Marx Stealing Bicycles On the Waterfront with Benjamin

I first read the Benjamin essay two times and then watched the clips two times over. I first watched The Bicycle Thieves and immediately found many things to discuss from the point of view of a Marxist critique. The men standing waiting disparately for work. The main character Antonio is offered a job from what seemed to be a courier on a bicycle. Then we hear grumbles from the crowd of men and one of the lines that were translated was something along the lines of the man saying yea he waits for work while he rots. Another man claims to have a bicycle and the man handing out the jobs says 'you're a bricklayer, there are only two jobs". After seeing this I then thought of a part from Benjamin's essay where he says, "Replicas were made by pupils in practice of their craft... and, finally, by third parties in pursuit of gain". These men, or I should say bricklayers, who were once pupils of their "craft" are not waiting in despair to be paid for their craft, "in pursuit of gain". These men are no longer bricklayers for the sake of being able to lay brick but for the sake of putting money in their pockets and possibly providing for their families. Antonio lies about having a bicycle and then meets up with who I presume is his wife. She then pawns their sheets in order for him to buy back his bicycle that he pawned in order to put food on the table. I think this is where the title comes from "The Bicycle Thieves"... I think it obviously has to do with their pawnshop that takes peoples belongings and possessions in exchange for little money or what appeared to be the most gigantic bank notes I've ever seen. The pawnshop itself is something a Marxist critic would bring up because it is quite apparent that there arent many jobs for people to get money, but there is a very large pawn shop where people could "hock" their belongings in order to acquire money. Before this point in the story Antonio and his wife look upset, angry, depressed. Antonio even says something along the lines of feeling like a man in shackles. He feels chained or restrained by the capitalist society he lives in where he can't even take a job he just recieved because he pawned his bicycle in order to have money to eat. It is not until they pawn their sheets and get the 7,500 notes that we even see the two characters look happy. It is not until they have the money in their hands, and then the bicycle in their hands that they show any signs of joy or even content. When he finally gets the job and gets the uniform, Antonio and his wife are so happy that he will soon be working and getting money.
In regards to the clip from On the Waterfront, it is quite obvious that a Marxist critic would immediately point out the conditions in which the men who are from what I gather from the clip, in some sort of union yet are still treated poorly. They actually have to fight one another and wrestle in order to work for the day and recieve "a days pay." After the fight for work permits, the young woman hands one she took from another man to an elderly man and he then scolds the priest she is with for letting her see things that she shouldn't. The men seem downtrodden and unhappy with the current work situation. All they want to do is make a day's pay and that seems like all they are concerned with. I remember one of the foreman saying they needed men to move banana boxes and one of the men says something along the lines of 'yea when are we gonna get to move some boxes filled with irish wisky?' From the perspective of a Marxist along with reading Benjamin's essay what came to mind was the excerpt from his essay where he says, "...perserves not the unique aura of the person but the 'spell of the personality', the phony spell of a commodity." The reason I find this applicable is because the men who are trained in their trade work, ironically, not for whats inside the boxes but for the money they will get from doing so. They work in order to make money, and they are paid by their proprietors to move the boxes because they need to be moved, not because the workers are so great at moving them.