Publications by Peggy Haack
The OTHER Working Women’s Movement: Child Care Activism in the Late 20th Century
October 5, 2023 • Blog • By Peggy Haack
You may have heard about the New Mexico early educators whose activism through the organization OLÉ spurred a statewide referendum in 2022 to increase their pay. Or…
Rights, Raises, and Respect: The Early Educator Compensation Movement (1972 to 2000)
September 15, 2022 • Brief • By Peggy Haack, Rosemarie Vardell and Marcy Whitebook
Early educators who engaged in the compensation movement in the 1970s and through the 1990s were not the first to decry the low wages and poor working conditions…
September 15, 2022 • Brief • By Ashley Williams, Peggy Haack and Marcy Whitebook
For more than a century, the U.S. early care and education (ECE) field has ridden waves of teacher activism aimed at creating a more just and equitable…
May 3, 2021 • Blog • By Peggy Haack, Rosemarie Vardell and Marcy Whitebook
Who were the Worthy Wagers? Where did they come from? Maybe your mother or grandmother was one. Worthy Wagers know stories of how a movement began. Don’t you wish you…
Rights, Raises, Respect: Worthy Wage Day 2020
April 30, 2020 • Blog • By Peggy Haack
Nearly three decades ago, May 1 became a focal point for a national campaign to raise up the needs of the child care workforce. I was among child care teachers…
Worthy Wage Day 2019: From Aspiration to Reality
May 1, 2019 • Blog • By Peggy Haack, Rosemarie Vardell and Marcy Whitebook
On the first Worthy Wage Day in 1992, the three of us joined with other early childhood teachers and providers in marches and rallies held across the country, calling…