Wrote about the 1930s. He called them the turbulent years. The years of militancy and organizing we saw. These years were equally important to shaping 20th century working america, but in a different way. They were not years of upheaval, organization, and progress, so much as a big turnabout. A way in which the working american class took a turn to a different stage in its existence. We could say that from the 1930s to the 1970s was an experience of unbroken promise and expanding rights for workers. In the years between 1968 and 1988, a lot of that turned around. So, turnabout years. I want to start with three stories that help locate what is going on in this period, and talk about whats going on with the economy. Talking about publicsector workers in the period, what they faced, and then conclude with some barometers of whats happening to workingclass america by the end of this period. To begin, let me start with three stories. I am going to locate these in 1977. Roughly about halfway
Rival a dinner of donors held a separate ceremony to inaugurate himself. Bottom to the program the spread and fear of coronaviruses starting to have a major Global Economic impact on top of the growing human cost u. S. Stocks have plunged in the opening minutes in new york even forcing a temporary halt in trading as you can see and a short time ago brazils stock market suspended trading after a 10 percent drop all of this after a drop of around 30 percent in oil prices well kristen slim is our correspondent monitoring events for us in new york and of course the markets across asia and Europe Europe took a huge hit in that domino effect seems to have hit the u. S. What seems to have happened the dow jones today. Yes fears of the spreading coronavirus and plummeting oil prices sent stocks down sharply just after the opening bell at one point the dow jones plummeted more than 7 percent and that triggered an automatic shutdown of the stock markets for 15 minutes weve heard from the preside
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Abdullah abdullah has held a separate ceremony to inaugurate himself. Welcome to the program the spread and fear of crude a virus is starting to have a major Global Economic impact on top of the growing he would cost u. S. Stocks plummeted in the opening minutes of trading in new york forcing a temporary suspension of the markets also hit with big drops in asia Europe South America brazil stock market also had to suspend trading after a 10 percent drop mondays market shock was triggered by a 30 percent plunge in the price of oil has been following events for us in new york and its been a bit of a bumpy road for the dow jones just a little whats been happening in the last couple of hours. Yeah a very dramatic morning here in new york as all of the major indices remain down significantly they have recovered a bit now the Dow Jones Industrial average and the s. And p. Both trading around 5 percent lower earlier shortly after opening bell they plummeted more than 7 percent triggering that
Abdullah abdullah has held a separate severability to inaugurate himself. Welcome to the program the spread and fear of coronaviruses starting to have a major Global Economic impact on top of the growing human cost u. S. Stocks plummeted in the opening minutes in new york even forcing a temporary halt in trading President Trump is due to meet with his advisors in the coming hours now the stock market plunge was also influenced by Oil Prices Dropping around 30 percent on monday the biggest fall in almost 3 decades and thats a bit of a price war between saudi arabia and russia moscow refused to join the plan by major Oil Producing nations aimed at cutting up ports and maintaining prices stock markets across asia have continued to fall continuing the sell off that we have nearly 2 weeks. Ago billions of dollars have been wiped off the european markets just hours after opening with the u. K. s footsie 100. 00 index losing almost 9 percent of its value while questions lubys been following e