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Fiction - Nonfiction - Child
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Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop gr. 5-9 Lyddie by Katherine Paterson gr. 5-8 Rockbuster by Gloria Skurzynski. gr. 6-10 |
So Far From Home : The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl by Barry Denenberg. gr. 5-8 Working Days: Short Stories About Teenagers and Work, ed. Anne Mazer gr 8+ Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch gr. 6-9 Triangle by Katherine Webber gr. 9+ |
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The Pullman Strike and the Labor Movement in America by R. Conrad Stein Big Annie of Calumet: A True Story of the Industrial Revolution by Jerry Stanley Labor in Detroit: Working in the Motor City by Mike Smith We
Shall Not be Moved: The Women’s Factory Strike of 1909 by Joan
Dash gr. 7+ |
Sit
Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937 by Sidney Fine
Society Sisters : Stories of Women Who Fought for Social Justice in America by Catherine Gourley gr. 6-9 The Triangle Factory Fire by Victoria Sherrow gr. 5-8 State
of the Union: A Century of American Labor by Nelson Lichtenstein |
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labor : An American History by Hugh D. Hindman. gr 10+
Good Girl Work : Factories, Sweatshops, and How Women Changed Their Role in the American Workforce by Catherine Gourley. gr. 4-8 Kids on Strike by Susan Campbell Bartoletti gr 5-8 |
Growing
Up in Coal Country by
Susan Campbell Bartoletti gr. 5-8
Kids
at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor by Russell
Freedman gr. 5+ |
The Reuther Brothers: Walter, Roy and Victor by Mike and Pam Smith Cesar Chavez: A Voice for Farmworkers by Barbara C. Cruz gr. 7+ Eugene V. Debs: Outspoken Labor Leader and Socialist by Charles W. Carey gr. 6-9 |
The Importance of Mother Jones by Madelyn Horton gr. 6-9 Mother Jones: One Woman’s Fight for Labor by Betsy Harvey Kraft gr. 4-7 |
American Labor Studies Center – Lesson Plans
Labor Arts - A virtual museum that gathers and displays photos, buttons, leaflets, cartoon arts murals and sheet music of working people and their organizations
Labor History : University of Washington Libraries ~ Links to famous strikes, issues of working life and photographs
Labor History on the Web from the AFL-CIO
US Labor History from the South Dakota Department of Education
National Child Labor Committee Photographs - Images of child workers arranged by occupation
The Campaign to End Child Labor edited by Jim Zwick - History, photographs, songs
Child Labor in America 1908-1912 - The History Place - Photographs by Lewis Hine
The historic 1936-37 Flint auto plant strikes - By Vivian M. Baulch and Patricia Zacharias
Mass Moments Bread and Roses Strike - Includes teacher units
The Battle of the Overpass - by Curtis Hansen
American Federation of Musicians of the United
States and Canada (AFM)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
American Federation of Teachers
American Postal Workers Union (APWU)
Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA)
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) - Includes slide shows of UAW history
United American Nurses (UAN)
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)
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