Low of 174 points now down 115 points. The s p 500 losing seven, the nasdaq down 12. Now, as the president does make his first visit to wisconsin since the inauguration, he is focused on signing what the white house is calling the buy american with hire american executive order. Hes about to make a speech there where he will define his goals on that and then elfed the executive order. Our cameras are there. We are going to cover all of it live for you. Plus, that nationwide manhunt for the socalled facebook killer is over after Steve Stevens commits suicide in pennsylvania. But the ripple effects of his gruesome online posting are only growing from Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg and his social media empire. Howard is here to tell us if facebook might be facing a government crack down in the form of regulations on its video services. All of this red on the screen that you see here, traders are saying blame it on goldman but theres more that meets the eye here. Were less than an hour to th
Welcome back, everybody. As you know we have been in the gilded age for some time now. Weve already seen the Technological Innovations that made this economic expansion possible. We saw the economic transformations and the effect of those changes on the economy as far as lifestyles both for the very ritzy opulent robber baron lifestyles and also the very poor. Whether it was the People Living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was the increasing problems of housing in the sanitation that came with this rapid and in many ways chaotic growth of the cities in the late 19th century. All of it accompanied by problems going along with immigration. We saw in particular there was some frustration with this new gilded age regime. As we talked about the farmers in this. That could have been called discontent in the gilded age part one. Today we turn our attention mostly back towards industry and in some ways back toward the city as well. I want to look at different types o
University, a course called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early feminism feminism. The civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement and now were sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things, but today, our subject is the or the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. On our reading list, the chapter by michael kaizen gives a good quick summary on the various kinds of socialism at the time. From 1860 onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particularly germans, english. The em
This is a class at columbia university, a course called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early femininism feminism. The civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement and now were sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things, but today, our subject is the or the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. On our reading list, the chapter by michael kaizen gives a good quick summary on the various kinds of socialism at the time. From 1860 onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particu
For 40 years, united auto worker president s walter reuther, Leonard Woodcock and Douglas Fraser won higher pay for their members. Why in 1979 would fraser agree to take less . Employers and labor unions like buyers and sellers, try to make the best deal for themselves. Labor and management how do they come to terms . With economic analyst richard gill well examine that question on this edition of economics usa. Im david schoumacher. Fewer than 1 3 of American Workers are covered by union contract. But organized labors strength at the economys pressure points the big smokestack industries, the arteries of transportation and communication make them a force to be reckoned with. For more than 75 years labor unions have been a fact of American Economic le. How did they get power . We are childn ofmmignts. The largest number came here around the turn of the century. Millions, most of them jewish or italian, unskilled and uneducated settled in new york citys crowded tenements. What kind of w