[radical_blogger]

at least the british press still cares enough about the average british worker to write an article like this.

The american press would only write an article like this if such conditions disparately impacted minority race workers.

Pretty soon the british press will do the same.

It just gets worse and worse. I see no light at the end of the tunnel.

The citizens of america do not even ask the right questions.

[camus2]

Low Wage workers need to fight for their rights and working conditions. Nobody is going to do that for them. That's class warfare, and it has never been more important than today.

[contextual]

Spoken like a person of privilege, someone completely out of touch with the challenges of the poor.

Have you considered that low wage workers may be too exhausted after working two and three jobs a day to engage in "class warfare"? They worry about meeting basic needs for their families like rent and paying for medicines. Their war is survival.

Please, step out of your ivory tower and help them.

[goldenkey]

Not true. The fact of the matter is, low wage jobs usually require less skill , and therefore less education. It is part of our responsibility as those who are better off, to help fight for the rights of not just ourselves, but _all_ laborers

[VLM]

"and therefore less education."

Not exactly true. There's "requires" as in what it takes to do the job, and there's "requires" as in HR has figured out that people who were compliant at being team players with the educational-industrial complex will be more compliant as employees, and supply and demand results in some bachelor degree holders looking for anything at all just so they can eat, such as receptionist or laborer or clerk.

Those who are temporarily better off via luck, privilege, whatever, should fight for the rights of people in cruddy jobs, because its mere luck they haven't ended up there themselves like their classmates ... err, not yet anyway.

From personal experience I think hope is a big issue WRT cruddy jobs. I worked cruddy jobs while I was in school, and I didn't mind running a floor buffing machine at 2am because I knew it was probably one of the worst jobs I'll ever have, and its just for a little while. I would imagine the emotions are quite a bit different if you fully realize a cruddy job is the best job you'll ever get yet its still awful and there is utterly no chance of advancement (better off buying lotto tickets). This is also reminiscent of my experiences in the .mil, where spending my whole life doing that kind of stuff would have been pretty awful, but doing it as a kid for fun was OK.

[goldenkey]

I'd have to agree. The spec of a job can certainly lock one into certain unfavorable circumstances, even when it is an educated position. The odds are much about supply and demand which somewhat correlates with qualifications needed for the job -- like you said though, not always, just a trend of the actors in the system.

[eli_gottlieb]

Shut up and get out. We're not putting up with your racist insinuations.