More than 20,000 of the lower class workers were eliminated from their jobs. ... In "Roger and Me," a woman name Rhonda, who was nicknamed the "Bunny Lady," sold rabbits as pets or meat in order to pay her monthly rent. ... Fred Ross, a deputy, evicted the jobless people out of their homes because they were not able to pay rent. ... This idea is similar to the film because most of the jobless citizens were evicted from their homes simply because they could not pay rent. ... The women thought that the people were just lazy because they did not have jobs. ...

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Smith says that the money that goes to paying wages comes from profits. There must always be an expanding market, so that there can be more and more profits or else there will not be more and more jobs. And of course there are always more people coming, and so if there are not more jobs, then there will be too many people and too little jobs. ... Both agree that if there are too many people, and too little jobs, then people compete for the jobs and wages are lowered. ... Smith believes this is so because you cannot divide jobs down too much unless you have a large market. ...

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Harwood Industries shut down the sewing department putting 120 people out of jobs. ... " 120 people were left without a job and all the company is really worrying about is the consumer? ... They are driven by the fact that they won't make as much money if they will be paying minimum wage to workers, so they go and pay less than a dollar to someone outside of America. ... El Chacal was demanding $500 apiece, whereas the Cuellos were willing to pay only $350. ... How much more important is a person's life, or a person's job, or a person's education than money? ...

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Dede had to pay a man a third of his wages just to have a job, and even then it was a horrible job that caused him to die. In this situation, Jurgis sees that the bosses care nothing for the workers, only their own profit, taking graft from men to do jobs. ...

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She now has no husband, no job, but still has to raise three children. ... Back then women couldn't find jobs just anywhere, affirmative action didn't exist and when they did find a job it was usually for very little pay. Even if it was a job that men would do the women were still paid less. ... Even when the town's aldermen came to tell her to pay her taxes she sternly told themI have no taxes?. Also being financially stable she didn't need to go through the hardships of looking for a job. ...

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This job gave him the inspiration to write The Jungle, which soon became an instant success to the public. ... Through the workers" long hours, low pay, and horrible living conditions, it is easy to see that in the early 20th century, the working class was severely mistreated. ... To keep up with all the payments, every family member has to get a job. Jurgis's old and weak father, Dede Antanas, got a job at the meat plant, and soon worked himself to death. ...

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We could expect a raise in the monthly taxes that we pay in exchange for free healthcare, free college tuition, free assisted living for the elderly, among other benefits that we do not receive in a capitalist nation. ... " The far more fortunate would be required to pay a higher percentage of their income to taxes than the poor. Also, there would be far more steady jobs available. In a capitalist economy, the most secure jobs are usually from the largest, wealthiest corporations, and some businesses obviously do not succeed, leaving many people unemployed with no source of income. ... Ev...

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Another reason why Communism is a good idea is because everyone in the country is provided with a job, house and food; no one is denied the essentials of life. ... If you are born into an upper class family, it is much easier to get an education and get a well paying job. ... They can't pay for higher education, which puts the upper class ahead of other people when it comes to getting a good job and making money. ... For example, in Capitalism, if you lose your job, you are given no other chances. ...

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Smith makes his example very specific in explaining that each person does one job and only one job. ... Because there will always be a demand for someone to do a remedial job. There is always the need for somebody to do the job that nobody else wants to do; a repetitive and tiring job. This feeling does not only apply to low paying jobs either. ...

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He "stood in with all the big politics men in the district; and when you found out what it meant to get into trouble with such people, you would know enough to pay what you were told to pay and shut up" (18). ... The fact that Jurgis's criminal-world contacts lead him to a job in politics is another way in which Sinclair exposes the corruption of Capitalism. ... After the election is over, a strike occurs and Jurgis fears he will be out of a job. ...

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The example Marx uses to explain profit: If labor works for 8 hours a day, according to Marx's the first 4 hours create the value to pay the wages of the worker (necessary labor). ... Evaluation Wolff does a good job of portraying Marx's thoughts in the context of the 19th century, however is less successful when trying to relate Marx's relevance to the 21st century. ... Wolff does a good job of informing the reader of Karl Marx's main theories on the criticism of capitalism however I believe he doesn't fully answer the question 'Why read Marx today?'...

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I shall also pay attention to how these theories and concepts relate to the current situation in Australia, with a focus on work/occupations as well as gender differences. ... To attract the talented people to the valued occupations, they must therefore hold higher rewards such as a larger amount of prestige, greater pay, and more social privleges. ... The occupations of the people in the middle class are largely varied, but are basically occupations which require intellectual thought, and are therefore non-manual jobs. ... This is due to the fact that occupations within the middle class...

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However, when presented with the bill for the first payment the price was more then $12 because they had not been directly told they would have to pay a monthly interest amount of $7 on top of the $12. ... Most immigrants of Chicago generally worked in one of these factories doing various jobs. Days were often very long, work conditions were not easily tolerable, and the pay was only a few cents a day. ...

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Whilst they claim that a meritocratic society gives high reward (financially and status-wise) to motivate the most gifted and inequality means those disadvantaged wish to improve on their position, there is much resentment over "fat-cat" pay packets in today's world. ... Women make up a reserve army of labour, hired when the economy is booming, then freely made redundant later with the ideology suggesting that they have gone back to their "proper jobs", i.e. homemakers. ...

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This will affect the way the students view themselves hence if they're labeled 'thick' they may act accordingly and give up, therefore increasing the social class difference as the students will evidently fail in education and therefore will not be able to aim for high pay jobs. ... As a result of labeling the boys in his study rejected school's values and created an anti-school subculture and as a result of this they end up with working class jobs. ...

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They will lower prices to attract more customers and make up for it by lowering their employee's salaries or eliminating employee's jobs, all in the name of profit and without concern that now the man working stocking shelves won't be able to get his family Christmas presents. ... And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had invested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. ...

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