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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of social controls of labor. The controlling aspects of the media, religion, and government are explored. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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harming economic growth, and also protect the rights and needs of the working class. However, this is an extremely limited view of the issue. In fact, the exploitation of workers
is not limited merely to management, but rather it is a broad and sweeping social phenomenon. When one examines the totality of a capitalist society in the context of labor,
one recognizes the truth that government, the media, society itself, and religion all exert some sort of commanding influence over the shape and treatment of labor. This work will explore
this phenomenon as presented in Popes "Millhands and Preachers", and then extrapolate the concept to other aspects of societal control over labor. This paragraph helps the student address the topic
as presented in the text. Popes work tells the story of laborers in Gastonia, North Carolina in the early days of industrialization. The area was inherently quite poor and industrialists
who wished to open mills in Gastonia faced a number of setbacks. It was only through a collusion between the areas preachers and the mill owners that some symbiotic relationship
was achieved: the churches would provide capital and social clout to support the mill owners, while the mill owners in turn would subsidize the churches (Pope 1965). This ultimately resulted
in a strong degree of religious control over labor in the area, and since the labor itself wasnt an integral part of the symbiotic arrangement, bargaining power was low. After
engaging in unionization, however, the laborers at the mills, who were cruelly exploited, subjected to harsh conditions, and paid wages far below what their efforts were worth, were able to
organize a strike to push for better treatment (Pope 1965). The dissolution of this strike, which was the influential and much-storied Loray Strike of 1929, was made possible largely because
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