hannah williams, whose tiktok video is about pay, have gone viral. the boss of buffer, a company where everyone�*s pay is public information, and professor peter bamberger, who has literally written the book on pay transparency. also on the show... yeah, avon is still calling, the direct selling cosmetics giant is still going strong. and the global boss tells me about reimagining the business for the 21st century. wherever you'rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. you know, vanity fair magazine today best known for interviews and photographs of powerful celebrities, businesspeople and politicians, but around 100 years ago in new york city, the magazine was the scene of a worker revolution. some of the magazine's star writers, such as dorothy parker and robert benchley, they started talking about how much they were paid, something that they weren't allowed to do. when they were reprimanded, they all came in the next day with a painted sign around their necks displaying their pay. today, new york ci

hannah williams, whose tiktok video is about pay, have gone viral.

peter mallory, george williams, the enslaved cook. hannah, we're all members of that founding generation in different ways. and so we try to really make that substantial in our interpretation. i love that because, you know, it also allows the audience to understand that these were people who had family faith system aims, they had their skill sets, but also had intellect, and they had considerations of freedom. right. no doubt discussion of freedom, what it meant. at the same time, as, you know, president monroe was reflecting freedom and looking around to his environment and seeing enslaved african-americans and thinking about what freedom meant and how it had to be manifest. it would interrupt the system that was in place right. right. which i think was the the hurdle that so many did not get past. and as you referenced, liberia, that idea of living alongside free black americans side by side with the same rights and privileges that was that was too much for most of them to imagine. they could not get or could not or would not get their hea

williams also had a knack electronics and a specialized technical skills helped him to pick up a second job that involved wiretapping. for this job sometimes went by the names franklin or dc hannah's. it depended on what sort of work was required over the span of a short few months. williams gained notoriety across the state of california by devising scheme that allowed him to do both jobs trading stocks and tapping wires. at the same, it made him a wealthy man. the scheme was effective as it was clever. williams would tap into the communications of manufacturing firms and mining companies in sacramento in nearby san hoping to intercept news of a price quote, a patent application or an impending sale. anything that a corporate entity consider a confidential williams would then relay the news to a syndicate of stockbrokers posted in locations as far flung as new york and virginia. the brokers made financial moves based the intercepted information returning cut of the profits to placerville, the genius of the wasn't simply that it allowed to eavesdrop on privileged communications. it also capitalized the time it takes to send an electronic signal across a region as vast that of the

passed in the 19th century, because hannah dustin is a colonial massachusetts protestant woman and mother was taken captive by indians from quebec during the king williams war and 16 97. king williams war was one of a series of wars we discussed in this class. they are wars between indigenous people and they pivoted around competing claims that french and english imperial interests had four north american territory and of course clashing interest among native peoples as well that intersected with all these. as we discussed, people are taken captive in these indian wars. hannah dustin was one of these. she was taken captive along with her newborn daughter. along the march to new hampshire, the indigenous people who captured her, killed her daughter who is only six days old by smashing her head against a tree, as hannah dustin recalls. it while captive in new hampshire, hannah dustin in a grizzly fashion returns the favor. she is taken captive not just with her infant daughter, but also with the woman who is helping to nurse or through her pregnancy. when they arrived in this island in new hampshire where they were stopping with the people who had taken h