Labor History Teaching Blog

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.

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  • Nikki Mandell

    Nikki Mandell is Professor Emerita at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She is the author of The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930 (2003) and co-author of Thinking Like a Historian: Rethinking History Instruction (2008) and project director of many teaching and public history initiatives, including Teaching Labor's Story for LAWCHA

Nikki Mandell
Nikki Mandell is Professor Emerita at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She is the author of The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930 (2003) and co-author of Thinking Like a Historian: Rethinking History Instruction (2008) and project director of many teaching and public history initiatives, including Teaching Labor's Story for LAWCHA