LABOR 250: Intro to the Study of Labor
The newsreel called San Francisco
"Frisco'
The gathering where longshoremen and warehousemen were hired every morning down on the docks during the 1930's in San Francisco was called a
"shape up"
The Chinese workers worked from dawn to dark, at least 12 hours a day, of hard and exhausting work, building the Central Pacific, for about how much per day?
$1 per day
The women working in a basement sweatshop whom Gabe saw at work were receiving about how much per hour?
$1.25
The workers at the Nike Factory in the suburb of Jakarta, Indonesia, earn how much?
$1.25 per day
According to a study done at UCLA, immigrants account for how much spending in the US economy?
$150 billion
At the rate workers were paid in the shipyards, about how much would they earn in one year in this kind of work during World War Two?
$2,500
How much did a slave master pay to buy Frances Black as a small child, so his white child would have a "playmate"?
$200
For those long hours of work each week, how many dollars did the young women of Lowell receive each week? (You may note that I mistakenly say their wages are "per hour per week", when what I actually meant to say was just "per week". Not "per hour".)
$3 to $5 per week
Pollin says you could cover half the cost of the minimum wage going up to $10.50 an hour, at McDonald's by raising the price of a Big Mac from $4 to what?
$4.05
And another for a little research -- what is the Federal minimum wage today?
$7.25 an hour
And as long as we are on a roll, here's one more -- what is the minimum wage in the State of California?
$8.00
Besides slavery, how many times are other kinds of work mentioned in the U.S. Constitution?
0
How many of the thousands and thousands of Chinese workers who helped build the great transcontinental railroad across the country were permitted to be in the picture taken at the finishing point celebration in Promontory Point, Utah?
0
The "net" number ("ins" minus "outs") of undocumented immigrants coming to the US each year from Mexico is presently approximately
0
How many chickens are killed, cut, and packaged for consumption every week at the Pilgrims' Pride plant Gabe worked in?
1,500,000
The girls were brought to work in the mills as early as the age of
10
The last day, when there was a contest to see which railroad could get the most track laid in one day, the workers on the railroad coming from the East laid 6 miles of track, and the workers coming from the West laid how may miles of track?
10
The informal market for electronic goods in the streets of Lagos Nigeria is worth how much in buying and selling every day?
10 million a day
The Ohlone numbered, all together, approximately
10,000
The population of the city in which the plant is located is about
10,000
When Little City Farms in San Francisco published its annual earning per person last year, it disclosed that each of the people involved earned about how much for the year?
10,000
Time to do a bit of web research: The Grayson Bill, currently in Congress, mentioned by Robert Pollin,proposes to raise the minimum wage to what?
10.50 an hour
Robert Pollin points out that when the US economy was really booming and growing, in the '60's, the 'real' mininum wage, in terms of what it would purchase in today's dollars, after you account for inflation, would be the equivalent of a minimum wage today of
10.65 per hour
Aaron says that K-12, the largest on line learning service, currently serves about how many students directly via on line learning?
100,000
How many strikebreakers were sent in by the companies to try to break the strike by doing the work of the strikers?
1000
In order to have gross income of one million dollars, how many loaves of bread did Danny determine he would have to bake each day if he were to charge $4 a loaf and bake 250 days a year?
1000
By 1853, the Lowell Girls had secured the right to work "only" how many hours a day, by law?
11
Often, slave children were sent to the fields to work by the time they were
12 years old
In the real contract of indentured servitude we reviewed in the lecture, a 5 year old girl named Susan gave up how many years of her life as a servant in return for room and board, 20 dollars, and learning reading/writing/arithmetic?
13
The SFSU professor who is interviewed in this video estimated the total number of Chinese workers who built the Central Pacific Railroad as approximately
13,000
In Title 29 of the United States Code, what section is the section quoted in the powerpoint? That is, what number fills in this blank: 29 USC _____ ???
151
Time to pull out the calculator or your personal powers of long division and do a bit of arithmetic: if the Union movement currently has about 15.3 million people in it, what percentage of the movement's people are in California?
16%
If you had to summarize what the author of this article seems to think about the current US immigration policy, he believes it is
really really stupid
The workers in the first demonstration video are holding cards in their hands that are what color?
red
What color are the motorcycles?
red
Once that Treaty was fully negotiated, with goals for reduced emissions, cleaner air, and so on, what did the US Congress do?
rejected the treaty
Near the end of the video, a voice explaining the victory says that the most important thing that the strikers won was
respect
You will not find the answer to this question in the video, you will have to use common sense. The question: why do you suppose Congress has not already raised the minimum wage?
Because business lobbyists have convinced them that it would be bad for business
Here's one that might be fun to research since it's not in the lecture --- Jefferson Cowie wrote Stayin Alive about the 1970's. The title of the book was taken from a song sung by what hugely popular singing group of the 1970's?
Bee Gees
The author of one of the great books of the women's movement, called The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, was named
Betty Friedan
From the point of view of the writer of The New Industrial State, there were 3 countervailing powers which more or less kept each other in balance because of their relative power. The one which was NOT one of the 3 was
Big Media
"It's the economy, stupid" was the reminder slogan for which Presidential campaign, to keep everyone focused on what really matters in getting people to vote for a person to be President?
Bill Clinton
Professor Reich served in this office during the Presidency of
Bill Clinton
The laws which Southern States ennacted to limit any rights whatsoever of slaves were called
Black codes
Big tobacco companies with their headquarters in North Carolina include
Both RJ Reynolds and Lorlillad
One of California's US Senators is a Feinstein and the other is a
Boxer
Gabe first became interested in pursuing this book work in which city?
Brooklyn
The areas of Midwestern cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and Toledo, where there are closed factories, located on lands that contain toxic wastes left over from manufacturing processes are called
Brown Zones
Many Native Americans in the Missions responded to the labor relations structure by
revolting, resisting, and escaping
Pg. 4: Which of the following States suffered a loss of 4% or more public sector jobs in the last few years?
rhode island
Some common characteristics of an early New England farm included all but one of the following. Which is the one?
rocky soil
The Boston Massacre, said to be the first time blood was shed in the battle for America's independence from the English, was waged over who would make
rope
One kind of family workshop NOT shown in the engravings that were part of the lecture:
rope maker
In order for companies like Wal Mart and Amazon to be able to ship just about anything to you overnight and for low prices, the companies insist on paying low wages to people who
run very fast and hard
The name of the town the plant was built in is
russellville
In early Rhode Island, crops were transported on
ruts through fields and forests
Which of the following does the inside of this factory most resemble?
science lab
The little ole watch seller in a Minnesota train station founded
sears
According to this video, the wave of womens' actions, the feminist movement, which swept through the 1970's, was the ________________ wave of feminism in American history
second
Eliseo Medina is the _______________________________ of SEIU.
secretary treasurer
The website where you can find out more information about Mary Kay's Union is
seiu.org
Neuwirth believes that the people who work in the informal economy, in places like garbage dumps, are
self reliant
This show suggested that the fast food industry pays wages that are so low that taxpayers have to provide public assistance (food stamps, etc.) to its workers just so they can survive, and that costs, every year,
seven billion dollars
In 2004, how many pounds of textiles (clothes) did America discard and ship abroad PER PERSON?
seventy eight pounds
How many years ago did the Flint Sit Down Strike and the first automobile company Union contract happen?
seventy five years
The co-author of the book Lissa wrote is at what University?
sf state
The New Deal Federal government agency which did so much building in national parks, like Yosemite, of trails, bridges, and so on, was the
CCC
The admission of what state, rich in resources, in part caused the South to become frightened it would lose its battle to preserve slavery in the United States?
California
Which of the following states was actually IN this newsreel?
California
People suggest that if there are more charter schools, California will have a "two tier" school system -- one "charter" system for wealthier communities, and one "public" system for poorer communities. Aaron answered this particular issue by saying
California already has a two-tier system, one tier for wealthy communities and one for poorer communities
What US President had fired Boston police in 1919 for striking, a President whom President Reagan looked up to?
Calvin Coolage
The precise date of the "date that will live in infamy" is
December 7th
The number 4 online retailer in the USA is
Dell
The first name of the worker that Jefferson Cowie spends so much time talking about and quoting in this video is
Dewey
The US Army doctor who took Dred Scott from state to state as his slave was named
Dr. Emerson
The decision of the United States Supreme Court, written by Chief Justice Taney, which said that slaves do not have any rights at all, was called the
Dred Scott Decision
The President who had been the top general of the US armed forces during World War Two and who coined the phrase "the military industrial complex" was named
Dwight D Eisenhower
The environmental movement helped win passage of all but one of the following laws. Which is the one it was not involved in?
EEOA
The law which protects employees' Pensions is often called
ERISA
The name of the shopping mall in the East Bay where there was once a giant General Motors manufacturing plant which produced automobiles is called
Eastmont
Pg.3: From most employees to least employees, which of the rankings below is now correct, as of 2010?
Education, Hospitals, Correction
Highest compensation for public employees goes to which of the following classifications?
Electrical power workers
One important instrument/tool/piece of machinery necessary for the Industrial Revolution to thrive was the cotton gin, invented by
Eli Whitney
the fish that one woman shown in a slide smokes and sells in the market in Lagos, Nigeria, comes from
Europe
A huge oil tanker ran aground in Alaska in 1989, creating one of the most horrendous oil spills in Earth's history. The oil tanker was carrying oil for which oil company?
Exxon Mobil
Which of the categories below was INCLUDED in the original Social Security Act?
Factory Workers
FLSA stands for
Fair Labor Standards Act
Chinese workers are very passive so they never went on strike despite the terrible work conditions on the Central Pacific.
False
The Ohlone tribes stayed in one place, year round, in one village, tending to planted crops. True or false?
False
The Ohlone tribes' entire economy was based on property possession and ownership. That is, everyone was judged by how much they owned and how many things they had and how cool their things were. True or False?
False
The predominant way in which farming was done in the South even in the early part of the 20th century was called
sharecropping
In the South, after the Civil War, slavery was largely replaced by
sharecropping by former slaves
Where did the products of Ohlone work go?
shared with all in the tribe
Approximately how many women were employed in jobs in furtherance of the war effort during World War Two?
six million
For each mile of railroad built, the US Government paid 10 square miles of land and
sixteen to forty-eight thousand dollars
According to Dr. Soep, It is more difficult to determine who to give credentials to nowadays because
skills are not taught and evaluated face-to-face
All the following terms mean the same thing except one. Select which one does NOT fit.
slam
C.L.Dellums, whose statue is in front of the Oakland California Amtrak Station, was one of the founders of the Brotherhood of
sleeping car porters
Most new innovative products in the American economy come from
small business entities
It was against the law for slaves to learn to read. But according to the narrator, one of the ways slaves responded was by
sneaking books and learned to read
Two necessary ingredients for deep and lasting changes in work relations in the United States are
social movements and new laws
Which phrase best describes the Ohlone tribe(s) and others like them in pre-European California?
sophisticated and learned human beings
Aaron pointed out that California still has strong programs in what school departments?
sports
Lissa's PhD, which makes her DOCTOR Soep, comes from what University?
stanford
Many Universities, besides SFState, are developing on line curriculum, including which two mentioned by Dr. Soep?
stanford and MIT
The workers of what hotel in Detroit staged a sit down strike to get a Union and better wages and working conditions?
statler
The first shots of the Civil War were aimed by the South at the Union fortress called
Fort Sumpter
Novella's newest family addition is named
Frances
The religious order which sent its members up the coast of Alta California to establish Missions was which of the following?
Franciscan
Factories were a new and different way to organize work because they included all but one of the following features, which were not a part of previous work centers:
Free lunches, sleeping quarters, and recreation rooms
The law passed after World War 2 which provided that war veterans would receive college scholarships, low priced home loans and other benefits, was called the
G.I. Bill
The program used by the youth at Youth Radio is called "App Inventor" and it was developed by which company
Which car company's factories were occupied by sit down strikers in 1937 in the big Flint sit down strike?
General Motors
Jefferson Cowie calls the person who ran for President on the Democrats ticket in 1972, for whom this worker voted, the "most liberal" to run in the 20th century for President -- who is he referring to?
George McGovern
Which State was NOT included in this newsreel?
Georgia
The animals being used on the farm in Brooklyn, New York City, suggest that the farmers may have been from
Germany
The website Danny originally started with was not Sour Flour. Org. It was
Gourmet Gastronomer
For a few points, here's a piece of web research for you to do -- who is the guy who started out small, with Steve Jobs, and invented the Apple Computer down in Palo Alto?
steve
The Big Four who made tons of money off the building of the transcontinental railroad and took credit for it as though they had done the building did NOT include
steve jobs
Gabe's experience in the hiring process for the jobs he sought suggests that racism and discrimination is
still present and practices in many places
The first and foremost skill Lissa spoke about that someone who wants to work in electronic communications must master is
story telling
Work relationships were determined by
strict rules made by Franciscans and enforced by soldiers
During the War, there was a social contract between Unions and the Nation which provided that Unions would have easy access to workers to organize them where they worked, but in return the Unions would not
strike
The workers keep yelling a Spanish word, "HUELGA" -- for those of you who do not know Spanish, time for a bit of research -- what does this word mean?
strike!
Lewis Powell, the head of the American Chamber of Commerce in the early 1970's, later became a
supreme court justice
Where does government get almost all of its income to pay for the services it provides?
taxes
Aaron said that one of the great advantages to a teacher having computers integrated into classroom teaching of various subjects is that
teachers can interact in "real time" with the student computer-learning and see how to help a child right away
In education, "differentiated teaching" means teaching students
teaching students each at their different learning levels
Mac and the people working at the warehouse are all employed by
temp
The narrator says that there was an average of how many acres planted in cotton for each field hand slave during America's early period (which made everyone rich except the people who did the real work, the slaves)?
ten acres per field hand
If a farmer set out to carve his farm out of the great forests of the East, the reading suggested it might take how long before the forests were all cleared and the farm was fully productive?
ten to twenty years
The overall annual value of the 'informal economy' at this time is
ten trillion dollars
Oprah Winfrey (recognize her?) reads the narrative of a slave named Jennie Proctor, whose mother was named Liza, who didn't know her father or brothers or sisters, and who came from the State of
texas
Which of the following States has had an increase in public employees in the last few years?
texas
In 1935, more than 400,000 workers in what industry all went on strike at the same time and shut down the entire industry until military troops were brought out to break their strike?
textile industry
Peter Schiff says that raising the minimum wage would kill jobs, but Barry Ritholtz's answer is
that's not true, because raising wages puts more money in the community which creates more jobs
Sarah Gudger says that she tells no lies, she just tells what kind of truth?
the "gospel" truth
The "MEDIAN" wage is
the "middle" wage - half make more and half make less
So-called "white collar" jobs outnumbered "blue collar" jobs in the United States for the first time in
the 1950's
The first indentured servants came to the United States as early as what year?
1619
The Rebellion took place in
1676
While most of your families pay 20 to 30 percent of income in taxes, how much do the wealthiest 400 pay in taxes?
17%
The Mission in San Francisco was founded in what year?
1776
How many hours a day did she have to work to survive as a farm woman?
18
To work in factories and mines, how old does the Federal law say you must be?
18
The percent of America's youth between the ages of 16 and 26 who are currently available for work but unemployed on any given day is about
18%
A "charter" school is one which is run by
the Board of a non-profit which owns and operates it
What was the name of the Union which represented the shipyard workers at the Richmond shipyard?
the Boilermakers Union
The so-called "Tragedy of the Commons" has to do with the historical experience at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England, when
the Common land, shared by all, was carved up into separately owned pieces of private land
Many people came to the United States as immigrants because they had no other choice, but that does not include
the Italians fleeing bad operas
After the US Department of Labor introduced the first new regulations to limit child labor since 1970, what happened to them?
the Obama White House ordered they be withdrawn, and said the withdrawal should be on US Department of Labor stationery, so it would not look like the White House had anything to do with it
Most immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the twenty--first century come from
the South (Latin America) and the East( Asia)
This quiz is to help you learn how to read a Census Bureau report, because the CB produces so many useful reports about jobs and the economy, so let's start with an easy question --- who runs the Census Bureau?
the US gov
Tortilla chips are given their little bit of curl by
the application of heat
the so-called Robber Barons who built the railroads in the West preferred not to be called Robber Barons, but to be called, instead,
the associates
Why do you think that troops, police, and others with weapons were not simply marched into the auto plant to kick out the sit down strikers?
the company did not want its machinery harmed
To insure that men, women, and children would work as slaves, the most important and essential incentive the planters and slave owners used was
the constant threat of force and violence
This article suggests that one of the two factors below has resulted in fewer undocumented immigrants coming to the US from Mexico -- which is the factor that has reduced this immigration?
the economies of Mexico and the US (where the jobs are)
In other words, this article suggests that the net result of having a strong and very expensive Border Patrol is
the exact opposite of what was intended when the Border Patrol was "beefed up"
The first essentials you must have to do some urban farming are
the first three above
The quiet jazz music on this video is provided by a group called
the george benson quartet
If someone works in the "public sector" of our economy, it means they work
the governmental
The generation who fought World War 2 and then participated in the greatest most prolonged economic boom in US history are sometimes called
the greatest generation
Aaron closed the interview by saying that teachers are entitled to
the highest respect in honor
When the police could not end the sit down strike in the Battle of the Running Bulls (police were called 'bulls' in those days), who was called in to try to end the strike and failed to do it?
the national guard
Mike has "job security", the guarantee that he has a continuing job, by virtue of
the need of the company for his services right now
As early as 1787, even before the Bill of Rights was approved, the members of the pre-Constitutional Congress had already outlawed slavery where?
the northwest territory
The economist who developed a theory, early in the twentieth century, about 'compulsive commodity consumption', was named
Thorstein Veblen
One of the earliest discoveries of oil in the United States, from which the oil industry grew, was in what town?
Titusville, Pennsylvania
The African American Army Air Force group which flew bombing missions all over Europe during World War Two was called the __________________ Airmen
Tuskeegee
After Frank Murphy served as Governor of MIchigan and helped bring the sit down strikes to a successful conclusion by not sending in the military to quell the strike, he went on to become a
US Supreme Court Justice
Trumka delivered his speech to which Union's convention in 2008?
United Steel Workers
One way to describe the intent of the National Labor Relations Act is
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
In this lecture, USSR stands for
United street sellers
Gabe Thompson talks to one child laborer near the end, whom he meets in a restaurant, whom Gabe gives the fake name of:
Ventura
Walter Reuther's brother's first name was
Victor
What state was Dred Scott born in?
Virginia
During World War Two, labor relations were governed by a Federal agency known as the
War Labor Board
Which people are not immigrants to the North American continent who came from other continents at some time or another?
We are all immigrants to North America
And the name of the Carpenters Union president, who got punched?
William Hutchensen
The founding editor of The Liberator, a newspaper which favored the abolition of slavery, was
William Loyd Garrison
The co-author of Novella's newest book is named (go ahead, get reckless, look it up on Amazon.com!)
Willow Rosenthal
What County and what State did Gabe Thompson work in when he worked in tobacco fields?
Wilson County North Carolina
Senator Gaylord Nelson, who is credited with establishing an annual Earth Day, was the Senator from what State?
Wisconsin
Your two California Senators are both
Women
The name of Gabriel Thompson's Book is
Working in the Shadows
A small number of Native Americans of California, who numbered between 250,000 and 300,000, when the Europeans arrived, were brought to Missions by all but one of the following. Which is the one by which they were NOT brought to the Missions?
Xbox video games
Did the laws governing slavery in Southern States limit the rights of whites in any way?
Yes
Rich Trumka gave his speech just before November, 2008, as part of his efforts to have one particular candidate elected as President of the United States. Based on the kinds of things he said, and the beliefs he expressed, did his candidate win the 2008 Presidential election?
Yes
Most of the lettuce you buy in the winter from supermarkets comes from around what city?
Yuma
Mike could not get a permanent job at the San Francisco Department of Public Health because he did not have
a Masters in Public Health
The video had to be cut short because
a baby was crying
A "cooper" is
a barrel maker
It took a while, but Danny kept working on developing a full and complete what?
a business plan
Mayor Rossi made certain demands in his speech to the City ( a speech in which he looks nervous, like he is not used to being filmed for a newsreel), including this one, which politicians always make when people are trying to change things by going to the streets:
a demand for law and order
Apple Computers started out in
a garage
Overall, Aaron seems to believe that the introduction of computers into the class room is
a good thing
Domination of one race by another, by use of strict regimentation, military enforcement, and religious conversions, resulted in
a hell on earth that disintegrated as soon as the military left
During the 19th century, agriculture was the main work and main means of support for
a majority of americans
When you go to the polls in November (as I hope you will) and cast your ballot for President of the United States, who are you really voting for?
a member of the Electoral College who will vote for your choice
The Homestead Act provided all but one of the following. What is the one that does not belong in the list?
a mule
Professor Reich suggests one idea that might help improve the economy involving 18 year olds when they graduated high school, which involved giving them
a nest egg of $60,000 to get started in life
The primary difference between being a "contract" employee versus being a "permanent" employee is that
a permanent gets health care benefits
The way Gabe describes it, church on Sunday for these immigrants is
a place where there is community and a sense of belonging
Martin Luther King, Jr. suggested that the language in the Declaration of Independence which said that all men were created equal and had the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness was actually
a promissory note to all Americans
The actions of Governor Frank Murphy and President Franklin Roosevelt showed that in order for workers to win Union rights in the United States, they needed what?
a strong active government to balance against the power of corporations
A 3PL is a
a third-party logistics company
To be an indentured servant meant to be
a worker who had contracted years of their lives away to someone else
Even though slavery continued until the end of the Civil War in 1865, Congress totally outlawed any slaves being brought into the United States by the slave trade in
1808
The First Industrial Revolution in the United States started in which decade?
1830's
People in how many countries celebrated Earth Day in the year 2000?
184
According to this song, in what decade did the Irish come to the United States "to work upon the railroad"?
1840's
The rail route through the Sierras, with 1600 feet of tunnels blown and cut through solid granite, which is still used and visable from Interstate 80 when you drive to Lake Tahoe and Reno via Interstate 80, was first begun in the Spring of
1866
The Union Pacific coming from the East, and the Central Pacific, coming from the West, finally met each other and were joined with a Golden Spike in what year?
1869
The Pullman Strike took place in
1894
President Hoover was elected in what year?
1928
African American men from the South were integrated into the work in the shipyards building ships for World War 2 in what year?
1943
African American women were integrated into the workforce at the shipyards to build ships as so-called "Rosie the Riveters" in what year?
1944
The most explosive year of strikes in post-World War 2 America was
1946
What year did this strike take place in?
1968
Earth Day was first celebrated in what year?
1970
At the end of this short clip, it tells you a website where you can watch the whole movie from which this clip is taken. You may want to do that. Even if you do not watch the whole movie, watch it long enough to answer the question of what year this film was made in. (I hope you will watch more - but answering this question will at least get you to where the film is....)
1975
In what year did President Reagan fire thousands of workers, all on one day?
1981
n what year did scientists discover that there is a huge hole in the ozone layer that surrounds Planet Earth, a hole which lets in lots of harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun?
1984
A law was finally passed in the United States banning the dumping of garbage in the Oceans in what year?
1988
Youth Radio started when?
1992
Genetically modified tomatoes started being grown and introduced into our food supply in what year?
1994
One of the great achievements of the first wave of the womens' movement, at the beginning of the 20th century, was the passage of the ___________________ Amendment to the US Constitution, which FOR THE FIRST TIME, guaranteed women the right to vote. (Think about that -- the Founders of this Nation denied the right to participate in democracy to women, to African Americans, and to any men without property -- consider that when people treat the Constitution as some kind of Holy Document, instead of as a living document which MUST be re-interpreted and changed over time if it is to be useful -- ah well, this is not really appropriately part of a quiz question -- I just "got going"....)
19th
The First Industrial Revolution in the United States took place in the first decades of the
19th century
When Martin Jackson was five years old, he was made the personal property of a master who was how old?
2 years old
Danny suggested that a good commercial bread oven, with 4 bakers tending it, can bake how many loaves of bread per day?
2,000
The CEO for Labor Ready gets paid about how much a year?
2,000,000
The National Guard came in when fighting became really intense. How many armed National Guardsmen were sent in?
2,500
For Christmas , this particular warehouse had to fulfill how many orders?
2.7 million
The last person to touch the lettuce leaves in the bagged lettuce you buy in the supermarket was
the person who picked it in the field
Paul Feyeraband says that facts come from
the poweful
"Piece rate" means
the rate you are paid is by the piece instead of by the hour
To gather up the grains and hay crops, this farm woman and her children used what? (Please note that this question is to remind you that when you read serious non-fiction graphic comix, you need to do more than just read the words -- every drawing is there for a reason....)
their own hands
Professor Ton suggests that even if a store reduces the number of products it has, and people come in and can't find the product they are used to getting there, they will be okay with that and still buy something else at the store, if
there are intelligent, cross-trained sales people around to explain what other products will do just as well as the missing product
The first factor Novella stated as a reason that urban farming is spreading so rapidly right now is that
there is a recession
Under Federal law (not California law!), what is the overtime rate for farmworkers when they work 12 hours a day?
there is no Federal overtime for farmworkers
A worker in 1960 produced a certain amount of things, and he/she got paid a certain wage for producing those things. Since that time, technology and other things make it possible for that same worker to produce lots and lots more things. That's called "an increase in productivity." Each worker can produce more. Since the worker is producing more things for his/her company, and the company therefore makes more money, you would expect that the worker would get an increase in wages for each hour of work. If the worker was being paid the minimum wage in 1960, and he/she shared in the results of increased productivity by getting an increase in wages equal to the percentage of increase in productivity, how much would the minimum wage be today?
about $22.00 per hour
Just a bit more arithmetic, so you can keep track of what is real over the next years of your life --- let's say my salary is the same today as it was in 1998. During that time, prices have gone up an average of about 2% per year. How much less is my REAL salary now? Or, to put it differently, how much LESS can I buy now than I could in 1998?
about 30% less
The AFL CIO has approximately how many Unions in it right now?
about 56
This article says approximately how many undocumented immigrants file tax returns each year?
about 6 million
Juliet Schor determined, in The Overworked American, that my generation, the baby boomers, worked how much more each year than my father's generation, the Greatest Generation?
about a month of hours more each year
The demonstrations in the last 2 videos took place
about a year ago
The Chinese workers were paid how much compared to what the Big Four (including Leland Stanford, after whose son the University was named) paid white workers?
about one third less
Neuwirth's hair appears to be
absent
The name of Robert Reich's book, which all of you should read, which is the focus of this most recent video, is
aftershock
The largest cell phone company in Nigeria sells
air time
I said "skybnb" was a website where you could find a cheap room or couch to rent for a night -- I was totally wrong -- well, not totally wrong, but close to totally -- I had the right idea but wrong name -- the name is related but different -- this is an exercise in google research -- can you find the right name for the website?
airbnb
The urban farmer Novella met in Detroit was feeding his horses and goats by growing what over an area of three city blocks?
alfalfa
In August 2011, the US Department of Labor proposed regulations which would have limited some child labor, including which of the following?
all four of the bans named in these answers
At the end of the 19th century, when people talked about "class conflict", they were referring to
all of above
Immigrants come to the United States and often settle with people from their native land because
all of above
According to Rosa Starke, there were only two classes of whites in the South during slavery. They were
all of the above
Beyond simply earning money, Reich points out that to have a fulfilled and satisfying life, as opposed to an impoverished life that includes only money, one must also have
all of the above
Changes in work conditions can be changed by
all of the above
Characteristics of informal economies include
all of the above
Gabe suggests that the Hispanics who work in this awful plant do so because
all of the above
If too much wealth of a nation is owned and controlled by just 1% of the nation's people, what happens, according to Professor Reich?
all of the above
Juliet Schor suggests, in her book called True Wealth, that clothes are no longer worn simply to cover ourselves and to stay warm, but also to engage in
all of the above
Slavery has had profound effects on work relations even to the current day. These effects include which of the following?
all of the above
The "melting pot" theory suggested that all immigrants to the United States, no matter where they came from, all "melted together" into one people because they shared
all of the above
The large manufacturing companies which shut down their plants in Oakland included
all of the above
The new farm machinery introduced to take farming to a much larger scale and to a much more productive level included
all of the above
This modern farmer depends on which of the following to get his crops grown?
all of the above
This video, made in 2001, before 9/11, when George W Bush had just been elected President, included a discussion of how Bush might spend the huge surplus that Clinton had piled up -- which of the following did Bush spend the surplus on until there was a humongously huge deficit by the time he was finished as President?
all of the above
To keep inquiring people out of the Nike factory, the company uses which of the following?
all of the above
Undocumented workers get paid lower wages and as a result, you pay less for
all of the above
Users of the new "app" are expected to include
all of the above
When undocumented immigrants flee their housing in places like Arizona and Alabama because sharply anti-immigrant laws are ennacted by State Legislatures, which of the following kinds of jobs disappear, too?
all of the above
Which of the following does the public sector include?
all of the above
If the super rich do not pay their fair share of taxes, what happens?
all of the aboved
Professor Ton says that 30% of us will work in low paying below-poverty-level-wage jobs by 2020, and that these do not have to be BAD jobs if employers raise wages AND do which of the following?
all of the other four choices in this set of answers
Some of the afflictions that strike most of the workers at the plant include
all of these
The bad part of picking books out for shipping was that
all the above
The problems Danny pointed to when asked about the "down side" of doing this included
all three times
By drastically limiting the taxes people and corporations pay on property in California, the amount devoted to education per pupil in states like New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts is how much greater than in California?
almost twice as much per student
According to Aaron, people who teach for their whole careers will
always be with us because we need them
Immigrants to the New World were and are
ambitious courageous and self-sacrificing Correct
The AFT is the
american federation of teachers
Time for a bit of 'research' --- what is the "glass ceiling"?
an invisible ceiling that limits the rise of women in the American workforce
While you are young, it is better to see unemployment as
an opportunity to shape my future
When a Court issues an Injunction, it is issuing what?
an order
Reich focuses on the structural change he thinks is the greatest problem with the current economy, which is
an unequal distribution of wealth that favors the super rich
This news report said President Reagan, who was once a Union leader of the Screen Actors Guild, during which time he was also a secret informer for the FBI, was in what kind of emotional state when he did this huge firing?
angry
The first Union video points out that Unions brought all but one of the following; which one is NOT a product of Unions' hard work?
anti-discrimination laws
Initial government funding was not responsible for which of the following?
apple computers
Daron Acemoglu suggests that the nations which do best and have the healthiest and most prosperous economies are the ones in which
as many people as possible feel that they are earning their "fair share"
When I want to say I am providing a broad overview of something, I say that I am flying
at thirty thousand
Which of these, at least as far as the lecture this week put it, was most transformative?
automobiles
The term Lissa used to describe the credentials which are being developed to show that someone has expertise in a given area is
badging
The famous Lochner decision of the United States Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a New York State law which attempted to limit the work hours each day of what kind of workers?
bakers
Which of these jobs did Gabe NOT work on for Labor Ready?
baking tortes and cupcakes at exclusive restaurant
The Amish incorporate some new technology, like engines, but very slowly and they draw lines as to when they will use engiines and when they will rely on animals and human for energy. For which of the following do they use engines?
belt drives
Aaron says that greater parent involvement in a child's education leads to
better education
In Neuwirth's opinion, is the Oshedi Market better in 2009, better in 2007, or about the same in both years?
better in 2007
The 4 point agenda Mary Kay talked about did NOT include which of the following points?
better public transportation
The fascinating book which J.Anthony Lukas wrote about this early 20th century period is called
big trouble
The primary extractive industries driving the Second Industrial Revolution were
both
The need for corporations to be ever more competitive, and to have ever more hustle, has resulted in an end to what, in Reich's opinion?
both kinds of loyalty
The dreams, hopes, and fantasies of many of the 60's generation, the Baby Boomers, as they went through their early adult years, was of a world where what was re-distributed?
both of above
Danny is also in touch with people who are building their own businesses in
both of the above
The United States Socialist Party wanted workers to control
both of the above
The so-called Great Depression was caused in part by
both of the above
The farm workers who came to work in the fields of the Southwest during the 1950's were part of a ____________ program.
bracero
As often happens when people start their own off the grid businesses, they start by going in one direction but find that the market pulls them in another direction -- although Danny started with the idea of making a living selling bread that he bakes, what is he currently making his living from?
bread baking classes
Where in Oakland, Ca., is the main Youth Radio headquarters?
broadway
One result of using the same work technology from one generation to the next is that the generations are
brought closer together
Lissa's undergraduate degree is from
brown university
He referred to the idea that he would be able to tell his family and kids that he helped
build a certain road or airport terminal
Novella's friend works with City Slicker Farms, in Oakland, which
builds gardens in hundreds of West Oakland backyards
When slave Jenny Proctor ate a biscuit she founds in her Mistress's house, how was she punished?
by being beaten until her back was raw and then having salt rubbed in the raw wounds
Slavery's introduction into and ovewhelming use on the North American continent in the area that became the United States of America was
by choice of certain human beings
How did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) help resolve the giant General Motors Strike, which led to the first contract between GM and the UAW?
by insisting that the company to sit down and negotiate with the Union
In what year was this video made?
2011
The soldiers and religious leaders who came north from Mexico all the way up to Sonoma established how many Missions?
21
The American Revolution took place about how long ago?
230
According to Bloomberg News, the US ranks where in terms of the current purchasing power of the minimum wage, in comparison to the 25 most industrialized countries in the world?
24th of 25th
Here's one to research a bit -- what was the first minimum wage for the nation when the FLSA was ennacted by Congress in 1938?
25 cents an hour
What percentage of the American populace moved from farms to cities during the World War Two years?
25 percent
Before the arrival of Europeans and the way in which we have filled this State until it has some 38 million people at present, the original tribes which inhabited the entire state had how many people in them altogether, in the whole area of the State of California?
250,000
Randy Weingarten said the American Jobs Act would keep how many teachers in classrooms across the United States?
280,000
In the old mills, how many 8 hour shifts were there in each 24 hour day?
3
Of the undocumented immigrants in the US today, how many came as children, and therefore are usually more "at home" in the US than in their country of origin?
3 million
Mary Estes Peters explained that she was born as the result of
3 young white sons of the Master raping her mother repeatedly
Aaron says that currently, what percentage of California's children are in charter schools?
3%
Once the General Strike got violent, and the struck companies tried to re-open the Ports with non-union workers, often called "scabs", the newsreel says fighting broke out between 700 police and how many strikers??
3,000
The owner of the Works, Andrew Carnegie, and his CEO, Henry Clay Frick, locked out how many steel workers in the 1892 strike?
3,800
The crew Gabe worked on had how many workers in it?
30
Approximately how long was the lunch break?
30 min
Approximately how many children work as "hired hands" in American agriculture in these times?
300,000
During WW2, women workers helped produce how many airplanes?
300,000
How old was Mac when she wrote this article?
31
Approximately how many Americans are now either "poor" or "near poor", and therefore may need to take jobs like the ones Mac describes in this warehouse?
33%
In 1675, London, the largest city in Europe at that time had a population of
350,000
When someone spends a whole workday in a wet tobacco field, it is the equivalent of absorbing the nicotine from how many cigarettes?
36 cigarettes
Cleveland Ohio, which once had a population of almost one million when it was at its full industrial height in the 1960's, now has approximately how many living there now that it has deindustrialized?
375,000
How many cities is Youth Radio located in?
4
The strikers won the General Strike by getting the companies to go to arbitration over the strike issues after how many days of general striking?
4
When I did the interview with Danny, how many days a week was Sour Flour baking bread?
4
The Ohlones lived in approximately how many different small tribes or groups?
40
To stop the US Department of Labor from securing new regulations limiting child labor, a corporate-funded lobbying group that pretends to care about family farms, called the American Farm Bureau, used how many lobbyists and how much money?
40 lobbyists and $5 million a year
The average life time (life span) of an Ohlone was approximately
40 years
Aaron says that currently, what percent of American families do not have internet access at home?
40%
Approximately what percentage of all goods imported into the United States of America come in through the Los Angeles/Long Beach port?
40%
How much of all the US's wealth has the richest 1% hogged for itself?
40%
In 2003, how many school busses across the country were retro-fitted to reduce harmful emissions?
40,000
In its first year, 2009, Sour Flour's total income was $7,000, but its income for just the first quarter of 2012, says Danny, is already
40,000
At this one warehouse, just during the months of October through December, approximately how many people will be hired?
4000
How man factories does this website say have closed in the USA since 2001?
42,400
The schools of the town where the poultry plant is located now have what percentage of children being Hispanic, as opposed to the 2% who were Hispanic in 1989, before the plant opened?
45%
Although men were loading 12.5 tons of pig iron a day, how many tons did Frederick Taylor say they should load?
47
President Reagan told the striking workers that they had how many hours to get back to work or be permanently fired?
48
In the Spring time, this farmer has to get up at what time to get all the work done each day?
4:35am
That regulatory agency has how many members who act like a little regulatory court?
5
n discussing the idea of a national wealth tax on the net worth of people, Reich mentions that Bill Gates' total wealth is equal to the wealth of what percentage of all the American people?
50%
Aaron said the California budget crisis, started by Proposition 13, and now critical because of the economic recession/depression we are in, has resulted in the 'downsizing' of school administrations all over the state. He pointed out that in the Oakland School District, the administration was how much smaller than before the crisis?
50% smaller
How many undocumented immigrants actually pay income taxes each year?
50% to 75%
If 10 percent of Americans (35 million people) have 50% of America's wealth in a given year, how much does that leave for the other 90% (about 315 million people)?
50%, the same as the 10% have
According to Novella, if you raise chickens in your backyard in Oakland, there is no charge, but if you raise them in your backyard in El Cerrito, you have to buy a permit for how much?
500
Gabe says Labor Ready hires about how many every year?
500,000
The flight of undocumented immigrants out of the US when the economy went down and government enforcement became much fiercer resulted in how many dwellings being left unoccupied?
500,000
How many Representatives plus Senators are there altogether in the United States Congress?
535
As of March, 2010, what percentage of all public employees in State and Local governments were employed in education ?
56.8%
What time do people have to show up at Labor Ready office so they can sit around for 4 or 5 hours waiting to get a day job?
5:30 am
Meanwhile, back in the video, how long did it take Danny to bake his first 1000 loaves of bread and give them away, so he would know what he was doing?
6 months
The person going through the apprenticeship program said he would have to accumulate how many hours of training to complete the program? (coincidentally, more hours than to get a BA at a college!)
6,000
In the single year of 1937 what percentage of the workers involved in labor disputes actually joined Unions?
60%
What percentage of Puerto Ricans stayed in Puerto Rico during the great migration to New York City in the decades after World War 2?
60%
The Civil War, fought to determine whether work in the United States would be performed by free people or slaves, and thus a War which had a direct impact on how YOU work, resulted in death to how many people?
600,000 to 900,000
While property taxes could only go up 1 to 1.5% per year, how much was California property value skyrocketing through the 90's and 00's?
6to 8 %
Undocumented immigrants cannot get Social Security when they retire, but they contribute how much each year that goes into the general pool for the rest of us?
7 billion
Mary Kay says that SEIU has a 4 point program which is called the "________ Agenda".
99%
If the research is correct, and raising the minimum wage does NOT result in any loss of jobs, and only very slight increases in prices, why do you suppose fast food restaurant owners do NOT want the minimum wage to go up?
: Because higher wages would mean less profits for them to keep for themselves
Gabe suggests that the work at the chicken plant is more skilled or less skilled than the work cutting lettuce in the fields of the Southwest?
: less skilled in chicken plant
Who is Elizabeth Warren, anyway?
A United States Senator from the State of Massachusetts
The imaginary contract of indenture presented in the powerpoint from the London Company offered land and a new start in the New World in return for what?
A contractual commitment to work for 7 years for another person
The Union which led this strike and was eventually recognized by the City government, after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis, is named
AFSCME
This company makes replacement parts for what?
car engines
Aaron says one critical element which is missing from Teach for America, which he thinks has been very good in other areas, is
career pipeline
The group that dressed up like Native Americans and dumped boxes of English tea in the Boston Harbor in 1775 were all
carpenters and woodworkers
And while we are on the website, one more question -- what is the name of another baker at Sour Flour who has now baked her first 1000 loaves of sour dough bread?
cat
CTW, when speaking of Unions, stands for
change to win
Chief Justice Tawney thought he had settled the slavery question once and for all by writing in the Dred Scott decision that slaves are
chattel
The journalism story which Dr. Soep discussed as one which won awards for Youth Radio and led to further stories elsewhere on the web, etc., after it aired on NPR Radio, was all about
child sex trafficking
Aaron says one of the most important things that senior teachers learn and use is
classroom management experience
The rhythm of work, tied to the seasons and the rising and falling of the sun for thousands of years, was tied to what once factories were capable of operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
clocks
The "stimulus" bill which Congress passed and President Obama signed provided about how much money to be "pumped into" the US economy to avoid another Great Depression like the one in the 1930's?
close to $1 trillion dollars
As far as the National Labor Relations Act is concerned, the primary purpose of Unions is to
collectively bargain for better wages and work conditions
When Novella uses the term CSA, she means
community supported agriculture
One problem in our economy today is that
compensation as a percent of GDP is going down
Aaron believes it is a good idea to have all kinds of schools in California, including private, public, charter, home, and so on because
competition will encourage all schools to become better
The work arrangements for the Native Americans in the Missions sound like
concentration camp
One industry that suffered substantial job losses in the Great Recession that we are still not out of, and consequently an industry where many immigrants lost jobs, is
contruction
Once farm machinery was fully introduced to the American farm, our largest crop became
corn
That Proposition limited the increase in property taxes not just on residential property, but also on vastly more valuable
corporate skyscrapers
The business has now been set up as a
corporation
The first multi-story brick factories, in New England, were built for the manufacturing of
cotton thread and cloth
The word often used for the "middlemen" who take pay in return for smuggling immigrants across the southern border of the United States is
coyote
One website where the 'shadow' economy is very much present is
craiglist.org
Aaron quotes President Obama as saying "Never let a good _________ go to waste."
crisis
DDT, PCB's, and CFC's are all
deadly toxins that are not outlawed
The term which is usually used for the decrease in manufacturing and production of goods in the United States and the export of our manufacturing industries to other nations of the world, like Mexico, Taiwan, China and India, is often called
deindustrialization
The "cost of living" is tracked and computed for us, according to this lecture, by
department of labor
The General Strike referred to in Question 1 was started by
department store women clerks
Aaron says that the "cutting edge" for the use of computers in education is in
differentiated one on one learning
The General Strike of 1934 in San Francisco was led by
dock workers
The informal "shadow" economy Neuwirth is trying to describe does or does not include slavery, organ trading, and drugs?
does not include them
The Amish find happiness and satisfaction in
doing work together
The plaque honoring Chinese laborers is on the shore of
donner lake
In public education today, the so-called "tragedy of the commons" is that \
each community just raises money for and supports its own school district only
The boxes of cell phones in China sitting on the sidewalk waiting to be sent to Nigeria were addressed to
eddy
Title IX, adopted in 1972, gives women equal rights in
educational opportunities
The modern economic landscape that emerged at the end of World War Two included all but one of the following; which one?
electronic communication
Aaron says at the end of this video that it is very important, with respect to teachers, to
elevate their status in our society
How much less per hour were women paid for doing the same work as men in the plant where Walter Reuther's brother worked?
eleven cents per hour
Title VII of the EEOA protected women on a national level from discrimination in
employment
Time for a little quick research -- the lecture refers to this being the "New Gilded Age" -- when was the first so-called "Gilded Age" in the United States?
end of the 19th century
The original dream of the armed soldiers and religious leaders who came north to establish Missions was NOT to do which of the following?
establish slave camps that Indios would escape from
What kind of church did Gabe go to with the workers at the poultry plant?
evangellical
One of the most important aspects that is absolutely necesssary in the process of improving your product, according to Dr. Soep, is
failure
The most importan t Federal law to limit child labor in the United States is called
fair labor standards act
If you work anywhere in the "service sector", what we sometimes mis-label the "white collar" or "pink collar" jobs, you don't have to "get your hands dirty." True or false?
false
Slavery only existed in the Southern states of the United States. True or false?
false
So-called 'off the grid' 'informal' 'shadow' 'parallel economies are a quite new phenomenon -- they did not exist historically -- true or fals
false
Early farming in the Northern states was done mostly by
families
The name of Novella's best selling book is
farm city
A game being played by millions of girls and women everywhere, on Facebook, is called
farmville
Most the people who did the work in the first factories in America were
females
Aaron identified 3 "major trends" in education in California which have been caused by a lack of adequate resources. Which of the following is NOT one of the three trends?
fewer teachers
The ways of the Ohlone Indians lasted for thousands of years. The Missions lasted for about how many years?
fifty
Before the Chinese workers arrived to help build the transcontinental railroad, only how many miles were built in two full years?
fifty miles
Dr. Soep suggested that one way to acquire new media skills that you may lack is to
find people in your social network who will teach them to you
When the management of Pilgrims' Pride poultry plant found out that Gabe was a journalist and writer writing about his experience at the plant, they
fired his ass immediately
The article describes one man whose wife had a baby during his first week of work, so he missed one day for the birth. The company celebrated this with him by
firing him
That Proposition took California schools FROM what position in terms of excellence as compared to the rest of the educational systems of the United States?
first
The primary kind of video game being produced right now is called a
first person shooter game
From 2000 to 2008, how many jobs does this website say that US companies' affiliated companies have created outside the United States? See slide which states it as its headline; it differs from the graph....
five and a half million
Henry Ford provided enough pay to Ford automobile workers to buy a Ford themselves by paying how much per day for work?
five dollars a day
If you do the math, that group of 15,000 families takes, for themselves, how much income every year, year in and year out?
five hundred twenty five billion dollars
Aaron Sokol worked in a public school system adminstration for how long?
five years
The early Televisions of the 1950's were all of the following, EXCEPT
flat screen
Which of the following did Jim and Leslie NOT find where they lived?
flat screen televisions
All of these were relatively new features of the 1950's culture, EXCEPT
flat screen tv
When I want to say I am looking at a subject from high up, to get a full overview of it, rather than delving into the details, I say I am
flying 30,000 feet
What was necessary for a child born into an Ohlone tribe to do in order to learn their work?
follow and learn the traditional ways shown by family and tribal members
Workers are encouraged to take pain killer pills every 4 hours for how long?
for as long as you work at the plant, even if that is years and years
Abraham Lincoln, looking back at the Founding Fathers, believed and said that he believed that they intended
for slavery to become extinct
The new application being built by the students at Youth Radio is called
forage city
Dr. Soep mentioned a number of foundations which are funding development of credentials acquired in non-traditional ways. Which of these foundations did she NOT mention?
ford foundation
One great advantage that came with moving out West to the prairies to farm is that there is something absent on the prairies. What is the missing part that made farming easier?
forests
Gabe learned from the other workers that it takes how many seasons to become a skilled lettuce cutter?
four or five seasons
The number of PACs (Political Action Committees, which are just giant pots of donated money collected to spend on political campaigns) set up in Washington DC to participate in Federal campaigns increased by what multiplier from 1976 to 1980 alone?
four times the number
An apprenticeship in the building trades, like carpentry, plumbing, electrician, often takes how many years to complete?
four years
Neuwirth calls the informal economy System D relying on what language to reach this title?
french
All but one of the following was characteristic of early factories. Which does NOT fit with the rest
full freedom of speech
One way, but just one of many, in which the Civil War prepared the United States for the Second Industrial Revolution, mentioned in this lecture, was
getting men used to organizing forces of thousands of men to work together
The State and local governments gave the company land, sewage lines, and everything necessary for the plant because they thought that in return they would receive
good jobs for their residents
Aaron says the greatest shortcoming of an online service like K-12 is that it does NOT teach what
good social skills
Once the United States had freed themselves from Great Britain, to whom did mst of the land out West belong to?
government
The flow chart presented in the powerpoint with this lecture suggests that one of the factors that ennabled companies to defeat workers' strikes in the 19th century was
government aid via presence of troops
Pg.1: That last answer probably taught you something you were not aware of, I know that was true for me; now ---from 1957 to 2007, has the number of employees in education grown or diminished or stayed the same?
grown
By the time George W Bush was President (2000-2008), how much less was the tax rate of millionaires than it had been at the end of World War Two?
half as much
OK -- that was pretty straight forward -- so here's some more arithmetic to do: Your wages go up from $10 to $20 per hour. Wow -- great. But the cost of everthing inflates -- the prices of everything quadruple. What has happened to your REAL wages?
halved
Working at the poultry plant is especially hard for what body parts of the workers?
hands
Did Danny stop working at his computer job right away and just do the new bread business, or did he keep working at that job while he got his 'off the grid" business up and running?
he kept earning money at the computer job while he got up and running in bread
My grandfather came to America as an indentured servant because he wanted
he wanted a better life for himself and his family
All but one of the following industries has moved much of their capacities to other countries than the USA. Which is the one which has NOT?
health care
Characteristics of the "secondary" labor market do NOT include
health care and pension benefits
The Union President whose first name is Mary Kay has the last name of
henry
A man who later became a US President participated in the military leadership of the attack on the Veterans' Bonus March of 1932. Which President?
herbert hoover
After a 7 day strike, the next paychecks of the Chinese workers were
higher
When Gabe would apply for low paying immigrants' jobs and employers would see that he was white, they would offer him
higher paying jobs with less work
The way Mike got his "foot in the door" into the video game industry was
his brother
What was the "work" of the Ohlone tribe members?
hunting & gathering & cooking & basketmaking andother activities for about 3.5 hours a day
In the 1930's, when people wanted to see actual events, and not just hear about them on the radio or read about them in newspapers, they could see the events where?
in movie theaters
Where did the young women live?
in same-sex barracks, 6 to a room
While the strike and lockout was going on, where did the owner, Andrew Carnegie go to show just how courageous he really was?
in the Highlands of Scotland
Most marijuana which is grown in Novella's neighborhood is grown where?
in warehouses
Powerful social movements did not change which of the following labor relations systems?
independent contractors
One way to talk about the underlying technology that is used in any particular historical era is to call it that era's
infrastructure
Aaron said there are two important ways to improve education in California. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways he pointed out?
involving political leaders more directly in oversight of schools
Factory work in a place cranking out tortillas
is highly technological and skilled
According to this article, the real result of having a strong Border Patrol out patrolling the Mexican Border and arresting and interdicting and imprisoning and deporting undocumented immigrants is
it forces undocumented immigrants to stay in the USA
From about 1979 to about 2007, about how much did the income of the top 1% go up?
it quadrupled
The term Lissa uses when she refers to the need to constantly update software to make it better and better, and more responsive to users' needs, is
iteration
Randy Weingarten stated that the most important issues of the 2012 election are
jobs and the economy
He explains at the end that farmers are individualists, and, as a result, they don't much like
joining organizations
Womens' organizer Dorothy Kraus explained that the diversion worked, and the workers were able to seize a second plant for a sit down because the company's forces were
just plain stupid
Martin Luther King, Jr. liked the quote that "the arc of history is long, but it bends towards ___________"
justice
the room Novella is interviewed in is obvioulsy her
kitchen
Mistress Miller required her house slave to stand and do what work, even into the night, when she would fall asleep standing up?
knitting
As long as you've found your way to the website, what is the name of the bakery in the Mission District where Sour Flour seems to be doing its baking?
la victoria
Labor Ready specializes in providing which kind of workers?
labor collar
Economists as far back as the 1960's realized that if work were evenly and fairly re-distributed, basic necessities could be provided for all in American society if all worked about how many hours each day? (I am not asking the more difficult question, which I would ask if we were in a small live seminar --- "why haven't we re-distributed work so we all work less?", but you might want to think about that!)
less than four
If the informal economy produces more jobs for more people in a given nation, then this should result in at least some
lesser inquality
When Novella talks about "squatting" on land, she means
living on or using land which does not belong to her legally
Robert Reich's main concern in this particular interview, completed in 2001, was
making sure the country has a strong middle class
Which fruits did I talk about being grown in Haiti?
mangos
The person who first taught Gabe how to cut lettuce was named
manuel
In order to promote their brands, large corporations often depend on products from
many different smaller suppliers of goods
At this particular moment in history, the internet allows for
many people to do digital distribution of their plans and ideas
Which one of us is eating sour dough bread with butter in the course of the video
me
Workers in a modern food production factory look like
medical techinicans in a hospital
On each floor of a Lowell mill, the two supervisors for the 80 young women were
men
One of the other jobs Gabe writes about besides picking lettuce is being a delivery boy for what kind of restaurant?
mexican
Which of these four is NOT a sector of the economy we refer to in this lecture?
military
Time for some research on the internet: what neighborhood of San Francisco is the Labor Ready office in?
mission district
Farmers were encouraged to grow larger crops in the 1830's by the advent of
modern modes of transportation which could be used to get crops to market
Aaron argued that parents should have
more choice of schools for their children
Aaron identified "two trends" emerging as the result of greater computer use in California classrooms. Which of the following is NOT one of those trends?
more plagerism, less creativity, and more internalization of robotic computerized behavioral responses
Approximately how many Americans does this website say are living in poverty?
more than 40 million
Workers who are represented by Unions earn
more than non-Union workers
What percentage of private sector workers are NOT in Unions?
more than one percent
Did California's first Constitution include legalized slavery in it?
no
Did Susan participate in signing the contract that pledged her life away for so many years?
no
Does Professor Ton believe that low wage jobs have to be bad jobs, that the trade off for low prices at stores is that the stores have to have lots of people working in bad jobs?
no
Is St John's University the only university in the United States which takes money from manufacturers in return for its athletes wearing and using that company's equipment?
no
Is overtime work something you can refuse to do at this warehouse if you have other committments, say, for child care or care of a sick parent?
no
Taylor's theory was that if "scientific management" resulted in workers doing more work, and thus making a workplace more productive and more profitable, owners of workplaces would raise wages to share the increased income with workers --- according to the video, did this part of his plan actually work out that way?
no
The American Revolution happened from 1775 to 1781. Washington finally won it in a battle at Yorkstown. Did that spell the end of slavery in New York City?
no
Is it possible to understand modern work relations in the United States without first understanding that for much of our history, slavery was the most important form of labor relations that existed?
no possible way
Is the United States the top country in the world with respect to internet availability and usage, since we are the nation where it was invented and first developed
no way
The Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution is the _______________ Amendment to the US Constitution.
none of the above
OK, some arithmetic -- if your wages are doubled from $8 an hour to $16 an hour, and the cost of living also doubles, how much have your REAL wages gone up?
not at all
About what part of the Union movement's members are women?
one half
Neuwirth estimates that a large part of the world's workers work in the shadow economy, the informal economy, the 'off the books' economy -- what part?
one half of the worlds workers
Tiger Woods' contract for publicizing and wearing Nike sportswear is for how much money?
one hundred million dollars
According to this story, Maddy Parlier could be replaced by a robotic arm which costs about
one hundred thousand dollars
In Connecticut, a New England state in the north of the United States, during the era of slavery, one in how many Connecticut'ers owned slaves?
one in four
Nigeria is Africa's largest country by far, in terms of population, with how many of Africa's people
one in six
This article suggests that as a result of undocumented immigrants losing jobs in the recent economic downturn, about how many people who were properly documented and "legal" lost their jobs?
one million
Humans were replaced by machines to such an extent in the growing of food that in the 150 years from 1830 to 1980, it took much less labor to produce 100 bushels of wheat. How much less labor? (You will have to do a bit of arithmetic to get this answer -- which I know you can all do -- because you must to survive in the 21st century!)
one one hundredth as much
About what part of the Union movement's members have college degrees?
one third
The person who tells about how he is learning how to use heavy duty construction equipment is becoming a member of which Union?
operating engineers
Does Aaron close this video two by saying he is pessimistic like the media stories you read, or that he is optimistic about the possibilities for good education in California?
optimistic
Is Reich
optimistic because the US finds a way out of every economic recession and depression
According to this video, about how many strikers were involved in the SF General Strike of 1934, which shut down the entire city?
over 100,000
That largest corporation in the world employs about how many workers around the world?
over two million
The break room where workers take their breaks at this poultry plant has one wall full of dispensers of soda and greasy food, and one wall full of dispensers of
pain killers
Henry Coleman would swing over the dining table to brush away flies from the food with a feather brush made from what kind of feathers?
peacock feathers
When David Broderick and David Terry fought a duel near Lake Merced just south of the SFSU campus, the man who was killed was a supporter of
Abolition of Slavery and the North
the first three above
About half the 7 billion people in the world work. The rest do not primarily because
To get the Transcontinental Railroad built, which President signed the Pacific Railroad Act?
Abraham Lincoln
The first American to die in the American Revolution was
African American
What state is the Pilgrims' Pride poultry plant in?
Alabama
Slavery benefited which of the following groups in early America?
All of the above or none
The number one online retailer in the US right now is
Amazon
Bacon grease was saved during World War 2 because it was useful for manufacturing
Ammunition
The name of the national passenger railroad created after the first Earth Day to provide an alternative to driving long distances between American cities is
Amtrak
The first name of Carnegie, the owner of the Homestead Steel Works, was
Andrew
The President most responsible for driving the Native Americans of the South onto the Trail of Tears was
Andrew Jackson
The first name of the Mayor during the General Strike of 1934 was... (dont look in video, it is not there -- time to do a bit of internet searching...and I hope you noticed you had to do it earlier in some other quizzes this week!)....
Angelo
One nation in South America which has huge natural resources and riches but has been unable to grow an economy like the United States is
Argentina
The farmers who had to leave the Great Dust Bowl in Oklahoma and other states of the Great Plains often headed to California but stopped to pick crops in what state before they reached the crops of California?
Arizona
The lettuce fields Gabe worked in were in
Arizona
The reformer who took over leadership of the United Mineworkers Union after Tony Boyle went to prison for ordering the killing of Jock Yoblonski was named
Arnold
"Workampers" are
people who live in RVs and go from warehouse to warehouse for work
Lewis Powell told American business it must "assiduously" cultivate political power to succeed -- what did he mean by "assiduously"?
persistently
The "sharing time" at church on Sunday morning allowed immigrant workers to share experiences that were
personal private and painful
In 1937, could newspapers print photographs in their pages, or did they still rely on drawings and etchings to show pictures of what was happening?
photographs
This farm woman, who was alive when Studs interviewed her in the 1970's, had learned to write using
piece of clay
Which GM Plant did the Union decide it had to seize after a month of sitting down, in order to create new spirit and energy for the strike?
plant four
In order to be able to seize that second plant, where did the Union create a diversionary pretend strike?
plant nine
Which of the following occupations was NOT filled by slaves in early America?
plantation owners
Which of the following was not used in the planting process?
plantractonator
Which of the following materials was NOT used in constructing the harness placed on the horse ?
plastic
If California continues to fund education with taxes on "capital gains", the "gains" or profits people make on their stocks and bonds and investments, what happens to funding for education during a recession/depression like the one that hit with the Great Stock market Crash of 2008?
plummets downward
re there more Union members in the public or private sector?
public
One of the ways young workers respond to a speeded up, underpaying economy is to
put off marriage and having children
Trumka challenged his listeners NOT to vote based on one issue more important than all others, which w
race
Over half of all labor hours expended in pre-industrial America were expended in order to
raise food
The local liquor store owner in Novella's neighborhood advises her when it comes to which part of her urban farm?
raising goats
Sarah Gudger says that all she knew her whole life was
work work work
Factory work brings workers together in one place which can result in
workers forming their own associations
The organization which you can contact for more information about this Nike factory campaign is
www.educatingforjustice.org
To make tortilla chips in a modern factory you need all BUT which of the following:
yeast
The owner of the liquor store in Novella's neighborhood is from what country?
yemen
Are there still family-run businesses where families live in the same building as the family business within 25 miles of SFSU?
yes
Did George Washington own slaves?
yes
Did James Madison, the principal drafter of the United States Constitution, own slaves?
yes
Did New York shipping concerns profit from slavery?
yes
Did Presidents Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Tyler, and Johnson also own slaves?
yes
Did Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal, own slaves?
yes
Did slaves play any role in building New York City in its earliest days when it was called New Amsterdam?
yes
Did the U.S. Constitution as written in 1787 protect slavery as a way of life and work?
yes
Do these men use any modern power machinery to help bale the hay into rectangular blocks
yes
Do you think that in this author's opinion, there are people in places like Arizona and Alabama being stirred up and frightened by craven politicians just trying to get votes who scream about the dangers of hordes of illegal immigrants pouring across our border from Mexico?
yes
Does Chris Matthews suggest that the fact that so many Founding Fathers and Presidents owned slaves helps explain America's problems with racial attitudes and race relations?
yes
Was the Humphrey Hawkins Full Employment Act actually passed by Congress and signed by the President? (I tell you this in the lecture, but if you didn't notice, then get reckless, and do a little Googling about it...)
yes
Were there any women working on Gabe's crew?
yes
Were there slaves in the gold fields of California brought here by Southern slave owners?
yes
And one more bit of translation for you to do -- they keep yelling the slogan of the United Farm Workers, "Si Se Puede" -- what does that mean?
yes we can
If you are late to work by one minute during your first week at this warehouse, what happens to you?
you are fired
The "business card" page for Youth Radio, where Lissa works, is
youthradio.org
Historians suggest that one of the key reasons the Lowell Girls lost their first strike in 1834 but won their second strike in 1836 was that
they built community support the second time
The Baby Boomers, who are now in their 50's and 60's, were called "boomers" because
they represent a boom in population growth
The wealthiest 15,000 families in America (a nation with about 350,000,000 people) get about how much income each and every year, year after year?
thirty five million dollars
How many men are on the wagon as it gathers hay up from the field?
three
This farmer "sharecrops". In other words, he farms someone else's land and keeps some of the crop for himself, and gives the rest of the crop to the land owner for rent. The "share" of the crop which this farmer keeps for himself since he did every bit of the work to grow the crop, is
three fifths
It is currently estimated that there may be how many people still working as slaves in the world?
three hundred million
In the year 1937, how many workers joined Unions?
three million
When there was a contest to see which mechanized Reapers were fastest, the American reaping machine was how much more efficient than the English one? (You have to do a wee bit of arithmetic -- good stuff to do!)
three times as efficient
Aaron thinks the greatest challenge for public education, and for the rest of the public sector is
to do more with less resources
What do you think the Amish use all this hay for?
to feed animals
Since productivity has gone up hugely since 1960, but wages have not gone up as much, where did all the extra money that was made because of increased productivity go, according to the expert who testified before Congress in this video?
to just 1% of all Americans -- the super super super rich who make hundreds of millions of dollars per year
What did the men in the plant during the sit down strike use car door hinges for?
to shoot as weapons with inner tube sling shots
The first large scale crop for which slave labor was used on the North American continent was
tobacco
The immigrants workers who now staff the Pilgrims' Pride poultry plant where Gabe worked came from
tomato picking in Florida
For survival skills and knowledge of the way to interact with nature, the Ohlones depended on
tradition
WHO/WHAT determined what work any particular child born into an Ohlone tribe would do?
tradition
Pg. 3 :Which has higher compensation, on average?
transit workers
Before she could plant crops, she had to first get what out of the fields?
trees and tree stamps
Let's do a little web research....what is the nation of birth for the lecturer, Zeynep Ton?
turkey
The nation changed from one where a majority lived on farms to a majority living in towns and cities in which decade of the 20th century?
twenties
President Harry Truman vetoed the Taft Hartley Act how many times before Congress overrode his veto
twice
The US economy, which was already humongously huge in 1980, is how much larger now?
twice as large
How many horses are pulling the hay thresher?
two
How many horses pulled the seed drill?
two
What will the gross revenues for online sales by by 2015?
two hundred seventy nine billion dollars
What did Jim have to cut out of his budget in order to buy a razor and a small packet of shaving cream?
two meals
To understand substantial social changes in work relations in the United States, you have to examine
two of the four above
Although many were enticed to come to the New World as indentured servants to work for years and then receive their own land, the truth of the matter is that what portion of the indentured servants appear to have died in the early years of our history (in the 17th century, the 1600's...)?
two thirds
Approximately how many of the early indentured servants to the New World died before they even finished their years of labor in the tobacco fields of Virginia?
two thirds
By the year 2020, just about 8 years from now, Neuwirth estimates that what part of the world's workers will work "off the grid" in the "off the books" economy?
two thirds
Slavery existed for how much of the history of our nation?
two thirds
To override a Presidential veto of a new law, how many Congress members have to vote in favor of the law?
two thirds
Slavery was the dominant form of labor relations, and affects work relations in our society to this day, because it was a part of our history for how long?
two thirds of our history
Trumka says the most integrated institutions in the United States are
unions
Which has larger gross revenues each year, Hollywood movies or video games?
video games
In the South, during the Second Industrial Revolution, in order to insure continuing work by African Americans for white plantation owners, the former slaves were subjected to
violence, lynching, terrorism by the KKK
The company for which Gabe was running all around the warehouse to pack stuff to ship out was
walmart
The largest corporation in the world is
walmart
When the Chinese first arrived in California during the Gold Rush, they were met with
waves of anti-Chinese sentiments
Until the emergence of the First Industrial Revolution in the 1830's, the size of a farm was limited by
what human beings and animals could cover
After watching all 8 Union videos, which of the following seems to be the primary focus of Unions nowadays?
winning national elections
Is the author of this article a man or a woman?
woman
Little City Farm, in San Francisco, is owned and operated entirely by
women
When families work and live together in the same place,
work time and leisure time are mixed together
"Aquaponics" is the term Novella used to describe
fish farming
The Federal minimum wage is
$7.25
Who is Richard Trumka?
A labor union leader
The magazine which many buyers and sellers of used maufacturing machinery read regularly is called
Plant Closure News
Which of these big cities was NOT in the heart of America's great manufacturing heartland in the 1930's?
Atlanta Georgia
Richard Trumka holds what office?
President of AFL CIO
When the CIO was FIRST started, before it went through any name changes, CIO were the initials for
Congress of Industrial
Ohlone shelters were easily made from
Tule Reeds
The labor leader who ran for President of the United States more than once, and once received about one million votes when it only took six million to win, was named
Eugene debs
The Chinese who came to the United States called it
Gold Mountain
As manufacturing has disappeared, where has there been rapid job growth to replace the jobs lost there?
In the service sector
What happened to the first Mission established, in San Diego, in its first year of existence?
It was burned to the ground
The very first Kaiser Hospital was built during World War Two at shipyards in
Richmond
The Cold War was a "stand off" between two nuclear powers. One was the United States and the other was
USSR
What state is Lawrence Universtiy in?
Wisconsin
The Second American Industiral Revolution brought with it all of the following, EXCEPT
computers
After a story comes out on the radio, Dr. Soep referred to the spreading of it through other media, which she calls the story's
digital afterlife
A "DIY" economy refers to
do it yourself
The name of Lissa's book is
drop that knowledge
The New Deal was presided over by
fdr
Where in the United States is involuntary servitude still legal?
in prisons
Reich argues that what the middle class now lacks is
purchasing power to drive the economy
The tie worn by Neuwirth seems to be what color?
purple
That second author of the book is named
viven chavez
The "aleph" of the world, according to Neuwirth, is
where everything in the world exists
Food was brought to strikers by taking it to the plant's
windows
The percent of American workers in the private sector who are in Unions TODAY is about
7%
Senator Warren says that if the minimum wage went up from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour over a period of 3 years, the Number 11 she buys from McDonald's would go up in price from $7.19 to what?
7.23
Robert Pollin points out that in 1968 when the inflation-adjusted minimum wage had a purchasing power of $10.65, the unemployment rate was 3.7%. Today, with the minimum wage at $7.25, the unemployment rate should be much lower according to businesses which argue that higher minimum wages result in fewer jobs. But what is today's unemployment rate, according to Pollin in this video?
7.5%
The young women who worked in the mills of Lowell worked long and hard -- about how many hours a week did they average?
72
How many miles did Gabe's fellow worker have to walk to get home from her shift in the warehouse because she could not afford her own car?
8
Members of your generation (assuming you are between 18 and 35) are expected to have at least how many jobs in a lifetime?
8
The original interstate highway system, built in the late 1950's and into the 1960's, totalled how many nation-spanning highways in all, both north-south and east-west?
8
According to this article, how many jobs held by documented Americans are dependent on the spending of undocumented immigrants?
8 million
Gabe mentions the minimum wage for the State of California. What is it now?
8 per hour
Okay, so the very first question is not even on the video -- instead, you have to go to www.sourflour.org, and see how an off the grid business builds its website --- and you have to look at it long enough figure out how much Sour Flour's full price is for its breadmaking workshop.
80
This newsreel reported that there were 2 strikers killed and over how many injured?
80
Gabe thought he kind of could cut lettuce more or less by the end of what week of his work?
8th week
How many Justices are on the United States Supreme Court?
9
How many merchandise sections are there in the warehouse where Mac worked?
9
After I hemmed and hawed a bit in the lecture, I said that the AFL CIO currently has about how many members?
9 million
What percentage of the wealth of the United States was based, directly or indirectly, on slavery, before the end of slavery in 1865?
90%
Page 1: Roughly how many State and local governments are there in the United States?
90,000
Mike's actual job in glamorous Silicon Valley at a glamorous video game company is to
: sit in front of a computer all day working on raw files of data and code
The President who said in a speech that the United States could not survive as "a house divided" was
Abraham Lincoln
The first name of the author of Winner Take All Politics, whose last name is Hacker, is ____________. (check out Amazon as a place to do research about books and authors -- it has a lot of information about both.)
Jacob
Neuwirth compares the current off the grid economy to what artist's work?
Magritte
Nuclear bombs and nuclear energy were developed during World War Two at a top secret Project in New Mexico. The Project was called The __________________ Project, and it changed the course of human history.
Manhattan
Frederick Taylor was born on
March 20, 1856
Dred Scott sued for his freedom in what State?
Missouri
What is the only other nation in the world with no legally-required paid maternity leave besides the United States?
Papua New Gunea
The Homestead Works were in what State?
Pennsylvania
Overarching concepts that have emerged in the first part of this course do NOT include
People do not care what their work relations are
The CEO, top dog, at Nike is named
Phil Knight
The teeny tiny print at the bottom of the Codes that are in this lecture's powerpoints show that they are from what State?
South Carolina
The shopping mall in Los Angeles County, which was once the manufacturing plant for General Motors, is called
Southgate
Slaves first arrived on the North American continent in an area that became part of the United States in the city of
St. Augustine, Florida
The company where the story is centered is called
Standard motor products
The Amish originally came from
Switzerland
For centuries, slavery existed in the United States,and it continued into the middle of the 19th century, in part because of which of these laws?
The Kansas Nebraska Act
The passage of a whole list of new laws in the late 60's and early '70's was the final wave of laws that were all in some way directly related to
The New Deal
Frank Norris, a great American writer, wrote a very popular and powerful novel about the stranglehold the railroads had on farmers in the early 20th century, which was titled
The Octopus
he name of the book I show on camera in this lecture is
The Ohlone Way
If you have done all the quizzes, including the Extra Credit ones, about how many questions do you believe you have answered by now in this course?
a bit over 400
Andrew Saboru is
a scrap yard dealer
According to Lissa, it is likely that the following range of companies need people who can do web and electronic communications ---
all compnanies
How many days can you be absent before you are fired for absenteeism on the "point system" used at the warehouse?
four
Strong social movements of the mid '60's to mid '70's do NOT include the following:
gun rights movement
Although he works in the video game industry now, Mike actually majored in
history
The first on line coupon website Danny used to sell coupons for bread baking courses was
home run
Gabe's fingers started to bleed from packing what?
iPads
According to the OECD statistics, about how many people now work in the service sector in the United States?
more than ten million
The funny video about "what have Unions done for us" was produced by what organization?
moveon.org
Alldayplay.fm" is one of Youth Radio's websites -- what is on "alldayplay.fm"?
music
Tamien and Awaswas are
names of languages
NPR stands for
national public radio
According to this lecture, social movements in the United States, when successful, usually lead to
new laws
How many Chrysler factories did the UAW sit in so they could get a contract with Chrysler?
nine
According the Chris Matthews, did the Founding Fathers work endlessly fiercely to end slavery?
no
Are video games Mike's "passion"?
no
Does the US Constitution have clauses which guarantee work for all Americans with fair living wages and safe work conditions?
no
From 1973 to 1999, how much did REAL wages go up?
not at all they went down
When we say land is "fallow", we mean it is
not being cultivated at all
One learning program for computers that Aaron identified as having been around since he was a kid is
number crunchers
Aaron worked in the public school administration for which city's school district?
oakland
The Broderick Terry duel is not really relevant to a study of how work is structured, but it has been included in this course because
the professor likes to tell the story
Productivity in the USA has gone up substantially in the last 30 years. Who has received most of the fruits of that productivity in greater income for work performed?
the richest 1% of Americans
The background for this video (show me you watched it!) is
the sea
Mary Reynolds told the story of how her Daddy would come to visit her in the slave quarters and bring her clothes and other things. He was
the slave Master himself
In terms of the world's economy, which part of it is growing faster, year by year?
the unregulated off the books economy
How many humongous warehouses like this does Amazon alone have now?
69
In this course, GDP stands for:
Gross Domestic product
From what country do most of the workers at the Pilgrims' Pride poultry plant Gabe talked about come from?
Guatamala
Touissant L'Ouverture led a revolution which abolished slavery and established a free nation where?
Haiti
What makes you or breaks you in farming, according to this farmer, is
Weather
About what percentage of private sector workers are now in Unions?
seven percent
Puerto Rico is located in
the caribbean
What was the overall rate of unemployment economic historians say existed during the Great Depression of the 1930's?
1 in 4
One woman told how much she earned. What did she say she was paid?
3.50 a week
Which of these cities was not a suburb which grew exponentially after World War Two?
Berkeley
What is the new issue philanthropic foundations are investing in with respect to youth and their new media skills?
Credentialing and Badging
World War Two began in December 1941. When did President Truman finally issue an official proclamation declaring that the War was over?
December 1946
At the beginning of the 20th century, most immigrants to the United States came from
Europe
Most immigrants to the United States, at the beginning of the 20th century, came from
Europe
Based on the way the planters responded to the Rebellion, it's not unreasonable to conclude that the basic emotion that motivated the planters, and ruled their actions for the centuries that slavery lasted, until the mid- 1860's here in the United States, in how they treated and governed slaves, was
Fear
The slave narratives which are acted out in these videos were originally collected in the 1930's, from slaves who were still alive then, by the
Federal Writers Project
The Australian worker who emerged to lead the General Strike of 1934 in San Francisco was named
Harry Bridges
In what state were these men harvesting hay?
Iowa
The internet presentation by the Hartford, Connecticut Courant, a newspaper, said that Connecticut citizens were "complicit" with slavery. What does that mean?
It means they cooperated with it
Sometimes I use terms in my lectures without defining them -- like mentioning a "flail" without really telling you what it is. If you are inquisitive, you try to figure out what I am talking about even if I do not define my terms. If not, you get a chance to be inquisitive now -- what is a "flail" anyway?
It's two sticks with a piece of chain between them
One of the best remembered of leaders of slave rebellions was
Nat Turner
The leader of the rebellion which scared the planters of Virginia so deeply that they thereafter separated African Americans from other workers, and did their best to enslave all African Americans and to tell the other workers they were superior to the African Americans, to keep them from ever joining together again in a united rebellion, was named
Nathaniel Bacon
The National Labor Relations Act is enforced by a regulatory agency known as the
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
NOW stands for
National Organization of Women
Neuwirth bought what kind of phone in Nigeria's street markets?
Nokia 1110
The man in this video is named
Ronald Bellettiere
The French phrase I used roughly translates to
The more things change, the more they stay the same
The man who ran the laboratories where light bulbs, gramaphones, dictaphones, and movie cameras were all invented was named
Thomas Alva Edison
Gala Sausages, the big snack in Nigeria, are sold only in street markets even though they are made by a gigantic multinational coroporation called
UAC foods
The UAW is a Union. UAW stands for
United Auto Workers
The Davis Bacon Act provides that "prevailing wages" must be paid on what kinds of jobs?
construction jobs using Federal money
What is usuallly called The American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, was fought over
labor relations issues
Aaron mentioned two groups in particular which do not have a high percentage with access to the internet. Which of the following is NOT one of those low-access groups?
large families w many children
A lettuce picker is called a
lechugero
A corporation in the "free market" is expected to maximize
profits
n 1978, what Proposition was passed on the ballot that led to downgrading of California schools?
prop 13
In Gabe's opinion, the lettuce workers were
proud and in solidarity based on their work
Adam Smith's classic book on economics is called
the wealth of nations
From Gabe's point of view, who had more power to control the pace of the work in the fields?
the workers themeselves
The way Gabe makes it sound, the Labor Ready jobs are the
the worst work imaginable
In these times, since 2007,
there is less turnover in jobs
In what state did the US government end up buying up most of a whole town because of a toxic DIOXIN spill?
Missouri
The basic necessities which work must be done to acheive include all but one of the following. Which is not a basic necessity for which work must be done to insure survival?
Money
Did Randy Weingarten say that the AFT is supporting Barack Obama's re-election because they agree with him on all issues?
NO
Some employers believe that their workers like being strictly regimented and subjected to strict work rules. They believe that this is the only way their workers will be productive and satisfied with their jobs. Does the experience of the Native Americans in the Missions support this theory of labor relations?
NO
In order to be "work", something MUST
NONE of the above
Women joined the WACS and the WAVES. Which branch of the military service were the WAVES enrolled in?
Navy
What US city was ripped apart by Hurricane Katrina in 2005? (not in video, you may have to do some googling to find out)
New Orleans
On "Bloody Thursday" in the San Francisco General Strike in 1934, two men were killed in downtown San Francisco. One of them was an out of work cook who was a volunteer making food for the strikers. What was his name?
Nick Bordoise
The picture taken by Dorothea Lange was of a migrant worker in the fields near
Nipomo California
In studies where one metropolitan area crosses two State borders (for example, greater St Louis, which is partly in Missouri and partly in Illinois), when the minimum wage goes up in one state but not the other, does the state with the higher minimum wage end up losing jobs, according to the expert in this video?
No way, in the aggregate, there is NO job loss at all due to higher minimum wages
See -- every so often you need a quiz which is quick and easy just to get the batteries recharged an to keep moving -- so one last question to wrap it up -- what State is Cleveland, Ohio, in?
None of the above
The hugely popular public artist who painted Rosie the Riveter for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post magazine was named
Norman Rockwell
The first slave whose narrative is read aloud was named Sarah Gudger and she was from
North Carolina
On which island of Hawaii is Pearl Harbor located?
Oahu
The last great General Strike in the United States took place in
Oakland
"Black Thursday", the day the stock market crashed in 1929, happened on
October 24, 1929
Half of all Union members live in just 6 states. Which of the following States is NOT one of the 6?
Ohio
Levittown is the name of more than one city built by a developer named Levitt, but no Levittown was built in which of the following States?
Ohio
Senator Taft, who was the co-sponsorer of the Taft-Hartley Act, was from which State?
Ohio
Time to do a bit of searching on the web! 3 States where you will find the most Amish people in the United States are :
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana
Charlie Williams was from
Oklahoma
OPEC stands for
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
The cities of the Northeastern part of the United States, which lost industrial plants and jobs in the 1970's and onwards did NOT include
Orlando
The city where Novella thinks the most urban farming is going on right now is
Philadelphia
The Steel plant where Taylor tried to perfect "scientific management" was located near the city of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The farmer in this piece of reading is named
Pierce Walker
The name of the guard & detective service which brought its men across the river in July to attack the strikers was named
Pinkerton's
The Homestead Works (Steel Mills) were located in what city?
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Ohlone lived in villages spread from the north end of the San Francisco Bay down as far south as about
Point Sur
The name of the air traffic controllers Union which went on strike in 1981 is
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
The Amish make religion a central part of their lives. They are a denomination of which religion?
Protestants
Google research time: what is the name of the Grayson Bill, HR 1346?
The Catching Up to 1968 Act of 2013
Greenville is in what State?
South Carolina
Before 1978, the "commons" which all supported with ample tax revenues was the entire
State of California public education system
One of the most important anti-union aspects of the Taft-Hartley Act was that it said who could NOT be in a Union?
Supervisors
Cesar Chavez led the United Farm Workers (UFW) in a nationwide successful boycott of what?
Tabe Grapes
Where is Talladega College, one of the original Southern colleges for African Americans?
Talledega Alabama
What State did this strike take place in?
Tennessee
The IBT, the Union which led a giant strike in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in which thousands of workers were involved, was led by the IBT. IBT stands for
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Winner- Take- All Politics was written by
Jacob Hacker
The capitol city of early Virginia, which the rebels burned to the ground, was
Jamestown
Steel plows were invented, patented, and produced by
John Deere
The economist who wrote a book called The New Industrial State was named
John Kenneth Galbraith
The president of the UMW punched the president of the Carpenters Union in the battle over representing mass production industrial workers in Unions. Who was the President of the United Mine Workers Union who did the punching?
John L Lewis
Grapes of Wrath was written by
John Steinback
President Roosevelt said that if he went to work in a factory, the first thing he would do would be to
Join a union
Senator McCarthy, who led the "hunt" for communists in the government in the '50's, had the following first name:
Joseph
This reading is also from Studs Terkel's book, Working. But it is from the graphic comix adaptation of the book. Your last reading was the way Studs recorded the interview with Pierce Walker. This reading is a graphic depiction of the chapter Studs wrote of his interview with a farm woman. I'm not sure this graphic comic is very useful for learning -- let me know what you think in the Forum on the iLearn page. Meanwhile, what is the farm woman's name?
Katherine Haynes
The last name of the soccer coach who is the "star" of this video is
Keady
What state are the Cumberland Mountains in?
Kentucky
The major nations of planet Earth met in what Japanese city in 1997 to negotiate a treaty designed to insure they all joined together and agreed to certain common measures to insure a reduction in global warming?
Kyoto
What is the name of the company that makes the motorcycles?
Loncin
LAX stands for
Los Angeles
The largest manufacturing industrial center in the United States is now located where?
Los Angeles
OK, a few quick and easy questions just to make sure you watched the video -- first, what University does Daron Acemoglu teach at?
MIT
The name of the journalist who wrote this article is
Mac Mclleland
When the international economy went into the toilet in 2008, WalMart responded by cutting employees, cutting the number of products, and cutting prices; Marcadona cut the number of employees and the prices, but did not cut the number of employees. Which one saw its profits and share of the market go up MORE?
Maracadona
The video I have asked you to watch about the Homestead Strike is narrated by
Martin Sheen
Barry Ritholtz suggested that the United States' 2 biggest "welfare queens" are
McDonald's and WalMart
COLA is an abbreviation for
Cost of Living Adjustment
Which of these countries in Asia do immigrants NOT come from?
Costa Rica
Driving the Native Americans out of states like Alabama and Mississippi opened their rich soil for the cultivation by slaves of what crop that became King?
Cotton
Which of the following concepts is NOT a part of the fullest definition of "work" explained in the lecture?
Creating Sweat and Suffering
A former NBA basketball star is doing urban farming projects in what city?
Milkwaukee
Although Labor Ready pays only the minimum wage to the workers it hires, it charges companies how much per hour for these workers?
14 per hour
The age range of the youth learning skills at the institution Lissa works at is
14 to 24
Pg.2: As of March, 2010, approximately how many employees were employed on a full time basis by State and local governments?
14.8 million
In the year 2007, how many cell phones reached "End of Life", or EOL?
140,000,000
As a result of which Amendment to the US Constitution are people born in the United States declared to be citizens of the United States, no matter where their parents come from?
14th
A total of how many tunnels were drilled by the Chinese railway workers for the Central Pacific to get through the mountains?
15
n less than one hundred years, the California Native American population of about 250,000 to 300,000 who lived in the State's geography before the arrival of Europeans, had dropped to about
15,000
Who was the President of the United States in 1977 through 1980?
Carter
Which kind of property law applied to slaves?
Chattel Law
In what city did Robert Abbott, after whom a ship built in the Richmond shipyards was named, live and publish a newspaper for the African American community?
Chicago Illinois
Maybe in the USA, children can work in tobacco fields from the age of 12 and up, but in nasty countries like Russia and Kazakhstan, children can work in the fields from what age on up?
Children are prohibited from working in tobacco fields in Russia and Kazakhstan
What country is this motorcycle factory in?
China
Out West, the transcontinental railroad was built by immigrants, primarily from
China and Ireland
I mentioned that I am actually originally from
Clevand
CBA stands for
Collecting Bargaining Agreement
The case in which hat makers were sued by their employer, lost the case, and had to pay damages, which resulted in loss of jobs, homes, and forced many to move, including at least one all the way to California, arose in the State of
Conneticut
What University was Jefferson Cowie lecturing at in this video, which he calls his "hometown crowd", because this is where he is a professor?
Cornell
What was the name of the man who founded the United Auto Workers newspaper?
Henry Kaus
The leader of the strikers was a man named
Hugh O'donnell
The fight for new child labor regulations failed because
In Federal politics, in this era, money speaks louder than voters
Many terms are used for these tribes which dwelled in North America before Europeans arrived. Which term is least accurate of all to describe them?
Indians
The Rebellion ended up by burning down the entire capitol city of early Virginia, in an attack on the ruling planters, but it began as a series of attacks on the
Indians
I.W.W. stands for
Industrial Workers of the World
Governor Frank Merriam, who did the thing politicians usually do when they see people standing up for their rights in the streets, and sent out the National Guard to stop them, was from which political party? Democratic Party (D) or Republican Party (R)
Republican
What were members of the Ohlone tribe PAID for doing their work?
Respect & Dignity because of Sharing
The shipyard experience of African American workers in this video is based in the shipyards of
Richmond California
Women working in shipyards during WW 2 were called Rosie the Riveters. Where is there a monument and National Park built to honor "Rosie the Riveter"?
Richmond California
The US Supreme Court decision which upheld the Constitutional right of a woman to an abortion, under certain conditions, was named
Roe v Wade
The largest Union in the United States is said to be
SEIU
Which of the following cities does NOT have one of these first Missions in its history?
Santa Maria
Neuwirth showed slides of the market in London in 1675, then he referred to the market in Hong Kong in 1902, and the Maxwell Street Market in Chicago in the 1940's, and then he showed the early morning market in
Sao paul brazil
States like Minnesota and Wisconsin, part of what was once called the Northwest Territory, were settled by people from that part of Europe called
Scandanavia
Before she urban farmed in West Oakland, Novella also did some urban farming where?
Seattle Washington
Robert Reich served in what high Cabinet office for the government of the United States?
Secretary of Labor
Which Section of the National Labor Relations Act provides an election conducted by the Federal government for workers who want to have a Union represent them?
Section 9
Mary Kay is the President of
Service Employees International Union
From 2001 to 2007, what huge international company distributed $1.9 billion dollars in bribes (a rate of 2 a day at $500,000 each)?
Siemens
