The interviews i find intresting in terkel's book are jean stanley's, jack spiegel
in jean stanley interview about selling cosmetics, there are many factors that have change the work force through out time. jean compalines and saids " years ago,women that sold cosmetics and perfumes made more money on the average than tehy do now.you could earn much more than girls working in an office. Today you hardly earn as much."
Another thing that bothers Jean is, because she works for a company not a store she has to send reports back. So when she is selling more then one line of perfumes she writes more then one report for each company.Jean dislikes the fact that when she stops working for the day she has to go home and write up these reports to send. This brings me to question why are the reports not a concern for the store? if the products is being sold in the store then they should be written by the store.
In jack spiegel's interview he talks about his job as an organizer for the united shoe workers of america.The problem that he confronts is that workers are losing their jobs in factories and they cant compete with big companies. My question is what does a organizer for a a shoe company do anyways?
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An "organizer" for a union is someone whose job it is to help start or build a union, to represent the workers when they negotiate and make sure they know their rights by enforcing the contract, finding out about problems and so forth.
ReplyDeleteSome good reflections here- What ideas do you have about your topic for essay #3?