15 déc. 2010

Un peu de lecture (2)

un article qui explique certaines des causes de l'opposition à la réforme du système de santé:

The New York Times, 12 dec. 2010

Opposition to Health Law Is Steeped in Tradition


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/business/economy/15leonhardt.html?_r=1&hp

23 nov. 2010

E52 Un peu de lecture

cet article soulève quelques unes des questions que nous aborderons à propos des politiques d'Affirmative Action:

The New York Times

"Campus That Apartheid Ruled Faces a Policy Rift"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/world/africa/23safrica.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

11 oct. 2010

Dossiers Lectures E 52 Approfondissement

Les dossiers d'extraits d'ouvrage à lire sont disponibles à Copie Conforme, route de Mende.
Les deux dossiers sont obligatoires

27 avr. 2010

E 42 ANY

AIDE POUR LE CHAPITRE 25:
une fiche récapitulative des principales mesures du New Deal à connaître se trouve en dernière page de votre dossier.

Rapppel:
Pour chaque événement majeur, vous devez être capable d'expliquer les principales causes et conséquences; aussi bien pour le chapitre 18 que pour le chapitre 25.

E 42 ANY aide pour le ch.18

CH 18 The Machine Age 1877-1920

Factors leading to this rapid industrial growth:
- Civil War and war demand
- Abundant natural resources (coal, iron, copper, oil, lumber)
- Growth of the domestic market stimulated by territorial expansion, increase of the American population, and improvement of transport and communications systems
- Immigration providing a cheap labor force
- American values of hard work, thrift and an emphasis on material achievement

1 Technology and the triumph of industrialism:

main characteristic of the end of the 19th century
2 examples (names and inventions)

Henry Ford’s major innovation in the car industry and scheme:
Name of the company:
1908:
1913:
Ford's actions to achieve his aim:

Major industries developing in the South thanks the development of industrialization:
two examples of innovations and their consequences:
Frederick Taylor’s invention and its consequences:

2 Mechanization and the Changing Status of Labor

Four main consequences of mechanization:
kinds of jobs held by women:
Industries in which children were mostly employed:
also see page 381 (ch 21)
causes of industrial accidents:
two arguments against increased safety regulations


One example of a Supreme Court decision preventing labor Reform (1905):


3 Labor Violence and the Union Movement

 What happened in 1877?

(for each union main characteristic(s) and major demand(s))

The Knights of Labor:
At fist it was a secret organization (which explains the reference to “Grand Master”); they dropped secrecy in the mid 1880s, which helped them attract new members
name of a railroad magnate: ; what happened in 1886?
1886 Haymarket Riot 
consequences of the Haymarket incident and railraod strikes:

The AFL

which groups were excluded from unions? Why?

1892 The Homestead Strike

The Pinkerton Detective Agency was specialized in countering labor unrest. A Pinkerton agent would infiltrate the inner council of the organization and secure evidence to help the conviction of union members. Used in 1873 by mine owners to stop a series of coal strikes, 300 Pinkerton Detectives were later called by the Homestead plant manager to break the strike, resulting in violence.

1894 The Pullman Strike (+ name of the leader of the union)
The Industrial Workers of the World
The reason why union membership remained relatively low between 1900 and 1920:
The mixed benefits of the industrial age:


4 Standards of Living

Positive and negative aspects of the overall period:



5 The Corporate Consolidation Movement
 aim of consolidation:
why were companies protected from government interference?
Consolidation represented the main economic trend of the period; leading to the formation of (brief definition)pools:
trusts:
holdings (main example):


7 The Gospel of Wealth and its critics

Origin and main tenets of the doctrine:

1880 Sherman Anti-Trust Act
1895 US v E. C. Knights Co.
Virtually invalidated the Sherman Act and consolidation went on.

See "regulation of trusts" in ch. 21 (page 390): 1904 Supreme Court decision and Hepburn Act (1906), "Wilson's policy on Business regulation" page 393: 1941 Clayton Anti-trust Act

16 mars 2010

norman rockwell

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/files2009a/Rockwell_The_Problem_We_All_Live_With.jpg

The original Four Freedoms paintings by Norman Rockwell.
 
More on:  http://www.nrm.org/

11 janv. 2010

Informations stages erasmus

De la part des RI:

Nous souhaiterions attirer votre attention sur un  nouvel aspect du


programme Erasmus qui permet de financer des stages d'une durée de 3 à

9 mois en Europe pour nos étudiants, au sein d'une entreprise ou

organisme privé ou public (allocation de mobilité compatible avec un

séjour Erasmus "études" lors de la scolarité antérieure)./

/Les renseignements sur ces stages se trouvent sur le site des RI : /

http://www.univ-montp3.fr/ri/index.php?part=stage-erasmus

/Je vous remercie de bien vouloir informer vos étudiants de ce nouveau

dispositif et de les encourager à bénéficier de cet aspect du programme

Erasmus qui peut utilement compléter et enrichir leur cursus. Il

faudrait qu'ils contactent Madame Salmon par mail _avant la fin du mois

de janvier_ : /socrates@univ-montp3.fr