Tour Guides Take Method Acting to New Level

Without any apparent irony, tour guides at the Lower Eastside Tenement museum are trying to unionize and their bourgeois overlords are resisting such efforts. Labor disputes at not-for-profit groups do not often provide excellent educational opportunities, but this one sure does. I propose the museum hire new costumed performers dressed as Pinkerton guards and invite […]

Published March 6, 2008 3:02pm EST | Updated November 1, 2023 11:15pm EST



Without any apparent irony, tour guides at the Lower Eastside Tenement museum are trying to unionize and their bourgeois overlords are resisting such efforts. Labor disputes at not-for-profit groups do not often provide excellent educational opportunities, but this one sure does. I propose the museum hire new costumed performers dressed as Pinkerton guards and invite schools kids from throughout Manhattan to watch a reenactment of the Homestead Strike.