All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
Programme
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Too Many Rail Chiefs and not enough Workers: The decline of the Railroad Unions in the U.S.
| Railroad unions in the United States first came about as fraternal insurance organizations, as normal insurers would not cover railroad workers in what was a very hazardous and many times fatal occupation. By the middle or the 1940's rail labor was at its zenith, organizationally and member base, with over two million union workers employed in the industry. From the time period of 1940 to 1970, a series of labor issues involving technology changes and rule changes, cast a different light on railworkers from the general populace. The once almost heroic image that railroaders had changed from, that of "John Henry, the steel driving man and Casey Jones the selfless locomotive engineer," to that of a "feather-bedding" lazy and indifferent worker who cared not a whit for the company, but only wanted to sleep on the job and get paid for it. What happened or did not happen as the result of the image shift orchestrated by the National Carrier's Conference, while the 14 rail unions argued amongst themselves about the course that should be taken has ramifications that still resonate today in the industry. An industry which is fast declining in nation wide employment numbers below 100,000, while moving more and different kinds of freight and making more money than ever in their history.
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