Our Working History
Alice Mick and Karen Wolff
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UNIT 1
Trips:
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1.
Old Sturbridge Village
, Sturbridge, Mass. 01566 (617) 347-3362. (Warren Leon).
Movies:
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1.
Sturbridge Slide Show
($2.00 rental fee).
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2. Work at Sturbridge ($2.00 rental fee).
Printed Materials:
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1.
Map of Sturbridge
(Order from Village).
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2.
Map of Colonial New Haven
(Order from New Haven Colonial Historical Society 114 Whitney Ave., New Haven).
UNIT 2
Trips:
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1.
Eli Whitney Museum
, 940 Whitney Ave., Hamden, Conn. Phone: 777-2900. (To be completed fall, 1980).
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2.
Yale Art Gallery
, Chapel St., New Haven, Conn. Phone: 436-0574, Janet Dickson.
Movies:
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1.
America Becomes an industrial Nation
(25 min.) ACES #1568
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This film traces the economic development of the U.S. from an agricultural nation to a modern industrialized society.
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2.
Unseen Dividend
(20 min.) N.H. Board of Education. This film discusses the historical importance of international trade in the U.S. up to 1955.
UNIT 3
Trips:
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1.
Tour of Yale University
, Phone: 436-8330 to arrange for a guided tour.
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2. Tour of Factory.
Movies:
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1.
Growth of Big Business in America
(15 min.) ACES #1184. This film discusses the factors responsible for the changing economy in the United States between 1865 and 1900. As examples the film traces the growth of Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil.
Speakers:
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1. New Haven Chamber of Commerce, 195 Church St., New Haven, Conn. 06511. Phone: 787-6735.
UNlT 4
Trip:
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1.
Bus Tour of New Haven
: To get a New Haven Board of Education bus have the principal of the school call to reserve a bus at least 2 weeks in advance. Buses are available between 9:15 and 11:00 AM. No cost.
Movies:
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1.
The Immigrant Experience
: The Long, Long Journey (31 min.) ACES #1677.
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Who came to America and why? 34 million people immigrated between 1820 and 1920.
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2.
Immigration in America
(11 min.) ACES #1190.
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Dramatic reenactment of causes of immigration, occupation and settling patterns. Major contributions of different groups are presented.
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3.
Jews in America
These movies can be rented from the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith.
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4.
Italians in America
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5.
Island in America (Puerto Ricans).
Printed Materials:
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1.
Map of New Haven
: can be gotten at the City Plan Department, Drafting Room, 157 Church St. (9th Floor). Phone: 787-6378.
UNIT 5
Movies:
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1.
Roots
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Plantation and the Slave System
(30 min.)
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Lee High School Audio-Visual Department Video Tapes.
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2.
I Have a Dream
(35 min.) ACES #1482.
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This film portrays the life of Martin Luther King and has footage of his fight for integration.
Printed Materials:
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1.
The Afro-American in U.S. History
, Chapter 13: “Northern Freedom Without Equality” pp. 136-147.
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2.
Rank and File
(see Unit 6).
UNIT 6
Movies:
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1.
Testimony
(30 min.) ACTWU, 15 Union Square, New York, New York 10003. To order films from ACTWU:
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1. They need one month advance notice.
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2. The request must be in writing. It must be on school stationary and it must explain the reasons for the request.
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This film discusses the J.P. Stevens Boycott and the fight for the union that workers have been leading for the last four years.
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2.
The Inheritance
(45 min.) ACTWU or Anti-Defamation League. This film presents the history of the labor movement with wonderful footage on lives of workers in the past. It traces the growth of the garment industry.
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3.
Union Maids
(50 min.) ACTWU
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Interview with four union women. A warm and exciting discussion about labor history as these women lived through it.
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4.
Pratt Whitney Film
. Contact Wayne Gilbert or Jean Moran, Local Lodge 707, International Association of Machinists and Aero-Space Workers, 425 Washington Ave., North Haven. Phone: 239-5877.
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This slide presentation was made by the workers in the union to explain their union to other workers.
Printed Materials:
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1. “George Patterson, Jesse Reese, and John Sargent” in
Rank and File
(1973), pp. 89-110.
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2. “Sylvia Woods” in
Rank and File
(1973), pp. 111-129.
UNIT 7
Movies:
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1.
Okies
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Uprooted Farmers
(25 min.) New Haven Board of Education Audio Visual Department.
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This film is an excerpt from Steinberg’s “The Grapes of Wrath.” It shows how dust storms and drought drove farmers from their homes in Oklahoma.
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2.
Twenty-Nine Boom and Thirties Depression
(14 min.) New Haven Board of Education Audio Visual Department. By explaining the economics of prosperity, boom, recession and depression, this film tells the story of the Great Depression.
Printed Material:
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1.
America’s Working Women
, “Welfare in a Woman’s Issue” pp. 355-358.
Speakers:
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1. Legal Assistance can send a speaker on Welfare: 777-4811.