Ruth Meyerowitz
Ph.D., Columbia
I am currently a professor of American Studies in the Center for
the Americas at SUNY at Buffalo. My current
interests are U.S. women's social and labor history, work and family,
multicultural education and curriculum development at the graduate
and undergraduate levels and for teachers grades 5-12. Recent teaching
on comparative public policy focuses on issues of education , work
, family, health care and reproductive choice in the U.S., Canada
and Sweden, and pay equity, the living wage and women's community
and labor activism. I also teach courses
on the the experiences of women in the work force in working-class
and professional jobs, the changes in women's work and family lives
in the twentieth century, and in oral and social history. I participated
in several grant funded projects to develop multicultural perspectives
and curricula in American and women's history with teachers of grades
5-12.
My writing focuses on women who organized the
auto workers' union in the 1930s and on women who became labor leaders
during and after World War II. My new research focuses on community
and labor coalitions organizing for living wages and pay equity.
I am working on several projects exploring successful grassroots
organizing in Buffalo, New York focusing on the living wage campaign,
nurses and factory worker union organizing, efforts to implement
pay equity in SUNY and on a pilot video tentatively titled "Grassroots
Victories."
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