LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Craft Unionism, Work Council, Sidney Hillman
21 Apr 2016
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Not many changes, the roaring 20s, early celebrities in pop culture really become something larger and more distinct. Popular culture, movies and radios became prominent, this new pop culture posed as a relatively good kind, a lot of people did not have the money in order to enjoy these goods. Corporate power: the mass production industries in electrical, rubber and automotive industries as they acquired a power over the economy as great as google does now. Henry ford shut down all his production centres to build a different model (model a). This drove the economy into recession for 2 quarters due to all outsourcing companies being forced to shut down as ford did not need their service. Finance was high in canada on bay street and in railroads. This was a bad time for unions as they faced the peak period where unions were under more pressure which lead corporations into the ground.
