Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 1-10

thank you for visiting the labor history resource project as we build this resource!

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 1-10

Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University, edX, Elaine Tyler May, Media, Nick Juravich, People, Resources, Video, Videos, 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.

Welcome to Women Have Always Worked! | Why Women’s History?

Introduction to Course 2 | Wage Work for Women Citizens: 1870–1920

Introduction to Course 3 | Negotiating a Changing World: 1920–1950

Introduction to Course 4 | Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018

The Tension of the 1950s | The Woman Citizen in a Cold War World

Women’s Work Inside and Outside the Home in the 1950s with Elaine Tyler May

Redlining with Elaine Tyler May

Suburbanization with Nick Juravich

Fear of the Foreign | The Woman Citizen in a Cold War World

The Cold War with Elaine Tyler May

New Skills and New Workers | The Woman Citizen in a Cold War

Consumerism with Nick Juravich

Domesticity & Its Implications for Black and White Women with Elaine T. May

Video Gallery

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 Boott Cotton Mills Museum gives a snapshot of what is was like to work in New England cotton mills in the 1800s. The Museum, once Boott Mill #6, was originally owned by Kirk Boott, an industrialist who was responsible for much of the early urban planning that shaped Lowell’s industrial and residential landscape.

View: Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 31-40

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 31-40

Alice Kessler-Harris, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Columbia University, edX, Elaine Tyler May, Linda Gordon, Media, People, Premilla Nadasen, Resources, Video, Videos, Vivian Gornick, Women Have Always Worked, Women Labor

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

View: Teacher Unions conflict in New York City, 1935–1960

Teacher Unions conflict in New York City, 1935–1960

Department of Political Science, Media, PDF, PDF WTM, Research Collections, Resources, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, The College of New Jersey, When Teachers Mobilize

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.

View: Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 61-70

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 61-70

Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University, edX, Media, Nancy Cott, Nick Juravich, People, Resources, Suzanne Kahn, Video, Videos, Vivian Gornick, Women Have Always Worked, Women Labor

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

View: West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, Matewan

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.

View: Rebecca Garelli, an Oral History

Rebecca Garelli, an Oral History

Arizona, Marcella Loprinzi Hardin, Media, Oral History, Oral History Arizona, People, Rebecca Garelli, Video, Video WTM, Videos, Videos WTM, When Teachers Mobilize

When Teachers Mobilize Oral Histories

View: Student Voices from WWII and the McCarthy Era

Student Voices from WWII and the McCarthy Era

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

In this oral history website Brooklyn College students narrate two historical episodes: their experiences of working on farms during World War II, and the events surrounding the suspension of the Vanguard, the student newspaper in a postwar McCarthy era climate. The edited testimony is accompanied…

View: The IWW History Project: Industrial Workers of the World, 1905-1935

The IWW History Project: Industrial Workers of the World, 1905-1935

History Sites, IWW History Project, Organizations, Resources, University of Washington (UW), Working Class Activism Organizations

This project explores the history of the IWW in its first three decades, presenting information that has never before been available. We have compiled databases of more than 1,800 strikes, campaigns, arrests, and other incidents involving IWW members and present this information both yearbook format…

View: Lowell Historical Site – National Park Service

Lowell Historical Site – National Park Service

History Sites, Local and Regional Resources, Lowell, Lowell Mills, Massachusetts, Resources

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.

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 1-10

Video Gallery

You May Also Like