Essay About Unemployed Gm Autoworkers And City Of Flint

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Throughout this paper sociological imagination is discussed in a number of ways depicted in the film “Roger and Me” by Michael Moore. In the city of Flint, Michigan there is a variety of distinct social structures. The first is the unemployed GM autoworkers that felt betrayed and felt abandoned in poverty by their own trusted top GM management and chairman Roger Smith. Flint was the head capital of GM; the city was considered unique and had their own GM culture however due to greed and selfishness by the upper-class head officials they went ahead and built GM factories in Mexico in order to substitute the old workers for new lower employee costs and higher earnings for the business. The city had undergone a dramatic economic transition from prosperity to poverty. Outside from the unemployed and the GM management, the rest of the society in Flint believed that the unemployed should stop bickering about their losses and concentrate their energy and time on finding a new job. What this social structured group is not aware of or acknowledges, is the fact that unemployment is considered an issue since it affects society as a whole because not only a few people are unemployed but hundreds of people in Flint are unemployed. Some of the unemployed people have found some ways of survival such as waiting in line to donate their blood or becoming a colour consultant or working for small limited businesses. In the mean time, while some are trying to find ways in making a living or too busy being kicked out from their homes because they couldnt pay rent, the wealthy people are out hosting parties and playing golf finding nothing wrong with the city. Although the unemployed people feel and are often ignored by GM since for instance not even the chairman himself would visit the city nor would he answer questions about it, the citys economic crisis and the number of people in poverty has affected the citys image; especially when it is listed in Money magazine as one of the worst places in the country to live in.