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As an aspiring teacher, I found this piece very interesting and I am convinced that one day I could possibly be in the shoes of the West Virginian Educators.

“Work is so central to human existence that we hardly know what to do without it”

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"Trade unions have been on the decline since the 1970s" This piece really made me put more questioning on why unions declined after the 1970s and one of the reasons were the outsourcing of jobs towards countries with cheap labor.

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The idea that workers “create wealth, but that wealth goes to others” made a big impression as it highlights the disconnect between the value workers provide and the compensation they receive.

“ We have a hierarchical society that has used propaganda to get Americans to believe everyone is equal. We are not equal. The law routinely favors the rich, the white, and the male.”

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One sentence that I would like to share from Loomis's reading is, “Teachers won a 5 percent pay raise very small but a step in the right direction.” This line stood out because it shows how even small victories can symbolize progress in larger struggles for fairness and justice. It made me think about how change is created by small steps and increments can build momentum for more significant improvements later on in the future.

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One sentence from my response: "The fact that stood out the most to me was how many people were willing to risk everything for fair wages and safe working conditions."

One sentence from Loomis's Intro: "The history of American labor is a history of struggle, sacrifice, and the relentless pursuit of justice."

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A sentence from Loomis's introduction that made an impression on me: "This erasure of workers from our collective sense of ourselves as Americans is a political act." It stood out to me because it points out how intentionally ignoring workers in America's identity is a political act.

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“ laboring for a few rich and powerful people, mostly white men who are the sons and grandsons of other rich white men.”

in page 4 second paragraph it states strikes going down lower and lower and so that made me think about the reasons why, a reason that popped into my head was just us the people being selfish.

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What made an impression on me was the paragraph that said that any kind of work, no matter what kind, is a central experience to human society as it is eating and family. This made me think how true it is because I’ve seen people who retire and still feel the need to work in something or for someone  even though they don’t get paid enough.

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1.  "Teachers across West Virginia didn’t want to participate and create a strike on February 22, 2018; but they felt they had no choice, not if they wanted to be able to teach their students effectively."

2. "Work fills the hours of our lives, it provides us with sustenance, and it can give us satisfaction with a job well done." This had the biggest impression on me because work is a crucial part in American society and work controls our life in American society.

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A sentence from Loomis's introduction that made an impression on me : "Under a capitalist economy such as that of the United States,employers profit by working their employees as hard as they can for as many hours as possible and for as little pay as they can get away with" and "Many of us don't enjoy our work. We don't get paid enough. We have to work two or three jobs to make ends meet if we have a job at all. They stood out to me because these are examples that do happen in the real life and that they are things that people actually have to go through and it is not easy.

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One sentence that made an impression on me was  “ thirty-four thousand teachers put down their chalk and their grading pens and decided to fight for themselves and their students”  because getting all together and fighting for what is right is something admirable for many people.

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I found it interesting because when you think about work and power you think what is going to push this person to their limit? What makes them tick? How far are they willing to go? Stuff like that I'm not really sure if that’s accurate but I know that’s what I think they think about. Only because why does it take someone to be at their breaking point for some type of change?