" One example of the growing strength of proletariat was in England with the working hours. The proletarians were so willing to work that they would even work 15-20 hours per day. The ten hours bill was soon enacted, limiting the number of hours people could work to 10 per day; practically a communist ideal: equalizing the classes and minimizing class struggle. The economic depression that Europe was soon entering would cause many people to wish to pick up their working hours and work even longer days, especially if their profession was in agriculture. ...

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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). The further 4 hours is surplus labor. ...

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They do so by forcing the laborer to work more hours than are needed for his own survival. ... First, the hours that are spent making the product, whose total value, is equivalent to support himself and his family. ...

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Richard Wurmbrand Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who founded Voice of the Martyrs in 1967, was born on March 24, 1909 in Bucharest, Romania. While he was still young his parents both died. He grew up a bitter orphan, and at the age of 14 he was a convinced and determined atheist. On October 26, 1...

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The bourgeoisie would never let their children work in sweatshops twelve hours a day. ... While the child of a laborer is working twelve hour days in sweat shops trying to help support the family, in some cases be the only income to a family. ...

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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...

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When I worked long hours at my old job and felt under-appreciated, it in no way affected my ability to think introspectively and better know myself. ... I know if I knew I would get 10 dollars an hour whether or not I had worked there for 10 years or 10 days, I doubt I would do the best possible work I could. ...

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Sometimes Jurgis had his hours cut dramatically without warning, and his wages would then plummet. ... His political boss tells him to work as a scab, and due to Jurgis's experience at the plant and the scarcity of senior employees, "his hour [arrives] - he [is] to be a boss!" ...

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The Jungle was written by Upton Sinclair in 1904. Before he wrote his most famous novel, he had written five others, but they did not turn out to be much profit. Because of this, he did not have much money so a popular socialist newspaper hired and sent him to a meat-packing plant where he got firs...

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Alienated Labor in the Jungle Socialism thrives when the alienation of labor survives. This is prevalent throughout the world today, especially in the Third World countries. During the Industrial Revolution, it was present in France and Germany too. This is where Karl Marx formulated his ideas ...

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Alienated Labor in the Jungle Socialism thrives when the alienation of labor survives. This is prevalent throughout the world today, especially in the Third World countries. During the Industrial Revolution, it was present in France and Germany too. This is where Karl Marx formulated his ideas ...

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These people who don't own the means of production (land, machinery, factories, tools, etc..) are called the proletariat and cannot sell their produce, only their labour-power... that is, they can sell hours of their time to other people. ...

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The Jungle is a novel written by Upton Sinclair. The jungle deals with the extreme working conditions in factories in the early 1900s, and socialism. The author purpose in this novel is to expose the truth behind the working conditions that workers suffer from exploitation and to promote socialism. ...

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Question In the textbook, read pp. 408-416. What do you think was the biggest social problem that occurred as a result of the Industrial Revolution? Response Industrialism occurred in Great Britain, Western Europe, and the United States through a period in which society moved toward machine-assis...

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"Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings" (Proverbs 22:29). This verse from the Bible describes Max Weber's argument of the relationship between business and religion. He basically describes the way Calvinism, a doctrine of the Protestant religion, had effects on capit...

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The Capitol takes advantage of the districts and makes them work long, dangerous hours for low wages, which means not that much food, while the Capitol lives life without doing work and hardly knowing what starvation even is. ...

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PRAVDA would tell the people how much better times were now with statistical facts just as Squealer told the animals how many more young were produced, how fewer hours they worked, and how much more food they received. ...

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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. ...

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The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory or a symbolism of the Russian Revolution. The revolution was the apex of a long era of despotism and unrest. From the time of Peter I, the royalty increasingly became a tyrannical ruling body that imposed its will on the people by force, with com...

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A Marxist view ofA Rose for Emily? andOdour of Chrysanthemums? In the two storiesA Rose for Emily? andOdour of Chrysanthemums? social class plays an extremely important role. These two stories would have been very different if Emily had been in poverty or if Elizabeth and her family had been wea...

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Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels are considered the two most influential thinkers of nineteenth-century Europe. Both Marx and Engels had a more radical opinion of the European period of industrial capitalism and predicted its end of as the citizens united and took control of the corrupt system that dem...

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