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So the cartoon that was in this chapter showed a new kind of workers, the post-industrial workers. For some reason, finally seeing it visually helped me understand one major difference between the lab ...

Corinna that’s a really interesting question. I was actually talking to my brother the other day who just finished a class about the anthropology of prison. I absolutely think the convicted class is s ...

I really enjoyed this chapter for some reason. When I was in France we studied this time period in history class and we talked about the New Deal, and it’s interesting to notice the differences betwee ...

Please actively read Ch. 8 in From the Folks...

Respond in AT LEAST 100-200 words on our forum. Make sure to include a question for your peers. Here is one to get you started: How has the CIO cha ...

I just wrote a paper about the industrial agro-business an America (for botany by design..) and why the constant production and profit mindset is at our environments expense. The industry that America ...

I found it really interesting to read about the labor movement in a time of prosperity, when there was truly a middle class. Whenever I think of the 1920’s I exclusively think of an explosion of cultu ...

Man the past 3 posts where EXACTLY what I was planning on posting about. I suppose I’ll expand/answer some of the questions
I think Corinna’s question about America’s melting pot, and lily’s question ...

As much as I love to hate modern capitalism, the free market, and our lack of government regulations, this reading reminded me how far we’ve come. To think there was time in our history when each comp ...

This reading was so sad. It was the like watching the downfall of unions in America in moments instead of over many years…I’m always so surprised to find out how progressive some of the organizations ...

Please finish reading Ch. 5 in "From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend" and the Primary Source packets (addressing Industrialization and The Gospel of Wealth). Post a MINIMUM of 100-200 ...

Class is absolutely taboo subject in the US. And I think it makes it even more taboo because people pretend it isn’t! I don’t think I realized how taboo it was in the USA until I was in France where i ...

Another thing I think is really interesting about “the gilded age” is that it’s the illusion of having money. We know that a small 1% of the population held the majority of the money in America, so cl ...

Lilly mentioned that it seemed counterproductive to not accept the salary of joining the army because it was almost nothing, and so why would they not accept it, why not truly strike it (not join) or ...

Corinna already brought this up again, but what martha said in class today really stuck with me throughout the day. The idea that the US constitution is really built to protect the free market rather ...

This time period was so damn radical. Especially after having just read the previous chapters to know that America went from slave labor to organized unions and strikes within the same century is incr ...