He uses Arthur Birling as a voice for capitalism, who is ridiculed by the inspector, a representative of socialism. The dialogue between them shows this, as the inspector twists what birling says. For example, when the inspector says “I’m sorry but you asked me a question”, and Birling says the inspector previously asked him an unnecessary question, the Inspector replies “It’s my duty to ask questions”. Priestly uses this symbolism as framework for the political ideology battle each character has with the inspector. As the political Ida of capitalism has corrupted the Birling family, Priestly shows the audience how the inspector, the voice of socialism, constantly out-wits the birling’s.
| Customers | Customers can stop buying products displaying the john Lewis logo, word of mouth means that john Lewis can be seriously damaged by customer shifts. They have a huge influence on the aims and objectives of john Lewis. However john Lewis may feel that it has sufficiently strong, brand loyalty to ignore customer input. | Employees | Employee can make john Lewis alter their aims and objectives to include staff needs and wants, john Lewis altered their company objectives to include the working conditions of its staff, however a set time when unemployment is high, employers are in a position of greater power as employment is harder to find. | Trade union | Unions mainly focus on the treatment and pay of the employees.
For modification of social order to occur, the upper class has to letup on restraining advancements and give the lower class a decent opportunity for succession. The upper class must grow from stunting the advancement of the lower class to allow any modifications of social order. Before police raid the camp, Tom is told the protocol about making a living in Hooverville. “‘So we take what we can get, huh, or we starve; an’ if we yelp we starve’” (Steinback 247). It is common knowledge amongst the reds, or lower class, that they must take the job at the price offered by the upper class.
Mr Birling has no respect for any of the other classes and only believes that everyone should just look after themselves. “That man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own.” This implies that Mr Birling only cares for himself and how much profit he can make from his business. Priestley presents to us that a change in the upper class is needed because without the working class they would have no business. The Inspector’s speech is the complete opposite of Mr Birlings speech. The Inspector believes that “we are members of one body” and that “we are responsible for each other.” This contradicts what Birling was saying at the beginning of the play.
Just write the check and – the house is yours’ (His voice almost breaks) ‘And you – you people just put the money in my hand and you won’t have to live next to this bunch of stinking [blacks]!" (III.i.144). Walter decides that he is going to play the stereotype that Karl Lindner labels him as. He figures selling out and forfeiting his dignity is the only way to earn his father's money back. He wanted to do this because he wanted to get the money he lost back, but by doing that they will lose their dignity.
<BR> Imagine a life where as an employee you have no security in a job, if your employer believes he or she can be more profitable without you then without you is how they continue. Or if you are injured your income disappears also. This is how many workers lived their life in America at one time with continuously cut wages. Desperately trying to hold onto their position because no one else will care if they are replaced. While workers fought for fair treatment and job security, the employers wanted the freedom to become more efficient and profitable.
Laborers were all tired from being treated like slaves and work under unbearable conditions. In the end, the only two choices they had were to either live by their factory owner’s rules or to live under their rules. And they answer they choose was to form unions. These men and women were fixed with purpose to receive the rights and privileges they deserved as citizens of United States. But what were the goals of these laborers?
The mindset of the GenXers were shaped by a shocked and unstable world economy, world violence, politics, and less than reputable businessmen and women who continued to control the direction of those appointed below them. The business world of today needs to focus on the needs and desires of its workers and see that their needs are met. The old world savvy manager will be stutter struck by the reactions and quick walking that will take place on the production floor should he try to apply the old tools of the trade. Mary Rau-Foster, in her article sums it up as she reflects on a passage in a book that she
He realized that they have worked together to keep their money and to become one. He probably wont tell the head people what had happened because I would make him look like a bad boss for not keeping his workers under control. They’ll probably make a really big deal out of it and fire Roberto, thus having to hire someone new and who knows how that’ll work
Bertens, H. tells us that ‘Capitalism...thrives on exploiting its labourers’ and that these labourers have had to create ‘labour unions to get better deals’, this supports the idea that the working class are gaining more power but it is seen to be a very long and slow process. Plath wanted to show the reader that in order for the working classes to be able to achieve and become more equal they must ‘shove’ their way through the barriers created by upper classes and although this will take a long time they will eventually break through and ‘inherit the earth’, the narrator suggests that equality is their right and by standing up for themselves the working classes are just reclaiming that right. However, Barry, P. in Beginning Theory suggested authors are ‘constantly formed by their social contexts in ways which they themselves would usually not admit’, this would suggest that the capitalist society has led Plath to believe that things were getting better for the working classes so that her writing would