TED Talks
TED: How employers steal from workers -- and get away with it | Rebecca Galemba
When you work, you expect to be paid for it. Except, for millions of Americans employed across a range of industries like restaurants and construction, that's not always the case. Anthropologist Rebecca Galemba explores the...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What's a smartphone made of? - Kim Preshoff
As of 2018, there are around 2.5 billion smartphone users in the world. If we broke open all the newest phones and split them into their component parts, that would produce around 85,000 kg of gold, 875,000 of silver, and 40,000,000 of...
TED Talks
Rishi Manchanda: What makes us get sick? Look upstream
Rishi Manchanda has worked as a doctor in South Central Los Angeles for a decade, where he’s come to realize: His job isn’t just about treating a patient’s symptoms, but about getting to the root cause of what is making them ill—the...
TED Talks
TED: How labor unions shape society | Margaret Levi
The weekend. Social Security. Health insurance. What do these things have in common? They all exist thanks to the advocacy of labor unions. Political economist Margaret Levi explains how these organizations forge equality and protect...
Curated Video
Types of People in the Colonies
Colonial America housed many diverse inhabitants—from the enslaved to the gentry—each contributing to society in different ways.
Curated Video
The Haymarket Affair
One of the worst miscarriages of justice in U.S. history, the Haymarket Affair, a labor action in support of an eight-hour working day, led to the unlawful executions of four Chicago residents.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Economics of Care
Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family, non-market work and the economics of care. She is Professor Emirita of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who has written...
Curated Video
The Impact of Multinational Corporations on the World Economy
In this video lecture, the impact of multinational corporations on the global economy is discussed. It defines what multinational corporations are and provides examples of companies that fit the definition. The video discusses the...
Curated Video
Motivational Theories: Understanding the Influential Factors Behind Workforce Motivation
The video talks about different motivational theories that businesses can use to increase the motivation and productivity of their workforce. It discusses four main individual studies conducted over time, starting with Taylor's theory...
Curated Video
Theories of Motivation
The video talks about three different theories of motivation - FW Taylor's scientific management, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and Herzberg's two-factor theory. The speaker explains each theory, their advantages and disadvantages, and...
Oxford Online English
IELTS Reading Exam - Answer Matching Headings Questions
Learn how to answer matching headings questions in the IELTS reading exam. See tips you can use in matching headings questions for your IELTS reading test. Contents: 1. Basic tips for matching headings questions 0:31 2. How to answer a...
Step Back History
The Most Dangerous Woman in America
I often get asked who my favourite historical figure is, and I can think of no person who represented the moral endurance and strength of Emma Goldman. Let's hear her story and maybe she'll be your favourite historical figure too.
Curated Video
Elton Mayo's Motivational Theory: The Hawthorne Effect and the Three C's
The video discusses Elton Mayo's motivational theory and how it differs from Frederick Taylor's scientific approach to managing and motivating workers. Mayo's theory focuses on the human dimensions of motivation, including fulfilling...
Hip Hughes History
The Progressive Era Explained: US History Review
A short theme based lecture on the Progressive Age, created for studying for the United States History regents exam in New York state devliered by a much younger HipHughes with much cheap resources.
Curated Video
The Harlan County Coal Wars
Harlan County coal miners in the 1930s went on a labour strike protesting about the conditions. Coal companies and the local police forces put them under. It broke out into civil unrest and Unions were established.
Curated Video
Emma Tenayuca: Latina Labor Activist
Latina labor leader, Emma Tenayuca, led a major food-industry strike in her early 20s and was eventually ostracized for her political beliefs.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Who was? Frances Perkins
Find out how Frances Perkins helped guide the United States out of the Great Depression.
Curated Video
Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory: Understanding Motivation in the Workplace
This is a lecture presentation on Herzberg's Two Factor Theory. The video describes the two types of factors in the theory- motivator factors and hygiene factors- and how they can affect levels of motivation in the workforce. The video...
Curated Video
The Fire that Sparked a Workplace Revolution
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Tragedy took the lives of 146 workers – and exposed a shocking lack of workplace health and safety laws in New York State.
PBS
Why Is There a Minimum Wage?
The Minimum Wage is a wildly important and contentious aspect of modern economic life. But whether you believe it needs to go up or be eliminated altogether there's an important question to ask, why does it exist at all?
Hip Hughes History
The Industrial Revolution Explained (World History Review)
What were the major causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution? HipHughes dances his way through the Industrial Revolution world history style, laying down tracks anyone can sit their caboose down and ride the train of learning.
Bloomberg
CVS, Walgreens Pharmacists Could Walk Off Job
Thousands of pharmacists at CVS and Walgreens could go on strike in an effort to improve working conditions and staffing levels. Shane Jerominski is an independent pharmacist. He's on "Bloomberg Markets: The Close."
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