Working class

America does not have a shortage of money. The U.S. Treasury produces money everyday but where does it all go? People are homeless and starving and working for unfair wages while others are living easily. The one percent sits on top of the struggles of the middle and lower class. We live in the land of equality that does not seem equal. This is not “liberty and justice for all”. There is a solution to this problem; raising the minimum wage (10). It’s such a simple solution that will save…

between the higher skilled and lower skilled workers, an economical shift from production of goods to production of services, shifts in demand for high/low skilled workers which opened up temporary positions with little to no benefits, a change in the working age group (thanks to the baby boomers), a rise in uneducated and less-expensive labor in the form of immigrants, declining unionization, downsizing in industries (which could mean cutting less skilled workers), globalization and of course…

zero… there were weeks at a time when Jurgis went home after such a day as this with no more than two hours’ work to his credit- which meant about thirty-five cents” (The Jungle, pg 72) This passage is significant because it emphasizes the horrendous working environment within the stock houses. All of the workers were required to be there at a certain time, and if they were even a minute late they had a chance at losing their job. The workers would be forced to stand in unheated rooms waiting…

history shows there is the repetitive issue of class struggles between those who are exploited and oppressed and those who are dominant and exploiting, with each struggle eventually drastically…

no longer needs them or thinks that the women in these factories are more trouble than they are worth. Overall as evidenced by past free trade agreements, we can assume that this will have similar effects to the economy and therefore hurt the working class women of these countries, more than any other…

Research Center. N.p., 04 Nov. 2015. Web. 06 Mar. 2017. Eileen Patten is a research analyst at Pew Research since 2011. She is also working as a research assistant at University of Michigan’s Institute of Social Research. In this article, Patten describes the balance of work and family when both household parents work. In households with two full-time working parents, most parents said the chores and caregiving is equal, but scheduling and the child’s sick days are more of the mom’s…

Since the beginning of time in history, there have always been two opposing sides fighting for their beliefs. Marx points out that as time progresses, these two opposing sides progress as well. One is the oppressor and the other is the oppressed struggling to fight off the dominant power, i.e. freeman and slave, lord and serf, and so forth. Ranks have always been incorporated into society, whether in ancient Roman time or in the Middle Ages or during the modern bourgeois society. In the modern…

views on how economic growth could improve the material well being of the working-class. Marx believed economic growth came at the backs of the proletariat, and that most growth is horded by the bourgeois, only beneficial to the capital elite and added to commodity fetishism. While, Adam Smith believed greater national output was beneficial to everyone, raise all boats with the tide, and increase the wages of the working class, too. The difference lies in the two economists view on whether or…

Ben Hampers is a former employee in GM (General Motors) factory and he also is the author of Rivethead: Tales From The Assembly Line. Hampers is the third generations worker in GM from 1970s to 1980s, he believes that every day working in the assembly line is very monotonous and boring, so he and his colleagues will always come up with interesting ideas to ease the boring work. In addition, he faces layoffs in the automotive industry and some controversy with his factory’s management. The…

and subjugation, where valuations of race, sex, or class are drawn,as a means to change them. To see the relations of power in which one’s society emerges, and to be able to question the contracts/agreements in which those relations emerge, is the first (even if not self-sufficient) requirement to being able to modify them and critically change their fundamental, ‘taken-for-granted’ limitations (much as in the sexual, racial, or perhaps, “class contracts” implicit in the social contract),…