Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ546602
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0882-228X
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Workers on the Line: Teaching Industrial History at the Tsongas Industrial History Center and Lowell National Historical Park.
Smith, Rick; O'Connell, Peter
OAH Magazine of History, v11 n2 p22-26 Win 1997
Profiles activities and exhibits at the Tsongas Industrial History Center and Lowell National Historical Park. Follows a group of students as they participate in a situation simulating 19th-century working conditions and subsequent union organizing. Includes two documents from a resource kit illustrating worker's lives. (MJP)
Descriptors: Exhibits, Experiential Learning, Extracurricular Activities, Field Instruction, Field Trips, Historiography, Labor Education, Labor Problems, Museums, Quality of Working Life, Secondary Education, Simulation, Social Attitudes, Social Class, Social History, Social Studies, Unions, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts
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