In my interview I chose my girlfriend's neighbor. Hector is of Mexican decent and he is here because in Meigs county the produce fields hire Mexican laborers on worker permits. Hector started out doing this then he became the boss about five years ago and received his green card and now is an American and can speak very good English. He explained to me that in Mexico there is no age when you can start working so there are young boys working at six to ten years old to help support his needy family. He also stated that women do not usually work they are only aloud to go to the village markets and get goods for their family's and raise there many children. I asked about minimum wage and he kinda laughed and said some teens and men who work are lucky to get a dollar an hour, but he said the people who are lucky enough to get to do what he got to do make there family's a lot of money. He said when he started coming to America to work he was picked like a lottery pick because there are only so many jobs for little positions he and his entire family was dirt poor, but now he said his family is the richest in the village. He said that he has also got to move all of his immediate family to America. The first question that I asked was "In Mexico how old are post people when they get there first job"? He said that in his village it all depended on how needy the family's were. He said that most family's in his village we the same income so the male children got jobs when they were very young like ages six to ten. I was curious so I asked "if they work do they... ... middle of paper ... ...as went from making $6.50 an hour to $19.00 an hour to overlook what he once was. I learned from doing this paper exactly how hard people outside of America had it because we have every opportunity to become something great without having to do much because he have to go to school and we have all kinds of government funding to go to college and no other country in the world has that. Americans also have the ability to make all kinds of money in there field of study and in Mexico if you are not born into the money you will not have it unless something major happens. Also in America we have unions to fight for what we as workers deserve and the benefits that we receive. Americans may not like each other sometime but we all agree that you should receive all the benefits and the money deserving of the job you do.
The phenomena of Migrant Workers would not be possible if the migrants were able to get jobs elsewhere, but as many come from Third-World Countries with little economic possibilities, this is not possible. What has resulted is an inexhaustible supply of cheap labor to the United States. This willingness on the part of the workers to work for wages otherwise unacceptable in the United States is problematic. Employers in this position are not under any pressure to reveal truthful, or even any information about wage rates, and many workers do not ask how much they will be paid. As a result, workers often do not know how much they will paid until they are thousands of miles away from their homes, and frequently not until they are paid at the end of a week. This is the story for the Mexican blueberry pickers in Maine, and the growing number of apple pickers who are Jamaican.
Moving factories overseas did create some low paying jobs in Mexico, but it also quickly depleted Mexico’s environment. Agriculture companies also gained profit from NAFTA. After the tariff is removed from US-Mexico trade, many US agricultural subsidies exported corn and other grains to Mexico below cost. This quickly drove the rural Mexican farmers out of business, and many farm workers lost their jobs. With no job and income, many workers were forced to immigrate illegally to the United States to find jobs, and many of them end up working on farms again. The farm owners in the US, competing with subsidies in Mexico also have to cut wages and living conditions in order to remain competent. The working and living condition of the farm workers are unbearable, but the migrant workers have no choice. In Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies, author Seth Holmes lived and worked on a farm in Skagit Valley, Washington, experiencing the conditions of the workers first-hand. He said, “I often felt sick to my stomach the night before picking, due to stress about picking the minimum weight. As I picked, my knees continually hurt” (Holmes 88). Holmes thinks this is a result of the unfair trade agreement, and changing the policy could improve the conditions. He says, “Policies that shore up inequalities, like NAFTA and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), must be renegotiated and health reform
This essay will be explaining the definition of sociology, the sociological factors of obesity using Symbolic Interactionism Theory and the Functionalism Theory and a description of the medical condition obesity and how it may affect individuals suffering from it.
We live in a country that was established by the European immigrants in the 18th century. In that time period they were not seen as immigrants but as pioneers who established the United States. Now in the present, the word immigrant has a negative connotation and are not welcomed in the United States. In the book, The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez, by Jimmy Breslin, we follow a young Mexican immigrant on his journey to the United States and see what he had to face with American society and labor. We travel with him from a small village named San Matίas in Mexico until his death in Williamsburg, New York. Not only did he suffer a brutal death, falling into cement, but also had to face discrimination in his neighborhood, by other Hispanic communities, and injustices at work. Immigrants do not only face exploitation in New York, but it has also been demonstrated that in the Midwest, Mexican immigrants face similar discrimination and labor abuse in the meat packing industry.
Programs such as the H-2A program allows agricultural employers to hire temporary workers inside the United States to complete seasonal work. Within the last decade, earning a stable living has been an increasing challenge for farmworkers. Most farmworkers receive lesser wages than common jobs found in cities, such as a fast food worker. Mentioned in the article Farmworkers in the United States, “The majority of farmworkers earn annual wages below the federal poverty level. According to the Natural Agricultural Workers Survey, the only national cross-section survey of farmworkers, 61 percent live in poverty. The median income for farmworkers is less than $11,000 annually.” (MHP Salud, Farmworkers in the United States) As stated in the article, most farmworkers live in poverty and barely earn enough money to support themselves or their families. This shows there are still problems to be fixed regarding workers in the agricultural industry. This also brings out the point there is still a large amount of corruption among the employers of the farmworkers. Caesar Chavez worked hard to provide public benefits towards farmworkers, such as healthcare or food stamps, although many have a hard time acquiring these benefits. Income received from working with food is a shockingly low rate when considering the behalf of farmworkers. As referred to earlier, the article Farmworkers in the
As you probably know, whenever I have time, I go into DL classrooms and go over power point presentations about different issues or read stories to students hoping to engage them into our culture and background. Recently everyone is talking about Cesar Chavez, his efforts to help the farm workers, and the new movie about his life. Many of them see Chavez as a hero that came and put an end to the hard working conditions for many migrant workers, some think that all families living in farms or working on the fields today are making good money, but few people (teachers) know the reality of migrant workers.
I helped leaders who are activist, I consider myself, a Chicana I am a descent person, and helpful I have integrity. The struggle of the farmer struggle affect it my family, my grandma work as a farmer years, they didn’t pay her what she deserve, now she’s old and her body hurts, of so much working as a farmer. The farmer struggle, did a struggle for our community, because most of them are Mexican, some of them get treated bad, don’t get pay what they are supposed. I think now is worst because racism, is getting worst especially with Mexicans. I have connections with the topic because I been an activist and I am one I see the struggle with our Mexicans; I wish I could help our community more. We’re working with different projects this coming year, I’m hoping to help our people our culture is wonderful, improvements always everyone
Throughout the course of my life, I have always encountered individuals wanting to better their economic situation especially those within my community. Those who come from impoverished communities in other countries risk their lives and lifetime savings to come to the United States hoping that one day they will regain everything that they lost. Their only motivation to come to this country is to be able to provide their family with basic necessities and in order to do this, they must work two or more jobs that pay at minimum wage and are taken for granted. However, many individuals do not see this side of the story and categorize immigrants as unambitious people. In order to be completely aware of what immigrants truly go through and how they succeed in life, one must be willing to place themselves in their shoes and hear his/her story. We must acknowledge that the hands of these people work in back breaking jobs in order to sustain their families. While some Americans may be against immigrants arriving to the United States in search of a better life and the American Dream, in The Madonnas of Echo Park, Brando Skyhorse further reveals that immigrants are exploited as cheap labor, and although they contribute greatly to the everyday function of American industry, they are quite invisible.
Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales, two of the leading figures in sociology, may be considered the founding fathers for the ideas of the “modern family” and the “male-breadwinner family.” Collectively, their work has influenced how Americans analyze families and has sparked new ideas regarding the American family from sociologists such as Stephanie Coontz and Arlie Hochschild. However, when studying the American family, Parsons and Bales fail to understand that the “ideal” family may not be so ideal for everyone. They neglect to consider societal influences and economic changes when discussing patriarchal social norms as the most optimal family structure. Their description of the male-breadwinner family consists of the father being the “instrumental leader” within the home, providing economically for his family based on his occupational earnings. Meanwhile, the mother is considered the manager of the household, providing for her husband and children physically, emotionally, and mentally.
During my interview with my brother, I asked him what was his biggest sacrifice he had to do in order to come back to Canada “Lots of my childhood. Being the eldest child and the most fluent in English, everybody looked to me for help in all areas of communication. While other kids played outside, there were lots of times where I had to stay inside to make phone calls, send e-mails and fill out forms. Due to the time difference between Canada and Europe, there were frequent cases of me having to handle time sensitive calls over nights, instead of sleeping. I had to grow up and act as an adult long before any of my peers.” My parents also gave up a lot, they left their family behind, friend and all their belonging to start all over again in Canada. Those three have done so much for this whole family, and I couldn’t thank them enough, my brother gave up this childhood, and post secondary for his other siblings including myself, to make the most of our lives. As well as my parents who have done the impossible to come back a restart their lives for now the seventh time from scratch. And did it all only to help their kids and siblings. I’ve only in the past year started to see their point of how they did it all, and I can’t picture any other person able to complete half of what they
... to exist in our days, needs to be changed more if we ever want to achieve a true progression in our economy and society where not only the rich get the biggest piece of the pie. After researching a little and analyzing numbers and statistics from the past and present, fifty-one years have done two basic things to the harvesters of shame, their wages have improved a little bit and the ethnicity of the workers has changed from poor whites and blacks to poor Hispanics, bringing new factors into play such as the pros and cons that hiring immigrant workers bring to companies. Even though, these potential improvements appear to be substantial and beneficial shifting the views many workers and farmers had in the past, not all people receive the same treatments and benefits some companies share, thousands of immigrant workers have become the new mute slaves of America.
I interview my father who arrive to the united states from Mexico The major problem that motive my father to migrate to the U.S.A were as he mention on pages (1-2) was an economically problem has he said since he was a child he grew up in a farm with his parents and brothers and sisters and had many struggles since the only one that work was his father. My grandfather did all he could to give him an education and a better life that he had that’s the same idea he view for me when he become a father he was young and money was like the priority to care for the necessary that a child has, but to get money you need to have a job. With salary he earned at my grandfather farm he knew was not enough to support himself and a child and he could get any better job since he had not yet finish school so the only job he probably might had was a job that pay the same he was been pay at my grandfather farm.
To most, it’s very easy to imagine how it would feel to grow up without much of anything in life. Hell...I can tell you first hand what it feels like to not have a decent pair of shoes or pants without holes in them, or old “hand-me-down” toys while most of the kids you know have “state-of-the-art” toys. To many children in this kind of situation, it seems like a very bleak world to live in. No child should ever have to experience this kind of life. However, due to ignorant parents and an even more jacked-up government, there are many children that will always be in this predicament.
Before I started taking the course of sociology I wasn’t really expecting to learn anything, it was just supposed to be an easy online class. However, that was not the case. It challenged my mind. I started to see sociology all around me, starting with family, then friends, and how I see things overall in general. The fact that we have an everyday life in which there are patterns in ways of living is what sets a platform for a sociological breakdown and for being a part in what we do. A better way of understanding ourselves. We use sociology in many ways every day. One central and important study of sociology is the study of everyday social life. Everyday life and sociology are definitely two different words and situations, but they tend to hold a close relationship. While sociology is the study of the human interaction, everyday life consists of everyday human interaction. Everyday life is filled by human beings interacting with one another, ideas, and emotions. Sociology studies the interactions with all of these and shows how mere interaction resulted in things such as ideas. For an example, race and ethnicity are important concepts in the field of sociology and are ones that are studied a great deal. Race plays a large role in everyday human interactions and sociologists want to study how, why, and what the outcomes are of these interactions. Current sociological theories focus mainly on how there are many different factors in our everyday items of life, like movies. We were assigned a final to write a review for a movie in sociological form. The movie that was on the list that also happened to be one of my favorite movies, Toy Story. When we were assigned the assignment, I never thought about how in-depth it was with sociol...
The film Modern Times directed by Charlie Chaplin is a silent era film filled with sound effects that shows the struggles and challenges of living in a modern industrial society. The Director Charlie Chaplin happens to be the central character referred to as Little Tramp along with his friend Ellen also known as Gamine, an orphan and homeless young lady. The technical code of the film is black and white but very humorous. The film portrays social issues such as slavery, poverty, unemployment, strikes, and economic imbalances just to name a few. These issues occurred during the period of the great depression in America.