The economic environment set in the play appears to be that you can work your way up in the social classes. ... The political environment set in the play was aristocrats or know as communism. ... With Firs you see that the liberation has made him free but he remains to the whims of the family he serves, as he had always been. ...
One factor that contributed to Japan's dramatic rise was a particular set of close state-market relationships that is sometimes called "Japan, Inc." but may be more appropriately termed the "developmental state." ... Recent basis for trade As late as the 1980s, prime ministers were expected to serve a tenure as MITI minister before taking over the government. ...
These secondary labor market positions have led to workers doing a series of repetitive tasks for a set amount of time (usually an eight hour day). ... This view follows the idea of Karl Marx which states, " the operation of a capitalist economy serves to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a small elite....
