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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wertheimer, Barbara M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1981.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.