The Power in Our Hands: A Curriculum on the History of Work and Workers in the United States

Author:   William Bigelow ,  Norman Diamond
Publisher:   Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Edition:   Teacher ed.
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9780853457534


Pages:   196
Publication Date:   01 January 1988
Format:   Paperback
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The Power in Our Hands: A Curriculum on the History of Work and Workers in the United States


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This celebrated book provides entertaining, easy-to-use lesson plans for teaching labor history. ""Most school teachers are drowned in paper, but here is one book I want to recommend to them. It is a way of getting American teenagers not just interested, but excited and passionate about their history - modern American labor history."" - Pete Seeger

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Author:   William Bigelow ,  Norman Diamond
Publisher:   Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Edition:   Teacher ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 28.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780853457534


ISBN 10:   0853457530
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   01 January 1988
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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This book's main contribution, and it is a valuable one, is to illuminate some of the specific organizational and strategic hurdles that lie in the way of a universal, government-supported child care system. Many commentators have lamented the United States' failure to establish such a system, and indeed, as noted above, the first part of the book is mainly a synthesis of the substantial literature examining child care policy both outside and inside the U.S....the authors are able to offer a remarkably fine-grained critique of current advocacy efforts, along with very specific recommendations for change. - Law and Politics Book Review This book s main contribution, and it is a valuable one, is to illuminate some of the specific organizational and strategic hurdles that lie in the way of a universal, government-supported child care system. Many commentators have lamented the United States failure to establish such a system, and indeed, as noted above, the first part of the book is mainly a synthesis of the substantial literature examining child care policy both outside and inside the U.S....the authors are able to offer a remarkably fine-grained critique of current advocacy efforts, along with very specific recommendations for change. - Law and Politics Book Review Palley and Shadaimah have produced an excellent mixed methods study on the state of child-care policy in the US .This excellent book will help readers understand a difficult problem and serve as a call to arms for change. - Choice Palley and Shadaimah have produced an excellent mixed methods study on the state of child-care policy in the US....This excellent book will help readers understand a difficult problem and serve as a call to arms for change. -Choice This book's main contribution, and it is a valuable one, is to illuminate some of the specific organizational and strategic hurdles that lie in the way of a universal, government-supported child care system. Many commentators have lamented the United States' failure to establish such a system, and indeed, as noted above, the first part of the book is mainly a synthesis of the substantial literature examining child care policy both outside and inside the U.S....the authors are able to offer a remarkably fine-grained critique of current advocacy efforts, along with very specific recommendations for change. -Law and Politics Book Review Palley and Shadaimah have produced an excellent mixed methods study on the state of child-care policy in the US .This excellent book will help readers understand a difficult problem and serve as a call to arms for change. -Choice This book s main contribution, and it is a valuable one, is to illuminate some of the specific organizational and strategic hurdles that lie in the way of a universal, government-supported child care system. Many commentators have lamented the United States failure to establish such a system, and indeed, as noted above, the first part of the book is mainly a synthesis of the substantial literature examining child care policy both outside and inside the U.S....the authors are able to offer a remarkably fine-grained critique of current advocacy efforts, along with very specific recommendations for change. -Law and Politics Book Review


This book's main contribution, and it is a valuable one, is to illuminate some of the specific organizational and strategic hurdles that lie in the way of a universal, government-supported child care system. Many commentators have lamented the United States' failure to establish such a system, and indeed, as noted above, the first part of the book is mainly a synthesis of the substantial literature examining child care policy both outside and inside the U.S....the authors are able to offer a remarkably fine-grained critique of current advocacy efforts, along with very specific recommendations for change. - Law and Politics Book Review


Palley and Shadaimah have produced an excellent mixed methods study on the state of child-care policy in the US .This excellent book will help readers understand a difficult problem and serve as a call to arms for change. -Choice


""Palley and Shadaimah have produced an excellent mixed methods study on the state of child-care policy in the US.This excellent book will help readers understand a difficult problem and serve as a call to arms for change.""-- ""Choice"" ""This books main contribution, and it is a valuable one, is to illuminate some of the specific organizational and strategic hurdles that lie in the way of a universal, government-supported child care system. Many commentators have lamented the United States failure to establish such a system, and indeed, as noted above, the first part of the book is mainly a synthesis of the substantial literature examining child care policy both outside and inside the U.S....the authors are able to offer a remarkably fine-grained critique of current advocacy efforts, along with very specific recommendations for change.""-- ""Law and Politics Book Review""


Palley and Shadaimah have produced an excellent mixed methods study on the state of child-care policy in the US .This excellent book will help readers understand a difficult problem and serve as a call to arms for change. -<i>Choice


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