Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 41-50

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Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 41-50

Alice Kessler-Harris, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Columbia University, edX, Linda Gordon, Linda Kerber, Media, People, Resources, Video, Videos, Vivian Gornick, 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.

Coverture Disintegrates | The Meaning of Freedom when Gender is At Issue

The Crumbling of Coverture, 1920-1980 with Linda Kerber

Federal Programs for Women with Linda Gordon

Women’s Strike for Equality with Blanche Wiesen Cook

What Do Women Want? Questions of Sisterhood | The Second Wave in Action

Feminism in the 1970s with Vivian Gornick Part 1 | The Second Wave in Action

Feminism in the 1970s with Vivian Gornick Part 2 | The Second Wave in Action

Radical Feminists and Reproductive Politics | The Second Wave in Action

Younger Women Emerge in the Feminist Movement with Linda Gordon

Divisions and Challenges to Male Domination with Linda Gordon

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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

We are activist scholars — Jennifer Guglielmo, Michelle Joffroy, Diana Sierra Becerra — collaborating with the domestic workers movement (nannies, house cleaners, and home care workers) to give workers greater access to their own histories and cultures of resistance. These are educational tools for everyone to learn about these foundational histories.

View: Child Labor in America, 1908-1912: Photographs by Lewis W. Hine

Child Labor in America, 1908-1912: Photographs by Lewis W. Hine

History Sites, Resources, The History Place

As early as the 1830s, many U.S. states had enacted laws restricting or prohibiting the employment of young children in industrial settings. However, in rural communities where child labor on the farm was common, employment of children in mills and factories did not arouse much…

Sheldon Dick, photographer. Sitdown strikers in the Fisher body plant factory number three. Flint, Michigan. 1937. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

View: Dec. 30, 1936: First Sit-Down Strike Begins in Flint

Dec. 30, 1936: First Sit-Down Strike Begins in Flint

History Sites, Michigan, Protests, Strikes & Rallies, Resources, Zinn Education Project

The Flint sit-down strike, which started on Dec. 30, 1936, represented a shift in union organizing strategies from craft unionism (organizing white male skilled workers) to industrial unionism (organizing all the workers in an industry). The sit-down strike changed the balance of power between employers and workers.

View: How did the lowell system affect the lives of young, unmarried women in the united states?

How did the lowell system affect the lives of young, unmarried women in the united states?

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

In the early 19th century the United States of America began to experience many changes. In parts of the country there was a shift from an agrarian society to an industrial society.

View: 2018 CES Major Work Stoppages Report

2018 CES Major Work Stoppages Report

Department of Labor, Media, PDF, PDF WTM GOV, Research Collections, Resources, US Government Publications, When Teachers Mobilize

In 2018, there were 20 major work stoppages involving 485,000 workers, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of major work stoppages beginning in 2018 was the highest since 2007 (21 major work stoppages). The number of workers involved was the highest since 1986 (533,000 workers).

View: March 18, 1970: Postal Workers Strike

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.

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 41-50

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