The Industrial Workers' Movement

This reading was all about strikes and unions and to me this relates very much so to todays society. To me it draws me to the conclusion that in our society today we still have a lot of these problems. We still have unions and we still have strikes. It shows that we as humans are quite barbaric in the sense that we use violence as a way in order to express our angers about these strikes. We have become so involved in our work that we allow our lives to be taken over and use our work as a way to express ourselves. Because of this we tend to have more strikes and violence because we express our feelings more strongly. This confirms all the readings that we have read in the past from Rousseau, Marx, Smith, Durkheim, and Weber all confirm the idea of getting to involved in work and make us create these strikes. In all honesty this world has become so obsessed with finding and gaining power that we have started this barbaric lifestyle and have become very self involved and worry about ways of getting to the top.