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Lily -- I was planning on posing that question, incidentally, but I guess I'll try to answer it.

Though I'm not sure exactly what his stance was on poverty, it seems that he was saying that for the ...

I never realized the 60s were such a good time for unions. Reading this over, it seems like one minority-formed union after another was springing up, helping the community and resisting unfair treatme ...

Actively read pp. 252-270 in your books. Respond thoughtfully on our forum. Only posts that contain thoughtful questions will be counted.

Consider this quesiton to get you started: Did the equal ...

In the reading, Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" were mentioned (as part of the Declaration of Policy that delegates were asked to sign off on), and they caught my eye. "Freedom of speech an ...

Whatever the pitfalls of the New Deal, when I was reading I was wondering at what presidential tolerance (and encouragement) did for the unions. The UMW distributed those leaflets that said "The ...

I was interested in the way the handout (and the text) portrayed the 20's as the start of America as we know it; the America of credit and debt, of synthetic clothing and mass-produced comforts. I had ...

This chapter, for me, felt like everything was falling even further apart. I think this peaked on p. 183, when "labor leaders echoes businessmen in their love of capitalism. Some even became capi ...

This is unrelated to the posed question, but it was something that struck me as I was reading.
The situation of immigrants in the labor movement is an interesting one, both because of their huge par ...

I agree with Rachel: the "scientific management" strategy was interesting. It's just taking more of the 'human' out of this work -- it makes the reasoning for switching over to machines as s ...

To answer Ziz's question: I would tend to think that the bigger the pool of workers got, the less that ideal system would hold together. That, for me, was another depressing aspect of the reading; uni ...

Thank you, Julie!

"Frame" has two meanings for me, pertaining to this movie. One is 'to frame someone', as in to blame someone for something they didn't do; the other is 'to place in a ce ...

Can someone post the questions, perchance? I seem to have mislaid my notebook with the sheet.

Compose a forum post of at least two paragraphs responding to the movie "Class Dismissed" that we watched on Thursday and Friday. Please use the questions you circled on Thursday as a guide ...

I think Will is largely right about the reasons the lower classes didn't ultimately try to overturn the system. There were always stories like Andrew Carnegie (I believe?), who rose to be a steel magn ...

I think Will and Alex raise an interesting point in regards to the character of the south; how much do we really know about the South at this time? I think the majority of sources I've read in grade s ...