Richard Wolff

Richard Leonard Kuklinski was born in the Polish section of Jersey City, New Jersey. His mother, Anna McNally was a devout catholic and his father, Stanley Kuklinski, worked on the railroads. His father was an alcoholic who beat Richard regularly. Richard was one of four children and had an older brother who died from his parents abuse. Heather Mitchell and Michael Aamodt (2005) say that, “Childhood abuse has been given varying levels of blame in the development of serial killers. De Baker (1997) quoted Ressler’s research and stated that, ‘100 percent [of serial killers] has been abused as children; either which violence, neglect, or humiliation’ (p.55).’” (p. 40). Kuklinski began killing cats as a child. Research says “Violence is a pattern

According to the Mainstream Economics school of thought, there is not a labor problem, in their eyes there might me a labor situation which will work itself out naturally. Having no problem with labor, there would be no solution, having nothing really change the Mainstream Economics school of thought. The ‘mosquito' in the Human Resources school of thought is poor management, and if management can be improved then employees will feel more appreciated better wages will follow due to the realization of the value of the employee. Therefore, employees will be happier in the workplace increasing productivity. In the Human Resources school of thought, the improvement to management will create a balance between efficiency, equity, and voice. In the Industrial Relations school of thought, the labor problem is blamed on the unequal bargaining power given to large corporations and so little given to the individual workers. Industrial Relations' solution to such inequality of bargaining power is to increase workers bargaining power through organized unions to create collective bargaining. In a different scenario the cause of the labor problem lies with the control of societal institutions and the means of production for the benefit of certain classes; this is through the lens of Critical Industrial Relations school of thought. This extreme school of thought calls for an extreme solution; being that there should be a significant restructuring to the nature of capitalism. Critical Industrial Relations is the most extreme thinking and is sometimes referred to the Marxist school of

Document 2 introduces the idea of social darwinism in the workplace. It says that the workplace now isn't about who is the best at doing the work, now it's about who can do it for the longest and cheapest price. It definitely incorporates the idea of social darwinism because now there is a competition, among the workers, for who can do the job cheaper and quicker (survival of the fittest). This ultimately reveals how the divisiveness of the classes emerged: there is now competition among the working class and quarrels between the rich owners of the factories, and their middle class workers for a better work life. The purpose of this document is to show how social darwinism worked, firsthand, among the working class, in the factory.

This onslaught of capitalism directly revolutionized modern industrialism as well as the industrial city. Machines morphed the predominately agricultural nation to a herd of factory and corporate workers. Swarms of people, both native and immigrant, flocked to major cities. “The present century has been marked by a prodigious increase in wealth-producing power. The utilization of steam and electricity, the introduction of improved processes and labor saving machinery, the greater subdivision and grander scale of production, the wonderful facilitation of exchanges, have multiplied enormously the effectiveness of labor.”(George, p.20) The major problem with this newfound industrialism was the way in which the workforce was treated. Capitalism was supposed to provide a way out, a way ascend the financial and social staircase, if you worked hard enough. This however was not the case, if you were a loyal, hardworking employee you simply got to keep your job, and if you were in any way injured or incompetent you were fired.

“I regard my workpeople just as I regard my machinery...When my machines get old and useless, I reject them and get new, and these people are part of my machinery” (Sands 12). A foreman at a textile mill in Fall River, Massachusetts spoke these words in possibly the worst time during American labor history, the Industrial Revolution. During the Industrial Revolution, large numbers of people in the United States flocked to work in factories where they faced long hours, unsanitary and unsafe conditions and poor wages. Labor unions, or groups of organized workers, formed in the United States to ensure workers the right to a safe workplace and a fair wage in the face of capitalistic factory owners seeking wealth. In exchange, union

Judith Halberstam points out that the movie Chicken Run illustrates how aggressive industrial businesses maximize profits above anything else or businesses that have a partnership between owners and workers to maximize profits. “What are we to make of this Marxist allegory in the form of a children’s film”

Barbara Millis of the United States Air Force Academy reviewed Richard Light’s Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds. She explained that in recent years, many copies of “Harvard Assessment Seminars I and II” had been issued to professors to develop college student’s education further. As well as these books, Light’s book had also been used to broaden the system. Millis further stated that Light’s book involved lengthy interviews that apprehended student’s college lifestyles. The evidence among the interviews were used to collect various data.

The idea of industrial democracy is not new. Before the industrial era under feudalism, enterprises were small and every enterprise had a family spirit between the owner and the worker who worked together and there was a direct and paternalistic consultation between the two. However with time the industrial revolution started and the sizes of the enterprises and the numerical strength of the workers also grew larger and larger and it was not possible for the owners to have direct and informal consultation with the workers. The employers also started feeling less responsible for those who worked for them and the workers were regarded as one of the factor of production. The old paternalistic attitude towards their workers gave away to the mechanization

Many proponents of capitalism argue that the wealth is shared with the workers. But is it true? According to an annual report in 2008, an average American CEO makes as much money in one day compared to what an average worker earns in one year1. And the disparity between business leaders and average workers continues to grow over time. From 1990 to 2005, the CEO’s salaries increased almost 300%, while a worker received a scant 4.3%2. The social consequence of this disparity is the concentration of wealth on a small percentage of population.

This would be beneficial because it would reduce discrimination within workplaces and higher education institutions,

Moreover, because the aim of production is profit rather than human need, the products of past labor--the machinery and materials, controlled by the capitalists--completely dominate living labor. Workers are literally slaves to the machine and the work process. It controls them, rather than

This wave of protest led to the establishment of a new type of management, which was believed to help workers integrate into the capitalist system, known as Post-Fordism (Dicken, 2003). Beginning in the late 20th century, Post-Fordism is characterised by any different attributes, such as smaller batched production, specialized products and jobs, new-age technologies, the rise of service and feminization in the work force, and the emphasis on consumer niche markets, as opposed to simply considering social class (Allen, 1992). However, due to limited wording, three main characteristics of Post-Fordism will be exclusively discussed; consumer sovereignty, the fragmentation of careers, and globalization in terms of the interactivity and future opportunities it encompasses.

The next technique of individualized work, is based on Taylor’s conviction that personal ambition would supersede the desire for general welfare as an incentive to exertion (Whyte, 1969, p.5). This is almost in complete contradiction with businesses like McDonald’s, where the focus is on teamwork.

Today world is continually changing, likewise with workers’ needs and environments; they tend to change in their value too. Workers want to have self-respect from other, as well as their basic necessities of life. As for managers, they have to fulfill workers need for higher performance and to fight ever-growing competition. In other words, workers are looking for job satisfaction but scientific management view worker as a ‘Rational Economic Man’ who is only motivated by money, so human relation is more relevant in today’s business management.

Marxism and Labour Theory - The Conflicts between Employee and Employer 1. Introduction 1.1 Overview on the essay topic To organisations, employees (labours) are wonderful resources, because they are compact and multi-purpose, capable of simple manual tasks or dealing with complicated machines, most importantly, they are the profit maker for their employers. However, there is always a problem between employees and employer. Any attempt to manager in a humane way, by consensus, is doomed to failure because of the irresolvable conflict between employees and their employers.