society‚ many individuals consider blue-collar workers unintelligent and uneducated. Blue-collar workers are seen in this perspective because of their hands on jobs in which many individuals assume that intelligence is not required. “Our cultural iconography promotes the muscled arm‚ sleeve rolled right against biceps‚ but no brightness behind the eye‚ no image that links hand and brain.” (Rose 98) In Mike Rose’s text‚ he explains how being a blue-collar worker does not mean an individual is unintelligent
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Paper 2: White Collar Crimes and Consequences Financially motivated crimes‚ also known as white-collar crimes‚ are a pervasive problem that seems to not attract much attention. Unlike its counter part‚ blue-collar crimes‚ white-collar crimes are not exactly exciting or interesting. Blue-collar crimes like murder‚ shootings‚ rape and robbery are often very horrific‚ thus they receive a great deal of attention. Some say that the effects of these crimes tend to be exaggerated. A researcher in this
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white collar and white collar crime * Various types of white collar crime B. Thesis statement: There are 3 causes of white collar and 5 way to combat with white collar crime. II. The cause of white collar crime is opportunities to commit crime. A. The loophole of the law and security B. An individual well known the operation of a company‚ the chances to commit fraud is higher. III. Second causes of white collar crime are workers situational
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Is White Collar Crime an Inside Job? Simply put‚ the point that Charles Ferguson is trying to get across in his documentary‚ The Inside Job is that economics is exactly that‚ it’s an inside job; with many elite employees involved. Economics is a profession‚ and at the end of the day‚ it all comes down to power‚ and the money being brought home by those at the top. Throughout the documentary Ferguson does an excellent job revealing the not so behind the scenes action‚ that many just don’t pick up
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In 1939‚ Edwin Sutherland coined the term “White Collar Crime.” The term originally characterized white-collar criminals as those with respectability and high social status who carried out crime during “his” occupation. Today‚ the definition of white-collar crime has been expanded to include much more than “upper class criminals.” White Collar Crime can be defined as “an offense carried out by non-coercive‚ nonviolent means‚ and using or utilizing an acquired skill or technology to perpetuate
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Country Focus: Moving U.S. White Collar Jobs Offshore Summary This feature goes to the heart of a debate that has been played out many times over the past half century—the transference of jobs from the United States to lower-wage countries. The difference now however‚ is that rather than blue-collar jobs being transferred‚ the new trend is for white-collar jobs to move‚ jobs associated with the knowledge-based economy. Suggested Discussion Questions 1. Will the United States suffer from the
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White Collar Crime vs. Street Crime One problem that plagues our society is crime. Crime is all around us in our everyday lives. Daily we hear of murders‚ robberies‚ and rapes. These are categorized as "street crimes." For many people‚ such crimes are the only "tragic" crimes‚ the ones that are senseless and preventable. In Finsterbusch’s book‚ Taking Sides‚ another variety of crime is exposed. This other form of crime is "white collar" crime. Both have victims‚ and the effects of both
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for jobs within their own social economic status. The first two schools Anyon observed were the working class schools. These schools are mostly made up of students with parents that have blue-collar jobs or earn at $12000 or less a year. The jobs these parents include: platform‚ storeroom‚ and stockroom workers‚ foundry-men‚ pipe welders‚ and boilermakers‚ etc. In these two schools‚ students are taught to follow step by step procedures that are “usually mechanical‚ involving rote behavior and very
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A common 20th-21st century stereotype is that blue-collar work is meaningless which leaves those who work such jobs feeling hopelessly unappreciated and overworked. Blue-collar work is classified as a working class job that requires manual labor. In his essay “Blue-Collar Brilliance‚” UCLA Education and Information Studies Professor Mike Rose uses personal experience and family stories about his mother Rosie Meraglio‚ and his Uncle Joe Meraglio‚ to combat the common misconstrued stereotype and effectively
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degree‚ he did not get any jobs that he liked‚ which was because of the lack of opportunities in that small town. The jobs that he was getting were blue collar jobs‚ and he did not wanted to do those jobs‚ since an advance thought was shaped by his degree that he would get a good job after its completion. So‚ he does not work as a blue collar worker. He did not think of moving to a big city for some reasons‚ and as an alternative‚ he opened his own shop in his place of residency. Although he earned
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