Contents

Contributors

Preface Walter G. Davis

Foreword Lois S. Gray

Introduction Barbara M. Wertheimer

PART I. DESIGNING PROGRAMS

1. Labor Education and Women Workers: An Historical Perspective

Joyce L. Kornbluh and Lyn Goldfarb

2. Promoting and Recruiting: Reaching the Target Audience

Frieda Shoenberg Rozen

3. The Short Course

Rochelle Semel

4. Conferences: The One-Day Model

Joyce L. Kornbluh and Hy Kornbluh

5. Training Rank and File Leaders: A Case Study

Marjorie B. Rachlin

6. Credit Programs for Working Women

Katherine Schrier

7. Residential Schools

Barbara M. Wertheimer

8. Evaluating Programs for Working Adults

Maria-Luz D. Samper and Stanley Rosen

PART II. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES

9. Discussion Method

Marjorie B. Rachlin

10. Case Studies: How to Develop and Use Them

Gloria Busman

11. Using Oral History in the Classroom

Alice M. Hoffman

12. Games and Other Exercises

Anne H. Nelson

PART III. SUBJECTS AND MATERIALS

13. Labor History through Field Trips

William Adelman

14. Training Women for Political Action

Donna Mobley

15. Grievance Handling for Women Stewards

Ida Torres

16. Occupational Health and Safety for Women Workers: Some Teaching Models

Janet Bertinuson and Andrea M. Hricko

17. Education for Affirmative Action: Two Union Approaches

Gloria T. Johnson and Odessa Komer

18. How to Choose and Use Materials in Education for Women Workers

James Wallihan

19. Subjects and Materials: How to Handle Controversy

Connie Kopelov

PART IV. FUNDING PROGRAMS

20. How Foundations View Funding Proposals on Working Women

Susan Vail Berresford

21. Funding Worker Education through Tuition Refund Plans

Mimi Abramovitz

PART V. THE LARGER VIEW

22. Labor Education and Women Workers: An International Comparison

Alice H. Cook and Roberta Till-Retz

23. A Summary Discussion

Lawrence Rogin

APPENDIX AND INDEX

A Resource on Resources

James Wallihan

Index