Karl Marx died embittered: he didn’t see the capitalist economic crisis that he predicted so intensively in his writings. However, the Great Depression came.
After watching the videos on workers (A Job at Ford’s and Harlan County, USA), answer the following questions:
Do you see any resemblance in terms of the question of wages in Marx and Henry Ford? Did they agree on anything? Justify both answers.
Although a time lag separates the workers’ plight at Ford’s and in the mining industry of Harlan County, do you see any common points between their situations? Justify your answer.