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Project Of Inquiry. By: Lizzie Herring. Introduction to topic. Employment in the United States takes an astronomical part of individuals’ lives by providing them with necessities and luxuries that make life manageable.
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Project Of Inquiry By: Lizzie Herring
Introduction to topic • Employment in the United States takes an astronomical part of individuals’ lives by providing them with necessities and luxuries that make life manageable. • Prior to, during and following the years of the Great Depression of the 1920’s peoples’ relationships with their jobs have changed. • Thus, with this project I hoped to investigate the importance of employment to individuals’ and families’ well being and sense of self-worth.
Why I picked this topic • I was interested in learning what it means to be employed as well as some history of the Great Depression. • I wanted to compare peoples’ relationships with their jobs now then that of the 1920’s • Also, knowing my Grandmother grew up in the south I wanted to learn from a personal standpoint what discrimination was in terms of employment.
The BIG question: How have employment opportunities in the United States changed over time and how have individuals' relationships with their jobs changed?
My novels • The Grapes Of Wrath- John Steinbeck- Takes place in the ecoonomically depressed Oklahoma and follows Tom Joad who has just been released from the state penitentiary. Upon returning he realizes the dustbowl has caused his family to move west. He meets with them at a family members house. Together they take the journey to California to find job opportunities as many did during this time
The Grapes Of Wrath • This book really emphasized the devastation the depression had on society and what a true “devastation” it was.
2nd Novel • The Help-Kathryn Stockett-A young writer seeks to make the quiet African-American maids’ voices public about their feelings towards working for white people, and raising their children who will grow up to become their bosses when most of them don’t know where their own children are.
3nd Novel • To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee-Takes place in Macomb County Alabama during the dustbowl. It follows a family of three. Atticus, the father of the two kids, survives the distress with his intellect in the courtroom. • As well as the setting being during the depression, they have a black cook named Calpurnia who is the children’s bridge between the white world and her own black community
To Kill A Mockingbird • On the contrary from The Help, this book was far less controversial with having black help in the house. • Atticus is very kind to Cal and has much admiration towards her rather than in the help when the employers are very discriminative and cruel to the maids.
The Help • This source was what inspired me to do this project. I liked the idea of what a huge deal these women's jobs were because in a few cases the life of a child was in their hands. The relationship the maids had with their jobs was so much more than others with their jobs. Plus the fact that the only beneficial thing about this occupation was the children. They were constantly discriminated against and the pay couldn't have been too fabulous.
Three conclusions • Teenagers and employment have a very different relationship today than back then • Under the grounds of racial inequality, people and their jobs have changed very much as well • The Great Depression is greatly responsible for many of the everyday issues we notice today.
Any extra facts I’d like to share • My favorite source through this project was an interview I had with my Grandmother and Step-Grandfather. • My Grandmother lived in the south in her childhood right in the heart of segregation and all it’s control over society
Me: “What was the contact with black people for you?” • Mary: “I wasn’t allowed any colored friends. When my father practice medicine in 1952 or 53, the bulk of his patients were black and even waiting rooms were segregated”
My step-grandfather attended Albuquerque High School (graduating class of 1938) during the time of the dustbowl. • Me “Did teenagers have jobs out of highschool but before college? Summer jobs?” • Bob: “Yes. Majority worked at family buisnesses”
Me: “Did you have a job in Highschool” • Bob: “ Yes, I worked for my brother as a contractor. He worked me to death. 40 cents an hour. Was a pretty good wage. Got you a descent meal”
During the time of the dustbowl, Bob and his brothers attended the old AHS located on Central and Broadway (or something) and before there were any huge highways, Route 66 ran through Albuquerque on Central Ave.
When talking about this Bob said: • “Central and Stanford had people coming through all the time. Visible telegrams of who was coming. My older brother” (six years older) “went to Albuquerque High and would see people coming through on the railroad lots of people wouldn't go out because of the dustbowl. People came in and out for three or four year and my brother would always tell us stories about the people who came”
