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My question is when will it stop? That’s quite a loaded vague question, but is there a point when that kind of inflation will be legal? Is it possible for the labor movement to succeed? What would tha ...

Do you believe the collaboration was good for workers
Well the IWW did the same thing, but they got along with one another better then the AFL and CIO did (as far as we know) and they trusted each ot ...

I think the new deals really helped america in terms of labor during the Great depression. It helped america in all aspects and it helped unemployment rates stay down. However the supreme court did st ...

on pg 179-180, the novel discusses about how the profit in media came from advertising. Do you think this is still happening today? If so, what would that be and why?
Its everywhere! Look on the top ...

Class is defined in the video as separated in three ways, Economic, Political, and Cultural. I think the video never explicitly says what classes there are because everyone has a different view on cla ...

History is indeed written by the victor. I would argue that the media is the "victor" because they control what we hear, and what we know.
Anyway, the gilded age implies that it looks all ...

The black soldiers were paid less, and had to endure harsher environments, but they were doing so because they thought that they were promised freedom and equality after the war was over and all the r ...

I think the secret unions were essential. The slave owners hoped that the slaves were just mindlessly following what they tell them to do, with no question and just that. The slave owners don't want t ...

Though quite a few white workers supported the abolition of slavery, larger numbers were indifferent or hostile toward the antislavery movement. How do you explain that?
If the slaves were freed, the ...

I think that America still runs on, somewhat, conquest and bondage. I'm with Alex when he said that as I was brought up and taught in schools, I was never taught about slavery to this proportion.
Th ...

I liked that peter pointed out that there needs to be a fine balance between presenting too much and sheltering the children too much. On one hand, if we shelter the kids too much, they won't know any ...

There is no perfect system. Taylorism is no different in that matter. Taylorism definitely helped the economy, and spurred the industrial revolution. The problem was, corruption. The employers didn't ...

I liked both of the readings, although most of the contents were familiar from the previous knowledge. The most interesting facts about the reading is on page 80, some African American slaves who had ...

My question is: If you were a slave, what little tricks would you play on your master? What would your techniques be, and how often would you do them?
What a slavemaster wants, is to get production. ...

What does Thoreau see as the relationship between government and freedom?
He feels that a government is best when it is only governing few, or not at all, since using the majority isn't always the be ...