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ERIC Number: ED088789
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1974
Pages: 53
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The American Labor Movement in Modern History and Government Textbooks.
Sloan, Irving
A survey of nineteen American history high school texts and eight government texts attempts to discover if schools are still failing to teach adequately about labor unions, their history, procedures, and purposes. For each text a summary account is provided of what the text has to say about labor in terms of a set of pre-established criteria. At the end of the review a distillation of all references to labor topics which appear in the text's index is included. This gives an approximate idea of the quantitative coverage of labor in the text; of the tone, emphasis and selections of topics dealt within the text's narrative; and of whether the labor topic is merely cited or listed, or whether it is analyzed and described. An introduction to the survey and review summarizes the labor events and terms regarded as basic to an adequate treatment of organized labor. The summary evaluation placed at the end of each text's review is based upon the extent to which the text included the items listed in a meaningful way for the student. The two major headings for the criteria are 1) labor history and 2) collective bargaining and labor disputes. The texts surveyed date from 1966 through 1973. (Author/KSM)
American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, 1012 14th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 20005 (Item No. 598, $0.30)
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Authoring Institution: American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC.
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