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Minimum Wage - 1 views

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  • Sarah Sch on 04 Oct 11
     
    "Historically, the idea of a minimum wage was to allow a full-time worker to earn enough to buy the basic necessities of life."
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  • Sarah Sch on 04 Oct 11
     
    This artcle essentially gives the definition of minimum wage and a little historical background. It is important to know the definition of minimum wage since it's a recurring aspect of buisness that is seen throughout several novels. The government originally set minimum wage as the lowest a worker could earn a still be able to support himself. Now, minimum wage is not enough to survive in this economic world.
  • David D on 04 Oct 11
     
    Exactly! How has our nation passed minimum wages that people can barely even live a "minimum" life on? This makes no sense to me.
  • Zach Ramsfelder on 04 Oct 11
     
    I agree. That's why there needs to be a national living wage like they have in San Francisco, Washington DC, and Maryland (generally, the living wage they set is between $10 and $15 an hour--$3 to $7 more than the minimum wage).
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Gale Power Search - Document - 1 views

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  • He had eight children with his wife, Sister Clara Muhammad, but also fathered a number of illegitimate children with his secretaries, a circumstance that was one of the reasons for Malcolm X's final break with the Nation of Islam in 1964.
  • Connor P on 08 Jan 12
     
    This again shows the deception which changes Malcolm X's life forever. He understands that the Nation of Islam is not for him just as IM learns the Brotherhood is not for him. This leads to both of their discoveries about themselves.
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NOW.Society & Community. The Battle Fields - The Coalition of Immokalee Workers vs.... - 1 views

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  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article, and the video attached, is truly remarkable. The workers that pick cheap produce for companies like Taco Bell are some of the worst paid in the nation. These workers banded together to rise up against Taco Bell and Yum! Brands, and won. The article talks about how they may have started a nationwide movement, as their success may be inspiring for other mistreated laborers for the giant fast food industry.
  • Ben R on 04 Oct 11
     
    I agree that is is certainly something that the workers were actually able to pull out a victory, especially considering the opposition they face. In FFN when the reader hears about the failing attempt of the workers trying to unite and join a union the extremities that the corporations go through this seems to me to be more of a fluke then the start of a revolution.
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Literary Reference Center - powered by EBSCOhost: You Want Fries with That? - 1 views

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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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Literary Reference Center - powered by EBSCOhost: The Grapes of Wrath - 1 views

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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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Who Speaks for Malcolm X? The Writings of Just About Everybody - New York Times - 1 views

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  • David D on 09 Jan 12
     
    By Michael Eric DysonPublished: November 29, 1992 IN "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," the charismatic black religious nationalist recalls his momentous 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca, a visit that would alter the course of his life and career.
  • David D on 09 Jan 12
     
    This source talks about the theme of blindness in Malcolm X, especially in relation to his enlightenment on the trip to Mecca.
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McDonald's Worker Arrested for Serving Cop Salty Hamburger - 1 views

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  • A McDonald's worker in Union City, Ga., was arrested and jailed Thursday night for putting too much salt and pepper on a police officer's hamburger
  • Zaji Z on 30 Sep 11
     
    You know something wrong when someone cannot even assemble a frozen hamburger. When all it takes is to season a burger and a worker cannot even accomplish that property, it means that the workers are not so passionate in performing well in their job, which leads to a conclusion that perhaps there aren't too many incentives for the employee to even bother trying. 
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  • Ellen L on 03 Oct 11
     
    You also know something is wrong when someone gets arrested for seasoning food wrong. If it was such an obvious problem, the cop should have addressed it before eating the rest of the hamburger and getting sick. I think this shows irresponsibility on both the side of the business and the side of the government.
  • Sydney C on 04 Oct 11
     
    I would just like to say I read this and actually laughed out loud. This is absurd, and I agree with both of you! It shows how little training workers get if they can't even prepare the (almost entirely precooked) burger properly. The manager must not be well trained either, because he didn't do much to help. On the other hand, the cop didn't have much reasoning for arresting Bull. This seems like a cop using his power excessively.
  • Emily S on 04 Oct 11
     
    Yeha, it's ironic because the there are so many scandals that occur in the fast food industry already that the government ignores. Yet a worker is arrested for not seasoning a burger the right way. Ridiculous
  • Zach Ramsfelder on 04 Oct 11
     
    See, it's all about da profit. Mickey D's can't even spend the money or time to teach its employees how to put seasoning on a premade and pre-flavored (by chemicals) patty. But I think it's even more pathetic that this guy got arrested for it.
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(3) Mental Illness and the Family: Recognizing Warning Signs and How to Cope - 1 views

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  • Sarah Sch on 29 Feb 12
     
    "A mental illness is a disease that causes mild to severe disturbances in thought and/or behavior, resulting in an inability to cope with life's ordinary demands and routines."
  • Sarah Sch on 29 Feb 12
     
    "Your family member's behavior may be as dismaying to them as it is to you. Ask questions, listen with an open mind and be there to support them."
  • Sarah Sch on 29 Feb 12
     
    This article discusses mental disorders within the family unit and how to respond to mental disorders of family members. The first tactic the article stresses is the communication one must maintain with the effected family member. Contrary to this approach, in As I Lay Dying, the Bundrens refuse to discuss the corrupted mental function of Darl. They try to find the root of the issue or even support their struggling family member.
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Frankenstein VS Child Neglect - 1 views

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  • David D on 27 Feb 12
     
    This article talks about the effects that neglect had on a child, Frankenstein's monster. While the monster had body parts of dead humans, he had the mind of a newborn baby, and turned into the monster he became due to the treatment he received from Frankenstein. Unfortunately, child neglect is a very real problem in the world today and can stunt the psychological and moral growth of people.
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The struggles with welfare benefits - 1 views

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  • Emily S on 03 Oct 11
     
    For many families with minimum-wage income,welfare becomes a necessary means for survival. However, not everyone that needs it can obtain it and not everyone that can obtain it, will the welfare help to survive.the article speaks of the poverty, specifically in Wisconsin and how even though some impoverished families desperately need it, it is considered socially unacceptable for them to apply and they are discouraged from doing so.
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  • Emily S on 03 Oct 11
     
    "Privatization was touted as a more economical means of administering welfare, but it has been a very expensive, as well as heartless, experiment. In 1985, Wisconsin's welfare program cost $548 million for 299,700 people; in 2001, the budget is $710 million for fewer than 20,000 individuals. From 1985 to 2000, administrative costs jumped from 4 to 52 percent. The five Milwaukee corporations that run welfare earned $33 million in profits in one year, and $47.2 million in surplus dollars. These profits are the result of denying support to families in crisis."
  • Willie C on 04 Oct 11
     
    Great quote, and it highlights a reoccurring theme in many of the books where aid given by the wealthier classes is never enough, goes unnoticed, or in the case of the Jungle is for a different reason. This is when the immigrants are given money to give up their right to political freedom, but the free funds are too needed to resist.
  • Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    This is actually a GOOD interesting source. Unlike the books and the typical secondary source, it provides USEFUL and NEW info. It gives quality statistics which can actually help prove a point, rather than just repeat it or restate it.
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Timeline of women's rights. - 1 views

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  • 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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Gale Power Search - Document - 1 views

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  • In vitriolic public speeches on behalf of the Nation of Islam, he described whites in the United States as devils and called for African Americans to reject any attempt to integrate them into a white racist society.
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      Vivas T on 09 Jan 12
       
      This displays Malcolm's third step in his maturation process because he he learned truths about his new beliefs and tries to integrate these beliefs into society. However, only when he is able to break free from those who control his thoughts is he really able to understand his true role in society.
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Gale Power Search - Document - 1 views

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  • Malcolm was a bright student and, in fact, was at the top of his class in junior high school. In the eighth grade, however, one of his favorite teachers told him that his dream of becoming a lawyer was “no realistic goal for a nigger” (Malcolm X 1965, p. 36). At that point he lost interest in formal education and dropped out of school.
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      Vivas T on 09 Jan 12
       
      Malcolm's harsh realization of his surroundings is primarily throughout his early years, as opposed to IM, who is more naive and innocent. However, similar to IM's speech at the Battle Royal Malcolm realizes that blacks are only able to succeed as far as the whites allow them to, disabling their true identity to be seen in society.
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Biography of Ehrenreich - 1 views

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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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  • Willie C on 04 Oct 11
     
    I agree with this, which was in my section. It could also be tied easily to The Jungle, in that the meat packers make lots of money off each animal that is slaughtered, but pay their workers very little.
  • Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    Yeah. It's nuts how greedy these people are. They could pay their workers two, three times as much money and still make tons of profits. However, they just choose to squeeze every last penny of efficiency out of their employees. It's mind baffling.
  • Vivas T on 04 Oct 11
     
    This not only illustrates the harsh treatment of the workers, but it also shows the unfortunate conditions that these workers are placed in due to their low payed jobs. As a result of their tough living conditions, these workers are afraid to take time off for serious injuries due to the possibility of losing wages, or even their job.
  • Emily S on 04 Oct 11
     
    This reminds me of the Jungle when Jurgis ruined his ankle in the slaughterhouses and then got fired from him job. It shows how industrial ethics have not changed at all.
  • Sarah Sch on 04 Oct 11
     
    The article deals with Ehrenreich's education and her years of investigative reporting. The article tells of a second undercover book Ehrenreich wrote, "Bait and Switch". It said that she could not find a middle management job after ten months of searching. Even the middle class gets the short end of the stick in the buisness world.
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The Simple Dollar » Review: Nickel and Dimed - 1 views

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  • Willie C on 03 Oct 11
     
    "Another aspect of this general problem is "injury of the spirit;" in other words, when the reward to excel is minimal, why bother trying to excel?"
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  • Willie C on 03 Oct 11
     
    This quote is from a personal finance site that reviewed the book. It brings up interesting topics that show a different incite, like when the workers are not compensated for doing an outstanding job rather than a minimalist one, they have no desire to continue to excel.
  • Connor P on 03 Oct 11
     
    I agree with you Willie. I feel like this is true and it promotes the anger in the people that causes them to rise up
  • Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    You make a good statement; often workers feel compelled to just give up and surrender to the companies. And honestly, who could blame them? You work 16 hours in a day and sleep the rest. You're tired, sleep deprived, hungry, in constant stress. You live only to work, and you work just to live. What is the point of life? Like honestly the condition these people live in just sucks.
  • Vivas T on 04 Oct 11
     
    I agree with all of you and the quote depicts why businesses promote the hiring of uneducated workers because they will work for less and perform at the same speed as a normal worker since there is no reward for excelling.
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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf - 1 views

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  • David D on 13 Oct 11
     
    This source basically describes the book, but poses the questions that were the underlying purpose of Woolf in writing it. Shows how Woolf was a pioneer in gaining women rights and that A Room of One's Own is still relevant today, "every time individual creativity comes into conflict with the demands of a very commercial world."
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Study: Wal-Mart Stores Add to Poverty, Not Prosperity - 1 views

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  • Zach Ramsfelder on 04 Oct 11
     
    Despite the fact that Wal-Mart is a "Fortune 1" company (it's at the top of the Fortune 500 list), regions with high concentrations of Wal-Marts also have higher poverty rates than average. Note: Posted on a Union Website
  • David D on 04 Oct 11
     
    After reading Nickel and Dimed and looking at outside sources, I have realized that Walmart is probably the worst corporation that we could possibly have in our economy today. One of the most successful companies in America and around the world does not give health benefits, pays minimum wage, and regions that have Walmarts have higher poverty rates! Wal- Mart may boast that they have "always low prices", but at what price? I applaud this source Zach, and recommend it for anyone talking about Wal-Mart in their essays.
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The Myth of the Working Poor - 1 views

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  • Travis F on 03 Oct 11
     
    "Ehrenreich quickly finds that she'll need a second job to support herself. This seems to startle her, as if holding down two jobs is something new to America." This is startling, most people complain about having one job when some people are thankful for the $12 they make at the 2 or more jobs they have. Most shocking is the Ehrenreich, who is such a poor advocate, didn't know that she might have to work 2 jobs.
  • Evan G on 03 Oct 11
     
    I also found this source too and was tempted to use it, but when i read the rest of it it turned out to actually be criticizing her for not fully trying her experiment.
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Nickel and Dimed: On Getting By in America - 1 views

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  • Willie C on 03 Oct 11
     
    "...and she examines how corporations often strip employees of their dignity. Random locker searches and drug testing occur despite what she routinely observes to be honest, hard working co-workers"
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  • Willie C on 03 Oct 11
     
    This quote highlights more of the rich employers terrible treatment of their poor workers, and how they come up with schemes specifically designed for the purpose of, in this case, stripping employees of their dignity to keep them from trying to improve their situation.
  • Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    That's true. But if you don't keep your employees absolutely paranoid and full of stress, it's possible they might rebel or cause insurrections. So of course, you HAVE to oppress them and take away their pride so that they'll have no self esteem or confidence left.
  • Vivas T on 04 Oct 11
     
    I agree with Evan because this quote displays a business tactic in which companies continuously strip their workers' of their rights, which leave them with very little hope. However, as seen in GOW, this little bit of hope, along with their lack of money, will allow these workers to stick to their jobs in these environments.
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UniversalJournal/AYJW - Articles, Papers, Essays - Association of Young Journalists and... - 1 views

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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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  • Connor P on 04 Oct 11
     
    I agree that this happens and this is a good source for that topic but im having trouble finding it in the books we are reading.
  • Vivas T on 04 Oct 11
     
    This relates to all the novels we have read, the large amounts of workers in Cali. in GOW and the tactics of meatpacking industries to advertise the availability of more jobs than there actually are in The Jungle, for example. This allows workers to refrain from joining together, and allows the businesses to gain more power and profit as the working class continues to grow weaker.
  • Sarah Sch on 04 Oct 11
     
    The availibility of workers is not something that the workers themselves can control. It is, however, the main force working against them.
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