  • Evan G on 03 Oct 11
     
    Talks about the dead routine of the workers' lives. They have nothing to enjoy about life, they simply work, eat, and sleep. They spend almost every hour working to stay alive. But their life isn't really worth the trouble. It sucks. And also talks about how the minimum-wage workers work harder than countless other jobs, yet because there is not much academic knowledge or professionalism required, they are disgarded as underclass or dumb. 
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USATODAY.com - Treatment of meatpacking workers in question - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation

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  • Figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington show the injury rate in meatpacking per 100 full-time workers in 1999 was 26.7%
  • Injured workers who do sign the waiver, Glasheen said, likely have no idea that the company payoff may be only "tens of thousands" (of dollars) for a serious injury, one that "could be worth millions of dollars on a negligence claim."
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Although the site doesn't entirely agree with the views in FFN, it still offers some good statistics to back it up; discussing the injuries and hardships of the workers.
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In These Times 25/11 -- The Fast Food Jungle - 0 views

www.inthesetimes.com/...mason2511.html

Fast Food Nation

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  • The public health threat of fast food is even more serious: Many deadly new pathogens have arisen and spread as a direct result of changes in cattle and poultry growing, meatpacking and food preparation spurred by the rise of fast food.
  • Everyone knows that fast food jobs suck. They're greasy, low-paid, short-term, unskilled and without benefits, and among teen-agers, who fill nearly all of them, they're not even cool
  • In addition to its restaurants, McDonald's exerts near-total control over the production of commodities of which it is among the largest buyers: beef, potatoes, pork and poultry.
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  • Fast food workers rarely have benefits of any sort, and typically turn over at several hundred percent each year. And they are never, ever unionized. In addition to being low-paid and transient, fast food work is dangerous: the rate of injury in fast food jobs is among the highest of any job category.
  • But if that weren't bad enough, fast food workers are now more likely to be murdered on the job (four to five per month) than are police,
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Another excellent site commentating on Fast Food Nation. Honestly, I fail to see the point of searching for most of these commentaries. Nearly none of these sites about the novels say anything explicitly new or interesting which the novels did not. They're just encapsulations of the same thing. After the class puts this together, we will have hundreds of summaries of the same dumb novels.
Evan G

Fast-Food Giant Ignores Rights of Workers - 3 views

www.commondreams.org/...0316-10.htm

fast food nation

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  • ncreasingly, according to Oxfam, today's globalized economy is characterized by powerful corporations at the top of the product supply chain. "These massive, highly consolidated and vertically-integrated corporations are able to extract value from the supply chain by squeezing costs and offloading responsibility onto those below them--their shippers and suppliers." Suppliers, in turn, try to extract greater value from producers, while producers--with very few variable costs they can cut--"squeeze their labor force," resulting in declining wages and deteriorating work and living conditions
  • roblem, however, is that the company puts the obligation for monitoring and enforcing the code on its suppliers, rather than on itself--yet another example of the corporation at the top of the chain sloughing off responsibilities onto a lower link to avoid additional costs for itself.
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Talks about the corporate strategies to thrive and prosper. The CEOS just want money, so they force the suppliers to make more money. The suppliers have to live up to these standards, so they in turn squeeze the workers out, milking unnecessarily large profits where they could have shared with the worker and still done reasonable well.
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Literary Reference Center - powered by EBSCOhost: Fast Food Nation - 2 views

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Fast Food Nation ethics

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  • uncovering a bloated business empire grown insensitive to anything but the bottom line, and he discusses all of this in an effectively quiet, informative way without overwhelming the reader with forced rhetoric.
  • What was once a bewildering array of different companies boiled down to the successful few that survived and spread, and they succeeded largely through marketing and by various aggressive techniques for maximizing profits.
  • gruesomeness of a job that victimizes workers as the company speeds up the production line to maximize profits. The faster the slaughterhouse functions, the more money it makes, but after a certain point, workers are increasingly likely to hurt themselves and others with knives, and also to pollute the meat when they fail to cleanly cut the intestines out of each cow.
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Talks about the Suvival of the fittest of companies, and how they must fight in order to survive and grow. Unfortunately, surviving and growing means devaluing and diminishing their workers, which "victimizes workers as the company speeds up the production line"
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A review Fast Food Nation | Grist - 2 views

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Fast Food Nation

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  • Turnover is huge, and the companies profit from it: Short-term workers accrue few benefits and are less likely to organize. Schlosser recounts how McDonald's and its ilk have fought against unions, sometimes closing stores to prevent workers from unionizing.
  • . Three companies grow and process about 80 percent of all French fries now served by fast food chains
  • The meat-processing industry and restaurant chains continually lobby against regulations that would improve worker and food safety
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Gives a brief summary of all of Schlosser's complaints in FFN, while whining about the meat industries and their expansion, development, tactics, and industrialization. 
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Cornell News: Meatpacking industry violates human rights - 0 views

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the jungle treatment of the worker ethics

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  • "Workers in American beef, pork and poultry slaughtering and processing plants, many of whom are immigrants, perform dangerous, physically demanding and exhausting jobs in bloody, greasy surroundings. The workers not only contend with abuses and an unprecedented volume and pace in sawing and cutting carcasses, but they also experience constant fear and risk, not only for their health and safety but for their jobs if they get hurt or attempt to organize
  • many injured workers, who not uncommonly lose a limb or suffer severe life-threatening injuries, don't get workers' compensation when injured, and government laws, regulations and policies and enforcement fail to protect them.
  • "Meatpacking work has extraordinarily and unnecessarily high rates of injury, musculoskeletal disorders (repetitive stress injuries) and even death. The inherent dangers of meatpacking work are aggravated by ever-increasing line speeds, inadequate training, close-quarters cutting and long hours with few breaks,"
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Talks about the dangers and accidents in meatpacking industries, as well as complaining about how unnecessary these accidents are. A little carefulness and selflessness on the part of the companies would go a long way.
Evan G

The Chain Never Stops - 2 views

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fast food nation ethics treatment of the worker

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  • The meatpacking industry not only has the highest injury rate, but also has by far the highest rate of serious injury—more than five times the national average, as measured in lost workdays
  • The meatpacking industry has a well-documented history of discouraging injury reports, falsifying injury data, and putting injured workers back on the job quickly to minimize the reporting of lost workdays
  • The typical plant now hires an entirely new workforce every year or so.
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  • In a relatively brief period of time, the meatpacking industry also became highly centralized and concentrated, giving enormous power to a few large agribusiness firms.
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    This whole site talks about awful treatment of the workers in packing industries. It's a lot like Fast Food Nation and the Jungle, because it gives both specific stories and overall points about the dangers that the workers face, and how little the companies care about such dangers.
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The Outsider Writers' Book Review: Upton Sinclair: The Jungle - 0 views

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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
Evan G

A Literary Analysis of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - Associated Content from Yahoo! - ... - 1 views

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the jungle

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  • The protagonist Jurgis is immediately overjoyed to have a job, denies to join a union because he is all but ecstatic with the poor working conditions, and believes he is making a good living for his family.
  • The Jungle couldn't be a better title for this book, as the immigrant family is eaten alive by conmen, politicians, dirty employers, lawyers, and shoddy living conditions.
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Really attests to the title of the book, and talks about how cons and other deceitful tactics were used to screw the Rudkuses over. The second and third pages of it are interesting because they describe the book in both socialist AND capitalist points of view, giving a fairer view of Sinclair's words and accusations against capitalism.
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SparkNotes: The Jungle: Themes, Motifs & Symbols - 0 views

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the jungle

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  • Every event, especially in the first twenty-seven chapters of the book, is chosen deliberately to portray a particular failure of capitalism, which is, in Sinclair’s view, inhuman, destructive, unjust, brutal, and violent.
  • The slow annihilation of Jurgis’s immigrant family at the hands of a cruel and prejudiced economic and social system demonstrates the effect of capitalism on the working class as a whole
  • Instead of a land of acceptance and opportunity, they find a place of prejudice and exploitation; instead of a country where hard work and morality lead to success, they find a place where only moral corruption, crime, and graft enable one to succeed materially.
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  • The family itself has been subject to swindles, grafts, manipulation, and rape. As the corruption motif recurs with increasing levels of immorality, it enhances the sense that things are growing worse and worse for the family. Sinclair heightens the atmosphere of grim tragedy and hopelessness to such an extent that only the encounter with socialism in Chapter 28 can possibly alleviate Jurgis’s suffering and give his life meaning.
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Yet again, Sparknotes is a fairly decent source, describing various themes for potential essay topics including the failure of capitalism, corruption in businesses, treatment of the [immigrant]  worker, etc. It's very short, to the point, and concise, talking about how awfully workers are manipulated, and the utter torment they go through on a day-to-day basis, merely trying to survive.
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The Great Depression - 1 views

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Grapes of Wrath

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  • Farm prices dropped to record lows and bitter farmers tried to ward off foreclosers with pitchforks. By the dawn of the next decade, 4,340,000 Americans were out of work. More than eight million were on the street a year later. Laid-off workers agitated for drastic government remedies. More than 32,000 other businesses went bankrupt and at least 5,000 banks failed. Wretched men, including veterans, looked for work, hawked apples on sidewalks, dined in soup kitchens, passed the time in shantytowns dubbed "Hoovervilles," and some moved between them in railroad boxcars. It was a desperate time for families, starvation stalked the land, and a great drought ruined numerous farms, forcing mass migration.
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Although it's just a basic summary of the Depression on a website, it actually has some good statistical figures that might be included in essays to add effect or impact, or "concrete details" for Mrs. Furphey.
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