April 20 Weapons of the Weak and Race Rebels

Both readings discuss the acts of resistance, and analyze the ideas and relationship behind the resistance. In Jame Scottt’s reading, when he talks about the peasant as a powerless group, he uses examples such as foot dragging, slander and arson to highlight the facts of political and class struggles. I think that working classes are struggling with low wage or they are lack of the power to resistance. Robin Kelly’s reading also related to this topic. In his article, he talks about his experience of working at McDonald. A huge number of employees in fast food restaurants such as McDonald are “color” and from poor family, etc. They get low wages, do a lot of works and still can’t get respect from customers. Those people, he said, have very little power in the society. Therefore, they punched time card for each other instead of negotiate or fight with managers because they don’t have the power to do so. Therefore, they use their own way to resistance. In our discussion, we discussed that swing manage try to make their workers working faster and try to minimize acts of resistance. I think we should consider about the political in our society. Because of the low social status, working class gets as little as possible incomes and under some systems to ensure that those employee don’t do any resistance. Another interesting idea that has pointed out in the discussion is that the relationship between employee and employers. One classmate pointed out that if employer treats their employee better, they work more efficient and happier.