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W E L C O M E TO PACE HUMANITIES 60,
LABOR STUDIES TRACK

“Technology and Humanities”

Instructor: Mona Dallas Reddick, Ph.D.

The information on this page will help acquaint you with PACE and give you a chance to browse some of the materials used in Humanities 60. A syllabus that provides information on course requirements and assignments will be handed out in class. The Print, Audio and Visual Resource List below is under construction, and more items will be added soon. I’m happy to answer any questions you have about Humanities 60. Please contact me at mdalred@yahoo.com. M. D. Reddick

Section 4961 meets Tuesday evenings, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.,

at the Harry Bridges Institute, 350 W. 5^th St. #208, San Pedro

Section 4971 meets Wednesday evenings, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.

at Kaiser Hospital 25825 Vermont Avenue, #8, Harbor City

Both humanities sections also meet on the following Saturdays from 10:00 to 12:00 for classroom instruction: Feb. 23, March 8, March 22, April 5 (final exam). All Labor Track classes join together in the afternoon on the first of the three Saturdays above for interdisciplinary activities and programs. Details on the location for Saturday classes will be discussed at our first meeting.

Important: After enrolling, check to see if you have internet access to library databases. Many resources for our class (readings and visuals) will be available online as well as on reserve in the library. For information on setting up your user name and i. d., visit http://www.lahc.cc.ca.us/library/remotefaq.htm

Obtain a Los Angeles Public Library card. Check the phone book or online for a branch nearest you. With a library card you can request books from the vast holdings of the Central Branch and have them sent to your local branch for pick-up.

Plan on obtaining a student i.d. once classes begin. At last check, student i.d.’s will be available starting the first week of classes: 8-4 MW and 8-6 TTh upstairs in Seahawk Center. Phone no. 310-233-4594. With a student i.d. you are entitled to various discounts on entry fees, for instance at museums, and the i.d. can double as your library card.

PRINT AND VISUAL RESOURCES

ARTICLES, STORIES, AND BOOKS

Baxandall, Rosalyn Fraad. America’s Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the present. W.W. Norton, 1995. LAHC Library HD6095.A6621995.

Bell, Thomas. “zinc Works Craneman to Wed.” LRC Reserve

Brant, Beth [Degonwadonti]. “Story Two: My House.” LRC Reserve

Lincoln, Mabel, as told to John Langston Gwaltney. “I Am a Hard Woman Because I Have Had a Hard Time Out Here.” LRC Reserve

Mander, Jerry. In the Absence of the Sacred. Course textbook. If not available in campus bookstore, see various online sources like Powell’s and Amazon.com. Also available through LAPL. Call # 970.5 M272

Martin, Molly, ed. Hard-Hatted Women: Stories of Struggles and Success in the Trades. 1988. LAPL call # 331.409H2585

Murphie, Andrew and John Potts, Culture and Technology. Palgrave

Rodas, Melida. “El olor de cansansio (The Smell of Fatigue).” LRC Reserve

“Song of the Loom is Silenced.” NY Times article on closing of Long Island textile mill.

Steinbeck, John. “Starvation Under the Orange Trees.” “The Spring is Beautiful in California,” excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath. LRC Reserve.

Zandy, Janet. Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work.

“Women Have Always Sewed: The Production of Clothing and the Work of Women.” LRC Reserve

POETRY

On the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Listen to interviews at http://www.authentichistory.com/1900s/trianglefire/index.html

Read “The Fire Poems.” LRC Reserve.

Moraga, Cherríe. “The Welder.” LRC Reserve

Olsen, Tille. “I Want You Women Up North to Know.” LRC Reserve

Piercy, Marge. “The Low Road.” “To Be of Use.” LRC Reserve

Stein, Julia. “Downtown Women.” LRC Reserve

Tarlen, Carol. “White Trash: An Autobiography.” LRC Reserve

PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHY, GRAPHIC ARTS

“Capital and Labor: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912 – 1948.” Library of Congress Exhibition

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/goldstein/goldcap.html

Friedlander, Lee. Lee Friedlander at Work. NY: D. A. P./Distributed Art Publishers c. 2002.

Lange, Dorothea

Meltzer, Milton. Dorothea Lange: A Photographer’s Life.

LRC Library Stacks, TR140.L3M44 1978

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html

View some of Lange’s photos and read about her life and work.

Protzman, Ferdinand. Work: The World in Photographs.

Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York This site has the full text and photos of Riis Landmark work. Clickable enlargements of photos.

http://www.authentichistory.com/postcivilwar/riis/contents.html

MUSIC

Glazer, Joe. http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/archives_09.aspx

At this Smithsonian page, you can click on the music of Joe Glazer, the “Troubadour of Labor.” There is also other labor themed music which can be heard here briefly.

Reece, Florence, as told to Kathy Kahn: “They Say Them Child Brides Don’t Last.” About anti-union violence in the mines of Harlan County and the famous son “Which Side Are You On.” LRC Reserve

FICTIONAL AND DOCUMENTARY FILM

http://www.authentichistory.com/postcivilwar/riis/contents.html

Here you can listen to interviews of those who fled the Dust Bowl of the 1930s (the Depression Era) and here first-hand accounts of the experiences Mexican-American laborers faced in California.

Lang, Fritz. Metropolis, 1927. You can find clips of this film online. Google the director’s name along with the title. Time permitting, we will show more of this classic futuristic film in class.

WEB SITES OF INTEREST

http://www.authentichistory.com/ The Authentic History Center