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Vigorous Discussions Highlight NLC Residency Program

26 Monday Nov 2012

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Students research the 1949-50 attempt by the United Tobacco Workers to organize workers at RJ Reynolds.

National Labor College students from numerous unions across the country spent Veterans Day weekend learning from their classmates at the Living Labor History class held at Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies.  The four-day course is part of the requirements for students pursuing degrees in the School of Labor Studies.

The intensive class consisted of small and large group discussions, labor film review and discussion, a labor history lecture, an archives review exercise at University of Maryland’s Hornbake Library, and a night of singing labor songs with Joe Uehlein.  Many of the discussions looked at current labor issues and what lessons can be learned from the past.  Continue reading →

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