Proletariat

Bicycle Thieves is a 1948 Italian film that follows a poor working-class man named Antonio Ricci. Antonio lives in Rome in the post-World War II era. Antonio, a family man, is desperately looking for a job, like many other men. He is finally offered a position that brings hope to his family which is comprised of his wife Maria, young son Bruno, and his infant baby. The hope of his family is soon diminished when Antonio’s bike was stolen from him on his first day of work. Most of the movie…

THE MONSTROSITY CALLED THE CLASS SYSTEM AND VICTORIAN ENGLAND Throughout this essay, I will be writing about 19th century England where I will talk about the socioeconomic issues of the time while mainly focusing on the different classes, and how the different classes were affected by the changing times. Firstly, there was the obvious difference in social classes. People were divided into one of three classes. You had the Upper class, the Middle class and the Lower class. The Upper class…

As he is created by man, the appearance of the monster is unlike any other. The creation of the monster from bones and artificial parts lends itself to being representative of the working class (Benford 181). This confirms that the working class is a man made creation and Sandra Benford states that the artificial parts lead to the monster being mechanically inclined. Part of the reason the monster is unnatural is his physical perfection, not only is the monster stronger, faster, and more…

“The Road to Wigan Pier” was first published in England in 1937; the Left Book Club commissioned it. The aim of the club, according to one of its brochures, which reflects the temper of the time, was “to help in the terribly urgent struggle for World Peace & a better social & economic order & against Fascism, by giving (to all who are determined to play their part in this struggle) such knowledge as will immensely increase their efficiency.”(Orwell, Publisher’s Note) This essay will look at the…

1. How did diverse women construct or resist American identity? Over the years American women worked hard to let their voices be heard. In the earlier years it seems that many women agreed it was their duty to be the home maker. Many women, such as Eliza Leslie, Sarah Josepha Hale, and Catathine Breecher all created domestic books. These books were essentially a guide book for women on how to run the typical American home. These female authors helped provide women with tools to work better in…

In order to understand the lives of the working class in Paris in the 19th Century, it is necessary to understand how their lives were not simply shaped by larger influences such as the economic forces of capitalism or the regulating role of the state. Instead, it is important to unveil how the city itself spatialized and constructed social and gender difference for the working class, while they, in a mutually constitutive manner shaped modes of sociability in the city. Analysis of the works by…

The Road to Wigan Pier, written by George Orwell, is a documentary report written during the 1930s in Great Britain. In a period when times were tough, and class distinction is making its way into the spotlight, Orwell writes about the hardships of being a member of the working class as he witnesses the lives of coal miners. The second half of the novel focuses is written in first person, where he admits to being a socialist and attempts to persuade the middle class Left Book Club members on…

In this area, Marx displays and studies three sections of Socialist and Communist writing. The first is Reactionary Socialism. Reactionary Socialists contains the Feudal Socialists, the Petty-Bourgeois Socialists, and the "True" Socialists (Other wise known as the German); these gatherings battle against the rise of the bourgeoisie and present day Industry, without understanding the chronicled procedure the bourgeoisie speak to. Primitive Socialists were French and English blue-bloods who…

Class is a term that has been subject of analysis for sociologists and anthropologists over years, the aim of this essay is to explore Pierre Bourdieu’s approach to class analysis. A class can be defined as “the fundamental principles of social and cultural difference within a society, the different conditions of life tied up with those differences and the power, struggle and domination invested in them”(Atkinson, 2015: 49). Pierre Bourdieu was mainly concerned with rethinking the concept of…

Being who you are, and how others view you, plays a huge role in how your life may turn out. One’s race, identity, culture, and more determines whether or not he or she would be on superior to society, and if he or she should receive that best in life. If one is Black, Latino, Asian, or Hispanic, he or she has to be twice as good in order to be accepted by those on top of the food chain. This is also true with one’s class. If one is poor working class or middle working class, he or she has to…