Working Class Hero

is well illustrated in the book “Dream Hoarders” by Richard V. Reeves. The book discusses income inequality in America, mainly between the upper and lower middle class. It discusses that the Middle class itself is divided on income issues. The upper middle class receives more opportunities than the lower classes because upper middle class. Income Inequality is an issue that affects most Americans, especially low-income Americans, and actions need to be taken to address this issue such as making…

Upon Sinclair was an American Novelist that wrote The Jungle in 1906. Sinclair’s novel portrayed harsh conditions and abused lives if immigrants in Chicago. The book illustrates working class poverty, lack of social support and unpleasant living and work conditions causing hopelessness among many workers. Sinclair wrote The Jungle to promote socialism. The issue that caught attention of the public was the horror of the meat packing industry. There are a lot of characters in The Jungle, they…

The architecture and construction industry can be surmised as an innate part of any developing country. It is not a homogeneous industry and encompasses a wide variety of activities, skills and products. It being the basic input for economic and industrial expansion, this sector is the second largest sector providing employment opportunities to people, both as unskilled labourers and skilled workers. Globally, the construction industry is also considered to be one of the most indicative in terms…

where he declared capitalism exploitative, socialism would be some opposite; where he declared worker to be alienated due to capitalism, in socialism the worker would be mystically engaged to his product of work; where he declared capitalism to be class-based, socialism would be classless. According to the hypothesis of Marx in Das Capital, the capitalism will evolve in socialism when we will achieve an unlimited growth of the productive power. Marx (1867/1887) forecast both the immediate course…

economic growth are increasingly going to those people who have an education and the means to exploit entrepreneurial opportunity” (Al Jazeera, 2013). Wealth in our day in age works as a double-edged sword. Students work hard to move out of the middle class to achieve a higher paying job. As a result, students who want to fix the system of money hoarding (unless they donate large amounts of their profits) become the money hoarders themselves, which leaves the poor in an inevitable cycle of…

higher class could afford organic, low-fat foods or a variety of fruits and vegetables, instead they will buy inexpensive, fat filled, unhealthy foods, because this is all they can afford (Engels 1999, p.284). And with such an unhealthy diet, it is absurd to expect someone to remain healthy. Moreover, exercise is incredibly important to maintain a healthy state, but when you are barely scraping by, paying for a gym membership is unrealistic. Exercise is not something people of the lower class…

The industrial Revolution has the most far reaching changes in the history of humanity.It has altered our lives more than any development in the past thousands of years.There are some very important global influences of industrial revolution. It led people from countryside to towns and cities.But the growth of cities continued as industries continued to grow and by 2008 ,for the first time in the human history,more people in the world lived in cities than in rural areas.The industrial…

Expulsions: Brutality and complexity in the Global Economy, by Saskia Sassen, grapples with the idea of “the new logics of expulsion,” and provides insight into the modern phase of capitalism. Logics of growth, the modern obsession with increasing corporate wealth gain, has created a world system of predatory foundations. The few can concentrate wealth more effectively than ever before in capitalist history, and the lower social standings bear the largest burden. Complexity and brutality go hand…

Do you prefer a high paid job with less personal time or a relevantly low paid job with more time for you and your family? Many people around the world will probably choose a high paid job with less personal time. Some people think that money is same as happiness. However, I don’t think this is true. I think money is just one of the methods to be happy. I think happiness is something that you can be satisfied with. I also think that happiness is when you are a person of a virtue. I once read in…

monopolies, competition, and the concentration of wealth are responsible for the issues brought about in the Gilded Age. Overpowering monopolies limiting the competition and distribution of wealth, causes a large inequality among the upper class, middle class, and lower class, making…