{"id":336,"date":"2017-03-07T23:40:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T04:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=336"},"modified":"2017-03-07T23:40:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T04:40:46","slug":"surveillance-of-the-working-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/barbara-ehrenreich\/surveillance-of-the-working-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance of the Working Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Ehrenreich begins her journey as a cleaning lady, she talks about the idea of distrust between the homeowners and the cleaning crew. She writes, &#8220;Ted encourages us to imagine that we are under surveillance at all time in each house&#8230; Owners set traps for us,&#8221; (93). To me this is a troubling dilemma. From the perspective of people who clean the houses, this is an insult and makes it seem like these &#8220;privileged&#8221; homeowners are out to get them. However, on the other hand, it is hard for the homeowners to grant\u00a0all their trust in\u00a0someone they don&#8217;t know. The harsh reality is that things do get stolen, but it is hard to stop these incidents from happening without casting distrust\u00a0over everyone.<\/p>\n<p>This idea also connects back to our class discussion on Monday when we talked about the managers of the restaurants monitoring the worker&#8217;s behavior for anything suspicious. In my opinion, I feel like it is hard to maintain a positive self image when everyone is doubting you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Ehrenreich begins her journey as a cleaning lady, she talks about the idea of distrust between the homeowners and the cleaning crew. She writes, &#8220;Ted encourages us to imagine that we are under surveillance at all time in each house&#8230; Owners set traps for us,&#8221; (93). To me this is a troubling dilemma. From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara-ehrenreich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}