Mid 1900s team
Situation: You are a factory worker fighting for fewer hours.
Question: Who was the Dunkin' worker who died from car fumes while resting between shifts?
Answer: Maria Fernandes
Correct = success, + 100 points
Incorrect = failure, hours remain the same, but you have no penalty, + 0 points
Situation: You ask for regular hours at your retail job.
Question: The U.S. is the only rich country with no guaranteed vacation time, legal right to sick leave, and _____.
Answer: maternity leave
Correct = you don't receive the hours, but you don't get fired! + 0 points
Incorrect = you get fired, -100 points
Situation: You are an artisan fighting for higher wages.
Question: Economist John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930 that workers would eventually suffer from boredom because they would have too much ___ time.
Answer: leisure
Correct = wage received! + 100 points
Incorrect = wage remains the same, no penalty + 0 points
Situation: You are an average worker. CEO's are fighting for higher salaries.
Question: Which hardworking Dunkin' character famously said, "Time to make the donuts?"
Answer: Fred the Baker
Correct = CEO wages remain the same, yours barely increases, + 50 points
Incorrect = CEO compensation increases to 200x more than the average worker in 2015, -200 points
Situation: It is 1877 and railroad workers across America are going on strike to improve working conditions.
Question: income inequality began to rise after which organizations declined?
Answer: labor unions
Correct = the strike is a success, + 100 points
Incorrect = strike fails, workers are fired, -100 points
Situation: It is 2014 and congress is trying to pass the Schedules That Work Act which would require companies to let employees know about changes to their schedules at lease two weeks in advance.
Question: Instead of work, the unpaid and often unseen domestic labor of women came to be recognized as what?
Answer: craft
Correct = the bill is passed! + 100 points
Incorrect = the bill is never passed, despite being reintroduced in 2017 and 1019, no penalty + 0 points
Situation: It is 1877 and you just participated in the first Labor Day Parade in New York in order to advocate for shorter work days.
Question: Anthropologist James Suzman said that humans work as hard as what primate?
Answer: Gorilla
Correct = The parade was a huge success, + 150 points
Incorrect = The work day stays the same, but you are not penalized from your job, + 0 points
Situation: You work in food service. You just drove an hour to work for your shift only to find that it has been cancelled last minute.
Question: Even though on average US employees work more than employees from this country, ______ coined the term "death by overwork."
Answer: Japan
Correct = You beg your boss to let you work, and they allow you to! + 25 points
Incorrect = Your boss tells you to go home, you do not get paid, -100 points
Situation: Henry Ford proposed "the Fordist bargain" which argues for higher efficiency with a smaller work week.
Question: In the 1980s, the phrase "Do what you love and ______________" rose to popularity.
Answer: "you'll never work a day in your life"
Correct = Proposition is accepted throughout the US, workweek is reduced to five days, + 200 points
Incorrect = Proposition is not accepted, workweek remains the same, -50 points
Situation: You are a single mom working at a warehouse company. You have recently been scheduled a shift at the same time you must pick up your child from daycare. You ask your boss to change your shift.
Question: Which social group urged economist to count housework as work?
Answer: Feminists
Correct = Your boss reluctantly agrees to unschedule you, + 0 points
Incorrect = You are fired. -200 points