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National Domestic Workers Alliance – New York

History Sites, National Domestic Workers Alliance, ResourcesJanuary 3, 2022

Domestic work is the work that makes all other work possible. Together, we can win the protections and recognition that this vital American workforce needs. Join us today!

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Domestic work is the work that makes all other work possible. Together, we can win the protections and recognition that this vital American workforce needs. Join us today!

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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.

LAUSD Strike Report 2019, LOS ANGELES PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY REPORT

California, Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, Media, PDF, PDF WTM, PDF WTM Los Angeles, Research Collections, Resources, Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles, When Teachers Mobilize

LMU is a private Catholic university with 6,250 undergraduates, 2,150 graduate students and 1,100 law students from diverse backgrounds and many perspectives.

Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912 – Book Resource

History Sites, Lawrence, Local and Regional Resources, Massachusetts, Resources, Zinn Education Project

One of the most significant struggles for workers’ rights began on January 12, 1912, in Lawrence, Mass., when thousands of textile workers began a walkout that would come to be known as the Bread and Roses Strike, the Lawrence Textile Strike, and the Singing Strike. Read an overview and find teaching resources below.

March 18, 1970: Postal Workers Strike

American Postal Workers Union, APWU, Great Postal Strike, History Sites, Postal Workers, Protests, Strikes & Rallies, Resources, Zinn Education Project

The first mass work stoppage in the 195-year history of the Postal Service began on March 18, 1970, with a walkout of letter carriers in Brooklyn and Manhattan who were demanding better wages.

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.

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 71-80

Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University, edX, Media, Nick Juravich, People, Premilla Nadasen, 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.

Women Working, 1800-1930

Harvard Library, History Sites, Resources, Women Labor

Though it’s a relatively recent field of study, women’s history is inscribed across all of the Harvard Library holdings gathered since 1638. By examining those holdings afresh and querying them in a new and feminist light, the curators of the Women Working collection have aggregated…

Southern Oral History Program

Center for the Study of the American South, History Sites, Local, Resources, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Southern Oral History Program Interview Database provides detailed descriptions of interviews in the Southern Oral History Program Collection (04007). The interviews in this collection were conducted or collected under the auspices of the Southern Oral History Program in the Center for the Study of…

Studs Terkel Radio Archive

Chicago History Museum, History Sites, Resources

The Studs Terkel Radio Archive (STRA), launched in May 2018 on Studs Terkel’s 106th birthday, is a digital platform whereon, eventually, will live the majority of the 5,600 radio programs Terkel created during his career at WFMT in Chicago between 1952 and 1997 live. This…