The role of women in today’s society has made tremendous strides when compared to the role it played in the 1800’s. In The Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels examine the pivotal role of women in the workforce during this time.
In a supply and demand economy there is always room for improvement if the demand is big enough. In the 1800’s the industrial revolution changed the workforce forever. “The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labour of men superseded by that of women. Differences of age and sex have no longer any social validity for the working class. They are only instruments of labour, more or less costly to use, according to their age and sex”(69). …show more content…
In The Communist Manifesto the proletarians are defined as “the modern workers”(68), it does not make any distinction about the sex of the worker. In fact, The Communist Manifesto also uses male and female pronouns throughout the book. This suggests that Marx and Engels supported women’s rights and equality. This was a major paradigm shift at that time because in many countries women were not granted the right to vote until the mid-1900’s. The Communist Manifesto also presents a unique and compelling idea about the bourgeoisie family; it claims that “The bourgeoisie has torn away the connectedness of the family its consoling veil, and has reduced it to a merely monetary relation”(64). The manifesto claims that the bourgeoisie use family for pure monetary
In a supply and demand economy there is always room for improvement if the demand is big enough. In the 1800’s the industrial revolution changed the workforce forever. “The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labour of men superseded by that of women. Differences of age and sex have no longer any social validity for the working class. They are only instruments of labour, more or less costly to use, according to their age and sex”(69). …show more content…
In The Communist Manifesto the proletarians are defined as “the modern workers”(68), it does not make any distinction about the sex of the worker. In fact, The Communist Manifesto also uses male and female pronouns throughout the book. This suggests that Marx and Engels supported women’s rights and equality. This was a major paradigm shift at that time because in many countries women were not granted the right to vote until the mid-1900’s. The Communist Manifesto also presents a unique and compelling idea about the bourgeoisie family; it claims that “The bourgeoisie has torn away the connectedness of the family its consoling veil, and has reduced it to a merely monetary relation”(64). The manifesto claims that the bourgeoisie use family for pure monetary