The book represents the lives of many immigrants who arrived to America to find the American dream, but as they experience the hardships of labor, discrimination and corruption, poverty took over their lives. In the book, the author clearly describes the dangerous and unsanitary working conditions that employees had to deal with, and the cruelty that was given to workers with cheap labor and long hours without having any benefits given to the employees. Many workers had accidents in the factories and were left without a job when they were injured. ... The fact that there was no security in job...

• Word Count: 918
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The biggest struggles represented in the book are due to racism, poverty, and crime. ... In the "Goin" Legit" chapter of the book we see the discrimination that is experienced by Primo and Caesar when they attempted working in a "legitimate" work environment. ... Hence, they are denied well paying jobs not only because of their race but because of their lack of education. ... This machoism and cruelty can be seen in various instances throughout the book. ... These people are able to hold legit jobs and practice the morals and values of mainstream America. ...

• Word Count: 884
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book is filled with intriguing chapters on history and a bold analysis of present-day America. ... Gregory McNamee reviewed Kevin Philips Wealth and Democracy and found that the book "examined cycles of economic growth and decline from the founding days of the republic to the recent collapse of technology stocks, Phillips dispels notions of trickle-down wealth creation, pricks holes in speculative bubbles, and decries the ever-increasing "financialization" of the economy--all of which, he argues, have served to reduce the well-being of ordinary Americans and government alike. Highly reada...

• Word Count: 1228
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Yonnondio is set in the twenties; however, Tillie Olsen describes this book as "a novel of the 1930's" because this prose is a forum to address political and social conditions of the thirties. ... This book is about poverty's mandate that people work and the harsh conditions presented by this poverty. Jim, father of Tillie's character Maize, goes from unskilled job to unskilled job in an effort to provide tolerable living conditions for his family. ... Feeling deprived of his manhood Jim comments, "Tracy I"m sorry we weren't stronger and show you that kind of individua...

• Word Count: 917
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his book, Urrea goes into tremendous detail about his life living in those slums and the images he saw growing up on the other side of "the wire.... Urrea gives many examples of this concept in his book, but I think the example that he gave that genuinely made me stomach flip was when Jesusita and her husband were executed by a local militia living in the slum. ... In cities, you have people competing over the most basic essentials in life such as social hierarchy, food, shelter, utilities and jobs. ... I cannot lie; reading this book at times was hard. ... Urrea's book Across th...

• Word Count: 1416
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The most effective ways of reducing poverty includes government action to increase jobs, removing social barriers, and improving education for children. India is currently investing in renewable energy projects in order to create jobs along with providing clean energy for the country. The investment of $7.9 billion into this project will create many much needed jobs for the unskilled workers (Jaiswal). ... Because there are not as many available jobs as there are potential workers, the employers force the currently employed to take very little pay or they get fired. ... In Michael Pollan'...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I will compare the World Bank recommendations on female education from their 2007 Symposium on LDCs with the social realities of urban underclass neighborhoods as described by Edin and Kefalas in their book "Promises I can Keep" (2005). ... Their book represents a conscious attempt to report the typical opinions and thought processes of the real life subjects of living conditions in the urban underclass neighborhoods. ...

• Word Count: 5954
• Approx Pages: 24
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Baumohl declares in his book Homelessness in America "The lives of all people, disabled or not, are embedded in circumstances shaped as much by structural factors as personal and biographical ones" ( 26). ... Baumohl states in his book Homeless in America that "According to this perspective, people were homeless because something was wrong with them- (25). ... As mandated by the Family Support Act of 1988, recipients who are less than three months pregnant or who have children over three years of age must attend school or other job training programs, or find employment. ... Specifically, reci...

• Word Count: 4318
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are two dominant themes that play an important role in the book. ... Thus, jobs as drug dealers are not stable, sometimes low paying, and are very dangerous compared to legal jobs, which are stable, and there are no risks involved. ... Caesar also had problems when he was employed at various legal jobs. ...

• Word Count: 3236
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It states that minimum wage rates became low, their was high unemployment and low paying part-time job, overall high coasts, poor-equality in housing (making people spend at least 50% of their income on shelter), inadequate support services, inadequate welfare allowances and inadequate financial supports of the working poor. ... Wright Mills talks about the sociological imagination between "personal troubles" and "the public issues of the social structure", in his book the sociological Imagination. ...

• Word Count: 934
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Traffickers often coerce their victims under the false pretense that they will be able to move to foreign countries with well-paying legitimate jobs. ... For example, according to the CIA world fact book, around 61.94% of people in Chad, among other countries live below the poverty line, living on just $1.25 USD per day. ... This means that these women then become susceptible to being trafficked and when the traffickers offer them the chance at what they are told will be an opportunity to get and education, be valued in society and work in a well-paying job for their living, they jump at the c...

• Word Count: 2490
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The poor you shall ever have with you". St Mark's Gospel (Chapter 14, verse 7). In addressing the issue of class inequality in modern society the following essay discusses the patterns and consequences of poverty within the UK and the USA. Poverty has always existed in societies whether affluent or not, whether technologically advanced or not, and whether modern or not. Class status affects individuals objectively, namely education, health and lifestyle; and subjectively, namely self-image and its perpetration. ...

• Word Count: 1993
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Globalize or Die: Affects Everyone and Everything In his book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas Friedman wrote: "Globalization is not a phenomenon. ... Side noted, globalization creates jobs, hundreds of millions of them, it doesn't create unemployment, these figures are only present in developing countries. ...

• Word Count: 2054
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate