Labor Awareness Program Overview

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Labor Awareness Program Overview
Training for the Workplace of the 21st Century

LAP is a 15 lesson curriculum for high school students, apprentices, new entrants into the workforce and union members.

With LAP Students Will Learn:

Where they might have worked 100 years ago.

What makes a job good and where the good jobs are.
How to represent labor or management in bargaining and resolving problems in two simulations at a mythical fast-food restaurant.
How we got weekends off and why we're losing them.
Why are children in the global economy making soccer balls and picking cocoa pods for our chocolate?

LAP is participative and interactive. It makes students think and teaches skills for survival

with simulations and roleplays
with field trips and resources
with writing, speaking, and problem solving exercises

LAP Contents

Section One

From Sweatshops to Solidarity: How American Workers Struggled for Jobs with Dignity

Lesson 1 Why Focus On the Workplace and Unions?

2 Labor History: The Struggle for Jobs with Dignity

3 Child Labor in Industrializing America

4 Tracking Racism in Midwest City

5 Burger Bargaining (a simulation)

Section Two:

The Changing Workplace and the Global Economy

Lesson 6 New Technology: What Makes a Good Job?

7 Field Trip to a High Tech Work Place

8 Child Labor in the Developing World

9 A Workers' View of t he Global Economy

10 Finding Solutions in the Global Workplace

Section Three:

Out of the Classroom and into the World of Work: Tools for the 21 st Century Worker

Lesson 11 The Rights of Workers

12 Conflict Resolution

13 Where Will the Jobs Be? Training

          Opportunities for Lifelong Careers

   14 Issues, Activism and Education: Organizing

        for a Better Tomorrow

15 Debate on a Labor Issue

Section Four:

Resources: Bibliographies, Labor History Time Line,

Glossary of Labor Organizations, Filmography,

Weblinks

The design of this curriculum envisions daily lessons for three weeks. However, lessons can be spaced out over a longer time or adapted to block or other type of scheduling.

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