After you’ve carefully read through Karl Marx’s “The Working Day” and reviewed the passages on Marx in Chapter 16, please write an essay in response to the question below. Your essay should contain multiple paragraphs and must be no less than 500 words in length. It will be graded according to the rubric found in your syllabus. If you want additional feedback on the quality of your historical analysis and/or writing, please email me and I will get back to you with a detailed assessment.
The purpose of this essay is for you to engage with a particular text. Please feel free to do outside reading, but in the essay please confine yourself to referring to the assigned reading and perhaps Chapter 16 of your textbook. Citations are not necessary. Please paraphrase rather than quote unless absolutely necessary.
In “The Working Day, Marx is responding to the new realities of industrial employment, particularly wage labor. What characteristics does he ascribe to the worker, and what characteristics does he ascribe to the capitalist? What is the nature of the conflict between them, and what is the relationship of this conflict to the world described in Chapter 16 of your textbook?
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