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This 8 page paper examines the role of unions and the necessity for them. Barbara Ehrenreich's book, Nickel and Dimed is utilized as well as Steve Striffler's article about the workers in the poultry industry. Many examples included from the books, as well as basic information on unions in the United States. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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will show that inequities still exist in many of the larger manufacturing companies. Women, especially are hardest hit when it comes to unfair practices and lower wage earnings. These and
other problems are detailed in the Steve Shifflers article, Inside a Poultry Processing Plant, and Barbara Ehrenreichs book, Nickel and Dimed: on not getting ahead in America. Labor unions have
been a part of the American scene since before the Declaration of Independence was signed, it can be thought. Less than a hundred years would see the formation of what
more closely resembles the unions known today. These groups of people banded together in an effort to reduce the working day from twelve to ten hours(Women in Unions, 2002).
What this serves to show the historian was that the average workers saw a need to band together for protection against the exploitation of their employers. This can be thought
to have been especially prevalent in the first early factories of the industrial era. Women didnt figure into the union scene, Barbara Ehrenreich reports. Though the women were instrumental
in the factories during World War I, it was never conceived that they might want to stay there. So, any attempts to unionize were crushed or discouraged. Finally,
a woman named, Mother Jones, who was well into her sixties when she embraced the cause, continued to fight for womens rights in the unions until she was nearly ninety
years old(Women in Unions, 2002). "Thank you for your interest in our company, Tyson Foods, but please bring your own interpreter," was the instruction which was posted on the building
that Steve Stiffler entered. The building was a poultry processing plant, where chickens are prepared, packed and plucked to be shipped to groceries around the country. What Stiffler found was
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