Introduction
The concept of illness throughout our society can be closely associated with Marxism. According to a Marxist perspective, the social inequality that exists in society runs parallel with the various inequalities in the health system. With reference to the latter, exploitation of lower level assembly line workers or the proletariat working class can have a significant impact on workers’ health, particularly for the achievement of profit. Furthermore, in our contemporary society, medical professions have subjugated individuals illness’s within a capitalist society, disregarding health interests for the product of business. Additionally, Marxists analyses argue vigorously that class is a significant determinant of inequality with regard to illness and that the illness is implicated in a wider process of social oppression; determine by environmental factors, education and economic institutions into which one is born. All in all, from analysis of these topics there is no doubt that illness is very much a social phenomenon.

Marxism and Workplace Illnesses
The Marxist approach to health and illness relies heavily on the relationship they have with capitalism and class. Marx believed there were two essential classes in society; the capitalist class, who make up the minority of society, and the proletariat, also known as the working class who make up the majority.

Vincent Navarro provides one of the most influential accounts of the centrality of social class and the labour process to health and illness. Navarro claims that in the push for profit, capitalists expropriate not just the labour of the proletariat, but also their health. Navarro suggests that the core characteristics of modern work, especially the work of the proletariat, are not conductive to health. Workers today have little job autonomy and often work in polluted and dangerous