Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 1-10

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Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 1-10

Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University, edX, Elaine Tyler May, Media, Nick Juravich, People, Resources, Video, Videos, Women Have Always Worked, Women LaborJanuary 28, 2022

The following are video previews from the edX course “Women Have Always Worked” presented by Alice Kessler-Harris and Columbia University.

Welcome to Women Have Always Worked! | Why Women’s History?

Introduction to Course 2 | Wage Work for Women Citizens: 1870–1920

Introduction to Course 3 | Negotiating a Changing World: 1920–1950

Introduction to Course 4 | Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018

The Tension of the 1950s | The Woman Citizen in a Cold War World

Women’s Work Inside and Outside the Home in the 1950s with Elaine Tyler May

Redlining with Elaine Tyler May

Suburbanization with Nick Juravich

Fear of the Foreign | The Woman Citizen in a Cold War World

The Cold War with Elaine Tyler May

New Skills and New Workers | The Woman Citizen in a Cold War

Consumerism with Nick Juravich

Domesticity & Its Implications for Black and White Women with Elaine T. May

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Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.

DateMarch 2019Provided byAlice Kessler-HarrisMain CollectionHistory MediaAreaResourcesReferenceResearch CollectionsShare

Lowell’s water-powered textile mills catapulted the nation – including immigrant families and early female factory workers – into an uncertain new industrial era. Nearly 200 years later, the changes that began here still reverberate in our shifting global economy. Explore Lowell, a living testament to the dynamic human story of the industrial revolution.

View: FORESHADOWING THE SEVENTIES: TEACHER MILITANCY AND THE NEA, 1900 – 1922

FORESHADOWING THE SEVENTIES: TEACHER MILITANCY AND THE NEA, 1900 – 1922

California Journal of Teacher Education, JSTOR, Media, PDF, PDF WTM, Research Collections, Resources, When Teachers Mobilize

If the 1960’s were known as the era of vigorous student militancy in most sectors of American education, the 1970’s may well go down in history as the decade of the angry teacher.

Frances Benjamin Johnston, photographer. Wooden Box Industry: women in work room of box factory. ca 1910. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

View: Founding of the National Labor Union and the 1st National Call for a 8-Hour Work Day

Founding of the National Labor Union and the 1st National Call for a 8-Hour Work Day

Baltimore, History Sites, Library of Congress, Maryland, Organizations, Resources, Working Class Activism Organizations

The National Labor Union was founded on August 20, 1866, in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the first attempt to create a national labor group in the United States and one of their first actions was the first national call for Congress to mandate an 8-hour work day.

View: History: US Department of Labor

History: US Department of Labor

History Sites, Resources, United States Department of Labor

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View: The Lowell Mills, The Mill Girls

The Lowell Mills, The Mill Girls

History Sites, Lowell, Lowell Mill Girls, Lowell Mills, Massachusetts, Resources, The Lowell Mills

In 1820 Lowell, known as East Chelmsford, MA at the time, had a population of 200 and was a farming community. Thirty years later, the population had grown to 33,000 and one could find 32 textile mills in existence there. Lowell was an ideal location for these mills because it was located near the Merrimac River. The river supplied the water necessary to run these factories.

View: Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 11-20

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 11-20

Alice Kessler-Harris, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Columbia University, edX, Elaine Tyler May, Media, People, Resources, Video, Videos, Women Have Always Worked, Women Labor

Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.

View: West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, Matewan

West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, Matewan

History Sites, Local and Regional Resources, Resources, West Virginia

In the town of Matewan, the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum sits at the site of a historic battle which erupted in May of 1920, setting into motion a chain of events that led to the largest armed uprising in the United States since our civil war.

Three miners with federal soldier prepare to surrender weapons.

View: Matewan and the Battle of Blair Mountain–WVA coal miners, 1920

Matewan and the Battle of Blair Mountain–WVA coal miners, 1920

History Sites, Protests, Strikes & Rallies, Resources, Smithsonian Magazine, West Virginia

What Made the Battle of Blair Mountain the Largest Labor Uprising in American History. Its legacy lives on today in the struggles faced by modern miners seeking workers’ rights

View: Bread and Roses Strike of 1912: Two Months in Lawrence, Massachusetts, that Changed Labor History

Bread and Roses Strike of 1912: Two Months in Lawrence, Massachusetts, that Changed Labor History

History Sites, Lawrence, Local and Regional Resources, Massachusetts, Resources

The Lawrence Textile Strike was a public protest mainly of immigrant workers from several countries, including Austria, Belgium, Cuba, Canada, France, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Syria, and Turkey. According to the 1910 census, 65% of mill workers (many of whom eventually struck) lived in the United States for less than 10 years; 47% for less than five years.

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 1-10

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