“Tirado also devotes significant time in this essay detailing the ways in which, and the reasons why, she has been fired from different jobs. Write an essay and what you describe and define the standards you would use to determine whether or not a service or a retail employee should be hired. What action constitute a fire-able offense and which do not? Why, in your view, is it fair to draw this particular distinction? And how do your standards compare to the ones used to justify firing Tirado?” “Here is a partial list of the concepts Ehrenreich used to describe the way employers, local government, and creditors treat the working poor: robbery, persecution, predatory. In an essay, conduct a close reading of the language Ehrenreich uses. What picture of the plight confronting the working poor do these terms evoke? What critique of employers, government, and creditors does it imply? And how valid do you find this commentary?”
