Goodbye to the Work Ethic

In her essay from the late eighties entitled "Goodbye to the Work Ethic," social critic Barbara Ehrenreich asserts that the working class does not actually work anymore. It all started in the eighties with people who seem to be very stressed and overworked , also known as yuppies. Yuppies didn't actually do alot of work they just acted stressed to make people think they were working hard to earn the little amount of money they were being paid. Although I agree with Ehrenreich up to a point, I cannot accept her overriding assumption that anyone who works in an office atmosphere isn't actually doing work. I know many people that work in offices and do just as much as people that work in factories maybe not manual labor but they have to put a lot of time and effort into things they do on a daily basis. Without these office jobs you wouldn't have the people to run the companies that make so many other jobs possible!