Party Member Segmentation Commission (PMSC) Guide Book
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Yos The Assembly of the Dispersed
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Refinery Establishment October 2016
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Social class refers to a group of people with similar levels of wealth, influence, and status. Sociologists typically use three methods to determine social class:
• The objective method measures and analyzes “hard” facts.
• The subjective method asks people what they think of themselves.
• The reputational method asks what people think of others.
Results from these three research methods suggests that in the United States today approximately 15 to 20 percent are in the poor, lower class; 30 to 40 percent are in the working class; 40 to 50 percent are in the middle class.
The lower class
The lower class is typified by poverty, homelessness, and unemployment. People of this class, few of whom have finished high school, suffer from lack of medical care, adequate housing and food, decent clothing, safety, and vocational training.
The working class
The working class are those minimally educated people who engage in “manual labor” with little or no prestige. Unskilled workers in the class—dishwashers, cashiers, maids, and waitresses—usually are underpaid and have no opportunity for career advancement. They are often called the working poor. Skilled workers in this class—carpenters, plumbers, and electricians—are often called blue collar workers.
The middle class
The middle class are the “sandwich” class. These white collar workershave more money than those below them on the “social ladder,” but less than those above them. They divide into two levels according to wealth, education, and prestige. The lower middle class is often made up of less educated people with lower incomes, such as managers, small business owners, teachers, and secretaries. The upper middle class is often made up of highly educated business and professional people with high incomes, such as doctors, lawyers, stockbrokers, and CEOs.
The Target of Working class Power.
The working class needs to know the enemy who is working against them. In order for them to assert their interests, the working class has to challenge the demand the capitalist makes. The capitalist has always been a common enemy in society. They have increased their power within the government that leads them to have a more direct control over the working class.
Corporate America is trying to bring workers and managers together through Labor management-cooperation. This idea was taken from the Japanese labor practice when many American leaders saw Japan as a “Model of economic success” (working class, 116). Labor management cooperation is the opposite to capitalism. This system sees workers as people who have interest in the welfare of the company.
“Class allows us to recall the language of economic and social justice and to revive calls for economic democracy that have been the foundation of progressive social movements for over a hundred years. The corporate agenda has stripped all reference to morality from economic affairs. For the right, unrestricted markets are all that is relevant in economic matters. This is a core question that progressives must address directly. Class understanding will help us to illuminate and ground the ethical dimensions of our politics and help us imagine and create organizations, coalitions, and social forces capable of turning back the destructive power of capital and replacing it with values and policies that relieve human suffering and promote the social good.”
Power needs a target. Effective power needs an appropriate target. One consequence of class analysis based on power is that it suggests the target for working class power is the capitalist class, not “the rich.” Looking back at the 20th century history of United States, almost every progressive social change has come over the objections of the capitalist class and has involved limiting the capitalists’ power.
“When the working class disappears into the middle class, workers lose a vital piece of their identity…they don’t know who they are anymore. To make matters worse, they also lose a sense of the enemy…. As the capitalist class disappears from view, the target of struggle disappears too.” the main social division turns on who wields the power and authority over the workplace.
“Class has its foundation in power relations at work” but those relations also pervade society at large, taking the form of “cultural and political power.” That pervasive power has allowed the corporate class to carry out its successful assault on workers’ living standards, forcing more and more families into the job market in an attempt to keep up.
Relations of social classes is necessary “to get to the bottom of what’s ailing us.” That’s so workers can “build the social movements needed to make a life better for working people. Because class is a question of power, understanding class can add to the power of working people.”
Class, is not about lifestyle, status, or even income. Class is about the ownership of society’s productive edifice and the multifaceted power over others that such ownership commands. Put another way, class is about not having the “power to determine and control the processes that go on in the factory and the bank, and beyond that, power in the larger society, especially political power.”
The importance of equal rights in workers and how in order for something to become great, people need to work together and not compete with one another. The chapter expresses the idea that people should get equal pay for equal work,
“During the Depression, political leaders widely believed that economic recovery required increased purchasing power among working people. Collective bargaining was seen as the vehicle through which workers could win higher wages, and a defense of unions against management attacks came to be an accepted part of the strategy for national economic recovery.”
The working class needs to have independent organizations to be able to wield any power for the working class. Unions served the workers well 20-50 years ago. They fought for and won many legitimate concessions from the “Capitalists” at the time. Much of organized labors efforts has resulted in a lot of legislation designed to ensure workers rights.
The argument of adequate pay is a difficult issue. If you pay relatively unskilled workers a high wage then those that are technically skilled or professionals will demand more. This will start a circle of inflation that will be tough to control. This truly is a balancing act, trying to compensate all workers appropriately.
Over the last several decades unions have been found to be corrupt and more concerned with their own pocketbooks, they have turned into the capitalist businesses that they are supposedly fighting against. Forgetting about what they were supposed to be doing for the “workers”. The unions have done the best that they can and have been successful in the past. If a new labor organization is to be formed the “Workers” need to lead this, not someone who has not done the “hard work” their supposed to be protecting. The current union leadership tries to exert too much of their own personal beliefs instead of really understanding what the “workers” want.
Floating Nation Party (FNP) claim their own statement based the book of Michael Zweig “The Working Class Majority” examining the fake claimer who give illegal voice in the whole voter at this hipnotic age;
‘Political conflict demands challenge to pushing interest of movement in the Progressive Era to control corporate actions before depression cause restriction that created complicated regulations.
Improvement in efficiency and quality implemented the techniques in wide variety of industries. A good example that goverment agency was responsible to facilitating with expertise for unions and managements seeking ways to cooperated.
Assertion of moral enhancement was the fact that worker’s right do have an ethical, which worker’s demand put limit of mutual responsibility. Union will need to recapture the moral high ground, where workers needs to be manifest as well in particular part of society influencing one to another.
Worker participation in all aspects was operating bussiness in the context of the entire market. The Logic of Corporate Survival tends to draw workers incomplete at best in competitive presure.
The moral foundation of working class power are respect for mutual aidand the recognition of social relationships tune with the reality of people’s interconnected lives, more respectful of the limits of individualism without denying individuality.’
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