As we talked about before, historians their minds, they find new evidence they find new arguments and new takes on the decades they study and the 1970s is really no different. I think originally the culture we tend to think of them as of the rebellion light decade in which would focus disco and focus the conservative backlash. But in fact theyre one of the most important decades for the american working class and in labor history. So today, title the times they are changing apologies to bob dylan is really about how this decade was a of fundamental in the workplace in the workforce and in work organizations. It also was a change in the context in which all of those three things operated. So focusing on worker militancy, the diversity of the working class and the emerging service economy. Were going to talk about this decade is usually called the long 1970s, starting about 1967 or 1968. And through the early eighties. Were going to talk about that decade, the changes that the working cl
1970s in many ways, the 1970s is our probably the most contested historical turf right now. As we talked about before, historians their minds, they find new evidence find new arguments and new takes on the decades they study and the 1970s is really no different. I think originally the culture we tend to think of them as of the rebellion light decade in ■;v. Ich would focus disco and focus the conservative backlash. But in fact theyre one of the most important decades for the american working class and in labor history. So today, title t times they are changing apologies to bob dylan is really about how this decade was a oupf fundamental in the workplace in the workforce and in work organizations. It also was a change in the context in which all of those three things operated. So focusing on worker militancy, the diversity of the working class and the emerging service economy. Were going to talk about this decade is usually called the about 1967 or 1968. And through the earlyigdecade,
1970s in many ways, the 1970s is our probably the most contested historical turf right now. As we talked about before, historians their minds, they find new evidence they find new arguments and new takes on the decades they study and the 1970s is really no different. I think originally the culture we tend to think of them as of the rebellion light decade in which would focus disco and focus the conservative backlash. But in fact theyre one of the most important decades for tss and in labor history. So today title the times they are changing apologies to bob dylan is really about how this decade was a of fundamental in the workplace in the workforce and in work organizations. It also was a change in the context in which all of those three things operated. So focusing on worker militancy the diversity of the working class and the emerging service economy. Were going to talk about this decade is usually called the long 1970s, starting about 1967 or 1968. And through the early eighties. We
Different meeting. The first annual meeting since Charlie Mungers death at the end of last year. It raised questions of what Berkshire Hathaway will look like after Warren Buffett. Those are the things that shareholders have been asking about and the types of things we see reflected in the media. Big questions, obviously, thrown to Warren Buffett and greg abel and jane who will be on stage this weekend to answer those questions. Well talk about those over the next few hours. Some of the issues surrounding berkshire. These are issues that Warren Buffett was direct about in his annual letter to shareholders. He laid out the disappointments they have seen. Bnsf was a disappointment on earnings. Earnings dropped significantly from a year ago. Buffett laid out how its railroad has fallen behind the other five major north american railroads in terms of margins. He talked about bhe. Berkshire hathaway energy. The major Utility Company Berkshire Hathaway owns as well. Laid out the issues on th
Mixed week right now, youre looking at the dow on pace for its eighth consecutive weekly gain as kevin was talking about. Hard to find down days the s p 500 is hovering around break even if it does end in the positive territory, it would be its eighth consecutive weekly gain nasdaq on track for its sixth week of gains. Dow futures indicated up by 30 points nasdaq indicated to open up by 20 points. S p fight pictuutures indicate 0 1. 5 this morning the hang seng ended up by 0. 3 in korea, the kospi with you up by close to a half percentage point. In shanghai, down by a third of a percentage point in europe, you will see it looks like things are relatively flat. France, you couldnt get much flatter than it stands the dax is up by 0. 3 . The ftse up by 0. 25 we will get to the gop tax plan and jay powell in a moment, a couple other big stories President Trumps twitter account was temporarily dark last night the company says that a exiter employee accidentally deactivated the account on hi