New Teaching Labor’s Story: Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement, 1969
Check out the latest Teaching Labor’s Story: DRUM List of Demands, 1969 (9.4) has been posted along with our growing list of guided lesson plans.
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posts and bio Nikki Mandell
Nikki Mandell is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She is the author of The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1030.
New Teaching Labor’s Story Unit: The Soup Song from the 1930s
“The Soup Song" uses humor and sarcasm to convey workers’ experiences and attitudes during the Great Depression. As a widely popular participatory song, it was an effective tool for labor organizing. Read more →
2 New Teaching Labor’s Story Units: Women’s Rights are Labor Rights
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.
Teaching Labor’s Story: Writing Workshop
Teaching Labor’s Story: Writing Workshop
Saturday, May 22
Session B: 10:45 – 12 PST/12:45-2 CST/1:45-3 EST
Are you committed to bringing labor and working class history into the mainstream ?
Are you looking for a worthwhile peer-reviewed publication opportunity?
Are you interested in building connections with labor scholars?
Read more →Four New Teaching Labor’s Stories! Check them out —
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.
Read more →Margaret Chanler Aldrich, “The Week Before Christmas,” December 20, 1911: Teaching Labor’s Story
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.
Read more →What do Teaching, Publishing, & Collective Action have in common?
LAWCHA’s Teaching Labor’s Story project has an answer – NEW to the TLS project: Thematic Threads.
Read more →The Inside Story of a Shirtwaist Factory: Teaching Labor’s Story Update
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.
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