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This 5 page paper considers two questions about Marx and his theories of labor and wealth: first, is labor today really alienated and second, how would Marx close the gap between rich and poor, and how would President Obama do it? Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Labor and Marxs Theories of Labor Research Compiled for The
Paper Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 5/2010 Please Introduction In todays industrialized societies, blue-collar labor is sometimes held in contempt;
people who consider themselves "professionals" may believe that a college degree and a position in an IT department makes them superior to those who work on an assembly line or
otherwise use their hands. But most nations were founded by laborers, and it was their efforts that allowed the society to develop to the point where professionals could evolve. This
paper considers two questions: whether todays laborers are alienated in the way Marx describes; and the gap between rich and poor and how President Obama is dealing with it, as
opposed to how Marx felt it should be dealt with. Discussion Laborers and alienation: Marxs theory of the alienation of labor is the argument that "in modern industrial production under
capitalist conditions workers will inevitably lose control of their lives by losing control over their work" (Marx: Capitalism and alienation). When this happens, they lose their autonomy (Marx: Capitalism and
alienation). Before capitalism became the dominant ideology, people worked for themselves: for instance, a blacksmith or a shoemaker would be like todays entrepreneur or independent contractor; he would "own his
own shop, set his own hours, determine his own working conditions, shape his own product, and have some say in how his product is bartered or sold" (Marx: Capitalism and
alienation). He had personal relationships both with those he employed and with those who bought his products (Marx: Capitalism and alienation). But in factories today, the average worker is "not
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