Lucky Strike

Brian Luy History 109 February 29, 2016 How did the labor and women's movements expand the meanings of American freedom? Progressive Reformers wanted better working conditions. They had in mind to humanize industrial capitalism (Lecture/Text 738) Workers had to follow the specific working instructions given by their supervisors which led to many skilled workers seeing this as a loss of freedom. They wanted Industrial Freedom. (Text 738) Progressive Reformers believed that by giving workers the…

As the article, “California Farmworkers’ Strikes of 1933” reports, the Cannery Agricultural Workers Industrial Union Central Strike Committee managed to get the strikers to go back to work with only less than half of their demands met. Bronfenbrenner states, “In the end, there was no clear answer on who won but with all the sides--the…

Equal Employment Opportunity laws were established after the United States showed worrisome proof of prejudice living in employers and companies. It was becoming apparent that there was bigotry and discrimination in the workplace; where it didn’t belong. Workers around the country were distressed as they were turned away because of their race, sex, and/or religion. It was on July 2, 1965 that Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was a officially official. On the first day of the opening…

“The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.” – Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Before the 1909 strike where more than 20,000 garment shirtwaist makers walked out to picket for better wages and improved working conditions, there was the Lowell Mills women who organized to protest wage cuts in 1834 and again in 1836. The rebellious act of the Lowell Mills women was poignant, as it embarked a mass movement for workers’ rights in the United…

Unionization of The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters The fight to form a union can be done. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded after workers for the Pullman railroad felt they were being treated unfairly by their employer. The discrimination and prejudice African American railroad workers faced on the job were harsh. They worked a lot and were underpaid for the jobs that they performed. They knew that things had to change within their work place for everyone to be…

1. The effectiveness of strikes has been a significant topic of discussion in the Chicago school system. Teachers went on strike in 2012 and narrowly avoided striking in October, 2016, despite falling enrollments and a multi-billion dollar deficit that threatens to put the district into receivership. In what cases are strikes more likely to be effective in both the short and long run? Discuss this from both political and economic viewpoints. A more effective tactic are slowdown tactics, you…

Melvin Aloysius Alisha Loftin History 1302 February 25, 2015 1) How did involvement in union activity empower workers of Slovak descent economically and politically? To what extent did the union movement change the lives of unskilled workers? Thomas Bell’s novel Out of This Furnace portrays the struggles of three generations of Slovak immigrants in Pittsburg. The immigrants settled in the steel mill town and worked hard to make money while fighting with the workers’ unions for better pay. In…

action with 150,000 members called for a strike at the Pullman Palace Car Company. Pullman was furious by the strike, Pullman closed the plant, intent on waiting out the workers. The members of the ARU called for the national membership to take over. The union voted to refuse to work on any train in the country that had a Pullman car, this put the passenger rail service came to…

What are the factors affecting the prices of options? Explain the assumptions in the Black-Scholes model. In order to understand the factors that affect the prices of options, we need to understand what options are and how they work. Options are derivative assets. According to a California-based company called Optionetics (website: www.optionetics.com), "options are the most versatile trading instruments ever invented". This means, that you aren 't limited to making a profit only when the market…

Larry Itliong became one of the most outspoken leaders for better working conditions and higher wages for Filipino workers. Andy Imutan, an original striker from the 1965 walkout stated, “ [Summer of 1965] Filipino workers went on a strike demanding that their wages be increased from $1.10 an hour as well as better living conditions.” Winning against the growers became more difficult when Mexican workers started replacing the Filipinos for labor, known as “crossing the pickets”, it…