New Corporate Order, A: Beginnings of the Union Movement
Working men and women attempt to fight back against poor working conditions by adopting some of the same tactics their employers use, repeatedly trying to organize themselves in order to force change. Some early unions like the Knights of Labor enjo...
Transcript: harder For workers to gain real power, Because they were so divided ethnically and religiously. In 1903, in oxnard, california, There is a mexican farm
Race, Ethnicity and Family: Economics of the African-American Family
Poverty has long been a fact of life in many African-American communities. In part this has been due to discrimination but, more recently, broad-based structural changes in the American economy have also played a part. The financial challenge fac...
Transcript: for other racial groups because of racism And prejudice in the job market. So what that means is that black men have had a harder time being Family
Neurophysiology of Language, The
Linguist, author and university professor Noam Chomsky talks about where language is stored and processed in the brain. As part of this discussion, he mentions the left hemisphere, specifically focusing on Broca's area and Wernicke's area. Dr. Choms...
Transcript: kind Of external to the functioning of the brain And it's much harder to get detailed information about it. But nevertheless, it's an interesting And
New Corporate Order, A: Plight of the Worker, The
The industrial revolution creates many factory jobs, most of which are occupied by unskilled laborers. These men, women and children earn a very low wage, work long hours and in deplorable conditions. The result is a poor, uneducated working class w...
Transcript: dramatically. People have to work harder. Their wages, as a consequence, start to go down. [ narrator ] with less need for skilled labor, employers often choose
Building Morale Case Study: Patagonia
Patagonia is a manufacturer of outdoor clothing. While the climate at some firms evolves without much thought or conscious planning, Patagonia's climate has been carefully molded to help employees realize their potential. Typical of the value Patago...
Transcript: FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THE JOB DONE. NARRATOR: BECAUSE THE LEADERS OF PATAGONIA GENUINELY CARE ABOUT THEIR EMPLOYEES, MORALE WAS HIT ALL THE HARDER TO WHEN
Common Ground: Society of Consumers, A
With its emphasis on financial accomplishment, culture in the United States often seems to revolve around consumerism. When America's love affair with consumption began in earnest in the 1940s and 50s, some likened it to a revolution.
Transcript: they destroy at night. So we produce food and clothing and cars and we consume them, And work harder to produce more goods, So we can consume more goods
Different Strokes: Mitigating the Distrust Associated with Prejudice
Most people would like to believe that they're not prejudiced, that they don't hold unjustified negative attitudes toward the members of out groups. Mahzarin Banaji illustrates how the use of the Implicit Association Test can help people realize...
Transcript: they'll groan and say, "agh... " Because they know that this is going to be harder. And sure enough, people just start to laugh halfway Through this test
Limits at Infinity
Transcript: the harder ones to draw since there is no common format to them. We wanna look at where are the horizontal asymptotes? Just like in the previous example
Going with the Flow: Forecasting El Nino Events
Once an El Nino event is underway, scientists have a good idea of how it's likely to behave over the subsequent six to nine months. But predicting the onset of such events in advance has proven to be very difficult.
Transcript: various things That influence when it comes And especially how strong it's going to be. So it can be relatively harder To predict exactly how strong it
4.2 Statistical Models 2
Transcript: very arbitrarily. And also it's harder to quantify whether they have relationship or not. Okay, so now we want to conduct a hypothesis testing to see