Posted: March 26th, 2015

White Furniture Company

White Furniture Company

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History 1050
Paper topic #2
[T]he story of the White Furniture Company is a study in miniature of work
what it means when you have it,
what it means when you don’t.”

How did the experience of work and unemployment affect the

way the employees at White thought about class?

Some questions to consider in formulating an answer:

Did the employees seem to think of themselves as working-class or
middle-class? How do you know? After they lost their jobs, did
the workers feel that their class status had changed? Did they feel
upwardly mobile, downwardly mobile, or that their status stayed
the same?

Did their experience of unemployment make the workers more
united or more divided amongst themselves? What role did art
the photography show after the closing – play in uniting or
dividing them?

Who, if anyone, did the workers think was responsible for their
economic difficulties? Do you sense an “us” vs. “them”? If not,
why not? What, if anything, did the workers think should be done

7 to improve things?

Using Bamberger and Davidson’s Closing: The Life and Death of an American
Factory, formulate a clear answer to the question. Be sure to provide evidence from
the profiles of m of the five workers featured in chapters 2-6 of the book to
substantiate your argument.

Papers should be 3-4 pages in length, and they must not exceed four pages in
length. Do not do outside research, but rather use course materials for this assignment.
Cite all sources used with parenthetical citations; for example, (Closing, 41) and indicate
quotations carefitlly with quotation marks. Of course, the words and ideas in the paper
should be your own and you should write independently.

This course uses SafeAssign. Upload your paper to SafeAssign through the
course Blackboard site by the beginning of class on the due date. Papers are not
considered turned in until both a hard copy is turned in and a copy has been uploaded to
Safe Assign. Papers turned in without being uploaded to SafeAssign will receive a grade
of zero.

This assignment is worth 50 points. Staple the grading rubric on the back of this
sheet, rubric side up, to the front of your paper. Papers are due at the beginning of class
on Monday, 30 March 2015. Electronic or faxed papers will not be accepted. Late
papers are subject to penalty or, if they are very late, may not be accepted at all.

History 1050 Name:

Does the paper offer a clear, comprehensive, and persuasive
answer to the questiOn? 15 points possible
r 4 For example, does it offer a clear thesis?
Does it offer a balanced and thoughtful
assessment of the evidence?

Does the paper make effective use of the text, Closing?
20 points possible v
Is the paper well organized? 5 points possible

Does it have an effective intro, body, and conclusion?

Does it have effective topic sentences within

paragraphs?

Does the paper use proper punctuation, spelling, grammar,

and citations?k 5 points possible
Style points: 4 points possible
Is the paper stapled or clipped, with this rubric on top?

1 point possible

5 Total points

Failure to cite properly, if serious or if evidence of possible plagiarism, may be grounds
for a larger point deduction, failing the assignment, failing the course, and/or university
judicial proceedings.
This course uses SafeAssign. Upload your paper to SafeAssign through the course
Blackboard site by thebeginning of class on the due date.