Revolution of a Different Sort: Realities of Factory Work, The  

The increasing rate of immigration in the mid 19th century provides many of the workers to fill the low-paying, low-skilled jobs the nation needs. The transition from the old country or the farm to industrial positions is difficult. The hours are lo...
Transcript: of work has been increased, The intensity of work has been raised, And it's a harder job to do. The industrialization process in some sense Relies on

The Nation's Welfare: Two Divergent Tiers of the American Welfare State, The  

As the number of people on welfare roles increased, concern over the cost of public assistance programs grew. By contrast, investment in social insurance programs that benefit the middle class were politically popular, nationally uniform, and immune...
Transcript: try harder or if we would free them up, Or give them back their taxes, they could do it. " [sandel:] there are libertarian liberals who say the way To

Struggle for Equality, The: Impact of Affirmative Action, The  

Very few minority students would have been admitted to college or into professional programs without the assistance of affirmative action. In recent years, however, Supreme Court rulings "have been hard" on such programs, critics expressing concern ...
Transcript: been tough-- Hard on affirmative action programs. Some of us think that the court has been harder On affirmative action programs than it should be. That

Working: Gender in the Workplace  

Gender has always been and remains important in the workplace. On average, men make more money than women do; their career trajectories are also frequently different, often due to stereotyping and traditional perspectives about gender roles.
Transcript: barriers to her doing that anymore. " in fact, it's harder than that. in part, it's a function of what people want to do. and we might think that's a

Voices of the People: Party Affiliation in Europe and the United States  

Europeans tend to have a stronger attachment to their political parties, in part because they are sharply divided along social class or religious lines. Many European countries have labor or social democratic parties specifically aimed at the less a...
Transcript: issues of the cold war And the new deal into a politics of many issues, I think it's been harder for the public to really get a sense Of what the

Breath (Danceworks 2012 - Cast B)  

Muscles  

In this program, the diverse nature of muscle tissue is examined, from its gross structure to its detailed microstructure, where chemical energy is harnessed to produce movement. As muscle forms the basis for much of a person's body shape, we explor...
Transcript: burn fuel and to burn fuel, what do you need♪ Oxygen. First thing you notice whenever you ask your muscles to work hard is that you breathe harder

America's national monuments : the legacy of the Great Plains. [Volume 2], Sioux Indian wars: Pipestone National Monument  

The Northern Great Plains stretch from Minnesota in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the West. During the 19th century, this vast land of prairie grass and buffalo was the domain of the Sioux Indian Nation ... a nation that would soon be at the he...
Transcript: : Harder than granite, even harder than steel. Like all quartzites, the Sioux quartzite found within the monument was once ancient sand grains, sand grains

A Moon for the Misbegotten  

Theatrical sparks flew when veteran O’Neill interpreters Jason Robards Jr. and Colleen Dewhurst joined forces in the celebrated 1973 revival of Eugene O’Neill’s tender semiautobiographical drama. Under the inspired direction of José Quintero,...
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Advanced Directives  

Professor of Law and Medicine Alex Capron talks about the value and importance of communicating one's wishes in advance concerning end-of-life issues and decisions.
Transcript: have the opportunity Because of the onset and hadn't had those discussions And it was very much harder making decisions Than in the other where we'd had