Activity 2A.1: Sitting Down in Flint: A Case Study
Oral history audio clips of Flint, Michigan autoworkers’ strike
Flint Sit-Down Strike Audio Timeline: www.historicalvoices.org/flint/timeline-main.html
Flint Sit-Down Strike Audio Gallery: www.historicalvoices.org/flint/organization.php,
www.historicalvoices.org/flint/#
Historical photographs of Flint, Michigan autoworkers’ strike
United Auto Workers (UAW). UAW History, including sit down strikes at GM and Chrysler in Flint and Detroit. www.uaw.org/node/271
Grevatt, Martha. “70 years ago workers won Flint sit-down strike.” Workers World. www.workers.org/2007/us/flint-0308/
Activity 2A.2: Choosing a Labor Event
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877: www2.ucsc.edu/resnet/res-includes/hilte/results.php
The Molly Maguires: www.providence.edu/polisci/students/molly_maguires/
The Homestead Strike: www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande04.html
The Triangle Factory Fire: www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
Schneirov, Richard. The Pullman Strike and Boycott: http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/pullman/events3.html
A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum: https://aprpullmanportermuseum.org
Tye, Larry. (2004). Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class. New York: Henry Holt.
Neeley, Lyn. (1998, January 29). Bread & Roses: The Strike Led and Won by Women. Workers World. www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45b/073.html
Dublin, Thomas (Ed.) (1981). Farm to Factory: Women’s Letters, 1830-1860.
New York: Columbia University Press.
Ehrlich, Matt, Cord Brundage, and Sylvia Gassaway. Ludlow Massacre. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/systems/agentsheets/New-Vista/ludlow/
Andrews, Thomas G. (2008). Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Waterfront Worker’s History Project: http://depts.washington.edu/dock/34strike_intro.shtml
The Big Strike: Labor Unrest in the Great Depression: www.ashp.cuny.edu/investigatinghistory/m10b.html
Teaching with Documents: Court Documents related to Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis Sanitation Workers: www.archives.gov/education/lessons/memphis-v-mlk/
Exploring the United Farm Workers’ History: http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/systems/agentsheets/New-Vista/grape-boycott/History.html
1981 Strike Leaves Legacy for American Workers: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5604656
The Pittston Coal Strike: www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/mcbride/ws200/lee3-hold.htm
“Time Trail” West Virginia Archives and History: www.wvculture.org/history/timetrl/ttfeb.html
Activity 2B.1: Assembling Character Biographies
Primary Sources: Diaries, Letters, Oral Histories of Workers
Dublin, Thomas (Ed.) (1981). Farm to Factory: Women’s Letters, 1830-1860.
New York: Columbia University Press.
Terkel, Studs. (1972). Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do. New York: Random House. Particularly Phil Stallings, spot-welder; Jim Grayson, spot-welder; Tom Brand, plant manager; Wheeler Stanley, general foreman; and Gary Bryner, president, Lordstown Local, UAW, from “The Making,” pp. 159–194.
Waterfront Worker’s History Project: http://depts.washington.edu/dock/34strike_intro.shtml
Television and Film Character Biographies
Muldur, Fox William. The X-Files Lexicon: http://www.x-fileslexicon.com/dossiers/fox_mulder.html
Lost/Characters. The TV IV: http://www.losttvfans.com/page/Characters
Labor Songs and Symbols
Classic labor songs from Smithsonian Folkways. www.emusic.com/album/Various-Artists-Smithsonian-Folkways-Classic-Labor-Songs-from-Smithsonian-Folkways-MP3-Download/10921135.html
Labor Songs. American Labor Studies Center. http://www.labor-studies.org/featured-resources/labor-songs/
Parker Sherwood, Susan. A Brief History of Labor Symbols.
Look for the Union Label: A Celebration of Union Logos and Emblems:
http://130.212.18.164/exhibits/labels/default.php
Photographys. American Labor Studies Center. http://www.labor-studies.org/by-labor-topic/cultural-resources/posters/labor-photos/