Program Information

#700 -- Human Resources, Part 1 (R)

Series:

Subtitle:

First of 4 parts

Program Type:

Weekly Program

Featured Speakers/Commentators:

Contributor:

Kenneth Dowst Contact Contributor

Date Published:

Aug. 2, 2021, 11:20 a.m.

Summary: Scott Noble's wide-ranging and fine documentary film of 2010. It's about the many attempts--some fairly successful--to reduce human beings to mere "cogs in the machine"--in order to further increase the wealth and power of the elite.

This first installment focuses on industrial relations. Through "scientific management," power in the workplace was taken from workers and given to management--yielding higher profits for the owners but degrading conditions for workers.

Credits: The film was adapted to radio by Robin Upton, of "Unwelcome Guests" (unwelcomeguests.net). Many thanks to Robin.

"Human Resources" and other films by Scott Noble are available without charge at www.metanoia-films.org

"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "Boardwalk") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

Notes: You can download this installment of New World Notes--in MP3 and other formats--also from The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/NewWorldNotes554-HumanResourcesPart1

Previously broadcast, as NWN #554, in October 2018.

New World Notes's Web site has information, photos, interesting links, and a free archive of past shows. http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com . Also, radio4all.net has each show from May 2008.

SERIES OVERVIEW -- Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for. "Date recorded," below, = date of first scheduled broadcast.

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