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Challenges for the Working Class and the Poor to Make It in a Postindustrial Economy
In the last quarter century the environment that people have relied on to provide them with jobs has gone through some major changes to accommodate the needs that society rely on for everyday function. In the past, the major means for a family to have a reliable, steady income job was usually found through goods-producing jobs such as being a steel worker, seamstress, etc. But throughout time and the changing nature of the world, the jobs once considered dream jobs' for the country's educated workforce have now become based on overwork, job insecurity, and increasing stress that affects relationships, families, and friends.
With the decline of goods-producing jobs, service-producing jobs have soared because of the choices we make. As a society we want cheap consumptions now and super sized,' and with this attitude we are forcing people to take low wage jobs to produce the services we want. This is evident through statistics that estimated that in 1950 service-producing jobs accounted for 45% of the jobs, whereas in 2004 they increased to 74%. With the increase of service-producing jobs, goods-producing jobs have decreased from 45% in 1950 to 26% in 2004. In this paper I am going to use various statistics, examples and readings to support these thoughts and provide evidence to the reader on exactly how these changes in the last century have affected low-wage workers in a variety of ways.
With service-jobs increasing, they're estimated to account for 18.7 million jobs in the work force, which has inevitably forced both parents in working class families to seek employment to make ends meet. With these jobs only paying a little more that minimum wage, families with children are having a hard time paying for child care therefore, having to make other arrangements to accommodate the needs of their children. In the article "Families on the Fault Line,"...
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