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Preserving and Interpreting Working Class and Labor History Pennsylvania’s Experience

Preserving and Interpreting Working Class and Labor History Pennsylvania’s Experience. Kenneth C. Wolensky. Public Programs . National Register of Historic Places. Reading Knitting Mills mid-19 th century. National Historic Landmarks. Carrie Furnace. State Historical Markers.

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Preserving and Interpreting Working Class and Labor History Pennsylvania’s Experience

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  1. Preserving and Interpreting Working Class and Labor History Pennsylvania’s Experience Kenneth C. Wolensky

  2. Public Programs • National Register of Historic Places Reading Knitting Mills mid-19th century

  3. National Historic Landmarks Carrie Furnace

  4. State Historical Markers • 2,200 Markers in Pennsylvania • Program began in 1911, revised in 1946. • People, Places, and Events • Nearly 50 recognize working class and labor history and related topics.

  5. Mine Disasters

  6. Strikes

  7. Anti-Labor and Anti-Ethnic Discrimination 1897 Lattimer Massacre

  8. Duffy’s Cut

  9. Women in Labor and Working Class Life • Min L. Matheson – ILGWU

  10. Fannie Sellins

  11. Mary Harris “Mother Jones”

  12. Workers’ Education Unity House – ILGWU

  13. Working Class Culture and Life

  14. Public Policy Acts 111 and 195 State Historical Marker State Capitol, Harrisburg

  15. Supreme Court Upholds Wagner Act

  16. Formation of Labor Unions SWOC, 1936; United Steelworkers, 1942

  17. Founding of CIO

  18. William Sylvis, National Labor Union

  19. Civilian Conservation Corps

  20. Sports Willie Thrower, NFL

  21. Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia

  22. Social Services

  23. Markers Yet to be Dedicated • Deindustrialization and Displaced Workers • Corporate Fraud and Negligence • Civil Rights • Occupational Disease (i.e. Black Lung) • Migrant Farm Workers • Contemporary Anti-Ethnic and Anti-Immigrant Violence • Working Class Culture: Music, Arts, Sports, Literature, Community Life

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