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<li>What does Sarah get out of being on strike?</li>
<li>What strikes you about the story of Sarah and her friend wearing the same skirt to walk the picket line?</li>
<li>Why do you think Sara

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<li>What do you see in this image that might tell you something about what work life offered young urban girls in the early 20^th century?</li>
<li>Does anything about this image surp

As you read through the documents, keep these general questions in mind:

• What makes a person independent?
• What words or phrases do the authors/narrators use to describe their

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<li>Do the speakers/writers believe they are paid fairly for the work they are doing?

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<li>What were the conditions that caused workers to organize?</li>
<li>Why did the speakers/writers decide to join a union?

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<li>What working conditions do the speakers/writers of these documents describe as being unjust?

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Paraphrase the excerpts.</li>
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Discuss and agree upon the main points of each excerpt.</li>
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Describe the relationship between worker and boss or employer in the excer

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What do you notice about the illustration of the working girls on the cover of <em>The Masses</em>? What conclusions can you draw about the women selling newspapers in the photograph?

Written in 1925, Bread Givers is a novel about the Jewish immigrants who lived in the tenements of New York’s East Side and who worked in the garment industry.

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What does &ldquo;Bread and Roses&rdquo; mean in Oppenheim&rsquo;s poem?</li>
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What does &ldquo;the rising of the women means the rising of the race&rdquo; mean?&nbsp;</li>
<l

The following lyrics are to the song “Bread and Roses.” The words were written by James Oppenheim and originally published in The American Magazine in December, 1911.

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How might each of these songs speak to one&rsquo;s experience as a worker?</li>
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How might these two songs contribute to a worker&rsquo;s feeling part of a larger, collective e

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How does the message of this song compare with that of <em>Ale Brider</em>?</li>
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Why do you think the song&rsquo;s sound is so sad?</li>
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What is the central message of this song?</li>
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How does the sound, as opposed to the words, deliver this message?</li>
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When do you think a song like this might have

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Why do you think the ILGWU&rsquo;s Unity House recreational facility sponsored talks on topics such as social psychology, as pictured here, or art history, for example?</li>
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W

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Why do you think the union had its own theater and why would workers be involved in it?</li>
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How are the values you identified in the first question demonstrated in the pictur

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What do you see in this picture? What do you notice about the people in the picture? (Don&rsquo;t analyze, infer or describe.

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Why do you think the Union has social and cultural objectives for its members that go beyond what happens in the workplace?</li>
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How do these union-provided services benefit t