There is no such thing as free labor right . That doesnt make sense. Could you help us understand, what do you mean, what do scholars mean by free labor . Mr. Luskey thanks for having me on. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about this book. It is a question my students, even after having me teach the concept to them, they still have trouble understanding. Free labor ideology came together as a set of ideas, most clearly in the 1850s, around a new political party, the republican party, and what the ideas at the heart of this ideology proposed was that wage labor, as it existed in northern states, was a superior economic and social system to southern slavery. It was a system, in its ideal form, that allowed workers the opportunity to make a contract with the employer of their choice, and to save their earnings to become independent. And this was something that was not available to enslaved people in the southern states. It is art of an attempt to rehabilitate wage labor, which many w
Pretty true to form on this thanksgiving hence to be a positive bias. But nothing out of the mode for a moment here. And that was a few days ago. You know, not necessarily you might think so you kind of just, you know, get ab early slate there was a definite persistence to the quarterly strength. There is a dynamic though. Once it gets overbought, once sentiment gets overoptimistic as arguably it is right now, usually you can see the multiple times in recent years when the Fourth Quarter just melted up. And at some point nifrt few months of the next year, usually you have a little bit of a recession. Mike, see you soon. Malls may look a lot different compared to a normal black friday Bertha Coombs is live in new jersey with a closer look at whether people are showing up to shop in person at all. They are. Some people have shown up. Were coming off a record thanksgiving in terms of online sales with so many Stores Closed but today we found some folks lining up for door busters this morn
Advisor has resigned. It comes one day after President Trump fired mark esper. Not give a reason for his resignation. A vatican investigation to x Cardinal Theodore mccarrick has found bishops, cardinals, and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that he sexually abused children and adults. The vatican took the extraordinary steps today of publishing its twoyour internal probe into mccarrick. The report places most of the blame on the late Pope John Paul as 1999, newarly that the behavior was problematic. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 5 00 p. M. In london, and 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and from around the world. Will there be any thawing of relations between china and the u. S. Under a biden presidency
Swan number three, hurricane zeta. We will show you exactly where it is right now and how its crushing oil, natural gas and energy stocks. At its lows the Dow Jones Industrials had fallen 908 points. So when you combine that with the previous two days, thats a drop of more than 1700 points. The s p 500 and the nasdaq are also struggling hard right now. We have the s p down 94, the nasdaq down 332. Look, now we see octobers gains wiped out for those two indices and oil getting crushed in the aftermarket session, down 5. 25 . We are now at 37. 51 a barrel. This is not helping, either. Three tech giants, facebook, twitter, alphabet google, adding to the nasdaqs woes. Their shares hammered as their ceos faced congressional scrutiny from both sides of the aisle during a very contentious hearing on capitol hill. We are about to show you the key moments and then our tech panel, top guys in the industry, will translate what it might mean for the stocks. Will the renewed lockdowns invite a supp
In washington coming up the rate in new unemployment claims may be leveling off but congress and the white house look to be stocked yet again on a stimulus plan and the pressures continue to rise across the globe due to the pandemic swine flu and unpredictable weather well tell you what this could mean for those who are already struggling to get enough to we have a lot to get through to a lot of markets. We begin today with jobless claims as u. S. Unemployment fell just slightly for the week ending on october 3rd to a fresh pandemic low the u. S. Labor department reported initial jobless claims at 840000 worse than expected showing the labor market is still experiencing a slow recovery while the economy is still growing its been a gradual comeback as concerns rise over another wave of layoffs without another federal relief package still some 25500000 americans are collecting some sort of benefits so for more on this and the overall state of the economy and markets we bring in boom bust