American Labor Museum
Contact Information:
Angelica Santamauro, director
Botto House
83 Norwood St.
Haledon, NJ 07508
American Social History Project Center for Media and Learning
Founded in 1981 by the late Herbert Gutman and Stephen Brier and based at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, ASHP/CML produces award-winning print, visual, and multimedia materials about the working men and women whose actions and beliefs shaped American history. Now directed by Joshua Brown, ASHP/CML is located in two facilities: The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, in the former B. Altman building at 365 Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, and 99 Hudson Street in lower Manhattan. Our facilities house more than a dozen staff --historians, artists, video and multimedia producers, educators, and administrators--who create our multimedia materials and conduct professional development workshops for high school and college teachers.
American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements Section
The Labor and Labor Movements Section of the ASA aims to create intellectual exhanges among scholars student labor and labor movements but also to built a bridge between academics and labor activists. It produces the online newsletter In Critical Solidarity.
Atlanta Seminar in the Comparative History of Labor, Industry, Technology and Society (SCHLITS)
The Atlanta Seminar in the Comparative History of Labor, Industry, Technology and Society (SCHLITS) brings together faculty members and graduate students from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Georgia State University and other colleges and universities in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
SCHLITS sponsors a monthly roundtable at which visiting and local scholars present and discuss current research. Advanced graduate students are also welcome to present papers. The roundtable and the workshop are free and open to the public. Advance copies of papers are available to individuals on the SCHLITS mailing list.
Bay Area Labor History Workshop
Contact Information:
Don Watson
692 60th St
Oakland, California 94609
510-652-3116
dwlabor@earthlink.net
Center for Working-Class Studies
Contact Information:
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
330-941-2978
John Russo and Sherry Linkon, co-Directors
Chinese Historical Society of America: Museum & Learning Center
Beginning in the 1600's with the early arrival of Chinese in North, Central, and South America, the main exhibition tells the history of the Chinese in the United States. The bilingual exhibition documents the first large wave of immigration that occurred during the 19th century, when more than 90% of Chinese immigrants came from the Pearl River Delta region in China. Photographs and artifacts focus on the contributions made by Chinese laborers in the development of the fishing, railroad, mining, and agriculture industries in the American West.
Cincinnati Labor History Society
Contact Information:
Gene Frey
2145 Central Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45214
513-471-5176
Cleveland Labor History Society
Contact Information:
Dave Bernatowicz
775 East 152nd St.
Cleveland OH 44110
216-671-2412
Coal Mine Museum
Contact Information:
P.O. Box 369
West Frankfurt, IL 62896
Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Eugene V. Debs Foundation
Contact Information:
Charles King, Secretary
P O Box 843
Terre Haute, IN 47808
812-232-2163
Great New Haven Labor History Association
Contact Information:
1985 Chapel St.
New Haven, CT 06515
Debbie Elkin
203-389-6112
Greater Cleveland Labor History Society
Contact Information:
Jean Tussey
3054 Euclid Heights Blvd
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
216-321-5741
Hagley Museum and Library & Rutgers University-Camden Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society
The Hagley Museum, Library and Center is on the site of the DuPont Company's birthplace. The museum features a workers' community, the mills, and the first DuPont House. The library contains rare books, manuscripts, and a wide range of materials documenting the history of industry and technology in the U.S.
Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
Contact Information:
Margaret Levy, Director
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
pcls@u.washington.edu
Higgins Labor Research Center at the University of Notre Dame
The Higgins Labor Research Center at the University of Notre Dame has as its central purpose the study of the economic and social consequences of different systems of work organization and the relationships between management and workers. It encompasses a range of scholarly disciplines, including law, sociology, psychology, economics, government and history.
Historical Center of Industry and Labor
Contact Information:
Mark Twyford
P.O. Box 533
Youngstown, OH 44501
Illinois Labor History Society
"The Illinois Labor History Society (ILHS) was formed on August 5, 1969 in the office of the late Joseph M. Jacobs, attorney for the Chicago Teachers Union, Meatcutters, and other labor organizations.
The mission of the ILHS was set forth: It shall be the Purpose of the Illinois Labor History Society to encourage the preservation and study of labor history materials of the Illinois Region, and to arouse public interest in the profound significance of the past to the present.
To that end we have, over the years, published guidebooks by Professor William Adelman. We have produced and distributed numerous monographs on topics ranging from the Union Miners' Cemetery in Mt. Olive, Illinois, to the story of Pullman. We have established a mail order book business, currently offering books and videos to the public. We are the custodians of a National Historic Landmark, The Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois.
We provide; tours of Chicago's Labor History Sites; publication of a newsletter; and various commemorative programs, among them the annual Union Hall of Honor Awards Dinner.
We maintain this lively and well-respected website. It contains directions to various historic sites important to labor, a series of articles written in a popular style, and a model curriculum through which teachers can enrich the normal textbook fare with labor history topics and materials. Our booklist generates sales from as far away as Argentina. Our mini-museum contains photographs and memorabilia which visitors find enthralling.
We have a significant collection of books in our library, including some rare volumes. We are able to advise individuals and organizations who seek a proper repository for their historical records."
Immigration History Research Center
Founded in 1965, the Immigration History Research Center enriches society by preserving and promoting understanding of the history of the American immigrant experience. In doing so, it acts in partnership with various ethnic communities, historical agencies, research specialists, educators, and many others. The IHRC develops and maintains a library and archival collection, provides research assistance, produces publications, and sponsors academic and public programs. Its work supports the tripartite mission-teaching, research, and service-of its parent institution, the University of Minnesota.
International Association of Labour History Institutions
The International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI) brings together archives, libraries, document centres, museums and research institutions specializing in the history and theory of the labour movement from all over the world. It was founded in 1970 by the Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv (Stockholm), the Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (Düsseldorf), the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Bonn), the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (Amsterdam), the Labour Party (London), the Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv (Zürich) and the Trades Union Congress (London), among others. IALHI aims at:
Fostering closer co-operation between its members; interlending wherever possible; encouraging the interchange of publications and duplicates; initiating and sponsoring publications such as bibliographies, holding lists and surveys falling within its field of interest.
International Institute of Social History
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) was founded in 1935. It is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular. Most of the collections are open to the public.
International Labor History Association
Contact Information:
Ronald Kent
706 Bruce Court
Madison, WI 53705
608-231-1886
Labor Center - University of Massachussetts - Amherst
The Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts is one of the premier Labor Studies programs in the country. The Masters of Science in Labor Studies, with concentrations in globalization, labor and communities, and strategic corporate research, equips graduates to work in the labor movement and other organizations advocating for workers' rights.
Labor Education & Research Center at Evergreen State University
Labor Center Mission
The Evergreen State College Labor Education & Research Center, a public service initiative of The Evergreen State College, provides a safe forum for workers, community members and Evergreen students to look at their lives and work through the lenses of labor history and political economics.
Labor Speakers Club
Contact Information:
Peter Rachleff
St. Paul, MN 55116
Rachleff@macalester.edu
Labor Trail: Chicago's History of Working-Class Life and Struggle
The Labor Trail is the product of a joint effort to showcase the many generations of dramatic struggles and working-class life in the Chicago area's rich and turbulent past. The Trail's neighborhood tours invite you to get acquainted with the events, places, and people -- often unsung -- who have made the city what it is today. In addition, the statewide map is just a starting point for further exploration of Illinois' labor heritage. We invite you to report new themes for research and investigation on both the city and state level.
Contact Information:
Chicago Center for Working Class Studies
c/o Chicago Labor Education Program
University of Illinois
815 West Van Buren St., Suite 110
Chicago, IL 60607
Minnesota Labor Interpretive Center
Contact Information:
Tom Sersha
443 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
Mother Jones Foundation
Contact Information:
Kathy Woods
P.O. Box 20412
Springfield, IL 62708
National New Deal Preservation Association
The National New Deal Preservation Association is a non-profit organization which strives to identify, document and preserve the New Deal visual and performing arts, literature, crafts, structures and environmental projects and to educate people about these important legacies.
New York Labor History Association
Contact Information:
Gail Malmgreen, Secretary
Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
New York University Library - 10th floor
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
212-998-2636
malmgreen@elmer4.bobst.nyu.edu
Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
WAHC preserves and celebrates the arts, culture and heritage of working people in Canada. It is located in the historic Custom House in Hamilton, Ontario, but its activities reach across the country through travelling exhibits and research projects.
Ozark Labor History Society
Contact Information:
Duane Bedell, Drury College
417-873-7481
dbedell@lib.drury.edu
Linda Bergant
417-863-7700
Pacific Northwest Labor History Association
Contact Information:
Ross Rieder
P.O. Box 75048
Seattle, WA 98125
rossr241@aol.com
Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum
The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum at Scranton tells the story of the people who came to the Anthracite region of Pennsylvania to work in the mines, mills, and factories. It looks at their lives and culture, and their impact on the state and region.
The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum's diverse regional collections--highlighting the mines, the canals, the railroads, the mills, the factories, ethnicity and labor--represent all facets of the work, life and values of the region's ethnic communities.
Located in McDade Park, the museum is adjacent to the Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour, an underground visitor's excursion.
Pennsylvania Labor History Society
Contact Information:
Charles McCollester, President
Labor Studies, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
412-357-4443
charles@grove.iup.edu
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
The Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania, has lodged focus guides to aspects of the collections on the website. One of their collections is related to trade union banners.
Resource Center of the Americas
The nonprofit Resource Center of the Americas, the Minneapolis-based publisher of AMERICAS.ORG, is devoted to the notion that every person in this world is entitled to the same fundamental human rights. Our starting point for promoting these rights is learning and teaching about the peoples and countries of the Americas—their history, culture and politics. We focus especially on the global economy, a system in which a minority flourishes while millions of people lack adequate food, shelter and employment.
Rhode Island Labor History Society
Contact Information:
36 Upper College Road
Kingston, RI 02881;
Nick Pallazo
550 Usquepaugh Rd
West Kingston, RI 02899
San Francisco Labor and Research Center
Contact Information:
Lynn Bonfield, Archivist
S.F. State University
480 Winston Drive
San Francisco, California 94132
Southwest Labor Studies Association
Contact Information:
Kathleen A. Brown
President, SWLSA
St. Edward's University
3001 South Congress Ave.
Austin, TX 78704
(512) 416-5876
kathyb@admin.stedwards.edu
State Historical Society of Iowa, Special Collections
The State Historical Society of Iowa maintains an extensive archive of labor union records, newsletters, newspapers, and other printed material to complement the oral history interviews. Researcher will find minutes of meetings, constitutions and bylaws, contracts and agreements, grievances, financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, and films. Please direct inquiries to Special Collections reference staff.
Toledo Labor History Society
Contact Information:
Greg Miller
3828 Lockwood
Toledo, OH 43612
419-476-9353
Twin Cities Labor History Society
Contact Information:
Barbara Kucera, editor
St. Paul UNION ADVOCATE
411 Main Street
St. Paul, Minn 55102
651-227-0106
Union Resource Association
Contact Information:
Russ Gibbons
P.O. Box 11421
Pittsburgh, PA 15238
Usery Center at Georgia State University - Labor Studies Program
The Labor Studies Program was established to serve the training and educational needs of working people and their labor organizations in Georgia. The program seeks to equip union members with the knowledge and skills to fully exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities. The major focus of this program is conducting continuing education classes for labor organizations throughout Georgia. The Labor Studies Program also works directly with local unions in strategic planning efforts to improve organizational efficiency.
Wisconsin Labor History Society
Contact Information:
Kenneth Germanson, President
313 E. Plainfield
Milwaukee, WI 53207
414-483-1754
Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor
The Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor provides a dramatic overview of the impact of the iron and steel industry on Youngstown and other Mahoning Valley communities. The museum's permanent exhibit, By the Sweat of Their Brow: Forging the Steel Valley, explores labor, immigration and urban history, using videos, artifacts, photographs, and reconstructed scenes.
In addition to the permanent exhibit, the Center offers educational programs and a library and archives. Part of the Ohio Network of American History Research Centers, the Archives/Library serves as a repository for local government records, as well as manuscripts collected from workers, companies and labor organizations.
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