Social Debacles
...he agony placed upon the working class of that town should have been encouragement enough to keep the factory in operation, but it wasn’t. This indicates that the large corporation now has no concern for the factory worker that has been there for twenty years, even though that person may be completing his or her work in the best manner possible. The roots of this problem lie in social class, where the bigger man gets his way. If the CEO of any corporation feels that a particular factory isn’t helping the company as much as it possibly could, it will be shut down with no concern for others cares or concerns. Then, once the factory has been placed out of commission, the CEO is able to see the feelings of the ex-employees whether he wants to or not. As in the case of Pay Day, the workers brought a coffin to the factory front where they were protesting and began to place the candy bars into the wooden box to symbolize the death of that manufacturing facility. Then, after enough of these occurrences, other corporate directors realize this will be too much negative exposure for their operation, so he or she might decide to hire out prison labor for telemarketing. These people sit in their prison cells with a computer/telephone and take orders for airline tickets or various other things. This involvement of criminals in U.S. business is a negative because of their contact with credit card numbers, peoples addresses, and other personal information that should, by no means, be trusted to anyone in a correctional facility. During Michaels confrontation with these corporate executives about topics like this, they all seem to be relatively cool about the immoral business practices on which they base their money making. This relates to the sociological theory of symbolic interaction, which states that we are all ac...