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
Says they want what she wants. Of course Freedom Freedom since im not the boss and just an employee i think freedom is more important but my boss would think business is more important to you. At the nearby noodle 11 restaurant customers are still coming but business is 30 percent down on a month ago and while the owner remains confident fun kongs economy will recover he still worried. Its hard to sustain the business how to pay the rent and the staff. In more prosperous districts sale star found a number of customers in some luxury boutiques visitors from the chinese mainland are still arriving but theyre spending less time here and list money some appear indifferent to the unrest when they got here it seems fine its not as hard as a match and even before the protests began on june the 9th it had not been a good year for hong kongs economy its been feeding the effects of the trade war between china and the United States as well as the slowdown in chinas economy and all of that argue s
Making his 1st state visit to south sudan juba is hosting talks between the Transitional Government and several. 100 has made peacemaking with groups fighting one of his main priorities since 2003 thousands of people have been killed in civil wars between sudans government and on the groups this includes the conflict in darfur where fighting between those on groups of farmers and Government Forces has displaced around 2500000 people rioting in the region has subsided over the past 4 years but the armed groups are still active and skirmishes continue to happen but reaching peace is a priority for the new term as this interim government largely because its a key condition for getting sudan removed from the u. S. Sponsors of terrorism list morgan brings us more from juba. Its the sudanese Prime Ministers 1st foreign visit since he was appointed last month and its scheduled to last for 2 days now the Prime Minister will be meeting with the head of state of south sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit w
Oil facilities when the seceded in 2011 and the economy of the 2 countries is these on that pumping of oil and the export of those oil with south sudan playing sudan oil fields which supports the economies of the 2 countries so it looks like along with trying to make peace with the armed groups the south sudanese president and the sudanese Prime Minister whos visiting will be talking about bilateral relations for the interest of the 2 countries. The body or form a zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe will lie in state as a stadium and thats what he took over as the leader nearly 4 decades ago mcgovern is to be buried on sunday but there are ongoing discussions between the government and his family about where hell be laid to rest that speak to how to whos in her body for us how do is there any indication about the burial plan. Or Robert Mugabe nobody has arrived at a foreign stadium because theres been so much confusion over the way hes going today the Program Changing this the lakers th
Build its Foreign Relations based on common interests and interests between south sudan and sudan 2 countries that will want one go very deep to share a mutual economic interest with south sudan taking with it 75 percent of sudans Oil Facilities when the seceded in 2011 and the economy of the 2 countries is these on that pumping of oil and the export of those oil with paying sudan oil fields which supports the economies of the 2 countries so it looks like along with trying to make peace with the armed groups the south sudanese president and the sudanese Prime Minister whos visiting will be talking about bilateral relations for the interest of the 2 countries. With us now senior lecturer at Kiel University a regular contributor with us on aljazeera and good to talk to you again you know i i read 2 stories there one was about the protests in sudan about the judicial system about the remnants of the bashir regime and the 2nd one is about the you know huge objective of finding peace in sud