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The Working Class Majority America's Best Kept Secret Summary

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Journal Entry #6 After reading Michael Zweig's “The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret”, I read and was able to determine his own perspective of class. Zweig states that he wouldn’t consider the United States to be a middle class society and that he thinks that the majority of Americans today are part of the working class. He defines class as power, whether it is power in the workplace, cultural, economic, or political and in the larger society and not so much it depending income. I think he defines class as power due to the fact that we as the people have the power to experience class in many ways. We are all born and raised differently and all come from cultural backgrounds. He briefly explains how there is a high class and low class depending how …show more content…

I can agree with him on that statement to an extent personally due to the fact that sometimes the worst parents in the universe can raise you, but you alone can show yourself a thing or two about morals and life lessons simply by living them. That does not mean that your parents don’t play a big part in your life though. Your parents have to be the ones that are supposed to be your role models in life but there are cases when that is not always going to happen. For example, we have a family friend. She is currently a single mother and has a thirteen-year-old daughter. Her mom always leaves her home alone due to working long hours of work. Unfortunately, her father, who is no longer part of her life, never sees her. She has always been so independent all of her life and I can consider her being one of the most strongest human beings here in this world. This girl has been through so much all her life and she still manages to take care of herself and is also very respectful. I can say that I give her all the credit for being the person she is today. This goes to show that sometimes the only person you can

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