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Often throughout the book she mentions that it is said that "you're paid what you're worth", saying that little pay results in you not being to good of a person. With that label they were looked down on and viewed kind of as untouchables. They had low pay, long hours, no overtime pay, and no benefits which leads to low socio-economic-status a job that no one wants to pursue. She stressed that poverty wasn’t a sustainable condition, it's a state of emergency. Citizens in the lower classes are left to fend for themselves and the ten, eight, or six dollar jobs are all that's there for them. What she would encourage them to do is to demand to be paid what they're worth because in the end they will be better off.

This novel has many connections to The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano because they both describe the struggle to find equality for minorities and the effort that is needed to be your true self. This novel discusses the topics of Slavery and women’s rights in Charleston, North Carolina during the 1800s and while The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano takes place during 1969, they both showcase a theme of discrimination throughout. The two novels are also both about growing up in places that are outdated and in need of socioeconomic change so that minorities are free from poverty and tyranny.

The women of the story are not treated with the respect, which reflects their social standings. The first image of the women that the reader gets is a typical housewife. They are imaged as “wearing faded house dresses and

1. The female factory worker compared her conditions with those of slaves because she felt like they were being treated like slaves by not being allowed to speak for themselves. She felt that they were awed into silence by wealth and power and was under tyranny and cruel oppression

They also had assets and valuables such as jewelry and paintings that could possibly be sold if times got extremely rough. Rex even begins to show commitment while the Wall’s family is in Phoenix and quits drinking for a good amount of time. This all falls apart due to the need of chaos in the Wall’s family. Rex continuously loses multiple jobs and ends up spending most of his money on alcohol and bettings. Rose refuses to sell anything of value because she thinks that it is more precious kept than to be sold, even though her kids are slowly starving and were using cardboard boxes as beds for a while.

She explains Marx’s argument that capital penetrates and transforms every aspect of life (Brown, 2003, p. 19). Capital remakes everything in its image and reduces every value and activity to its cold rationale (Brown, 2003, p. 19). Essentially all is subject to the relentless submission of the state and the individual, the church and the university, morality, sex, marriage, and leisure practices to this rationale (Brown, 2003, p. 19). Thus liberal democracy especially for women has been compromised and undermined. Within the film, several women who were interviewed mentioned about the rise of union activism. Once you were unionized you were guaranteed benefits and more pay. However to ensure this cold rationale of capital as Marx stated, governmentality was achieved as one African American women, Margaret Wright, described she had gotten increased work hours making it harder for her and many other women to participate in union meetings. In the government’s eyes, unionism was equated with freedom and therefore seen as unpatriotic.

His critiques in the text include portraying the extremely harsh working conditions faced in the capitalist manufacturing industry; as well as, showing the levels of political corruption that were prevalent in capitalist systems and telling of the absolute levels of wealth inequality and the differences between socioeconomic classes that were relevant to

In The Paradise of the Bachelors and Tartarus of Maids Melville demonstrates how the oppressive power of the upper class over the working class, molds and kill the social, emotional and physical life of the working class while they benefit from it. Melville depicts how industrialism created an economic separation of classes that although seemed unrelated and contradictory in their different spaces, both sustained each other. The upper class, the bachelors, needed the labor of the lower class to maintain the wealthy life they had and the lower class, the maids, survived with the small wages gained with their labor. In order for the upper class to continuously enjoy their privilege, they had to exploit in any way possible the working class.

The wealthy or hard working, are the ones likely to survive, while the rest struggle, or fight to survive. Similar to the novel’s depiction of competition in capitalism, workers today experience the same competition. The theory of social Darwinism, was one fitting for the conditions and systematic structures of the labor forces during the time leading up to the Progressive Era. The concept of the fittest, or strongest surviving, was a common trait of the capitalist systems. Those who were successful, were the ones who followed the system and worked hard. Jurgis Rudkus, demonstrated the epitome of finding a job as an immigrant, and making the most of the unbearable

The plot structure not only forces people to reevaluate their views on capitalism, the American Dream, and opportunity itself, but furthermore advocates social change. The book implicitly suggests communist ideals through the characters of Tom and Casey. Casey, in his questioning of Christian dogma, begins to reevaluate equality, in the terminology of what is holy.

The city above was home to the rich and privileged. They were not concerned or aware of the needs of the workers that kept the city running below them. The ruler of the city was aware of their work conditions, but saw them as a tool or machine to accomplish the lifestyle above, not as individuals

Take everything you know about racism, sexism, and religionism and toss it out the window, because there’s an impediment to prosperity that is often underlooked: Classism. Classism is a suppression which always has and always will continue to affect our everyday lives. The disparities that presently exist between the lower and higher classes form a condition where it is unlikely to allow for equality for anyone. The short stories “A Rose of Emily,” written by William Faulkner, and “Desiree’s Baby,” written by Kate Chopin, offered several depictions of classism within a society. “A Rose for Emily” recounts the life of an isolated, aristocratic woman named Emily Grierson who symbolically represents the demise of the old Southern society. Similarly, “Désirée’s Baby” portrays classism present in mid-nineteenth century Southern society in conjunction with the inequalities that exist between race. Class prejudice plays an important role as it was behind the emergence of the characters’ unspeakable actions. In “A Rose for Emily” and “Desiree’s Baby,” classism is emphasized and provokes arrogance, denial, and the demise of others.

The Hungry Statue In Rebecca Davis’ short story “Life in the Iron-Mills” takes place in a town of iron-works. This town is consumed by the smoke and smut of the ash and pollution of the iron mills. The mills and the lower social class workers are the focus of this story. The dream of the lower social class of becoming more and the struggle of those employed there is evident by the narrators descriptive phrases. The discovery of a statue puts the moral meaning of the position of a person in a class into question.

In Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers displays how the economic status or social rank can indeed affect someone like Reno who is the main character but also to the other characters that are surrounded by her. From significant class differences causes this characters to experience mental distress and/or serve as a source of tension or conflict with others that is presented as oppression and resistance. This also can be referred by “Marxist Criticism”, which according to the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University, Marxist criticism looks closely at a character’s economic status or social rank and considers the ways in which the socioeconomic system is the ultimate source of a character’s experience.

In applying the Marx conflict theory to the Viola Desmond, reiterates that deviance and power belongs together. Viola refused to be relocated to the upper level of the theater, has categories her as being labeled as deviant because she hadn’t compelled to the rule of law. Even though she was in a reasonable class and had significant amount of power because she owned