Literature and the Workplace Environment

Literature and the Workplace Environment

The relationship between literature and the workplace environment depends on ones individual emotional, dominant, influential and social concept of work related issues. Literature in relation to the workplace environment often addresses a broad spectrum of interpersonal dynamics, values, workplace diversity and ethics, inequities, and final difficulties faced by manual laborers. In this essay there will be an analysis of one poem (Share Croppers written by Langston Hughes), one short story (In Service by Louisa May Alcott) and two nonfictional short stories (Cotton-Picking Time by Maya Angelou, and Nick Salerno by Studs Terkel).

Langston Hughes poem Share Croppers provided insight on agricultural wage laborers who were Negro slaves of the southern states. The poem provided analytic data to support the deep concerns regarding difficulties faced by the manual laborers of the cotton fields. The Share croppers were oppressed with debt; they thrived to survive in society, yet to only gain a perpetual cycle of debt. The land that had been harvest by the sharecroppers had initially been abandoned and this was hopeful for freedmen and women, but shortly after the hopeful enlightment