Organizing the curriculum : : perspectives on teaching the us labor movement / / Rob Linné & Leigh Benin & Adrienne Sosin.

Contemporary American youth live in a culture that ignores or denigrates labor unions. Mainstream media cover labor issues only sparingly and unions no longer play much of a role in popular culture texts, films, or images. In our schools labor has been limited to a footnote in textbooks instead of b...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, 2009.
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education 41.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Rob Linné , Leigh Benin and Adrienne Sosin
  • On Consumerism and Labor Consciousness / Leigh David Benin
  • Labor’s Exclusion from Official Knowledge / Rob Linné
  • A Letter to Family and Friends from the Labor Front / Courtney Snegroff and Leigh David Benin
  • Teacher Solidarity for Educational Excellence / Leigh David Benin and Adrienne Andi Sosin
  • A Paradigm Shift in the Making for Teachers of Working-Class Students / Patrick J. Finn
  • Teaching What Unions Do / Adrienne Andi Sosin , Joel Sosinsky , Cindy Impala and Karin Jones
  • An Essay On Racism, War, and Labor’s Struggle / Leigh David Benin
  • Mining Mathematics Education for Labor History / Peter Appelbaum and Bob Klein
  • Uncovering History through Biography and Personal Narrative / Laraine Wallowitz and Nicole Sieben
  • Using Educational Technology to Teach Students About Child Labor / Laura Benin
  • Lewis Hine and His Photo Stories / Deborah L. Smith-Shank and Kryssi Staikidis
  • Reading the Labor Movement / Adrienne Andi Sosin , Miriam Pepper-Sanello , Susan Eichenholtz , Lucia Buttaro and Renee White-Clark
  • From The Bobbin Girl to The Breaker Boys / Patricia A. Deleo
  • Horton, Highlander, and the Habituation of Democracy / J. Cynthia McDermott and Peter Hoffmann-Kipp
  • SEIU Local 32 BJ’s Youth Brigade / Stuart Eimer and Max Mishler
  • Every Labor Leader’s Second Favorite Topic: / Fred Glass
  • Grassroots Organizing and Teacher Education / Mary E. Finn
  • Where do we go from here? / Adrienne Andi Sosin
  • Contributor Profiles and Contacts / Rob Linné , Leigh Benin and Adrienne Sosin.