History of Labor Unions
Challenges & Opportunities
Available to teachers only as part of the Teaching History of Labor Unions Teacher Pass
Teaching History of Labor Unions Teacher Pass includes:
- Assignments & Activities
- Reading Quizzes
- Current Events & Pop Culture articles
- Discussion & Essay Questions
- Challenges & Opportunities
- Related Readings in Literature & History
Sample of Challenges & Opportunities
That is the question facing many laborers today. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous.... management... or, um.... Gee. Maybe we'll end our Shakespeare tie-in there and avoid making a calamity of so long a comparison.
In any case, there is no denying that unions played a critical role in raising wages and increasing protections for American workers in the first half of the twentieth century.