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