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Haynes, John – New Generation, 1970
This report relates to union workers in five cities, and gives a picture of how the young worker feels about his job, his employer, and his union. (DM)
Descriptors: Activism, Generation Gap, Job Satisfaction, Labor Demands
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Gans, Herbert J. – New Generation, 1970
Holds that some blue/collar workers are at least as critical of the factory as students are of the multiversity." (DM)
Descriptors: Activism, Job Satisfaction, Labor Demands, Labor Needs
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Schrank, Robert – New Generation, 1970
Argues that alienation causes indifference among workers which affects production adversely. (DM)
Descriptors: Activism, Job Satisfaction, Labor Demands, Labor Needs
Davis, Chuck, Ed.; DeAngelis, Tony, Ed. – 1990
This book contains 16 units with 1 to 6 lessons per unit. A wide range of subject areas regarding workers and organized labor are addressed with lessons for both primary and secondary education levels. Though the focus is predominantly on grades 1-6, the curriculum can be modified to apply to various grade levels. Unit titles include: (1) "Child…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor, Labor Conditions
World Confederation of Labour, Brussels (Belgium). – 1974
According to its president, Marcel Pepin, the World Confederation of Labour (W.C.L.) offers man a way to follow his ideals of fraternity and solidarity within an intellectual framework open to discussion and world-wide point of view. The W. C. L. has tried in recent years to become in particular a mouthpiece for workers in underdeveloped…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, International Crimes, International Law, International Organizations
Stewart, James; Giese, James R. – 1989
This booklet is part of a series of units designed to help students take and defend a position on public issues. The booklet is premised on the idea that the study of how various labor-related conflicts were resolved in the past can throw light on the problem of how they ought to be resolved here and now. That is why this particular unit looks at…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Employer Employee Relationship, Employers, History Instruction
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Reese, Lyn – OAH Magazine of History, 1988
Covers women's labor history in the United States and in industrialized nations from the early 1800s to the present. Provides primary source documents from New England workers in the 1830s and 1840s and from women workers on global assembly lines in the 1980s. Includes discussion questions. (LS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Developing Nations, Employed Women, Females