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Braverman’s The Making of the US Working Class

Why do people obey? For example, Why do you speak Spanish or English? My native language is Spanish and then I learned to speak English. Living in the United States it is a standard pattern to learn to speak English, anything out of the norm would be different. It is a social behavior expected from people. This is something that is except from the people.  This is my example of what I think Harry Bravermen means by the Working U.S society. What is a working class? A working class is a group of people who work in industrial or manual labor for wages. What is labor? Labor is individuals who are persuading for their own needs. Harry Braverman explains that we grew up in a society that seems to us as a “natural condition”. We see this as human nature, it is a natural thing to do so survive in this economy. We live in a society where it is normal for people at the “top” (with wealth and power) to live great, while others like the “bottom or poor” work with little resources to try and live great.  People are exploited and degraded by the system. It shows how the economic struggle in the U.S controls our dignity about our wages; And although we dont see it like this, it is our new way of life. Braverman also explains that we are separated by work. We are separated by industries and occupations in which we work . We are separated by factories, offices, banks and warehouses (pg. 5). It separates us from living, in a way, because we will work in the labor market with nothing except our physical labor. We live in a capitalist system that is built to increase, so the more we expand the more the value increases. At the end of the day we still have to work together for the economy to keep going. It doesn’t have to be where I am not highly educated or have great job credit ails to be “lazy” because even the “lazy worker is involved in the manual labor. That is how we are separated and exploited in so many ways. In conclusion, i explained before that we have to work together as an economy because both populations of “high” and “low” working classes still increase the sales and services that we need. I think its a good way to make us understand the history a little better and the struggle.