And in order to obtain labor power, the firm must provide wages for the capitalist in order for the worker to sustain a daily life: to support his family and the worker itself in order for the worker to be back for the next working day. ... He defined the RSA as a group ( government, administration, the army and etc.) who maintains a total control of the means of force and applied to support the capitalist structure. ... The other set, the ISA (family, church, schools and etc.), is defined as a role player in sustaining the capitalist structure. ... With the help of the church, family and e...

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The bourgeoisie system of class and private property has ruined family relationships. ... 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. In other cases laborers are working their sweat, blood and tears off to support their family's, trying to give what the bourgeoisie has. "The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation"(476). ... Family's could be one again, with out struggling for money. ...

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Low wages led families to starvation, around the clock work schedules, child labor, and prostitution, all to meet the minimum to provide for their families. ... Jurgis was a man of family, and he would always fear not being able to support his family, so he was relieved by the money he was making at meat district. ... Jurgis began to feel a sense of confinement and anxiety, after leaving his family to support themselves on their own while he rests and heals. ... The structure repeatedly has an incline of good deal for the family, and then it all becomes a wreck for the family. ... Jurgis liv...

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However, he is more worried about his family. ... Jurgis feels that the injustice of capitalism is unsympathetic to his family. ... Jurgis is scared that being in prison will lead to the eviction and starvation of his family because his income is not supporting them. ... Throughout the novel, Jurgis and his family were struggling to find jobs over the span of a couple years. ... His exposure through a story people of the time period could identify with helps support the social injustices Sinclair was hoping to expose. ...

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This supports the Marxists theory that states "Basically, the state always works in the interests of the dominant, ruling, economic class: it favours and supports 'capital'." ... "Should we be making it harder for Australian families to have and raise children?" ... It shows that keeping food GST-free would make a major beneficial difference for low income households, especially pensioners and low income families." ... In relation to Australian society and the current economic discussions, the conflict theory is applicable to and supported by the subordinate groups. ... This ideology...

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Jurgis and his family took a tour of Packingtown. ... But, misfortune falls upon the family again. ... The rest of the family is stricken with numerous illnesses. ... He receives a job in the stockyards for his support of a Republican candidate, Scully. ... The political corruptions that supported American capitalism are as corrupt as the businesses. ...

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The happy Christmas songs they sang juxtaposed the pitiful and decrepit situation of the evicted family. The singing was also punctuated by curse words from the family directed at Roger Smith. ... The speech was dubbed over the eviction scene, in which the little child was standing on the sidewalk in front of his family's belongings. ... The juxtaposition really supported his perspective on the issue. ... Moore showed numerous articles of evidence, which for the majority contained the truth, and supported his perspective. ...

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In this way, family is unwanted because they cost more. ... Everyone in the family had to work. They had to help support the family. The families lived in wretched, polluted homes. ... The family was never united. ...

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Thus, although American Capitalism gave rise and support to America being the land of freedom and prosperity, the sharpest challenge came in the 1930s. ... Thus, in 1929, the top 0.1 percent of American families had an aggregate income equal to that of the bottom 42 percent. The top 5 percent of American families received 30 percent of the nation's income; the bottom 60 percent got only 26 percent. About 71 percent of American families had annual incomes below $2,500. Nearly 80 percent of the nation's families had no savings; the top 0.1 percent held 34 percent of all the savings. ...

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It does provide many historical events in vivid descriptions which supported the contrasts between capitalist views and socialist reforms. ... Jurgis joins Ona, Ona's family, and his family to journey to America. ... He starts planning for his family's future. ... His family was poor. ... Maybe not every family had all of the hardships that this one family had, but these kinds of disasters were going on all across America. ...

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Long's "Share Our Wealth" clubs gained significant popular support in the 1930s. ... While not striving for equitable distribution of total wealth, in his plan Long envisioned that each American family would be guaranteed a basic fortune of no less than one-third of the average American fortune, which at the time, amounted to $15,000. Further, the plan was to provide for an annual income for each family. ... Long gained significant popular support in the 1930s for his Share Our Wealth program. ... Long's "Share Our Wealth" club gained significant popular support. ...

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He was born into a rich family. ... When he did that the upper class started to withdraw their support from Marx and his newspaper. ... Even though he was born into a rich family he lived and died a pauper. His family hardley had enough food to survive and two of his children died "a scarifice to bourgeois misery." ...

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Yonnondio is a complex text about Olsen's family, the Holbrooks, and the policies that impacted every family in 1930's America. ... Yonnondio goes beyond telling one family's story of the 1920's to espouse Olsen's political ideology about 1930's Depression America. ... Olsen goes to great length to illustrate how poverty causes family and societal deterioration. ... Olsen is suggesting that the poor, recognizing each other's dilemma, act to encourage and support each other's efforts to "breathe" and take action to escape the poverty that engulfs the...

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Our family structure creates a great impact on women's behavior in society, family life and the labor force. ... They are to succeed at a professional career, marriage, childbearing and child rearing, on a model of a male life pattern without public support in the form of federal of provincial maternity leaves, childcare, etc. ...

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This revolution began in Europe and resulted in irreversible changes in human labor and consumption as well as family and social structure. ... Cloth merchants would purchase wool from the sheep markets then distribute it back into farming families to be made into cloth. ... The government, a long-time constitutional monarchy, was just right for the situation as they were flexible enough to support the new system and to a certain degree accept its capitalistic nature. ...

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Marx also considers labor as a forced means of production for substinence of the worker and his family. ... The person physically and mentally drains himself from achieving any dreams in order to maintain a life for his family. ... Marx's circular reasoning does not allow for great criticism because each critique slowly evolves to support his point. ...

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The economic changes brought about during the late 1800's and early 1900's drastically affected citizens of the United States. The railroad expansion and economic growth encouraged travel amongst citizens and brought in millions of immigrants looking for work and a better life. Focus shifted from ag...

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While more American generations have been trained to be independent, more young people from Asian countries such as Vietnam and China have been more dependent on traditional family values by their parents. ... For example, in Asian countries, although parents tend to make decisions for their children and impose traditional rules on their sons and daughters, when they get older, they do not want to receive any supports form their children and dependent on them. ...

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The fact that 35% of family named companies in the richest five hundred were still owned by the founding family (p29) seems to support the claim that those from wealthy backgrounds have a disproportionately high chance of attaining positions at the top of the wealth pyramid. ... Seeing as fee paying schools are, by their very nature, accessible to only a small portion of the population through their fees and the family connections required to attend, they are merely another social mechanism to retain Britain's wealth within a select elite. ... The outgoing headmaster of Eton today, Tony L...

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While Marija is trying to support the family without Jurgis, she is led to a life of prostitution, being the only obtainable job for her at the time. ... Soon Marija is struck with the reality that she cannot support her family due to the capitalist mind set in Chicago. ... With socialism, the big business would be obsolete; instead families or individuals would run regulated versions of the big businesses. ... In addition, programs like these along with federal and private scholarship foundations have opened up many doors for the children of today to further their education without putting e...

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Pew Research Center found that in 2013, the "Median net worth of upper-income families was 6.6 times greater than that of middle-income families.... Even some Americans who work full time jobs after acquiring a degree cannot support their families. ...

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Gender Inequality and Injustice in the Educational System TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Acknowledgments 2 Introduction 5 Thesis and its Purpose 6 Statement of the Major Hypotheses: 7 Part A: The Formal Curriculum 7 Organization of The Formal Curriculum 7 Content of The Formal Curriculum 8 Part B: The Informal Curriculum 9 Process of The Informal Curriculum 9 Structure of The Informal Curriculum 9 Chapter 1: Theoretical Paradigm of Conflict Theory 10 Chapter 2: Historical Background of Education 13 Chapt...

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The recent failure of communism in the Soviet Union supports how Marx's vision is not proven. ... (pg. 481-482) It is this argument that Marx makes in supporting his ultimate vision for society and the proletariat. ... In achieving this goal, the proletariat will destroy all remnants of bourgeoisie culture including family, religion, and morality. ... Marx announces the communist intention to "everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things" (pg. 120). ...

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For example, rather than controlling the number of state-owned enterprises destroyed by market economy implementations, a complete release of such enterprises from any government support or authority might result in a massive collapse of the industrial sector and wide scale unemployment. ... Prospects of "wealth- in towns or cities drive them to China's coastlines where they hope to earn enough to provide for their families and one day return to the countryside. ... The leaders of the movement are young, but they are groping towards an independent workers movement, one step of which wi...

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Karl Marx saw many problems with the capitalist system. He tried to identify and remedy the problems of capitalism through his creation of Marxism. He felt that capitalism benefited the owners of the means of production, not the worker. Karl Marx describes capitalists as people w...

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