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robinn137

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At the steel plant, all minorities hired are assigned to work the battery pits, one of the dirtiest jobs in the mill.
 
  Even so, the battery pit workers wear this assignment as a badge of honor and have developed a close social bond that transcends the time they spend at the mill. How would Karl Marx describe their solidarity?
  A) The workers are experiencing false class consciousness.
  B) The workers are victims of social stratification.
  C) The workers' sense of fairness has been influenced by primogeniture.
  D) The workers share class consciousness.

Question 2

If a person were living during Karl Marx's lifetime and worked at the Smittertown ironworks, Marx would consider that person a member of the ________.
 
  A) proletariat
  B) lumpenproletariat
  C) bourgeoisie
  D) middle class


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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

A



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