Labor

Exploring Women’s Rights: The 1908 Textile Strike in a 1st-grade Class

Teaching Activity PDF. By Dale Weiss. 3 pages.
A teacher’s reflections about a curriculum unit on women’s rights contextualizes the history of the feminist movement within the broader struggle of people working for greater equality in the United States.

Labor, Women's History

Lawrence, 1912: The Singing Strike

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond. 18 pages.
Role play on the 1912 strike in Lawrence, Mass.

Art & Music, Labor, Women's History

The Singing Strike and the Rebel Students: Learning from the Industrial Workers of the World

Reading for Teachers PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 7 pages.
Author describes how students applied strategies from the Lawrence strike to their own present day activism.

Education, Labor, Social Class

Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union: Black and White Unite?

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond. 12 pages.
Role play on farm labor organizing in the 1930s shows how racism had to be challenged to create effective worker alliances.

African American, Labor, Racism & Racial Identity

Lessons in Solidarity: Grady Hospital Workers United

Teaching Activity PDF. By Larry Miller. 6 pages.
Story and discussion questions about a teacher’s own experience of labor solidarity.

African American, Civil Rights Movements, Labor

Salt of the Earth: Grounds Students in Hope

Teaching Activity PDF. By S.J. Childs. 6 pages.
The author describes how she introduces students to the classic 1953 film Salt of the Earth about a miners’ strike in New Mexico.

Labor, Latino, Social Class, Women's History

From the Jazz Age to the Uprisings of the 1930s

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 20 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 15 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the economic and social realities of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the corresponding rise of unions and the Communist Party.

Labor, Social Class

Socialists and Wobblies

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 17 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 13 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the labor movement at the turn of the century.

Democracy & Citizenship, Immigration, Labor

Strikers and Populists in the Golden Age

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 18 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 11 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the Gilded Age.

Labor, Social Class

Civil War and Class Conflict

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 16 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 10 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on “The Other Civil War” - the class conflict fought by the poor in the north and south.

Labor, Social Class