Class is concerned with a society's economic structure which encompasses the systems of wealth creation and distribution while power entails how politics is expressed. ... He adds that class separation is also evident in politics in that political leaders seek to appeal to the lower and middle class populations to obtain more supporters. ... They work in poor conditions characterized by safety risks – injuries from knives and machines, fogginess and visibility problems, and respiratory problems caused by fumes, in addition to physical strain and sexual harassment for female workers....

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The current labour party is a product of this movement of working through the political system to equalize society. ... Political conditions were not at their greatest, though there was more the government could have done for the communities. ... All this corruption wasn't getting better with corruption involved in political conditions. ... In result, this brought the political conditions to an all time low. ... Depressions and recessions led to cyclical employment, style and weather caused seasonal employment, and machines replacing humans brought str...

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Like Marx argues, due to the economic recession, the government of Greece increased bailout programs and tax programs to keep their political power and to hide economic and political errors. ... These conflicts are related to political conflicts because they can change policies or social systems. ... The necessary consequence of this was political centralization.... With machinery developments, capitalism leads to labor divisions and workers become like machine appendages who work for the bourgeoisie (Marx and Engels 2000:8). ... In Modern Times, a Charles Chaplin movie, people are displayed a...

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The higher class people can get ahead in life because they have an in with the system, but the peasants will forever be stuck at their work on the machines in a packing plant. ... It is now when he becomes involved with politics. ... One critic writes, "The democratic institutions which might have provided a means of change have all been bought off by the "Machine." ... It helps move others forward in politics. ... Sinclair writes, "...it was the task of Socialists to teach and organize them for the time when they were to seize the huge machine called the Beef Trust..." (317). ...

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Marx claims that with each advancement made by the Bourgeoisie in modern industry, it was followed by political progression also. ... With each political advancement, the Bourgeoisie gained for itself more and more power, and finally, exclusive political sway. ... This led to political centralization, and the formation of the nation-state. ... The necessary consequence of this was political centralization" (Mc Intosh 1997:42). ... This in turn gives the proletariat their final weapon, as they gained political standing and education in the process. ...

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It has profoundly influenced the entire world, and the development of the current political relations. ... Machines could produce faster then the skilled laborer and he became obsolete. ... Marx says "Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois state, they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine" (Marx 43). ... The state is, similarly, an alienated form of political activity, embodying universal rights which are as ephemeral as is the idealized world of religion" (Giddens 5). ...

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This results from these 3 facts: each worker becomes increasingly dexterous in his specific task as time progresses, time is saved because the worker is not changing from one task to another, and as workers concentrate on one simple task they are more apt to develop machines that will make their job easier or do it for them (Smith 15). ... "The materialistic view of history" led Marx to believe that the government was only a "political ruling organ of the economic rulers." ...

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As well as having a great interest in the political economy he also went on to study sociology, interestingly he had acquired experience of social conditions during his travels through Europe. ... Marx described this class as being the main industrial workers, he also named them politically unimportant. ... Marx describes the workers as "slaves of the bourgeoisie class, enslaved by the machine". ... Throughout his life Weber took an active interest in Social and Political matters in Germany. ...

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The proposal –which is called the minimum wage now– did not pass the Congress for thirteen months because of the political climate. ... Therefore, they will start using labor-saving machines–for instance, touchscreen food ordering systems instead of ordering food to waiter/waitress at restaurants– to reduce the number of employees (McArdle). ...

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