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Matewan
Ignorance promotes fear. The Stone Mountain Coal Company exploits the ignorance of its employees to maintain power in Matewan. Keeping Matewan’s residents fearful of their future, fearful of change and fearful for their lives, the Stone Mountain Coal Company retains absolute control over the town of Matewan. Controlling all four social and cultural processes at work in Matewan, the company is able to extract the fear, work, and “loyalty” they desire out of their workers. They are maintaining a feudal environment over their employees, binding them through debt peonage to serve only the Stone Mountain Coal Company, denying them the freedom to search for other employers. The Stone Mountain Coal Company would in fact appear to be searching for a type of slavery over its workers when it contracts them against a union, denying them control over their own lifetimes and identities. Before knowledge enters the town of Matewan with the arrival of Joe Keenan, its residents have no control over their own destinies. Definitely not a form of capitalism, where there is a free labor market, the economic exploitation in Matewan completely denies employees of all of the products of their labor, and grants the exclusive rights of appropriation to the Stone Mountain Coal Company, Matewan’s feudal lord. This is feudalism, bordering on slavery.
Culturally, the Stone Mountain Coal Company is able to maintain control over the residents of Matewan by promoting ignorance and fear of the unknown—“strike breakers,” races, and unions. Pitting Matewan’s resident workers against the incoming strikebreakers allows the Company freedom to raise competition levels for jobs that all the workers need to live, while lowering the amount of mone...
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...nly with the arrival of intelligence, of knowledge, only with the arrival of Joe Keenan does the company falter in its’ attempts to oppress its employees. Knowledge is a catalyst for change. The union allows the workers to finally bind together as one unit of employees, allows them to stand their ground as human beings, and to make their voices heard as workers. It is the first hint of a future devoid of bondage, when the workers will have freedom to demand decent wages, to demand certain rights, and to search for other employment if they choose to do so. Joe Keenan’s murder shows that it isn’t going to be easy, that the changes aren’t going to come quickly or all at once, but that the foundation for knowledge has been laid in Matewan. Matewan demonstrates the transition from a feudal society to a capitalist society, and depicts the fight that initiated change.
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His ego was heighten when he found a job during his first day in Packingtown. (Sinclair, “The Jungle”, 23)*. Excited as he was, Jurgis had no knowledge of the work he was going to get involved with. The meat industry at Durham’s are not a pleasant sight, and Jurgis was shocked with the production of the meat industry. His time working there allows him to view the process of meat packaging and distribution; though he can’t understand the error towards the industry’s method of employment and production. The superintendents and higher officials have no interest in the well-being of there employees, and view them as replaceable objects. If an employee was not long fit work; or refused to comply with their regulations: such as “speed up” demands or longer hours, they would immediately get replaced with another person willing to obey. In additions, accidents (though not as frequent) arose having workers injured, or in dreadful occasions, killed. Therefore, these accidents became a valid reason to replace workers without owning up to any ethical consequences. Jurgis was also recruited to work on confidential assignments, such as process and distribution of tainted meat (Sinclair, “The Jungle”, #)*. This allowed Jurgis to witness the corrupt version of an industry. Tainted meat was washed and recruits removed as much spoiled meat as possible. After this task, the recruits
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I was born on May 9th of the year 1800. My family lived in Torrington, CT, but soon after, relocated to Ohio, where I spent my young life. My early ancestors sailed to the Americas in the 1600’s on the Mayflower. A lot of things scarred me early in my childhood. Onc...
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The election process in the United States is a valuable process to the election of the proper officials to satisfy the people. The people run the country which is why we live in freedom because we control what happens with major decisions by choosing whom we want to decide these decisions. The whole country goes to vote on a certain day and by the end of that day we will vote to select who will run the country, state, county, or city political positions. The most complex decision and one with the biggest impact are selecting who the President of the United States shall be. We examine what their views are and who would do a better job. Then vote in our respected states with a certain number of electoral votes depending upon the population in that state. Those votes go toward the overall count of the candidate and help choose who will reach the magic number of 270 electoral votes first. This hasn’t always remained the same since the beginning but the basic idea behind this type of voting system was created by the views of the Founding Fathers of our country.
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