Bleasdale wrote his idea of making the drama into five plays by using the characters in 'The Black Stuff' to the Head of BBC English Regions Drama in order to explore the problem of prevalent unemployment and people’s reactions towards it at that time. The Black Stuff' was not transmitted until after Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government had come to power. (Cooke) As a result of the new Thatcher government's economic policies, unemployment increased dramatically. Boys from the Blackstuff was aired, in October 1982, at a time when over three million people were out of work, which was the highest unemployment for fifty years. Boys from the Blackstuff created a national awareness and concern about the effect of Thatcher's policies on working-class communities especially in
For Lenin, the party was to be a group prepared to seize power as soon as possible yet on the other hand, for Martov, the main purpose of the party was to spread propaganda and raise the level of consciousness of the proletariat. This was because he did not believe that Russia was ready for a Marxist revolution for many years. Lenin believed that is the Mensheviks had their way, it would take years to start the revolution; they would just waste time on useless discussion and argument. Martov, replied that the revolution would fail if it did not have the support of the whole working class. The social democratic party remained spilt on the issue.
An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley, set in 1912, replicates the views and opinions of those who believed in social class. The material wealth in the society blinded those who believed in social class into accepting that they had no responsibility in the society. This play has a moral message of caring for others and working in a community to create a fairer society. This socialist inspiration for Priestley came from Bernard Shaws and H. G. Wellses, who also had communist aims for the society.
September 1913 and London “September” 1913 by William Butler Yates and “London” by William Blake although is written in a different time period but, it is very similar. Both of the poems are informing people about the tragedies that are happening in their country. September 1913 is notifying people that nationalism is dying down and the upper class who only cares about money is taking over in Ireland. On the other hand, the poem London is apprising people that everyone in London is affected by the industrialization. In both poems, people are affected by the change in society however; in September 1913 the speaker accepted the fate of Ireland and in London the speaker is striving for help from the upper class.
In the industrial age, when labor rights were still in their infancy, there were people like Terrance Powderly who wanted to better the status of labor through unions. On the other hand, there were men like Jay Gould, who thought of labor as a source to make money and did not think it important to treat them fairly. In this paper, I will discuss the works of these two men. Terrance Powderly was born in Carbonate, Pennsylvania, in 1849. Terrence gave up his education at the age of thirteen and started working as a switch operator for Pennsylvania railroad.
Banned Book Project The Giver by Lois Lowry, tells the story of Jonas, a 12-year old boy, living in a future utopian society where poverty, crime, sickness, and unemployment are a thing of the past. These idyllic communities were set up after some vaguely referenced dark period in human history. The communities lived by a strict set of rules that robbed citizens of their ability to see in color and feel emotion, but it saved them from war and famine. Each baby is assigned to a family according to his or her needs, and each adult is given a role in society according to his or her abilities. The role that Jonas receives is the Receiver of Memories, which assigns him the task to store all the memories of life before the “sameness”.
Have you ever felt you were trapped in a situation and you were set up to fail, and regardless of how hard you worked you were bound to not to succeed? After one has read The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, one would see that this emotion must be on the mind of the protagonist, Jurgis. Upton Sinclair was a politician of the early 1900s, but before Sinclair began his work as a politician he was a member of the socialist party and detested the downfalls of the capitalistic society that is America. To him capitalism is for the benefit for some (the rich) and socialism is for the benefit of all. Sinclair was inspired to write a book about the working class of America (consisting mostly of immigrants), primarily based on the packing town of Chicago and the different attitudes they can have and actions they carried out.
Along the way, the meaning of being "American" changes significantly for John, who realizes he is more a product of the steel furnaces of Pennsylvania than of anything American. The family of immigrants that Out of this Furnace explores had a similar viewpoint regarding America as did many of their co-immigrants - they were leaving a bad town in search of a better one. As Kracha thinks at the novel's outset "he hoped he was likewise leaving behind the endless poverty and oppression which were the birthright of a Slovak peasant in Franz Josef's empire." Kracha finds out during his voyage for America that poverty may not be something he is leaving behind. He wastes his money on the birthday party of a pretty, young, married girl he meets aboard ship.
I] A) The historical shaping of Mussolini’s ideas Benito Mussolini was born in 1883 in the small town of Dova di Predappio. His father was a socialist and had a lot of influence on Mussolini’s early thinking. From a young age he was introduced to the principles of military authoritarianism, Italian nationalism and the overthrowing of liberal democracy and capitalism. After his military service he wrote for many socialist newspapers and became one of the most prominent socialist figures in the country. It is important to note that Mussolini also advocated ideas of anti-egalitarianism and elitism, making him a very peculiar socialist.
Born in 1902, Carl Rogers was brought up in a very religious family who believed in the virtues of hard work. At the age of twelve, his family bought a farm – Rogers believed one of their reasons for doing so to remove the adolescents of the family from the temptations of suburban life. It was in this new farm environment that Rogers demonstrated much aptitude and interest in science, including scientific controls. Rogers early years in college opened up his understanding of the world. Here, Rogers was given the opportunity to travel to China, see the impact World War II had on French German relations (they hated one another, despite each being a likeable individual), was forced to expand his thinking outside the religious beliefs his