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Living the Legacy - Keyword: Social Policy and Welfare

From Suffering to Action, From the Individual to the Collective

Unit 1, Lesson 2

Investigate the workplace conditions that led immigrant women to strike in the “Uprising of the 20,000” in 1909-1910, and the tragedy of the Triangle fire that led to lasting labor reform.

Workers and Their Allies, Then and Now

Unit 1, Lesson 4

Through the history of mutual aid societies, unions, and settlement houses, as well as contemporary organizations working for labor rights, consider the ways Jews have supported one another and also worked in solidarity with others to repair the world.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Living the Legacy - Keyword: Social Policy and Welfare." (Viewed on May 21, 2013) <http://jwa.org/teach/livingthelegacy/keyword/Social-Policy-and-Welfare>.