Oh bless I’m listening to a very small PhD student whom I’m guessing is 23. She’s still developing her presentation skills and nuance. “When Korea broke out”... oh sweetie.
Overall it was a pretty good presentation. The initial title that got me in was "Capitalism's Midwives" -- and it was basically about US labor groups and how they engaged with people working for US corporations in other countries. The stated goals were to include overall standards of living and lessen competition of paying people pennies elsewhere.
But it was also understood that exploitation of workers leads to communism (...they're not wrong) so this was a pro-capitalist endeavor.
She'd been doing primary source resource in our special collections because we have tons of United Steelworkers records, so we had letters, meeting minutes, speeches, presentations, and also lots of material which gave us other people's POVs on these concerns.
The Indian labor reps, for example, were UNSURE about the whole thing and pretty sure it was pro-capitalist. ...they were not wrong.
@platypus I like this; it makes the Korean war sound like a teenager that just hit puberty.