To add to the grim picture, big media supports big business which in turn deprives the workers even further of what few resources they have scrambled for. We especially see this in the ever-expanding chain stores that are colonizing every suburban, urban, and rural landscape in America. Huge conglomerates like Target, Costco, Office Max, Blockbuster, and Home Depot are taking over every corner of America. They move in to towns, level low-income neighborhoods, bust labor unions, destroy small businesses, and exploit their employees. The more powerful chain conglomerates become, the less power the individual has.
Corporate practices deprive the worker of a sense of collective spirit.
Basic individual needs are all that is important to the worker. Simple survival is the goal, keeping the job day to day. There are few hopes for growth or promotion of any kind. Clerical workers are predominantly women, people of color, and representatives of other disempowered populations. Heterosexual white males are few and far between in the clerical workforce.