Course 2: New York at Work and Play (1940-1950)
Fall 2002

Instructors: Richard Greenwald, Maggie DeLuca, Amanda Dargan

Resources:

  • ILR Helps Workers Ease Language Barrier to Union Participation
    http://www.news.cornell.edu/
    Chronicle/02/9.5.02/ILR-Chinese.html
    This article by Linda Myers describes a Chinese immigrant's struggle to become a more active member of her union, Local 1199, while learning the English language. Chinese speaking members of the union successfully petitioned for leadership training in their native language.

  • Biographies: Jessica Govea
    http://chicano.nlcc.com/govea.html
    This biography describes the life of Jessica Govea. During the 1960s and 1970s, Ms. Govea was an organizer for the United Farm Workers, planning and directing boycotts in the U.S. and Canada. Ms. Govea presently teaches in the Labor Studies Department at Rutgers University in New Jersey and works with the Union Leadership Academy, an organization that provides continuing education for farmworkers.

  • Sisters Reaching Out
    http://www.ibew1837.org/nwsltr/
    news5/current.htm
    The 25th annual Northeast Union Women’s Summer Institute was held July 23-28 at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. The Institute was attended by approximately 100 women from Vermont to Bermuda.