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Peer reviewedShatz, Mark A. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
A simulation exercise of a labor-management dispute is used to teach psychology students some of the basics of descriptive statistics. Using comparable data sets generated by the instructor, students work in small groups to develop a statistical presentation that supports their particular position in the dispute. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Labor Demands, Labor Problems
Stillman, Peter R. – Intercom, 1978
The lesson for junior high and secondary social studies classes illustrates the effects of a breakdown in the functioning of one key system in an interdependent network. Based on an airline strike, the activity involves students in identifying the subsystems affected by the strike, devising solutions, and writing business reports about the…
Descriptors: Business, Interaction, Junior High School Students, Labor Problems
Hunsaker, Johanna S.; And Others – Personnel Administrator, 1981
Offers guidelines for productive negotiation between management and workers, including a role-play exercise designed to improve negotiation skills. (Author/WD)
Descriptors: Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Greene, Diane – 1996
This publication offers guidance to school-board members, superintendents, and district staff in the planning, implementation, and rebuilding phases of a faculty or staff strike. It is intended to be used before a strike is imminent so that a strike plan can be implemented and the effects during and after a strike can be mitigated. The handbook…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, Contracts, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textManitoba Social Science Teacher, 1994
Devoted to the Winnipeg General Strike in 1919, this document provides social science teachers with details of the strike as well as general information on teaching about unions, labor, and working-class history. The first article, "The Winnipeg General Strike" (Doug Smith), presents the events during and prior to the Winnipeg General…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Industrialization, Instructional Materials
Palmer, Phyllis; Skolnick, Joan – 1982
This student booklet and teacher's guide are intended to be used in secondary school classrooms with the award-winning color documentary 16mm film "With Babies and Banners," which records the role that the women of Flint, Michigan, played in the great General Motors sit-down strike of 1937. Calling their organization the Women's…
Descriptors: Civics, Documentaries, Economics Education, Educational Television
Peer reviewedBassett, Jonathan – OAH Magazine of History, 1997
Presents a lesson plan focused on the events surrounding the 1894 Pullman railroad car strike. Reviews the particulars of the strike (the federal government used armed force to end the strike) and then presents a simulation where students role play members of the investigating presidential commission. Includes related documents. (MJP)
Descriptors: Arbitration, Conflict, Government Role, Historiography
Stewart, James; Giese, James R. – 1989
This booklet is part of a series of units designed to help students take and defend a position on public issues. The booklet is premised on the idea that the study of how various labor-related conflicts were resolved in the past can throw light on the problem of how they ought to be resolved here and now. That is why this particular unit looks at…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Employer Employee Relationship, Employers, History Instruction
