Labor and Business


Date:
In Class Assignment
Homework
Tues
9/3
  • Finish Lecture: Supply
  • Start Lecture: Business Types: Sole Proprietorship ((Film Clips: Simpsons), Partnerships, Corporations (Film Clips: Citizen United/Sarnakovas)
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  • Extra credit films for this unit include: Roger and Me, The Corporation, Norma Rae, Supersize Me, Erin Brockovich (on movie night only), Deepwater Horizon, The Founder, & American Dream. There is a maximum of two credit videos per semester and one for any single unit. Here is the form
    All Students:
  • Read pages 53-59 & 70-75, 98-100
  • Print out the Business & Labor Unit crossfire and keep in your binder for when we debate in class.
  • Print out the video guide for Tucker.
  • Do NOT forget to debrief your test this week at tutorial if you struggled on the first exam (or if you just want to come check it out and see what you missed).
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    Thu
    9/5
  • Finish Lecture: Business Types: Sole Proprietorship (Film Clips: Simpsons), Partnerships, Corporations (Film Clips: Citizen United/Sarnakovas/Advantages of Corporations: Corporations are People, Citizens United v. FEC, & Thank You For Smoking, The Corporation, Erin Brockovich & Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room)
  • Lecture Market Structures.
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  • All Students:
  • Read pages 102-111 in your book
  • Print out your Out of Class Participation Forms and start completing your three required for the semester.
    AP Students
  • Read Tulipmania (interactively highlight).
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    Mon
    9/9
  • Lecture: Market Structures
  • Assign Sweatshop Roles
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    All Students

  • Read pages 180-188 (it will help I promise)
    Meet at the SCU Train Station at 7:30 am on Wednesday for the Amazing Race
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    Wed
    9/11
    		 Meet at the SCU Train Station at 7:30 am for the Amazing Race
    A goal without a timeline is just a dream.
     -Robert Herjavec
  • Interactively read - Labor Patterns.
    • Fri
    9/13
  • Video: Tucker
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  • All:
  • Do the last question of the Tucker Video Guide We will turn it in right after the film.
  • Take the slavery footprint quiz and print out your results
  • Those In the Minimum Wage Debate:
  • Print out, read and interactively highlight the minimum wage question
  • Those Not in Minimum Wage Debate:
  • Interactively read the modern sweatshop issue (by 9/19) Also, print out, read, and start preparing a defense for your group in the Sweatshop Trial(due 9/19). Be prepared with a 1 to 1 1/2 page opening statement for the Sweatshop Trial next Wednesday. Here are the individual groups Multinational Corporations, Poor Country Ruling Elite, Poor Country Workers, United States Consumer, System of Profit
    • Tues
    9/17
  • Finish Video: Tucker
  • Start Lecture: Labor in America & Its Inequalities : Underemployment and poverty
  • Video Clips: Is Walmart Good For America


    We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.
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  • Read pages 165-169, 171-175
  • Print out, read and interactively highlight lnequality Grows
  • Interactively read: Wage Equality
  • Those Not in Minimum Wage Debate:
  • Interactively read the modern sweatshop issue (by 9/19) Also, print out, read, and start preparing a defense for your group in the Sweatshop Trial(due 9/19). Be prepared with a 1 to 1 1/2 page opening statement for the Sweatshop Trial next Wednesday. Here are the individual groups Multinational Corporations, Poor Country Ruling Elite, Poor Country Workers, United States Consumer, System of Profit
    • Thur
    9/19
  • Schedule: Crossfire #1: Is Walmart good for America?
    Gender Pay Gap, Sweatshop Introduction Videos, Sweatshop Trial: Who is to Blame?
    Multinational Corporations, Poor Country Ruling Elite, Poor Country Workers, United States Consumer, or System of Profit, Post Sweatshop Trial Debrief

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  • All:
  • Complete, if you haven't already the Sweatshop Postscript we started in class today (make sure you listen to the soundcloud before answering question #3) and staple the Sweatshop Addendum to the front.
  • Download and print out the Inequality For All video guide and bring it to class.
  • Those in Minimum Wage Debate should also be ready for the debate with a 3/4 page intro statement and some bullet points to attack the other side and be prepared to argue their points to a senate committee. Here are a couple of links that can help. Make sure you look at the following.
  • Proponents should argue:
       -Not a liveable wage
       -Not kept up with inflation
       -Doesn't cost jobs
       -should be increased
  • Opponents should argue:
       -costs jobs
       -forces companies out of the country
       -damages America
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    Mon
    9/23
  • Continue Lecture on Labor: Problem with Productivity and Compensation: Racial and Age Discrimination
  • Minimum Wage Debate
  • Start Lecture on Inequality: Underemployment and poverty
  • Crossfire #3: Corporations good or bad?
    'The ranks of America's poorest poor have climbed to a record high' according to the most recent Census Bureau report. It said the data also indicate poverty is spreading further into mainstream America. Meanwhile the Walmart heirs, who still own a substantial portion of the firm, have more wealth than the bottom 30 percent of Americans put together.
  • Interactively read Women do Office Housework
  • Read pages 170-174 (there will be test questions on them.
  • Be Prepared to argue either side of the inequality issue in your crossfire. You do not need to interactively highlight it but make sure you read it. By next week you should have
    1. Completed an analysis of the need and competition for your product or service.
    2.A financial analysis of wow will your product /service be priced or monetized.
    3. A sales strategy (who to sell to) along with a few mockups on storyboarding your commercial.
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    Wed
    9/25
  • Film: Inequality for All
  • Finish Inequality Lecture and do Crossfire #2: Inequality in America
  • Finish up the Inequality for All Video Guide. CP do not have to do the essay question but don't forget to answer the question in bold at the bottom. AP: Do the essay question instead.
  • Go to New Unit, Macroeconomics
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