Picketing

The women’s suffrage movement during the progressive era was quite a milestone in history. Women were at a point in their lives in which deserved to have a voice over particular issues. One of these issues was suffrage which is defined as just the basic right to vote. Throughout the progressive era, women were fighting for their rights for voting due to the exposure of a lot more opportunities in life. Instead of women falling into the role of being domesticated, they were rather exposed to…

the PD were to outlast the drop in price of copper. PD attempted to work things out, but eventually negotiations between PD and the unions failed to come to an agreement, and the company locked out the miners. In response to thousands of miners picketing PD had to increase security, which cost more money. PD saw their highly successful multinational…

In 1948 researcher Alfred Kinsley published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. His book was to be the largest documentation of sexuality at the time of his publication. In 1953 he released the Female version of this book. Both books were best sellers that sold more than 750,000 copies. In these works, Alfred concluded that homosexuality was a bigger population of America than originally thought. He stated that, “ A full 37% of men said they had had some form of homosexual experience at some…

The 19th century suffrage movement and the 20th century suffrage movement both had different ideas/ideals, arguments for suffrage, leaders, and tactics. The similarties and differences between these two centuries lead to the periods of the suffrage movement. Some of the most important leaders in the 19th century suffrage movement were Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. In the 20th century suffrage movement, Alice Paul, and Carrie Chapman Catt were the leaders. As for the…

The 19th Amendment: From Seneca Falls To Ratification Americans have long fought for equal rights, and they continue to fight for them today. Despite America’s founding idea of democracy, only white Protestant male who owned property could actually vote. As voting rights evolved, all white males gained the right to vote without discrimination towards age or social status. Even with the evolution of voting rights, women remained barred from the ballot. Though the Suffrage Movement started as a…

Today our society exists as a market society, which varies from previous societies. The market economy is a self-regulating system of markets; it is a market directed only by market prices and no society before ours was completely controlled by markets. (Polanyi, 43) Polanyi refers to the emergence of market society as the “great transformation”. My thesis is that the shift to market society was a fundamental transformation because it is self-regulating, and has fictitious commodities; these…

between employers and employees. The laws mainly deal with the relationship between employers and unions. These laws allow employees the right to unionize, as well as allow employers and employees to engage in certain activities, such as strikes and picketing. There are also laws that are aimed at protecting employees in other ways, such as health. Two laws that will be discussed here are the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The…

According to Abramovitz (2014), the post-World War II welfare state was the “golden age of capitalism” (p.4). During this period actual income and living standard rose for everyone, the inequality gap between poor and rich become narrower, the middle-class dream of a good job and a good home became more of a reality, more employment and equal opportunity were created, better wage and good benefits were introduced for the workers and sexual equality and civil rights movements were steady. “The…

Women Strike for Peace (WSP) was an important organization for the “peace movement”. When first typing Women Strike for Peace into Google a bunch of websites popped up, most of the website gave general/most important information about this organization. Which WSP were developed to protest against nuclear testing, a protest which involved 50,000 women from 60 committees throughout the nation stopped whatever they were doing and walked out and had a one-day protest again nuclear testing. That was…

As the Ride began, the Freedom Riders adopted a principle of passive resistance, intending to demonstrate via peaceful picketing in any situation or to any group which practiced racial discrimination . This method of protest, also commonly referred to as civil disobedience, was one clearly demonstrated at the Walgett RSL where Aboriginals – even ex-servicemen – were not allowed…