Labor education for women workers
Labor Education for Women Workers was published in 1981, a year that marked a significant shift in labor-movement history. This essential text raised awareness of the importance of creating space for women workers to have solid labor education and filled a major gap in the literature on labor educat...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
Temple University Press
1981, 1981
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index
- Preface / Walter G. Davis
- Foreword / Lois S. Gray
- Part I. Designing programs
- Labor education and women workers : an historical perspective / Joyce L. Kornbluh and Lyn Goldfarb
- Promoting and recruiting : reaching the target audience / Frieda Shoeberg Rozen
- The short course / Rochelle Semel
- Conferences : the one-day model / Joyce L. Kornbluh and Hy Kornbluh
- Training rank and file leaders : a case study / Marjorie B. Rachlin
- Credit programs for working women / Katherine Schrier
- Residential schools / Barbara M. Wertheimer
- Evaluating programs for working adults / Maria-Luz D. Samper and Stanley Rosen
- Part II. Methods and techniques
- Discussion method / Marjorie B. Rachlin
- Case studies : how to develop and use them / Gloria Busman
- Using oral history in the classroom / Alice M. Hoffman
- Games and other exercises / Anne H. Nelson
- Part III. Subjects and materials
- Labor history through field trips / William Adelman
- Training women for political action / Donna Mobley
- Grievance handling for women stewards / Ida Torres
- Occupational health and safety for women workers : some teaching models / Janet Bertinuson and Andrea M. Hricko
- Education for affirmative action : two union approaches / Gloria T. Johnson and Odessa Komer
- How to choose and use materials in education for women workers / James Wallihan
- Subjects and materials : how to handle controversy / Connie Kopelov
- Part IV. Funding programs
- How foundations view funding proposals on working women / Susan Vail Berresford
- Funding worker education through tuition refund plans / Mimi Abramovitz
- Part V. The larger view
- Labor education and women workers : an international comparison / Alice H. Cook and Roberta Till-Retz
- A summary discussion / Lawrence Rogin
- Appendix and index
- A resource on resources / James Wallihan