WORKING CLASS

The TV show Working Class was developed to bring attention to the trades, and to promote vocational careers. We celebrate the technological advancements and skills that are required to work in the trades, illustrating just how out of touch with the trade’s society has become. Over the course of the show, we have highlighted many different trades, as well as the stories of the interesting people who work in these trades each day. We illustrate how technologically advanced the trades people are and invite you on a journey to understand how we got to where we are. In this book we step back in time to the beginning and examine when this young country was born out of hard work, grit, and determination. We survived a revolution, a civil war, a great depression, the dust bowl, prohibition, two world wars and a host of other hardships. Through all of this, the strength of this great country was built on the backs of the working class, who got up early, got their hands dirty, and did the work of this great nation. These are the people who shower at the end of the day, after their work is done, rather than in the morning before they go to work. But somewhere along the way, we seem to have lost sight of this, and the pendulum has swung away from our proud roots. If you look at the general work force today, and certainly the younger work force, you will find at least two generations of people who simply were not taught what it takes to build a nation, an economy, and a solid cultural foundation. It’s not their fault. No one told them. They were taught not to get dirty or work hard. Society taught them they could do as little as possible and make a lot of money as quickly as possible. And then, if something doesn’t go that way, it is the fault of society.