Colleague from George Washington university. Before he introduces our speaker acknowledge our partnership with the National History center and the American Historical Association we are cosponsoring and coorganizing this seminar with. Donorsacknowledgment our , the George Washington University History department as well as a number of individuals for this series. We want to acknowledge roger lewis, the cochairman of the seminar. Hes here all the way from texas. Andnt to welcome all of you to the ones who do the heavy lifting in terms of getting is here and organize. We are grateful to you. [applause] thank you. With that, i think we should turn it over to eric. One last technical ofouncement, if you have one these devices, and i suspect everyone in the room does. Turn it to vibrate or silence, that will prevent embarrassment and interruption in the next hour and a half. With that, it is my pleasure to introduce this afternoons speaker, an independent historian and economist living in w
Let me acknowledge our partnership with the National History center and the american historical association. We are cosponsoring and coorganizing this seminar with. Let me acknowledgment our donors, the society of historians of American Foreign relations, the George Washington University History department as well as a number , of individuals giving support for this series. We want to acknowledge roger lewis, the cochairman of the seminar. Hes here all the way from texas. I want to welcome all of you and say thank you especially to pete and amanda perry who do the heavy lifting in terms of getting us here and organized. We are very grateful to you. [applause] thank you. Will turn i think i it over to eric to introduce our speaker. Thank you. One last technical announcement, if you have one of these devices, and i suspect everyone in the room does. If you could just turn it to vibrate or silence, that will prevent embarrassment and interruption in the next hour and a half. With that, it
George washington university. Before he introduces our speaker today, let me acknowledge our partnership with the National History center and the American Historical Association we are cosponsoring and coorganizing this seminar with. Let me acknowledgment our donors, the George Washington University History department as well as a number of individuals giving support for this series. We want to acknowledge roger lewis, the cochairman of the seminar. Hes here all the way from texas. I want to welcome all of you and say thank you to the ones who do the heavy lifting in terms of getting is here and organize. We are grateful to you. [applause] thank you. With that, i think we should turn it over to eric. One last technical announcement, if you have one of these devices, and i suspect everyone in the room does. Turn it to vibrate or silence, that will prevent embarrassment and interruption in the next hour and a half. With that, it is my pleasure to introduce this afternoons speaker, an ind
The big question, what we have to explain, how do we go from this new deal and world war ii. , in which the cio is growing exponentially and it is militant and all sorts of voice, and in which workers are calling on the government to 1 and other forms of inequities, how do we get from that to the current moment, with the remnants of a much more bureaucratic and business friendly timid and conventional union . As the last document in his chapter talked about how did the , Labor Movement mature from this conflict class conflict model to one of labormanagement peace . If we view that as maturation and not something else. Lets talk about what changes in the period. If you recall, coming out of world war ii, everything was still up in the air. The United States had still had won the war, but it was up in the air as to what would happen next. That federal government created during the war, those wartime agencies that came into being. What would be their fate . The system of corporatism, the
The big question, what we have to explain, how do we go from this new deal and world war ii. , in which the cio is growing exponentially and it is militant and all sorts of voice, and in which workers are calling on the government to 1 and other forms of inequities, how do we get from that to the current moment, with the remnants of a much more bureaucratic and business friendly timid and conventional union . As the last document in his chapter talked about how did the , Labor Movement mature from this conflict class conflict model to one of labormanagement peace . If we view that as maturation and not something else. Lets talk about what changes in the period. If you recall, coming out of world war ii, everything was still up in the air. The United States had still had won the war, but it was up in the air as to what would happen next. That federal government created during the war, those wartime agencies that came into being. What would be their fate . The system of corporatism, the