History 396

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Hollywood Blacklist

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Autumn 1947:

• Targeted for membership/sympathy with communist party
• Involvment in liberal/humanitarian political causes
• Refusal to assist in investigations into Communist Party activities

**Destroyed many lives**

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Salt of the Earth

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1954:

Director: Herbert Bibermen

Real 1951 Strike: International Union of Mine, Mill and Smeiter Workers vs. Zinc Mining companies in Silver City, NM.

Rosaura Revuettas (undocumented immigrant)

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World Health Org

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Defined "Sick Building:" 20% occupants showing symptoms

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Phossy Jaw

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Phosphorous leach into jaw bones causing disfigurement. **Brought to light worker conditions**

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Muller vs. Oregon

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1908 Supreme Court Case

• 10hr/day; fined $10

Muller violated; mothers can't work that long (reproduce, care, rest)

• Limited hours
• Not allowed to work night shifts
• Limits on carrying capacity

**Upholding states rights to make rules on women's work; by 1943 over 1000 protective labor laws nationwide.**

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Alice Hamilton

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1869-1970: toxicologist; poisoning studies; equal susceptibility to disease

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Executive Order 9066

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February 1942: Signed by FDR interning anyone of Japanese ancestry.

• 110000 relocated; 62% US citizens

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Bracero Program

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1942-1964: Mexicans; need for quest workers after Japanese were interned; men only

**Longest guest worker program in the US; US farmers impact, poorly monitored/regulated**

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The Taft-Hardley Act

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1947: Injunctions against strikes; outlaw mass picketing; prohibit secondary boycott

Outlawed "closed shop" (required union membeship); "right to work" laws

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Lavender Scare

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Homosexuality a mental disease; paranoia that gay gov't officials could be blackmailed; mass gay firing

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HUAC Hearings

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1947: House Committee on Un-American Activities

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Pink Collar

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Feminized labor: nurses, typists, housemakers

Requirements:

• Appear feminine, accommodating and subservient
• Protector (scheduling, privacy)
• Wife/gare-giver role

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Bellevue School of Nursing

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1917: first institution to offer nursing training to women; nursing becomes feminized

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Lusty Lady, San Francisco

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Exotic Dancers Union (AFL-CIO) (1997)

• $12-25/hr; protection; sickday; holiday

First worker-owned strip club

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National Restaurant Association

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10th largest lobby in Congress; more power = less workers rights

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Restaurant Opportunities Center

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thewelcometable.net

-Tells of the treatment of workers

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"Fight for $15"

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Median pay: $8.90/hr; Avg. income: $18,500 ($23000 ideal for family of 4)

Cost of living; people need raise to support their families.

2014 - 150 cities on strike

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Walmart Critiques

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• Low wages
• Non-union
• Men/women salary gap
• Killing mom/pop stores

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2001 Class Action

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Employment discrimination lawsuit

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Walmart Control

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• Stores
• Customers
• Suppliers
• Communities

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The McCarthy Period

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1947 - 1957: "Red-baiting"

Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican)

Targeted:

• Labor radicals
• Homosexuals
• Hollywood

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Louisa Moreno

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Guatemalan CIO Union organizer

**Prey to "red-baiting;" fled back to Guatemala

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The Hollywood Ten

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Would not answer questions; freedom of speech; suspicion of threat = jailed.

**Prey to "red-baiting"