Remembering Work Life
 
Complete Kit:  WL105 $300

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.

Remembering Work Life complete kit comprises:

Media Presentation on DVD with 8-page Guide in Binder.  "Many Hands" begins with the call to work, compares work days present and past, and considers the reasons why we work. Work history from that first job to retirement and beyond. (20 minutes) The DVD is has subtitles.

Sing-Along Songs and More on CD with Guide in Binder. Sing-along songs: "Sixteen Tons," "The Housewife's Lament," "Aragon Mill," and "Hush, Little Baby." Then discussion-starting accounts of three turn-of-the-century workdays.

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

Skits. Three conversations between two characters about work "At the Travel Agency," "At the Gas Station," and "At Home." Three copies of each of three skits.

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.

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 because one of the reasons we work is to earn money. A key to the office, factory, company car or executive washroom. A swatch of denim, from which the uniform of many kinds of work is made.

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)

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

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