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2 New Teaching Labor’s Story Units: Women’s Rights are Labor Rights

by Nikki Mandell on February 23, 2022

What do labor history and movements for women’s rights have in common?

Check out the new additions to the Teaching Labor’s Story resource bank:

a 1910 article advocating women’s suffrage by Kate Debs (yes, that Debs)

Document Selection and Teaching Guide by Michelle Killion Morahn, Affiliated Faculty, Indiana State University

and the 1966 National Organization of Women’s Statement of Purpose

Document Selection and Teaching Guide by: Katherine Turk, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Debs makes the case for women’s suffrage with a combination of natural rights and class interest arguments, draws support from the new science of sociology, and makes a not-very-subtle critique of patriarchy within the socialist movement itself.

Four New Teaching Labor’s Stories! Check them out —

by Nikki Mandell on February 19, 2021

Four New Teaching Labor’s Stories! Check them out —

The TLS repository now offers more ways to examine how work changed in the early- to mid-twentieth century, and how repressive state systems worked to constrain different groups of workers, including Black labor.

Margaret Chanler Aldrich, “The Week Before Christmas,” December 20, 1911: Teaching Labor’s Story

by Nikki Mandell on May 30, 2020

Margaret Chanler Aldrich and the Teaching Committee have completed another section of Teaching Labor’s Story, featuring a poem first published in the New York Times. The poem was then used by the National Consumers’ League for its campaign to improve conditions for retail workers around Christmas.

What do Teaching, Publishing, & Collective Action have in common?

by Nikki Mandell on March 7, 2020

LAWCHA’s Teaching Labor’s Story project has an answer – NEW to the TLS project: Thematic Threads.

The Inside Story of a Shirtwaist Factory: Teaching Labor’s Story Update

by Nikki Mandell on January 11, 2020

Clare Lemlich has provided a new teaching resource for Teaching Labor’s Story. It is a primary source material lesson plan involving a magazine article written by immigrant garment worker and labor leader. The article describes working conditions in New York City’s garment factories and advocates votes for women.

Teaching Labor’s Story: Margaret Haley, “Why Teachers Should Organize” 1904

by Ryan Poe on August 23, 2019

Margaret Haley, Vice President of the Chicago Teachers’ Federation gave this speech at the National Education Association convention, St. Louis, Missouri, July 1, 1904.

New Teaching Labor’s Story Guide: Triumph of the Paraprofessionals, August 22, 1970

by Nick Juravich on May 8, 2018

Nick Juravich’s new TLS guide is an op-ed written by civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin on the signing of the first union contract for paraprofessional educators (classroom and school support staff) in New York City. It was published in the New York Amsterdam News, the city’s largest black-owned newspaper.

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LAWCHA

The Labor and Working-Class History Association