Labor Unions and Strikes: The Labor Movement & Migrant Workers in Boulder County & Colorado

In this lesson students will read primary and secondary resources regarding the struggles of Migrant Workers in Boulder, CO (1910-1932) and will compare/contrast the struggles with those presented in the film “Salt of the Earth” (1954), based on the strike at the Empire Zinc Company mine in New Mexico (1951).

Created By: Kristen Klein 

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Labor Strife in Colorado: Comparing the Ludlow Massacre and the Columbine Mine Strike

In this lesson students will get a sense of Industrialization in America in the early 20th century. They will describe similarities and differences between the miners strike in Ludlow Colorado (1914) and the miners strike in Lafayette Colorado (1927). It can also be adapted to the Progressive Era. Students should come away with an understanding of labor, capital, and the emergence of labor unions as forces in American History.
Created By: Michael Codrey, New Vista High School

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