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New Teaching Labor’s Story: Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement, 1969

This is the third in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working.

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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.

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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.

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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-.

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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.

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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. Nikki Mandell

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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Lecturers on Strike

University lecturers in the UK will walk off tomorrow in the largest-ever strike called in British higher education. Eric Fure-Slocum wp.stolaf.edu/history/people/fure-slocum-eric/

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