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    rural landlords. They maintain strong feudal links on the one hand and at the same time powerful business links with the global market. Hundreds of sweat houses are fitted with ten to hundred looms each. The working day is 12 hours with two shifts. The workers live in adjacent sheds. The working conditions are dreadful with workers earning Rs 500 a week on piece rate system. Most of the workers are bonded with the owner by the advance they received. Women workers face other challenges with the

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    Birling is comprehending that he is more important than the officer. He believes that having political and social power over people makes him all-powerful, even when he refers to the working class or the middle class. He thinks that the working class is just there to serve you as a labor. Mr. Birling suggests that the working class are not worth crying over, when he uses the quote ‘Several hundred women’ he sees Eva as just one of those worthless girls who worked at his money-making factory. This shows

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    “Working Girl,” depicts important battles that women are still fighting today, it brings light to the ridiculous judgments and barriers that women had to smash to establish themselves in the business field. The film was written by Kevin Wade and released in 1988, the story is based in New York City from the inspiration of New York commuters and the noticing that many young women were wearing white tennis shoes on their way to work, carrying high heels to change into once arriving to work. Tess McGill

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    Introduction Prostitution looms large in the Victorian consciousness. The image of the fallen woman reflects the Victorian upper classes' ideas about sexuality, gender and class. The prostitute is a staple of 19th century fiction. Debate about prostitution is also a reflection of cultural anxiety about urbanization. Victorian ideas about fallenness create the ideological assumptions behind the creation of the Contagious Diseases Acts. Through the control of sexuality, the Acts reinforced existing

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    actually depressed because they can not get jobs and their wages are half as as much as men. Men gets good jobs and amazing wages but at least both still got their fashion. Women's careers are difficult to get. Workers preferably like men more than woman, so men are for sure to get what they want but not so much for women. Society thinks that men are better than women. The likelihood of women getting a job is very not so high, because

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    blue collar literature, one is able to pick out multiple themes that embody the working class people. One is able to envision what the lives of these individuals were like, including the many hardships of poverty, violence, and illness. Men are a main focal point of these stories, but the life of a woman is quite noteworthy as well. Some texts that highlighted the role of a woman include The Jungle, where a woman working was the focus, and the short stories Mother, Adventure, and The Teacher from Winesburg

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    struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.” (Carrie Chapman) When most people think of World War One, it's only about the men fighting. Not even to think how much contribution woman had to the war. Without female help there would not be enough weapons for the war and there would be no one to help the wounded. Also without women there would just be people fighting and no school for kids, no one to help the need, etc. There would be no world war without woman. Woman

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    Karl Marx, who moved to London after being exiled from Germany, were able to see through the system of the working-class. He broke people up into two categories, the bourgeois and the proletariats. The bourgeois headed the system, controlling the working class, which alienated people from their own abilities, nature, and even those around them. The proletariats were considered to be the working-class and they were to serve the bourgeois which Marx warns about. The people of London acquired knowledge

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    Peiss, Kathy. (1986) . Cheap Amusements. New York: Temple University. In Cheap Amusements, Kathy Peiss studies the customs, values, public styles, and ritualized interactions expressed in leisure time of the working-class women living in New York. The social experiences of these young women gives different clues to the ways in which these women constructed and gave meaning to their lives between the years of 1880-1920. The laboring poor’s leisure activity was brief, casual, and non-commercial

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    relation towards his or her workmates with consideration of the working culture and environment. There are three principal factors which affects interpersonal relationship at workplace, I think; tendency of finding a value in working hard, the hidden but strict rule of having worship for the boss, and the subjection of women. I will take up each factor. First of all, I’ll describe the effect of Japanese tendency of finding value in working hard. One of the reason is that Japanese are concerned about

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