Summary

This innovative curriculum enables students to learn about some of the most important labor struggles in U.S. history — including the 1892 Homestead Strike, the 1912 Bread and Roses strike, and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union —  through role play, simulation, imaginative writing, and historical detective work. Students also explore how work has been transformed and how that has affected our daily lives. Praised by scholars, teachers and labor educators, The Power in Our Hands can also be used as an excellent curriculum model for other units of study.