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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So what were they teaching then? I mean what would a labor educator teach in that period of time?
Segment Synopsis: Bill Fletcher discusses what Labor Educators taught instead of labor history, and about how he became interested in labor history.
Subjects: African American history; Historians; History--Study and teaching; Labor unions; Working class African Americans
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So getting back to it, your sitting there in front of this room of academics and your saying that teaching labor history today is, and I guess at that point it was like 1994, you know, toady in '94 and '95 teaching labor history in the union movement could be dangerous.
Segment Synopsis: Bill Fletcher discusses how radical social movements, people of color, and women have played a major role in the development of the labor movement, and how they were later denied a voice in the movement.
Subjects: Labor unions and communism; Women in the labor movement; Working class African Americans; Working class women
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: And more generally when perusing a sort of broad labor education do you need to leave, does leftism need to be played down for greater reception?
Segment Synopsis: Bill Fletcher and Judith Helfand discuss the suppression of the history of leftist involvement in the labor union and what that means.
Subjects: Labor unions and communism
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: It was your 1994-- 1934 to 1994 you did that sort of retrospective regionally --
BILL FLETCHER: On the general strikes
Segment Synopsis: Bill Fletcher discusses how he used some footage from the Uprising of '34 to spark a conversation on labor history and how collective memory works.
Subjects: Documentary films; History--Study and teaching; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: I remember you saying you -- maybe you weren't -- but I think often people are surprised at, um, working people's levels of sort of getting this and understanding it.
Segment Synopsis: Bill Fletcher discusses why it is important for labor unions to open up about past defeats and to learn from them.
Keywords: aftermath of the strike
Subjects: History--Study and teaching; Labor unions--Officials and employees--Training of
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now one of the things that came up at our Highlander meeting when we were talking with other labor educators was the issue of time.
Segment Synopsis: Bill Fletcher discusses how the Uprising of '34 needs to be used in an ongoing discussion of Labor History.
Subjects: History--Study and teaching