I enjoyed reading David Lodge Nice Work. I thought the femininist viewpoints were rather comical. For instance, Robyn was shocked at the lack of women at the factory. In fact, the women that she did see were indinstinguishable as women. Additioanlly, Robyn was upset about the workers' posters and the idea of a scantly clad calendar. I believe that the feminist viewpoint was in the novel to replicate the Victorian era women workforce. I thought it was a clever way to update that part of the English Industrial Revolution.

This is my last blog for this course. I thought I would take the time to reflect on this course. This course had a lot of reading and several papers, as well as these blogs. This course had more work than any other course that I taken at Central. However, it was truly one of the most rewarding courses that I have taken and the one course I feel I have learned the most. I truly feel confident regarding my knowledge of the Condition of England Novel. After reading Lodge's Nice Work, I felt like Robyn in the sense that I could restate those lectures like she did in the book.
I need one more course to receive my degree. So I don't need to take any additional courses. However, in the future, I plan on taking another course with Dr. Jones. He is truly a super teacher!

I have finished reading David Lodge's Nice Work. The passage that I liked pertains to the issue surrounding the employers. On page 85, Wilcox tells Robyn "I don't like making men redundant, but we're caught in a doublr bind. If we don't modernise we lose competitive edge and have to make men redundant, and if we do modernise we have to make men redundant because we don't need 'em any more." (Lodge 85)

I choose the above passage for two reasons. The first one is that this short passage explains the issue surrounding the employers. It is a Catch 22 that puts the employers and their workers at odds. It not only complicates the English Industrial revolution but, it also complicated today's capitalistic society with the advent of new technological advances, most notably in computers,