Which statement about labor unions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is not true? a. the main purpose of early labor unions was to get better conditions and better pay for workers. b. the american public, the press, and business owners overwhelmingly supported the cause of labor unions. c. business leaders often reacted to strikes by hiring armed men and scabs to break them up. d. unions had more power than individual workers because one worker can be fired easily but not a whole group.

The correct answer is b) The American public, the press, and business owners overwhelmingly supported the cause of labor unions.

This above statement is completely untrue

Explanation:

By the 19th and the early 20th century, the United States had become an industrial power with a large export base.

Within larger companies and manufacturing plants, there was a surge in labor unions as a way to communicate with the management collectively and demand better working conditions or better pay.

However, most of these labor unions were extremely unpopular among business owners, the press and among the general public. Unions were often times seen as becoming too powerful and able to blackmail corporations.

There were even cases of some business owners employing people who would violently crack down on unions within a company.

paul willis (born 1950) is a british social scientist known for his work in sociology and cultural studies. paul willis' work is widely read in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and education, his work emphasizing consumer culture, socialization, music, and popular culture. he was born in wolverhampton[1] and received his education at the university of cambridge and at the university of birmingham. he worked at centre for contemporary cultural studies and subsequently at the university of wolverhampton. he was a professor of social/cultural ethnography at keele university. in the autumn of 2010, he left keele university and is now a professor at princeton university.

paul willis’s work has focused mainly, but not exclusively, on the ethnographic study of lived cultural forms in a wide variety of contexts. from highly structured to weakly structured ones, willis examines how practices of `informal cultural production` to produce and construct cultural worlds `from below`.[2]

trained in literary criticism at cambridge,[2] paul willis received his phd in 1972 from the centre for contemporary cultural studies at birmingham university where he remained as senior research fellow until 1981. he gave a paper at the 9th symposium of the natiohnal deviancy conference in january 1972 entitled 'a motor-bike subculture

during the 1980`s willis served as youth policy adviser to wolverhampton borough council in the english midlands. there he produced the youth review (published by the council and ashgate) which formed the basis for youth policy and for the formation of the democratically elected youth council, both still functioning. during the 1990s he served first as head of the division of media, communications and cultural studies, and then as a member of the professoriate at the university of wolverhampton. in 2000 willis co-founded the sage journal, ethnography. in 2003 willis was hired as a head professor of social and cultural ethnography at keele university.

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