Organizing the Curriculum: Perspectives on Teaching the Us Labor Movement by Rob Linne (Editor), Leigh Benin (Editor), Adrienne Sosin (Editor)
 
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 being treated seriously as the most effective force for championing the rights of working people—the vast majority of the citizenry.
 
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