Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 51-60
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Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.
The following are video previews from the edX course “Women Have Always Worked” presented by Alice Kessler-Harris and Columbia University.
Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.
While studies of the New York City Teachers Union (TU) generally attribute its eventual demise to the Red Scares of the 1940s and 1950s, this article situates the TU in the history of New York City teachers associations more generally.
Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.
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The Wayne State University Library System, through its digital publishing initiatives, strives to bring unique, important, or institutionally relevant content to Wayne State University’s academic community and to the larger world. Our Digital Collections represent text, images, and audiovisual material that support this mission through…
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.
This collection presents 470 interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The four-month study of occupational culture in Paterson, New Jersey, was conducted in 1994. The documentary materials presented in…
Lowell built on the advances made in the British textile industry, such as the use of the power loom, to industrialize American textile production. He was the first factory owner in the United States to create a textile mill that was vertically integrated.
In August 1981, over 12,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) walked off the job after contract negotiations with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) broke down.