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Budget Hero | Marketplace from American Public Media - 0 views

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    Decide where your taxes should go in this online tool.
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Resource record: Immigrants to Minnesota by region and selected country of birth - 0 views

www.demography.state.mn.us/resource.html social studies immigration in minnesota
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    A excel spreadsheet break down of where the immigrants in Minnesota are from.
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Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 1850 ... - 0 views

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    Census statistics on immigration.
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U.S. Department of Labor - Find It By Topic - Wages - 0 views

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    Overview of wages from the US department of labor with links to subtopics such as holiday pay, overtime pay, and others.
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Knights of Labor - History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts - 0 views

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    Established in 1869 in Philadelphia the KOL was a secret society of tailors. Following Terence Powderly's rise to leadership in 1877 the organization went public, pursuing such goals as an 8-hour workday, abolishment of child labor, graduated income tax and fair wage. One of several organizations created to "look out for the workers." For students: what was the purpose of labor organizations? How did they differ from labor unions? How was the KOL organized? What power did the labor organizations have? How did they obtain power?
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Flat Classroom Conference - Building bridges today that society tomorrow will walk across - 0 views

flatclassroomconference.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network China flatworld conference PDP
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  • Siri Anderson on 25 Jan 11
     
    This seems of interest -- I see some blog posts pre-conference that I'd like to follow up on related to flat classrooms and China.
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Child Labor in the Cotton Mills - 0 views

www.lib.unc.edu/...report.html social studies child labor
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    Lesson plan using interviews of people who worked as child labor in the cotton mills in the Carolinas.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration - Home - 0 views

osha.gov/index.html OSHA Workplace Safety Worker Safety Workplace Health Enforcement Education Training
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    A branch of the Dept of Labor, OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) oversees safety and health conditions in the workplace. A good resource as we look at the unsafe conditions many worked in.
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Illinois Labor History Society - Labor Heroes - 0 views

www.illinoislaborhistory.org/...labor-heroes.html Labor Leaders Labor Heros Biographies Mother Jones Cesar Chavez Lucy Parsons NCSS People Places and the Environment
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  • Amanda Nelson on 26 Jan 11
     
    Shares a short biography of select labor heros of the 1850's to the 1990's, such as Mother Jones, Cesar Chavez, and Lucy Parsons.
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American Experience . America 1900 . People & Events | PBS - 0 views

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    Learn about the people and events of 1900.
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WGBH American Experience . All Films | PBS - 0 views

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    Diigo this amazing source of streaming online videos for future use!
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The Minneapolis Conflagration of 1893 - 0 views

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    Did you know about these horrifying fires that happened in Minneapolis around the turn of the century? Uff da!
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MLIC World of Work: Flour Millers, part 2 - 0 views

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  • Continuing pressures to modernize milling and distribution facilities required huge investments to meet growing national and world competition. Centralization of these huge industries created the need for the farmers, grain handlers and milling workers to seek job security and equity through cooperative efforts. [MIACOC]
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MLIC World of Work: Lumberjacks, part 3 - 0 views

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  • Many unskilled immigrant workers came to this country from Socialist backgrounds, resulting in one of the first serious union organizational efforts in the industry through the formation of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The struggle for the right to meet, protest and organize was curtailed by state and federal authorities, and many leaders were jailed.
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Census in Schools Reference Materials - 0 views

www.census.gov/...maps_1790to2000.html census maps geography USA
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    These census maps show the growth of cities across the US in ten year increments.
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2010 Census Data - 2010 Census - 0 views

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    2010 census data on changes in population.
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Ch6 Migration - 0 views

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    Vocabulary around the topic of "Why do people move?
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IB Geography: Population: Migration Models - 0 views

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    migration
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American Experience . The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie . The Steel Busines... - 0 views

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  • His relentless efforts to drive down costs and undersell the competition made his steel mills the most modern in the world, the models for the entire industry.
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      Siri Anderson on 26 Jan 11
       
      Notice that they begin by noting the good things that came from Carengie's penny pinching. Why do you think this is?
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9_2_exkurzia+gelnica+aj.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

www.kgptour.tuke.sk/...9_2_exkurzia+gelnica+aj.pdf Slovak mining
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    A history of mining in Slovakia.
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