Theodore Roosevelt and Reform (Part Two)
Professor of history Gary Gerstle explains that, "...the great reform effort of the first half of the twentieth century was about building a strong government that could regulate private industry and private power." Professor Gerstle suggests that T...
Labor Movement of the 1930's, The
Professor of history Gary Gerstle talks about the rise of organized labor in the 1930's, when the Great Depression cost millions of Americans their jobs. He explains that, in 1935, President Roosevelt engineered two of the most important pieces of l...
Men, Women and the Union Movement
American history professor Alice Kessler-Harris traces the history of the labor movement in the United States, beginning with the collectives of the early 19th century, through the huge unionizing drives of the 1930's.
Decline of Unions
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy Dalton Conley talks about the decline of unions in the latter half of the 20th century. He says that today, only one American worker in ten is a member of a union. Professor Conley discusses various possible ...
African-Americans Move To The City
American history professor Alice Kessler-Harris talks about the lack of equal opportunity on the job front for African-Americans who began moving to cities in the 1920's. "I think it's sometimes painful to acknowledge just how discriminatory the wor...
Education and Training
Former Secretary of Labor and university professor Robert Reich argues that we don't have to chose between the low unemployment but frequently low wages of the American system, and a European system with wage rigidity that prevents wages from going ...