There are many arguments on the topic; ranging from job security to increase in crime, the debates never seem to exhaust. ... For work you can find easily in America, you have to pay corrupt officials to get a job. ... These statistics show that immigrants are willing to take the lower paying, undesirable jobs that some Americans won't take. This is made evident in Holmes book Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies, in chapter three; he gives a vivid account of the farm work, and also the medical and social issues that are accompanied with the farmers. ... These farm jobs are the jobs that other Ame...

• Word Count: 1140
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

Ignatiev Book Review I found Noel Ignatiev's book, How the Irish became white, confusing in the way information was presented, it seemed as if it was not interwoven tightly enough with each sub-thesis presented for the individual chapters. ... Many characters which were presented in the book had some sort of confusion as to where their true loyalty lay. ... The Democratic Party also seemed more sympathetic to the Irish's concern that free blacks would take their jobs. Chapter Four talked about the emergence of Labor Unions and the growing nervousness with job security....

• Word Count: 1854
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

People are having difficulty getting jobs. ... His job is shoveling guts at Browns. ... He joins many others in seeking a job. ... The job is so much better than his previous jobs that he gets his hopes up again. ... He decided to publish the book himself. ...

• Word Count: 1116
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This book is based on a true story, told from the author's perspective. ... To make sure it doesn't come true he gets himself a job as a telegram deliverer. When he is on the job he meets his first love but soon discovers that she is sick. ... I thought it was a great book with an ending that made you want to read more. ... This truly was an excellent book and I enjoyed reading it. ...

• Word Count: 302
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

In this book, Ehrenreich, explores what it is like to work for very low wages in America. ... Many, who have turned to drugs, are unable to get jobs, and if they do get a job, it is very hard to keep. ... The "working poor" in this book are not just characters portrayed by an author. ... I personally have worked in many places similar to the ones discussed in this book. ... So what does this book show about our great country. ...

• Word Count: 1114
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Secondly, blacks were unable to get the same jobs as whites or sometimes never get hired for any job. ... It was very hard for them to get a job. ... In the book John Griffin had a hard time finding work as Negro in the South as he shows by stating, "Two days of incessant walking, mostly looking for jobs. ... World Book Encyclopedia. New York World Book, 2002. 17 Mar. 2003. ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

A bookseller, which was called a publisher, was an important job that was established early in the 16 hundreds. ... The American Book Trade Convention called for replacement of Trade Sales with a semi-annual Book Fair. ... There are many job listings found on the internet and they show the employment available for people in bookstores. Jobs such as; Store Manager, Custom Publisher Manager, Recruiting Coordinator, Trade book buyer, Field Auditor, Merchandise Planner, Merchandise Information Clerk. ... Promote book collecting in the area by frequent relationships with book clubs, library staff,...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography

In spite of the many difficult obstacles, leaders of the African American community such as Booker T. ... Unfortunately, for African Americans these jobs were limited to whites only. ... Booker T. ... Booker T. ...

• Word Count: 1894
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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

Angela's ashes do not actually feature in the film, although they do in the book. ... Click here for a detailed summary Background The film is based on the book of the same name, which stayed at the top of the best-seller lists in the UK and USA for months from mid-1998. The book is widely acclaimed as a masterpiece. ... He moves into his dim-witted uncle's house and gets a job as a telegram boy. ... However, one day he finds the money-lender dead at home so he steals her money and throws the debtors' book into the river. ...

• Word Count: 3537
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

It was so difficult to find my first job because of these. ... This nice woman sighed and said this job was not suitable to me. ... I started to study the book from the beginning again. ... Therefore, I finished the whole book in on and half weeks. Then I did the same thing for the book for the second round. ...

• Word Count: 1029
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Overall the movie tried to produce the facts of the book with about the same time it would of took to read the book. ... Blacks and Hispanics found job opportunities increase, as the century grew older. ... It tried to provide all the facts and trends that the book covered. ...

• Word Count: 400
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

I read the book "Farewell to Manzanar", by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. ... This book is about the Japanese internment camps that were set up in America during World War II, and how it affected this particular family. ... The book is told from Jeanne's own experiences in her own town, and how her peers at school treated her. ... During the final chapters of this book, the author does a great job on describing the tough times the Japanese had returning into society. ... Jeanne does a great job describing how hard it was for her to return back into society, and how the people she ...

• Word Count: 921
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

An account of each man was kept separately, and every man lived in terror of losing his job. ... When the bread-winner lost his job or was too sick to work, his family often went hungry. ... Although this book was written at the turn of the century, it still reflects the times in which we live. ... I have learnt from the book The Jungle that business is a dog eat dog world. ... brutality, the strike was settled, and a book resulted King Coal, (1917). ...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

It is appropriate that each chapter of the book souls of black folk begins with a sorrowful way of freedom or grievance. ... This book did a good job of illustrating the world of both the educated and non-educated African Americans, and how in many instances education did not make a difference. When the narrator finally got a job his interview process consisted of a brief look at his teaching certificate, offered him one month to teach, and then when it was time for dinner the narrator's academic peers proceeded to eat first, and then he sat by himself and ate alone. ...

• Word Count: 488
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

A man by the name of Thomas Bell lived through some of these things, and wrote a book entitled, Out of This Furnace. Thomas Bell wrote this book to show us the hardships that they faced backed then. ... They held various jobs where they often didn't get paid enough, and were often ripped off by their bosses. Thomas Bell shows us in his book that America was not always a land of success and great riches, yet that people were often racist towards Slovaks and other people of other countries, and often got low wages for hard work. ... Kracha took a job working at the steel and iron furna...

• Word Count: 662
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

However, as her luck decreases it becomes hard for Rose to attain the American Dream and by the end of the book, she never does. ... In the book Ashes of Roses, it was not common for women to get high paying jobs and earn a lot of money. Elsa believed that Rose would not find a job because she was a child and a girl. ... When Rose was able to find a job, she was given opportunities at places where women were subjected to being judged. ... In the book, Rose struggles from the beginning all the way to the end and things never turn out as perfect as they seem. ...

• Word Count: 2291
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

This book talks about different problems America needs to address and different ways to prevent these situations from becoming worse and irreversible. ... Stiglitz love for economics allows his book The Price of Inequality to be trustworthy and reliable as he talks about the inequalities in America. ... America has plenty of resources and wealth to fix this inequality gap and eliminate poverty, there is still other countries doing a better job of reducing it. ... People who are fortunate to have jobs still suffer due to the strong downward pressure on wages. ... The inequalities that are writ...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

Abstract The paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the book "Bread Givers" by Yezierska. ... She grew up in New York in a Jewish ghetto, and then later worked menial jobs in laundries and sweatshops. ... While the book is a novel, there is at least a little piece of the author in every book she wrote, and this one is no exception. ...

• Word Count: 559
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

American claim that even though they spend so much time on their job but they still sometimes can't afford for their life. ... Author Juliet Schor, who wrote the book " The Overworked American" in 1992, concluded that in 1990 Americans worked an average of nearly one month more per year than in 1970. ... There still are many kind of jobs that don't ask for much time working on such as labor jobs. Labor jobs might not don't ask a person to work all day long, it even just need a short time in a day to finish. However, it doesn't mean that labor jobs workers don'...

• Word Count: 731
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In a booming economy, job stability and job security have deteriorated. ... When they do find work, their new jobs pay, on average, thirteen percent less than the job they lost. ... This program provides funds for basic skills and literacy instruction, job training, and job search activities ("Homeless"). ... Ann Braden Johnson argues this point in her book Out of Bedlam: The Truth About Deinstitutionalization, "the homeless people who do work tend to be eligible only for non-skilled, low-paying jobs- jobs that often do not pay enough for rent" ("Introduction"). ... Also, a decline in manufact...

• Word Count: 1306
• Approx Pages: 5

Many black American activists became increasingly popular during this time period, Booker T. ... Booker T. ... (Out of Many, 557) Progressives helped bring about state modification that required safety precautions in factories and allowed workers to collect money for injuries suffered on the job. ...

• Word Count: 1668
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, Twain uses racism, slavery, and freedom throughout his book. ... It involves racism towards blacks mostly, and Twain often uses the words "slave" and "nigger" throughout the book. In my opinion, the book is not racist at all. ... Many people stress over there jobs and many young people stress over what there jobs are going to be. Most people do not enjoy or hate work, and few I know enjoy or even love their jobs. ...

• Word Count: 2060
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The book puts the spotlight on the lived experiences of 20 transgender participants struggling from different forms of workplace bullying, violence, and discrimination. ... All five chapters of the book focus mainly on transgender issues, with minor and considerate glances on controversies affecting the LGBTQ spectrum. ... Additionally, the range of policies and cases were limited, as the book is mainly focused on nondiscriminatory categories of state laws in the United States of America. The first part of the book starts with a story of a retired U.S. ... As studies frequently stated in the...

• Word Count: 1525
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

Race can keep you from being treated with respect, keep you from getting a job or even keep you from renting a house. ... Not once or twice but many times But I"m a Hunky and they don't give good jobs to Hunkies." ... The second part of the book ends with probably the best evidence of how little control of their lives they had. ... It had nothing to do with fooling around or not knowing how to do your job. ... The book Out of This Furnace often describes in depth the hopelessness of being a steel mill worker in the early 1900's. ...

• Word Count: 1479
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School