Research Paper on:
Distribution of Wealth and Democracy

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his or her career in terms of "personal strategies for survival" (Rosser, 1997, p. 6). Incomes were either autonomous or were based on membership within a craft wherein masters  were able to exploit journeymen and apprentices in a manner that Marx came to interpret as a distinction in class. Still, the basic structure of labor and management has  held its place in history as a necessary component of economic survival (Rosser, 1997). The emergence of the industrial society posed the conflict of labor and management which  has grown into an economically defined social stratification. "During the 1920s, the wealthy accumulated such exorbitant stocks of cash, they couldnt spend it all ... Lower and middle income  households, on the other hand, lacked wealth enough to meet their needs and were forced to borrow heavily. Many historians believe that this combination of growing personal debt and  a widening wealth gap destabilized the economy and precipitated the Great Depression" (Collins, 1999, p. 12). The student might want to use the above as an example to expand  on the historical precedence of income stratification. Sound familiar? The current economic situation is almost the same as it was just prior to the Stock Market Crash of  1929. While profits soar, wages have steadily decreased and workers systematically laid off. The United States is predicated upon the ideal of democracy or that "all men  are created equal". However, in terms of material wealth and social well-being, it seems that democracy has failed. Democracy is commonly defined as a political process and associated  with the mechanism of electoral rule, however, it is ineffably intertwined with the processes of government, economics and cultural mandates. Like a living organism, democracy must be born into