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Assignment #3

According to Harry Braverman “In The Making of the U.S working class”, we qualify workers according to social relation the individual has to the work or occupation. Explaining the difference in who is a working class and who is not.

Harry Braverman explains a common ground that creates this class are the people who are hired by others to work, they don’t own the task being completed, they are just rented to complete it. (pg.15-16). The employer is not considered part of the working class as he owns the materials and mass production from which he profit . The profit made the employer retains. The Employees are completing the mass production so they are considered the working class.

Braverman continues to then dissect even further the working class into two groups, The Productive working class employees and The Unproductive working class employs. The employee who are productive are the ones who make something physical to be sold and profited from. The unproductive workers are ones who deal with the organization and paper work of the mass production. (pg. 27 & 30).

He considered the unproductive working class employee are now considered “The Blue Collar”. The productive working class employee are not considered “The White Collar”. The Unproductive working class employee are occupations at real estate, insurance, governments, advertising, accounting, brokerage etc. (pg. 32). These unproductive working class employees were not changed from “White Collar “to “Blue Collar” by their desire to advance but changes in the economy and living methods (pg.32). This method, Unproductive Working “of work have a particular order in which is organize. This method being the need to mass employee = 2X mass production = 4x mass profit. (pg.31) Productive working class employee are the employees of Factories, farms, assembly lines, transportation etc. (pg.27-28). The increase in productive working class employee has been steady since 1820 but it has slowed down due to the increase in unemployment in the general society. (pg.28)

Braverman concludes by stating unemployed is not the cause of neither unproductive working class employee or productive working class employee, but because of the slow rise of new occupation or factories opening for production and change in needs of the population. (pg.33). Studies have shown unemployment are higher after recession than during when occupation production were being created to consequence be the increase in economy (pg.33).

Braverman adds on to say the working class American , in the end , it needs to looked at the way it forms humanity , battle , methods which sustain the most important desire for people. Giving society the thought of working hard to achieve their desire for better. ( pg.35)