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Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Honors World History II: 1 March 2011
March 1, 1974 - Seven former high-ranking officials of the Nixon White House were indicted for conspiring to obstruct the investigation into the Watergate break-in. Among those indicted; former chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, former top aide John Ehrlichman, and former attorney general John Mitchell.
In 1911, uprisings in the provinces swiftly spread. Peasants, students, local warlords, and even court politicians helped topple the Qing dynasty.
In December 1911, Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) was named president of the new Chinese republic. The republic faced overwhelming problems and was almost constantly at war with itself or foreign invaders.
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The state's Assembly passed a bill that would limit the bulk of Union collective-bargaining rights. The measure would require workers -- with the exception of police and firefighters -- to cover more of their health care premiums and pension contributions.
Collective bargaining would be limited to wages, though any pay increases beyond the inflation rate would be subject to voter approval.
An interesting note on the current public union battles was written by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in an Aug. 16, 1937 letter to Luther Steward, the president of the National Federation of Public Employees
[M]eticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government.
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.
Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees.
Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of pubic employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable.
The Chapter 13 Section 1 Quiz is on Friday.
The Chapter 12 Make-up Test is today.
The two Tests, one for Chapter 14, and one for Chapter 15, scheduled for the 22nd and the 25th of March respectively, are on the entire chapter: there are no Section Quizzes for these two Chapters.
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Section 4 Nation Building in Latin America
Chapter 15 East Asia Under Challenge 1800-1914
Section 1 The Decline of the Qing Dynasty
Causes of Decline
Section 2 Revolution in China
The Fall of the Qing
The Rise of Sun Yat-sen
Although the Boxer Uprising failed, the flames of Chinese nationalism spread. Reformers wanted to strengthen China’s government. By the early 1900s, they had introduced a constitutional monarchy. Some reformers called for a republic.
A passionate spokesman for a Chinese republic was Sun Yixian (soon yee shyahn), also known as Sun Yat-sen. In the early 1900s, he organized the Revolutionary Alliance to rebuild China on “Three Principles of the People.” The first principle was nationalism, or freeing China from foreign domination. The second was democracy, or representative government. The third was livelihood, or economic security for all Chinese.
The Revolution of 1911
When Ci Xi (tsih shih) died in 1908 and a two-year-old boy inherited the throne, China slipped into chaos.
The Last Emperor - Trailer
In-class assignment, with a partner, answer the following; however, today, each individual student must turn in their own In-class assignment.
China was a place rich with what?
In this situation a man was bound by what?
In 1911, uprisings in the provinces swiftly spread. Peasants, students, local warlords, and even court politicians helped topple the Qing dynasty.
In December 1911, Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) was named president of the new Chinese republic. The republic faced overwhelming problems and was almost constantly at war with itself or foreign invaders.
In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.
Reading Check
Evaluating
What changes did the Revolution of 1911 actually produce in China?
An Era of Civil War
In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.
Reading Check
Explaining
Why were there rebellions in China after General Yuan Shigai became president?
Chinese Society in Transition
In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.
Reading Check
Evaluating
How did the arrival of Westerners affect China?
China's Changing Culture
In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.
Reading Check
Describing
What effects did Western culture have on China?
Section 3 Rise of Modern Japan
Brady, Mathew
Portrait of Perry (detail)
ca. 1854 Graphic source: Library of Congress
Very common views of Perry were prints and paintings that rendered Perry and his fellow Americans conspicuously hirsute. In several such portraits, we find him paired with Commander Henry A. Adams, his second-in-command.
Adams (left) and Perry
Graphic source: Ryosenji Treasure Museum
Portrait of Perry (detail)
ca. 1854 Graphic source: Library of Congress
Very common views of Perry were prints and paintings that rendered Perry and his fellow Americans conspicuously hirsute. In several such portraits, we find him paired with Commander Henry A. Adams, his second-in-command.
Adams (left) and Perry
Graphic source: Ryosenji Treasure Museum
In-class assignment, with a partner, answer the following.
What differences do you see between the portrait of Perry alone and then Perry paired with Commander Henry A. Adams, his second-in-command?
How does it help you understand the differences in these depictions by realizing that the first picture is a Western view, and the second, a Japanese view?
These scenes from a History Channel documentary provides basic information on Japanese history and culture, particularly the importance of bushido, 7:21.
In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.
When did the samurai arise?
What are the samurai?
What age did they begin training?
What other things characterize the samurai?
What code did they live by?
What happened to the samurai in the late 1800s?
Was the Emperor merely a man? What else was he?
Who really ran Japan?
In 1853 what crucial event occurred?
When did the last shogun retire?
After 1868 what things changed?
What was the result of the Restoration?
Does the Bushido Code survive after the collapse of the samurai?
Examine samurai objects
Black Ships and Samurai. Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Take a tour of the Japanese city of Edo
Interactive tour of Osaka Castle
Zoom in on a painting of the siege of the castle
Find out more about Hideyoshi.
Timeline of Japanese history
This is the trailer for what is acclaimed as one of the greatest films ever made, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Warning: Language, do not view if you are offended by a bit more than PG-13 language (:26). 2:43
Kurosawa's film was the inspiration for a classic Western: "The Magnificent 7" (1960), 3:10.
Film trailer for this classic Western starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Brad Dexter and Eli Wallach.
Black Ships and Samurai. Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Take a tour of the Japanese city of Edo
Interactive tour of Osaka Castle
Zoom in on a painting of the siege of the castle
Find out more about Hideyoshi.
Timeline of Japanese history
This is the trailer for what is acclaimed as one of the greatest films ever made, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Warning: Language, do not view if you are offended by a bit more than PG-13 language (:26). 2:43
Kurosawa's film was the inspiration for a classic Western: "The Magnificent 7" (1960), 3:10.
Film trailer for this classic Western starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Brad Dexter and Eli Wallach.
An End to Isolation
In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.
Reading Check
Identifying
What benefits did the Treaty of Kanagawa grant the United States?
Resistance to the New Order
In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.
Reading Check
Identifying
What events led to the collapse of the shogunate system in Japan?
The Meiji Restoration
Transformation of Japanese Politics
Meiji Economics
Building a Modern Social Structure
Daily Life and Women's Rights
In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.
Reading Check
Explaining
How was Japan's government structured under the Meiji constitution?
Joining the Imperialist Nations
Beginnings of Expansion
War with Russia
U.S. Relations
In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.
Reading Check
Explaining
Why did Japan turn itself into an imperialist power?
Culture in an Era of Transition
In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.
Reading Check
Describing
What effect did Japanese culture have on other nations?
Ch. 14 Resources
Examine samurai objects
Black Ships and Samurai. Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Take a virtual tour of the Forbidden City.
Fascinating facts about the Forbidden City.
Timeline of China's dynasties.
Timeline of Chinese dynasties.
Interactive time line of 20th century China
Examine samurai objects
Take a tour of the Japanese city of Edo
Interactive tour of Osaka Castle
Zoom in on a painting of the siege of the castle
Find out more about Hideyoshi.
Timeline of Japanese history
Take a tour of the Japanese city of Edo
Interactive tour of Osaka Castle
Zoom in on a painting of the siege of the castle
Find out more about Hideyoshi.
Timeline of Japanese history
Deep Purple video Made in Japan 1972 Rare (part 1), 6:42
The Clash, performing their song, "The Magnificent Seven," live on the Tom Synder Show 1981; this is the first public performance of the song, 5:00.
"The Magnificent Seven" is a song and single by the English punk rock band The Clash. It was the third single from their fourth album Sandinista!. It reached number 34 on the UK singles chart.
The song was inspired by raps by old school hip hop acts from New York City, like the Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. Rap was still a new and emerging music genre at the time and the band, especially Mick Jones, was very impressed with it, so much so that Jones took to carrying a boombox around and got the nickname 'Whack Attack'. The song was recorded in April 1980 at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, built around a bass loop played by Norman Watt-Roy of the Blockheads. Joe Strummer wrote the words on the spot, a technique that was also used to create Sandinista!'s other rap track, "Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)". "The Magnificent Seven" represents the first attempt by a rock band to write and perform original rap music, and one of the earliest examples of hip hop records with political and social content. It is the first major white rap record, predating the recording of Blondie's "Rapture" by six months.
The song is viewed as a critique of excessive consumption which includes a nod to the inexpensive goods produced in Asia.
Thematically, "The Magnificent Seven" is somewhat similar to the punkier "Career Opportunities", in that it takes the drudgery of the working life as its starting point. Unlike "Career Opportunities", however, in stream of consciousness fashion it also deals with consumerism, popular media, historical figures, and addresses these subjects with great exuberance and humor. The first verses of "The Magnificent Seven" follow a nameless worker (narrated in the second person) as he wakes up and goes to work, not for personal advancement but to buy his girlfriend consumer goods:
Working for a rise to better my station / Take my baby to sophistication / She's seen the ads, she thinks it's nice / Better work hard, I seen the price
The nameless worker then goes off for a cheeseburger lunch-break, and the lyrics devolve into a blur of fleeting images from television, movies and advertising:
Italian mobster shoots a lobster / Seafood restaurant gets out of hand / A car in the fridge or a fridge in the car? / Like cowboys do in TV land!
Finally, the song takes historical figures, including Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Richard Nixon and Socrates, and places them in modern America, before asking sarcastically whether "Plato the Greek" or Rin Tin Tin is more famous to the masses.
An exclaimed "newsflash" near the end of the song, "Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie!", was in fact a headline in the News of the World newspaper at the time of the song's mixing in England, according to Joe Strummer.
Gimme Honda, Gimme SonyLyrics reproduced here for educational purposes only; copyright remains in the hands of the copyright holder.
So cheap and real phony
Hong Kong dollars and Indian cents
English pounds and Eskimo pence. . . .
Karlo Marx and Friedrich Engels
Came to the checkout at the 7-11
Marx was skint - but he had sense
Engels lent him the necessary pence
What have we got? Yeh-o, magnificence!!
Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi
Went to the park to check on the game
But they was murdered by the other team
Who went on to win 50-nil
You can be true, you can be false
You be given the same reward
Socrates and Milhous Nixon
Both went the same way - through the kitchen
Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin
Who's more famous to the billion millions?
News Flash: Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie
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The Chapter 13 Section 1 Quiz is on Friday.
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Tuesday HW
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Friday HW
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Honors Business Economics: 1 March 2011
Prayer
Beyond the Sound Bites (after the Quiz):
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Issues in the News
Restaurant Fined Over Youth Program
Colonial Times to the 1930s
Early Union Development
Civil War to the 1930s
Types of Unions
Union Activities
Employer Resistance
The Ludlow Massacre
The communist historian (Cf. according to FBI records released in July 2010) Howard Zinn about Ludlow Massacre, 3:31
In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.
What famous rich American family was involved?
What does the communist historian Howard Zinn relate about the massacre?
What had happened to strikers for years?
Attitude of the Courts
Labor Since the 1930s
Labor in the Great Depression
Pro-Union Legislation
Antiunion Backlash
The AFL-CIO
The AFL-CIO and Obama, 1:36
In-class assignment, with a partner, answer the following.
Who does Obama consult with more? The AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka or members of the cabinet?
Independent Unions
Organized Labor Today
Kinds of Union Arrangements
Unionized Workers in the Labor Force
The Global Economy and You - The Union Safety Net Unravels
In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.
Chapter 8, Section 1 - Review
Use the graphic organizer to describe the different types of union arrangements.
Cf. http://glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/socialstudies/igo_08/epp/ch_08/EPP_ch08_sec1_2.pdf
Profiles in Economics
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez: Embrace the Legacy, 5:21
In-class assignment, with a partner, answer the following.
Which famous American politician supported Cesar Chavez?
What was his struggle for?
In what grade did his education end?
What things did he fight for?
Who are the Hollywood figures who supported Chavez?
Section 2: Wages and Labor Disputes
Different occupations and levels of training are rewarded with different wages. Economists divide labor into four non-competing labor grades based on a worker's education, training, and skills. These categories include unskilled labor, semiskilled labor, skilled labor, and professional labor. In addition, there are many negotiation methods: collective bargaining, mediation, arbitration, fact-finding, injunction, and seizure. Finally, the president may intervene in a labor-management dispute.
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Section 3: Employment Trends and Issues
There are several trends and issues in today's economy. The first is the continuing decline of union membership and influence since the end of World War II. The second is the income gap between men and women, and policies such as set-aside contracts, which are designed to remedy it. The last is the issue of the minimum wage, which is measured in current dollars, inflation-adjusted dollars, and as a percent of the average manufacturing wage.
Chapter 8, Section 3 - Reading Strategy
In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.
Explain why women face an income gap.
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Chapter 8, Section 3 - Review
In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.
List three ways firms renegotiate union contracts.
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Chapter 8 Crossword Puzzle
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Vocabulary Flashcard
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Self-check Quiz
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References
Ch. 6 Prep
Chapter 6: Prices and Decision Making
Multiple Choice Quiz
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ePuzzle Concentration
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Academic, Glossary, People/Places/Events
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Chapter 7 Resources
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Preview
Unit 3: Economic Institutions and Issues
Chapters 8-11
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Deadline for Action: Labor Unions & Corporate Influence on the U.S. Congress (1/3) (1946), 10:08
John Llewellyn Lewis (1880--1969) was the autocratic president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960, and the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Using UMW organizers the new CIO established the United Steel Workers of America (USWA) and organized millions of other industrial workers in the 1930s. A powerful speaker and strategist, Lewis did not hesitate to shut down coal production—the nation's main energy and heating source—to achieve his goals.
Lewis threw his support behind Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) at the outset of the New Deal. After the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935, Lewis traded on the tremendous appeal that Roosevelt had with workers in those days, sending organizers into the coal fields to tell workers that "The President wants you to join the Union." His UMW was one of FDR's main financial supporters in 1936, contributing over $500,000.
Lewis expanded his base by organizing the so-called "captive mines," those held by the steel producers such as U.S. Steel. That required in turn organizing the steel industry, which had defeated union organizing drives in 1892 and 1919 and which had resisted all organizing efforts since then fiercely. The task of organizing steelworkers, on the other hand, put Lewis at odds with the AFL, which looked down on both industrial workers and the industrial unions that represented all workers in a particular industry, rather than just those in a particular skilled trade or craft.
Lewis was the first president of the Committee of Industrial Organizations. Lewis, in fact, was the CIO: his UMWA provided the great bulk of the financial resources that the CIO poured into organizing drives by the United Automobile Workers (UAW), the USWA, the Textile Workers Union and other newly formed or struggling unions. Lewis hired back many of the people he had exiled from the UMWA in the 1920s to lead the CIO and placed his protégé Philip Murray at the head of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Lewis played the leading role in the negotiations that led to the successful conclusion of the Flint sit-down strike conducted by the UAW in 1936-1937 and in the Chrysler sit-down strike that followed.
The CIO's actual membership (as opposed to publicity figures) was 2,850,000 for February 1942. This included 537,000 members of the UAW, just under 500,000 Steel Workers, almost 300,000 members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, about 180,000 Electrical Workers, and about 100,000 Rubber Workers. The CIO also included 550,000 members of the United Mine Workers, which did not formally withdraw from the CIO until later in the year. The remaining membership of 700,000 was scattered among thirty-odd smaller unions. (Galenson, p. 585)
The war mobilization dramatically expanded union membership, from 8.7 million in 1940 to over 14.3 million in 1945, about 36% of the work force. For the first time large numbers of women factory workers were enrolled. Both the AFL and CIO supported Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944, with 75% or more of their votes, millions of dollars, and tens of thousands of precinct workers. However, Lewis opposed Roosevelt on foreign policy grounds in 1940. He took the Mine Workers out of the CIO and rejoined the AFL. All labor unions strongly supported the war effort after June 1941 (when Germany invaded the Soviet Union). Left-wing activists crushed wildcat strikes. Nonetheless, Lewis realized that he had enormous leverage. In 1943, the middle of the war, when the rest of labor was observing a policy against strikes, Lewis led the miners out on a twelve-day strike for higher wages; the depth of public dismay—even hatred—of Lewis was palpable. In November 1943 the Fortune poll asked, "Are there any prominent individuals in this country who you feel might be harmful to the future of the country unless they are curbed?" 36% spontaneously named Lewis. (Next came 3% who named Roosevelt.) As a result the Conservative coalition in Congress was able to pass anti-union legislation, leading to the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
American Free Enterprise System: Your Town - A Story of America (1940), 10:57
Santana - Oye Como Va - Tanglewood - 1970/08/18, 4:38
Carlos Santana - guitar, vocals
Gregg Rolie - keyboards, piano, lead vocals
Neal Schon - guitar
David Brown - bass
Michael Shrieve - drums
Jose Chepito Areas - percussion, conga, timbales
Mike Carabello - percussion, conga, vocals
Thomas Coke Escovedo - percussion
The original Santana line-up and at this concert is the same one that plays on the first two albums ("Santana" and "Abraxas").
Woody Guthrie Ludlow Massacre, 3:31
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Ch. 6 Sec. 3 Quiz Friday
8 March, Ch. 6 Test
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Tuesday HW
2. p. 213, #4-7
Friday HW
1. p. 221, #5
Beyond the Sound Bites (after the Quiz):
Ch. 6 Sec. 2 Quiz is today.
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Skip #16 and #35; do not answer on the Test.
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Petrie Sees `Gigantic' Opportunities in U.S. Shale Oil
Cf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jSLTvVMTSc
Feds approve first deep-water well in Gulf since oil spill, 28 Feb. 2011.
Chapter 8: Employment, Labor, and Wages
Chapter 8 - The American Labor Force
Section 1 The Labor Movement
Section Preview
Content Vocabulary
craft union
trade union
industrial union
strike
picket
boycott
lockout
company union
Great Depression
right-to-work law
Right to Work - Real Facts About Right to Work Laws, 4:00
In-class assignment, with a partner, answer the following.
What is a right to work state?
What does it allow?
Does it undermine unions?
Are wages lower in right to work states?
Is there less health care available in those states?
In a strong union state, such as Michigan, do the professors advocate unions?
independent union
closed shop
union shop
modified union shop
agency shop
civilian labor force
Chapter 8, Section 1 - Reading Strategy
In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.
Note major events in the history of the U.S. labor movement by completing the time line.
Cf. http://glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/socialstudies/igo_08/epp/ch_08/EPP_ch08_sec1_1.pdf
Issues in the News
Restaurant Fined Over Youth Program
Colonial Times to the 1930s
Early Union Development
Civil War to the 1930s
Types of Unions
Union Activities
Employer Resistance
The Ludlow Massacre
The communist historian (Cf. according to FBI records released in July 2010) Howard Zinn about Ludlow Massacre, 3:31
In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.
What famous rich American family was involved?
What does the communist historian Howard Zinn relate about the massacre?
What had happened to strikers for years?
Attitude of the Courts
Labor Since the 1930s
Labor in the Great Depression
Pro-Union Legislation
Antiunion Backlash
The AFL-CIO
The AFL-CIO and Obama, 1:36
In-class assignment, with a partner, answer the following.
Who does Obama consult with more? The AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka or members of the cabinet?
Independent Unions
Organized Labor Today
Kinds of Union Arrangements
Unionized Workers in the Labor Force
The Global Economy and You - The Union Safety Net Unravels
In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.
Chapter 8, Section 1 - Review
Use the graphic organizer to describe the different types of union arrangements.
Cf. http://glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/socialstudies/igo_08/epp/ch_08/EPP_ch08_sec1_2.pdf
Profiles in Economics
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez: Embrace the Legacy, 5:21
In-class assignment, with a partner, answer the following.
Which famous American politician supported Cesar Chavez?
What was his struggle for?
In what grade did his education end?
What things did he fight for?
Who are the Hollywood figures who supported Chavez?
Section 2: Wages and Labor Disputes
Different occupations and levels of training are rewarded with different wages. Economists divide labor into four non-competing labor grades based on a worker's education, training, and skills. These categories include unskilled labor, semiskilled labor, skilled labor, and professional labor. In addition, there are many negotiation methods: collective bargaining, mediation, arbitration, fact-finding, injunction, and seizure. Finally, the president may intervene in a labor-management dispute.
Content Vocabulary
wage rate
unskilled labor
semiskilled labor
skilled labor
professional labor
market theory of wage determination
equilibrium wage rate
theory of negotiated wages
seniority
signaling theory
collective bargaining, p. 211
grievance procedure
mediation
arbitration
binding arbitration
fact-finding
injunction
seizure
Academic Vocabulary
Chapter 8, Section 2 - Reading Strategy
In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.
Complete the graphic organizer that describes the different ways labor disputes are resolved.
Cf. http://glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/socialstudies/igo_08/epp/ch_08/EPP_ch08_sec2_1.pdf
Issues in the News
NHL Shakes Off Lockout, Long Layoff
In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.
What does the market theory explain?
What does Panel A show?
What does Panel B show?
What does Panel A illustrate?
What does Panel B illustrate?
Figure 8.5 Market Theory of Wage Determination, p. 209
Cf. http://glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/socialstudies/in_motion_08/epp/EPP_p209.swf
Chapter 8, Section 2 - Review
In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.
Describe the four approaches to wage determination.
Cf. http://glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/socialstudies/igo_08/epp/ch_08/EPP_ch08_sec2_2.pdf
Section 3: Employment Trends and Issues
There are several trends and issues in today's economy. The first is the continuing decline of union membership and influence since the end of World War II. The second is the income gap between men and women, and policies such as set-aside contracts, which are designed to remedy it. The last is the issue of the minimum wage, which is measured in current dollars, inflation-adjusted dollars, and as a percent of the average manufacturing wage.
Chapter 8, Section 3 - Reading Strategy
In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.
Explain why women face an income gap.
Cf. http://glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/socialstudies/igo_08/epp/ch_08/EPP_ch08_sec3_1.pdf
Chapter 8, Section 3 - Review
In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.
List three ways firms renegotiate union contracts.
Cf. http://glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/socialstudies/igo_08/epp/ch_08/EPP_ch08_sec3_2.pdf
Chapter 8 Crossword Puzzle
Cf. http://www.glencoe.com/olc_games/game_engine/content/gln_ss/epp_08/ch08/index.html
Vocabulary Flashcard
Cf. http://www.glencoe.com/qe/efcsec.php?qi=15443
Self-check Quiz
Cf. http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078747643/student_view0/unit3/chapter8/self-check_quizzes.html
References
Ch. 6 Prep
Chapter 6: Prices and Decision Making
Multiple Choice Quiz
Cf. http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078747643/student_view0/unit2/chapter6/self-check_quizzes.html
ePuzzle Concentration
Cf. http://www.glencoe.com/olc_games/game_engine/content/gln_ss/epp_05/chapter06/index.html
Academic, Glossary, People/Places/Events
Cf. http://www.glencoe.com/qe/efcsec.php?qi=15429
Chapter 7 Resources
Cf. http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078747643/student_view0/unit2/chapter7/
Preview
Unit 3: Economic Institutions and Issues
Chapters 8-11
Cf. http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078747643/student_view0/unit3/
Deadline for Action: Labor Unions & Corporate Influence on the U.S. Congress (1/3) (1946), 10:08
John Llewellyn Lewis (1880--1969) was the autocratic president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960, and the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Using UMW organizers the new CIO established the United Steel Workers of America (USWA) and organized millions of other industrial workers in the 1930s. A powerful speaker and strategist, Lewis did not hesitate to shut down coal production—the nation's main energy and heating source—to achieve his goals.
Lewis threw his support behind Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) at the outset of the New Deal. After the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935, Lewis traded on the tremendous appeal that Roosevelt had with workers in those days, sending organizers into the coal fields to tell workers that "The President wants you to join the Union." His UMW was one of FDR's main financial supporters in 1936, contributing over $500,000.
Lewis expanded his base by organizing the so-called "captive mines," those held by the steel producers such as U.S. Steel. That required in turn organizing the steel industry, which had defeated union organizing drives in 1892 and 1919 and which had resisted all organizing efforts since then fiercely. The task of organizing steelworkers, on the other hand, put Lewis at odds with the AFL, which looked down on both industrial workers and the industrial unions that represented all workers in a particular industry, rather than just those in a particular skilled trade or craft.
Lewis was the first president of the Committee of Industrial Organizations. Lewis, in fact, was the CIO: his UMWA provided the great bulk of the financial resources that the CIO poured into organizing drives by the United Automobile Workers (UAW), the USWA, the Textile Workers Union and other newly formed or struggling unions. Lewis hired back many of the people he had exiled from the UMWA in the 1920s to lead the CIO and placed his protégé Philip Murray at the head of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Lewis played the leading role in the negotiations that led to the successful conclusion of the Flint sit-down strike conducted by the UAW in 1936-1937 and in the Chrysler sit-down strike that followed.
The CIO's actual membership (as opposed to publicity figures) was 2,850,000 for February 1942. This included 537,000 members of the UAW, just under 500,000 Steel Workers, almost 300,000 members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, about 180,000 Electrical Workers, and about 100,000 Rubber Workers. The CIO also included 550,000 members of the United Mine Workers, which did not formally withdraw from the CIO until later in the year. The remaining membership of 700,000 was scattered among thirty-odd smaller unions. (Galenson, p. 585)
The war mobilization dramatically expanded union membership, from 8.7 million in 1940 to over 14.3 million in 1945, about 36% of the work force. For the first time large numbers of women factory workers were enrolled. Both the AFL and CIO supported Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944, with 75% or more of their votes, millions of dollars, and tens of thousands of precinct workers. However, Lewis opposed Roosevelt on foreign policy grounds in 1940. He took the Mine Workers out of the CIO and rejoined the AFL. All labor unions strongly supported the war effort after June 1941 (when Germany invaded the Soviet Union). Left-wing activists crushed wildcat strikes. Nonetheless, Lewis realized that he had enormous leverage. In 1943, the middle of the war, when the rest of labor was observing a policy against strikes, Lewis led the miners out on a twelve-day strike for higher wages; the depth of public dismay—even hatred—of Lewis was palpable. In November 1943 the Fortune poll asked, "Are there any prominent individuals in this country who you feel might be harmful to the future of the country unless they are curbed?" 36% spontaneously named Lewis. (Next came 3% who named Roosevelt.) As a result the Conservative coalition in Congress was able to pass anti-union legislation, leading to the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
American Free Enterprise System: Your Town - A Story of America (1940), 10:57
Santana - Oye Como Va - Tanglewood - 1970/08/18, 4:38
Carlos Santana - guitar, vocals
Gregg Rolie - keyboards, piano, lead vocals
Neal Schon - guitar
David Brown - bass
Michael Shrieve - drums
Jose Chepito Areas - percussion, conga, timbales
Mike Carabello - percussion, conga, vocals
Thomas Coke Escovedo - percussion
The original Santana line-up and at this concert is the same one that plays on the first two albums ("Santana" and "Abraxas").
Woody Guthrie Ludlow Massacre, 3:31
Ch. 6 Sec. 1 Quiz Make-Up is available to take.
Ch. 6 Sec. 2 Quiz Prep Page is available.
Ch. 6 Sec. 3 Quiz Friday
8 March, Ch. 6 Test
Email (or hand in hard copy) to gmsmith@shanahan.org.
Tuesday HW
2. p. 213, #4-7
Friday HW
1. p. 221, #5
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