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ENG 101 -- Class Notes   
Session 7  
Tue. 10/11
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TODOs  

*Go over Grade Book 2 (7 min.) 
 
*Peer Editing Exercise (45 min.)
  
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* “Why We Work,” Andrew Curry, Course Pack, pp. 23-27  (20 min. reading + 25 min. questions + 15 min. discussion) 

 Peer Editing -- Essay #1

Work with teams of 3.

Every team must have at least one draft to edit.

Fill in the worksheet looking at the writing / evidence
in drafts.

One writer -- two editors

If we all give feedback, we will all have better papers
(and better grades)

The revised version is due next WEEK, THU. 10/20.​ --
Please turn in your worksheet then, along with your
revised version of your essay. THE ESSAY SHOULD BE UPLOADED TO OUR SUBMIT PAGE:

submit101.lagcconline.com

If you don’t have a draft today, you can still learn
about what other students are doing, plus ideas on
what makes a successful Essay #1!

**Quotes and quote sandwiches

**Covering all 3 steps (esp. Step. 3)

Write a short introduction (and mark your
conclusion) if you have time

Mention your source essay (Amy Tan’s “Mother
Tongue”) -- author + title

Not too much I in Step 1 or Step 3
Use transitions

First of all,
Next,
Furthermore,
In conclusion, MARK YOUR CONCLUSION

Use quotes / WRITE FROM SOURCES (in Step 1 
and Step 3)

***INSTRUCTOR MINI-CONFERENCES -- Have a question about your draft? Questions answered!

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Andrew Curry, “Why We Work,” pp. 23-27, Course Pack  
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***READ THE ESSAY FOR 20 min. after you have previewed these questions.  
  
1) What is Curry’s opening argument  about work in the U.S.   today? State the argument using a correct quote that introduces the thesis, quotes it with a citation.  Then put it in a complete 
‘quote sandwich’ by explaining it in your own words.   
**The author writes, "-----------------" (Curry ???). In this quote, the author suggests that ?????????.  
  
**ANSWERS

The author writes, "Some do it for love. Some do for money, but most have no choice" (Curry 27). In this quote, the author suggests that we need to work because we have to survive.  
  
We work as a means to fulfillment.   
  
224 labor unions --> in response to technology....  
  
The author writes, "Some do it for love. Some do for money, but most have no choice" (Curry 23). In this quote, the author suggests that we need to work because workers need to feed their families.  
  
The author writes, "Instead of selling what they produced, workers sold their time" (Curry 26). In this quote, the author suggests that the nature of work changed. Workers were paid by hour.   
  
2) Work in American History:  FIND 1 or 2 FACTS FROM YOUR  PERIOD -- We'll collect responses from the class and fill in this TIMELINE OF WORK IN THE U.S. 

The Pre-Industrial Age (1880s)   
*Answers  

Industrial Revolution (late 19th Century to early 20th Century)  
*Answers  

The 1930s   
*Answers  
  
The 1940s   
The 1950s   
*Answers  

The 1970s    
*Answers  

The 1980s    
*Answers  

Today (2000s - now) 
*Answers  

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The Pre-Industrial Age (1880s)   
  
*Family businesses -- farmers, blacksmiths -- WORK AND FAMILY WERE SAME THING.  
*Wasn't as stressful -- agricultural -- trades manual labor.... Worked at home....  
*The whole family worked together -- WORK = FAMILY LIFE  

Industrial Revolution (late 19th Century to early 20th Century)  *Workers sold their time to factories.  
 
*Workers went into factories  
Machines did the work -- people who couldn't use the machines didn't a job....  
  
Taylorism -- difficult -- tough Factories!  
HOME vs. WORKPLACE  
Automation  
They needed labor -- commodity -- working hours 9 to 5!!! 
*They created specific schedule for 9-to-5  Machines!! 
Automation....  
  
The 1930s   
*Automation -- assembly line **Taylorism  
  
**Shorter work weeks were proposed at the Kellogg factory to save jobs during the Depression.  
  
Great Depression 1929 - 1945  
Also trying to create new jobs -- more market 30 hour week was a feasible idea *30 hour work week?  
Kellogg's cereal factory  
*Worker's paradise   
*Work a lot less -- 30 hours  
*idea from Keynes =- by 2030, 15 hour workweek (23).  
  
The 1940s   
The 1950s   
More hours --   
  
After WWII, more consumption  
UNIONS! better conditions / more pay  
35% of Americans belonged to a union  
*Unions Plenty of manual labor jobs -- $$ paid well / benefits  Job security....  
Golden Age of unions and factory labor  

  
  
The 1970s   
Dull repetitive meaningless tasks   
Discontents  
  
Rise of Human Resources department 
   
*Companies offered more engagement  
  
Work more fulfilling.....  
Less job security  

  

1980s --   
*Downsizing -- rise of HR departments  
  
Today (2000s - now) 
*Home is no longer a refuge from work. 
 We bring our work home....  
  
*Few of 15% of workers belong to a union.  
**We work from home.  
  
*advanced technology (work at home via "telecommuting") workers available 24/7! Smartphones /  iPhones always working  
information era = not manufacturing ==> marketing / public 
relations   
 
REMOTE WORK /  HYBRID WORK 

3) Paradox:  How is work today like work in the Pre-Industrial Age (at least for some workers)?   

**ANSWERS

*Because of remote work / 'telework,' work is invading in the home and it's just like the PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE.  
 
*Work and family life are blurred.  

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 ** NEXT TIME – THU. 10/13 
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1)	A REVISED DRAFT OF ESSAY #1 IS DUE IN 9 DAYS ON THU. 10/20 (11:59 pm)

Before this deadline, please upload 
your Revised Draft to our
Submit Page:

submit101.lagcconline.com
 
2) **USE THE COMPLETED PEER EDITING WORKSHEET TO HELP YOU IMPROVE YOUR DRAFT!

**TURN IN THE WORKSHEET FOR CREDIT ON 10/20 (hard copy / printout)

3) READING: Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, "In China, Human Costs Are Built into an iPad", COURSE PACK, pp. 8396 
 
Longer reading (NYT Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalism) -- if you need more than 20 min. to read this (in class Thursday), have a look at this reading before then!