Political Bosses Vs Factory Bosses Essay

Chapter 19 The City and Its Workers Factory bosses and political bosses seemed be made of very different types of fabric. Factory bosses give the impression of being harsh, uncaring to the working people. “I said to the boss once it as my turn to go in, and now you have taken that man; what am I to do…He said he could do nothing for me.” Factory bosses give the impression that they care very little for their fellow man and that their main concern is the bottom line. They hire men with young boy as they do not have to a pay the boys as much to work certain machines. “They are forcing these young boys into the mill that should not be in mills at all.” The impression the reading gives to political bosses is radically different than that
“I soon learned that Socialists and Anarchists are not interchangeable terms, to be used with light indifference in describing the general advocate of revolution against established order.” Regularly you couldn’t have a socialist without an anarchist present as both were calling for change but the theory of how to go about his was very different and caused a great deal of strife. Socialists “repudiated the bare suggestion of violence and being wholly inadequate and absurd.” And believed that the way to change things was the “natural process of evolution” which in humblest terms meant that schooling, equal opportunity, land for all and with administration control would be enough. Even anarchists were not believers that violence against social order was the way to achieve their goals. Anarchists views boiled down to the simplest terms are “the cure for evils of freedom is more freedom”. Anarchists think that “the removal of all artificial restraint in the form of man-made laws would result eventually, to their thinking, in a society as natural and as wholesome as is all physical order which is the exact resultant of the free play of natural