Power in Our Hands

by Norman Diamond

This celebrated book provides entertaining, easy-to-use lesson plans for teaching labor history. "Most school teachers are drowned in paper, but here is one book I want to recommend to them. It is a way of getting American teenagers not just interested, but excited and passionate about their history - modern American labor history." - Pete Seeger

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Education

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Stephen]

Having spent a fair amount of time as an undergraduate learning about the history of labor in the United States, I was really excited to have this assigned as a course book for my social studies methods class. This book contains many strategies for teaching this complicated topic in a middle or high school classroom. There are many simulations which illustrate many of the difficult concepts and relationships that might be hard to convey otherwise.

[Stephen]

Good stuff, and the correct way to learn history, i.e., experience it via simulation vs. be lectured about it.