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Central Wisconsin History Collaborative A Teaching American History Grant Project
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Labor History
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Goldin, Barbara Diamond, Fire! The Beginning of the Labor Movement (Once Upon America), Puffin: 1992 In 1911 Rosie becomes involved in the struggle for better working conditions in factories when fire rips through the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, where her older sister Freyda is employed. RL 3.2
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Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp,
Janie Lynn Panagopoulos (River Road Publications, 1998).
Twelve-year-old Gus McCarty struggles at school with an obnoxious
classmate named Al until an accident sends him back in time to a
lumber camp with an equally troublesome lumberjack named Alex.
RL4.5
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| Harvesting
Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez (Hardcover)
by Kathleen Krull, Yuyi Morales (Illustrator) From School Library Journal Grade 3-6-The dramatic story of Chavez's 340-mile march to protest the working conditions of migrant farm workers in California is the centerpiece of this well-told biography. Readers meet Chavez at his grandparents' home in Arizona where he lived happily amid a large extended family. His childhood was cut short when, due to financial difficulties, the family was forced to move to California to seek employment. After years of laboring in the fields, Chavez became increasingly disturbed by the inhuman living conditions imposed by the growers. The historic 1965 strike against grape growers and the subsequent march for "La Causa" are vividly recounted, and Chavez's victory-the agreement by the growers granting the workers better conditions and higher pay-is palpable. While sufficient background information is provided to support the story and encourage further research, focusing on one event makes the story appealing to younger readers. The text is largely limited to one side of a spread; beautifully rendered earth-toned illustrations flow out from behind the words and onto the facing page. A fine addition to any collection.
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Counting on Grace by E. Winthrop. Elizabeth Winthrop's latest book, inspired by a famous Lewis Hine photograph, is an extraordinary journey that takes two paths. First is the fictional work itself, COUNTING ON GRACE, a novel which offers an unflinching glimpse of life in a 1910 mill town, and a spirited 12-year old girl who struggles against the mill's deadening effects. See: http://www.elizabethwinthrop.com/
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| Kids at
Work: Lewis Hind and the Crusade Against Child Labor. by Russell
Freedman; Photographs by Lewis Hine Using the compelling black and white photographs of Lewis Hine, Russell Freedman has chronicled the child labor movement in the United States. Hine became an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee in 1908, traveling across the country, photographing and collecting the horrifying tales associated with the use and abuse of child labor. His work was influential in changing child labor laws, and this photoessay gives children a unique glimpse into the past. 1994, Clarion, Ages 10 up, $16.95. Reviewer: Mary Sue Preissner ISBN: 0-395-58703-4
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Fire!: The Beginnings of the Labor Movement (Once Upon America) by Barbara Diamond Goldin, James Watling
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At Issue Series - Child Labor and Sweatshops (At Issue Series) by Ann Manheimer Book Description: Abuses of child and adult workers have led to protests, boycotts, and treaties to end child labor and sweatshops. Everyone agrees the worst practices must be stopped. But debate rages over the underlying causes, and whether workplace exploitation is an inevitable step in economic development or an avoidable human rights violation.
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Labor Day (Holiday Histories/2nd Edition) by Mir Tamim Ansary Review from School Library Journal: K-Gr 2--Each book details the history of the holiday, sharing past events that shaped today's celebration. Columbus Day salutes the spirit of discovery while emphasizing that there were people already in the Americas. Labor Day reminds readers that the labor-union movement brought about laws keeping children out of the workplace and in school. Remembering Dr. King's dream is the theme of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The titles have two-to-three lines of text per page and boldfaced words are defined in a glossary. Unfortunately, all three books are oversimplified and try to cover too much information. Black-and-white and full-color photographs and reproductions, at least one per page, illustrate each volume.
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Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory Fire: Flames of Labor Reform (American Disasters)
by
Michelle M.
Houle.
Discusses the 1911 fire that killed 146 New York garment factory
workers, the conditions that led up to it, and some of the
legislation that came about to prevent the occurrence of similar
disasters.
Review from School Library Journal:
Grade 4-6-On March 25, 1911, it took about half an hour for a fire
to start, spread, kill 146 people, and be extinguished. Lasting
labor reform came about because of this disaster. Readers are
exposed to the dreadful and, by today's standards, underhanded and
illegal working conditions of immigrants (here, mostly women). The
short chapters are enlivened with period photographs, including a
horrific view of the bodies of women who had leaped to their deaths
to escape the flames. Although the text is easy to read, the horror
is not sugarcoated.
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| Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea:
Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World,
1700-1750, Marcus Rediker (1987).
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| Shay's Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian
Insurrection, David P. Szatmary, (1980).
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| American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White
Labor, Jacqueline Jones, (1998).
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| The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring
People, 1750-1800, Billy G. Smith, (1990).
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| Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in
the Industrial Revolution, Thomas Dublin, (1994).
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| Industrial American: The Nineteenth Century,
Walter Licht, (1995).
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| Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the
Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic, Jeanne Boydston,
(1990).
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| Richard P. McCormick, The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era (1966). | |||
| Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work , and the Family Since Slavery (1985). | |||
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http://www.wisconsinlaborhistory.org/ref.html
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| THE FLINT SIT-DOWN STRIKE AUDIO GALLERY | On the night of December 30, the majority of employees who had been working their shift at Fisher 1 and Fisher 2 left the plants. Some left only to celebrate the New Year and returned later. Others took up picket and food-gathering activities on the outside... http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/
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THE BIRTH OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT |
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Harvard's site: "Women Working, 1800-1930" http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/ |
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire & Trial http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/trianglefire.html |
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Dramas of Haymarket http://www.chicagohistory.org/hadc/index.html |
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The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/bisbee/index.html |
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9to5, National Association of Working Women is a
national, grassroots membership organization that strengthens
women's ability to work for economic justice. Founded in 1973, 9to5
has activists in more than 200 cities and members in every state.
http://www.9to5.org/
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Search for “labor history” and you’ll see amazing collections of links, ranging from very recent materials, such as documents related to the protests at the World Trade Organization in Seattle to 15-minute clips from some of the 5,000 oral history interviews by THE oral historian of our times, Studs Terkel, to the child labor photographs of Lewis Hine, 1908-1912. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
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Gain a rewarding overview of the history of
twentieth century American labor by taking a tour of the George
Meany Memorial Archives.
http://www.nlc.edu/archives/teachers.html
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Joel Sipress (UW-Superior)
Resources on Late Nineteenth-Century Labor History
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Jodi Vandenberg-Daves (UW-La Crosse)
Forty (40) Books About Labor for Children and Youth