Tracy R Reed wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Brian wrote:
If the best job one can accept is "crap", isn't that motivation to
improve one's skills and/or job options?
Spoken like someone who never had a relative work in the mills or the
mines.
How do you think my relatives got out of the mills/mines?
Clarify, please.
My grandfathers, *themselves*, didn't get out of the mills or the mines.
But they made sure that the *next* generation didn't have to work there.
My grandparents accepted that *hazardous* job for the benefit of the
next generation, not themselves. Even had my grandfathers improved
their skills, it is unlikely they could have broken out of their
situation without extraordinary luck.
In addition, my paternal grandfather emigrated from Hungary. The really
rotten jobs in the mill *were* a step up. That's how bad Hungary was ...
If you ever get a chance to visit a museum about one of the big steel
towns, I recommend that you go. It's especially rather eye-opening for
a lot of people to hear the current insults about the Mexican-American
community being hurled at their own ancestors alomst 100 years ago
("They don't assimilate." "They send all the money back to another
country." "They take all the good jobs." etc.).
http://www.jaha.org/DiscoveryCenter/virtualtour.html
-a
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