The Turkish working class have to work long hours for a very low wage resulting in a lot of poverty and there is a bigger class divide between upper and lower class whereas Britain now has a broader middle working class system. As of August 23, 2014, the proportion of the population below the poverty line in Turkey is 16.9% whereas in the UK it is 14% (CIA, 2014). ...
Karl Marx, a German philosopher, once predicted that a revolution would arise among the working class. The misery of the proletariats would set off a world revolution. The proletariats would triumph over the bourgeoisie and set up a new classless communist society. This "scientific socialism" theory...
The Poor Amendment Act of 1834 (promoting both individualism and capitalism within 19th century Britain society) withheld a heavy impact to the country's poverty relief system. ... For example, Dickens' plot line for Oliver Twist, is merely a sequence of events related by the forces that cause them to take place. ...
Around the 1980s, Flint, a city in Michigan, was in a catastrophe because General Motors" (GM) plant-closings led to the crisis of assembly line workers" layoffs and home evictions. Michael Moore, a former editor of Mother Jones, directed the documentary "Roger and Me" to inform viewers about GM's bad treatment towards assembly line workers. ... The town's condition proves how "poverty really is lower" (357) since people could not afford to live in their homes. ...
