In David Shiplers The Working Poor: Invisible in America he starts off by stating how often the American lower class citizens are ripped off and treated poorly in modern American business, due in part to their ignorance of labor laws or their spending habits.
Chapter two talks mostly in part about the hardest working jobs end up giving the least back to the worker. The most dangerous jobs have the lowest pay and the least benefits, especially when talking about the workers family there is virtually no healthcare benefits in some low wage jobs. These jobs are also time consuming and the workers family doesn’t get half the attention that they need from a parent or loved one.
Chapter three talks about how the binding jell of the American economy is the immigrant, legal and illegal. Most of the …show more content…
Chapter six opens up a more emotional perspective of workers who are afraid of the workplace because they lack experience and an education, especially prominent in the United States because of the way the market thrives on industrial and worker competition.
Chapter six and seven pertain more to the family side of a low income where sexual abuse and child neglect statistically sky-rocket because wealthier families have the will, and the means, to support their children; whereas an immigrant may work such long and hard hours that they forget about, or rarely see, their children.
Chapter Eight talks about the health issues a poor family may face in part due to the danger of their jobs, or the general lack of funds where they cant afford a trip to the doctor. Shipler expands in more detail about how health care in the U.S. is becoming harder and harder to get especially for a poor immigrant and their
Chapter two talks mostly in part about the hardest working jobs end up giving the least back to the worker. The most dangerous jobs have the lowest pay and the least benefits, especially when talking about the workers family there is virtually no healthcare benefits in some low wage jobs. These jobs are also time consuming and the workers family doesn’t get half the attention that they need from a parent or loved one.
Chapter three talks about how the binding jell of the American economy is the immigrant, legal and illegal. Most of the …show more content…
Chapter six opens up a more emotional perspective of workers who are afraid of the workplace because they lack experience and an education, especially prominent in the United States because of the way the market thrives on industrial and worker competition.
Chapter six and seven pertain more to the family side of a low income where sexual abuse and child neglect statistically sky-rocket because wealthier families have the will, and the means, to support their children; whereas an immigrant may work such long and hard hours that they forget about, or rarely see, their children.
Chapter Eight talks about the health issues a poor family may face in part due to the danger of their jobs, or the general lack of funds where they cant afford a trip to the doctor. Shipler expands in more detail about how health care in the U.S. is becoming harder and harder to get especially for a poor immigrant and their