Employment and employees have changed a great deal since the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth century most employees didn’t “punch a time clock”, get their time card electronically stamped, at the beginning and end of their work shift. They also didn’t have a supervisor monitoring the work produced throughout the entire workday and they didn’t get paid at an hourly rate. Unlike today, work was usually …showed first 75 words of 882 total…

…showed last 75 words of 882 total…able to provide for one and one’s family shows capability and sophistication therefore, most Americans take great pride in their work. Completing a task to the best of their ability, not only improves self-esteem, it also provides a measure of great success for the American worker. Those that cannot or choose not to do so will not advance in today’s job market. How work has changed and its effect on the American worker