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This essay has to tie in with Cutting into the meatpacking line written by deborah fink and also the book "everybody was kungfu fighting" written by Vijay Prashad.
Ive included the prompt and the ideas must somehow correlate and both books need to be mentioned
FINAL ESSAY PROMPT
This essay is worth 50 points.
Gender remained a salient means of organizing packinghouse production. The union, in digging in its heels to preserve the old system, conceded gender to the manipulation of packing companies, thereby contributing to the deterioration of conditions for all workers (Fink, pg. 112).
The specificity of each (ethnic) group’s condition with respect to citizenship, language, education, and cultural capital assigns them to different niches, a fragmented and often internally conflicted rural working class. Any effective mobilization of workers will have to confront the ethnic inequalities that is deeply engrained in rural Iowa (Fink, pg. 154,emphasis added)
Write a 1000 words long essay addressing the following questions:
Using instances from Deborah Fink’s book Cutting into the Meatpacking Lineexplore the various ways in which effectiveness of unions have been eroded in the recent past. (Hint: Identify and explain in detail the factors that have contributed to the erosion of unions’ ability to represent the wage workers in the meatpacking industry in Iowa?)
Vijay Prashad claims that polyculturalism is a “practical index” that sets in motion the process that might in time produce a humanity that is indeed in some way equal” (pg. 69). How does this complement Fink’s claim that “a democratic future entails planning by a widely diverse citizenry” (pg. 201). What does this mean for enhancing the effectiveness of unions that Fink is talking about.
Instructions:
The essay should be between 1000 and 1100 words long.
The essay should have a title and be free of grammatical errors.
Essay must be double spaced.
The essay must reflect your ability to present an argument, organize and explain the materials you have read. The essay should include appropriate introductions, thesis statements, structured analyses with quotes, and conclusions.
Your arguments and claims must be substantiated with citations and quotations from the assigned readings. I am not particular about citation style, as long as you are consistently using one.
Your argument must be explicitly stated in the introductory paragraph/s.
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