Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 81-90

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Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 81-90

Alice Kessler-Harris, Alondra Nelson, Columbia University, edX, Media, Nick Juravich, People, Resources, Thai Jones, 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.

Document Examination: The Sally Goodgold Papers with Thai Jones

“Leaning In” with Nick Juravich | Having It All

Vivian Gornick on Sheryl Sandberg and “Leaning In” | Having It All

Introduction | Rethinking Gender

Overcoming Division | Rethinking Gender

A High Watermark for Social Activism with Alondra Nelson

Black Women in Leadership & the Politics of Intersectionality w/ Alondra Nelson

The Rising of Women | Rethinking Gender

Women’s Social Organizing and the Rising of Teachers with Nick Juravich

Social Dynamics of African American Men with Alondra Nelson

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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

The Howling Mob Society was a Pittsburgh-based group of anonymous artists, activists, and citizen historians with an interest in the oft-buried radical peoples’ history of the United States. We worked as a team throughout 2007-08 to research, fabricate, and install a series of ten historical markers which detail the events of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 as they unfolded in Pittsburgh, PA.

Labor Arts

Bread and Roses (the Cultural Project of SEIU Local 1199), History Sites, Resources, The Robert F. Wagner Archives/Tamiment Library, The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation

LaborArts presents powerful images to further understanding of the past and present lives of working people. Our events and contests expand on this effort. The site includes curated Exhibits on particular subjects; the Collection, where one can search images from exhibits and other sources; and…

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.

Jen Johnson, an Oral History

Chicago, Illinois, Jen Johnson, Joel Berger, Media, Oral History, Oral History Illinois, People, Video, Video WTM, Videos, Videos WTM, When Teachers Mobilize

When Teachers Mobilize Oral Histories

Our fight for Detroit Kids (group marching)

Detroit May 2-3 2016 March, Joel Berger Collection

Detroit, Joel Berger, Media, Michigan, People, Photo Gallery, Photos WTM, Photos WTM Detroit, Protests, Strikes & Rallies, Resources, When Teachers Mobilize

A gallery of photos to explore.

“For Our Kids, For Our State”: History, Identity, and Narrative in the West Virginia Teacher Strikes of 2018 and 2019

Media, PDF, PDF WTM, PDF WTM West Virginia, Research Collections, Resources, West Virginia, When Teachers Mobilize

“Culture becomes not a haven of ideas or a fixed state of experience but a social imaginary erupting out of a storied cultural real.” (Stewart 1996, 63-4)

I remember the day when my father, a West Virginia University professor, accompanied some of his students to Charleston for Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol in February 2018.

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) works tirelessly to improve the lives of working people.

AFL-CIO – Americas Unions

American Federation of Labor (AFL) and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO), History Sites, Organizations, Resources, Working Class Activism Organizations

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) works tirelessly to improve the lives of working people.

Zoom In

American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, History Sites, Resources

Created in partnership with Education Development Center, Zoom In features 18 skill-focused, document-rich lessons on social history topics that address every era of U.S. history. These interactive inquiries engage students in reading documents closely, gathering evidence, and writing an argumentative or explanatory essay. Each lesson…

Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904

History Sites, Library of Congress, Resources

The Westinghouse Works Collection contains 21 actuality films showing various views of Westinghouse companies. Most prominently featured are the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and the Westinghouse Machine Company. The films were intended to showcase the company’s operations. Exterior and…

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 81-90

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