Hello, im Robert Mackenzie and welcome again to the fine old Harper Library in the university of chicago. A group of guests have come together to see and to discuss the latest film by Milton Friedman in his series to choose. In this, he examines working of the labor market and the role of labor unions. And again comes up with some controversial views. In answer the question, who protects the worker. People who earn their living in a modern, heavy industry, seldom engage in the kind of back breaking toil that was the everyday lot of most workers a century ago. And yet they far more what has produced these improvements. The offhand reaction of most people is likely to be that labor unions are largely responsible for the enormous progress that workers have made in the past two centuries, but clearly, at least for the United States, that cannot be true. After all, in 19th century, when workers very well, there were hardly any labor at all. And even today, no more than one out of four or fi
Welcome again to the fine old Harper Library in the university of chicago. A group of guests have come together to see and to discuss the latest film by Milton Friedman in his series to choose. In this, he examines working of the labor market and the role of labor unions. And again comes up with some controversial views. In answer the question, who protects the worker. People who earn their living in a modern, heavy industry, seldom engage in the kind of back breaking toil that was the everyday lot of most workers a century ago. And yet they far more what has produced these improvements. The offhand reaction of most people is likely to be that labor unions are largely responsible for the enormous progress that workers have made in the past two centuries, but clearly, at least for the United States, that cannot be true. After all, in 19th century, when workers very well, there were hardly any labor at all. And even today, no more than one out of four or five workers is a member of a tra
Welcome again to the fine old Harper Library in the university of chicago. A group of guests have come together to see and to discuss the latest film by Milton Friedman in his series to choose. In this, he examines working of the labor market and the role of labor unions. And again comes up with some controversial views. In answer the question, who protects the worker. People who earn their living in a modern, heavy industry, seldom engage in the kind of back breaking toil that was the everyday lot of most workers a century ago. And yet they far more what has produced these improvements. The offhand reaction of most people is likely to be that labor unions are largely responsible for the enormous progress that workers have made in the past two centuries, but clearly, at least for the United States, that cannot be true. After all, in 19th century, when workers very well, there were hardly any labor at all. And even today, no more than one out of four or five workers is a member of a tra