Summary: The Iron Heel is a novel of and for the great working class. Its inner idea of laborer and boss working and helping each other through the social and economic mountains of equality will always try to be enforced from years to come, but sadly, will never happen. It just can't happen. Boss's rules over workers, enslaving them and working them to the limit and this is always how it shall be done. There is no other way around this, everyone has someone of a higher power around them; student to teacher, teacher to principle, principle to the board, board to mayor, mayor to governor, governor to president and finally president to the people. One man can