Class Dismissed: How TV Frames The Working Class

In this society, working class are valued due to their hard work ethic, especially those working class who made a living by their sweat equity without a college education, because they struggled economically which also means not every working class can have that success . On the other hand working class are known as lazy people, failures, uneducated people. In American popular culture, according documentary Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class, by “Leistyna” working-class people are often portrayed as losers, however the documentary focus mostly on under-representation of working class people and their concerns and stereotypes use to portray their intersectional identities. If you go to work and do your job then go home, and have no or little control or authority of your work, you belong to working class,

Only show to feature a working class since “Chico and man” is the “George Lopez” Latino are depicted as middle-class who are always believing and working to realize the American dream, they are labeled as non-threatening although immigration problems. In the reading “At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die; Who Kills, Who Cuts, Who Bosses Can Depend on Race” By CHARLIE LEDUFF where is based in reality issues we can see the stratification they depict on tv. CHARLIE LEDUFF revealed that “The few whites on the payroll tend to be mechanics or supervisors. As for the Indians, a handful are supervisors; others tend to get clean menial jobs like warehouse work. With few exceptions, that leaves the blacks and Mexicans with the dirty jobs at the factory, one of the only places within a 50-mile radius in this muddy corner of North Carolina where a person might make more than $8 an hour.” Tv portrays this working class work ethic as failure wrokers who are desperate to make a living regardless of the job, which leads reinforce the myth of