Political Cartoon Analysis

I would say the main visual elements of this piece are a large, angry man squeezing a small, fearful man. The big man seems to be stealing the small mans money and collecting more profits. The labels on the men and the bags of money indicate that this cartoon is about capitalism and child labor. I think that the cartoonist’s opinion is that capitalism is that the higher class people become more greedy and more greedy until they resort to children. They can pay children less to work for the same type of work; therefore the owners get a higher profit from them. That is shown by the capitalist man squeezing money out of the child worker. The cartoonist obviously thinks that there is something wrong with how capitalism is progressing. It shows this in the cartoon by the helpless child that is getting thieved. I think the cartoon is very persuasive, but I would give one piece of advice. I would tell them to make it clearer and easier to read because they spent time and effort on a interesting cartoon but we can barely see and read it.

image from:http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/laborpress/images/Socialist Voice