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

Video Gallery

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

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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.

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This site brings together information about the history and ongoing influence of newspapers and periodicals published by unions, labor councils, and radical organizations in the Pacific Northwest. Labor newspapers have been a critical part of American labor movements since the early 19th century and an…