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On the bottom of page 302 there is an astrix with a quote “Unions, you know, are the worst employers around.” I thought this was a tab bit hypocritical given that the whole point of a union is to crea ...

Please read ch. 11 in your text books and post a thoughtful response on our forum.

The combination of these two movements is very interesting because it would seem from our reading that social justice and community service suddenly become a much bigger part of unionizing or maybe ev ...

Do you think it is possible to have a union that is truly independent from any sort of political party?

I don’t think its possible. Think of all the unions we’ve read about. They either end up supp ...

I know it’s after the posting time but i would like to respond to adams post that "The i phone is popular not because of advertising but because it is the best way to contact people auditorily. & ...

I think that the 1920’s can be summarized by the title "America, Inc." is very appropriate. Every part of American life was turning into something that could be bought and sold, pre-made and ...

I have no idea what to write so I’m going to post a quote I found interesting and see what happens,

This is a quote from page 176 talking about how business magnates were the new celebrities and ha ...

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These readings have made America seem more like a stew, with a bunch of different vegetables and meet, than a melting pot. Every one is living together adding to the general flavor of American life, b ...

The two quotes that most shocked me were “we have faith in popular opinion… when it is instructed, sober, moral, true. But we have no faith in popular opinion when it is rash, passionate, prejudiced, ...

Unfortunately I don’t think this kind of wonderful utopian like factory would work at all in a larger level. There comes a point where there are just too many people to be able to make communal decisi ...

I'm going to use we and us in this just because I'm not sure what other pronouns to use in some cases.
I think class is a taboo subject only if it pertains to your class or a class below you. At leas ...

If the winners are the ones who write history than I find it highly appropriate to call this time period the “gilded” age because to me gilding something just implies covering it with a thin layer of ...

Why is this era called the "Gilded" age? For whom is it gilded? How?

One of the things that most interested me in this reading was the notion of not taking pay as a form of retaliation. “In protest, many black soldiers refused to take any pay at all”(89). I'm just wond ...