Teaching Labor History With the Chicago Foreign-Language Press Survey
In fall 1936, the Chicago Public Library initiated the Chicago Foreign-Language Press Survey, with funding from the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), one.
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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.
- by Nikki Mandell
- November 27, 2023
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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.
- by Nikki Mandell
- August 17, 2022
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Calling all Labor Historians: A New Resource to Tell Labor’s Story
A new LAWCHA initiative to develop classroom and public knowledge of labor history Randi Storch
- by Randi Storch
- August 4, 2017
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Black Education, Racism, and Class: Reflections from a Charter High School Graduation
This May I attended the commencement ceremony for a young cousin who was one of 117 graduates from an overwhelmingly black charter high.
- by Clarence Lang
- June 20, 2017
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Socialism in current K-12 textbooks: invisible & dismissed
For years now I’ve been showing students and friends the polls that show an increasingly favorable view of socialism especially among low income,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 29, 2016
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Growing Apart by Colin Gordon: Great Teaching Resource
Growing Apart is one of the most valuable tools for teaching about labor and inequality that I have seen in recent years. It’s.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- November 14, 2014