Remembering Work Life
with 2 media presentation formats:
Slide/Tape, & VHS.

Order both formats or  a single format.  Be sure to specify when you order.

Remembering Work Life Most of us have spent most of our lives working. Use this kit to gather the stories of paid jobs and work done at home or on the farm. Individually our work experiences are an important part of each of our lives. Taken together they provide a perspective on the work life of a nation.

Manual. Helpful hints for using the kit pieces, an extensive list of books, films and tapes, and program ideas that focus on past work and workways and today's world of work. (121 pages)

• Manual WL212 $24

Slide/tape and video. "Many Hands" begins with the call to work, compares work days present and past, and considers the reasons why we work. Work historyfrom that first job to retirement and beyond. 80 slides in a carousel tray with a 20-minute taped narration.

• 80 slides in box WL100 $80
• Cassette tape #1 WL423 $12
• VHS video WL123 $60

Cassette tape or CD. Sing-along songs: Sixteen Tons, The Housewife's Lament, Aragon Mill and Hush, Little Baby. And on side 2, stories for discussion, accounts of three turn-of-the-century workdays.

• Tape #2 WL424 $12
• CD WL524 $15

25 Booklets. "Lines of Work" includes photographs, poetry, a wage table for various occupations through the decades, sketches of old tools, and four songs. All in large print.

• One booklet WL245 $5
• Ten booklets WL245 $30
• 25 booklets WL245 $60

Sing-Along Set. One copy of the booklet, with Tape #2 or CD, together with the manual pages for the booklet and the tape or CD. Conveniently packaged. 

• Booklet, tape, and guide WL299 $22 
• Booklet, CD, and guide WL295 $25

Skits. Three conversations about work At the Travel Agency, At the Gas Station and At Home. Three skits for two characters each.

• Set of 3, WL399 $15

Timeline. Four pages to put end to end, listing events and inventions since 1880 with space for adding the work histories of program participants. Printed on card stock.

• Timeline WL324 $8

Things to Touch. Scented cards, soap, pine, baby powder and lemonade to bring back memories of some workplaces; business cards, eight reproductions representing historic occupations; a wooden bobbin from the Amana Woolen Mills; a carpenter's pencil to represent the writing tools of work; a coin purse, one of the reasons we work is to earn money; a key to the office, factory, company car or executive washroom; and a swatch of denim, from which the uniform of many kinds of work is made.

• Set of bold items above WL699 $44
  

Kit bag. Holds everything together in a convenient carrying case of navy blue and yellow vinyl. Includes window pocket and luggage tag labels.

• Kit bag WL701 $40

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