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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-38
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Founded in 1989, CDS connects the arts and humanities to fieldwork, drawing upon photography, filmmaking, oral history, folklore, and writing as catalysts for education and change. CDS supports the active examination of contemporary society, the recognition of collaboration as central to documentary work, and the presentation of experiences that heighten our historical and cultural awareness. CDS achieves this work through academic courses, research, oral history and other fieldwork, gallery and traveling exhibitions, annual awards, book publishing, radio, community-based projects, and public events.
Columbia Oral History Research Office
The Columbia University Oral History Research Office is the oldest and largest organized oral history program in the world. Founded in 1948 by Pulitzer Prize winning historian Allan Nevins, the oral history collection now contains nearly 8,000 taped memoirs, and nearly 1,000,000 pages of transcript. These memoirs include interviews with a wide variety of historical figures. Some interviews, conducted in the late 1940s, contain recollections dating back to the second administration of Grover Cleveland. Topics include: the New Deal, women's history, Black Labor leaders, immigration and many others.
Maritime Labor History - Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, University of Texas A&M
These interviews were conducted in 1982 and 1983 by a Ph.D. candidate in history, Donald Willett, who was writing a dissertation on the National Maritime Union. All are open, and some are transcribed.
Oral History Centers and Collections
A list of links to oral history projects around the country and abroad.
Southern Oral History Program
Founded in 1973, the Southern Oral History Program seeks to foster a critical yet democratic understanding of the South - its history, culture, problems, and prospects. A component program of UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South, the staff of the Southern Oral History Program has recorded more than 2,500 interviews with men and women from all walks of life, and currently maintain an active research and teaching program. Our tapes, videos, and transcripts are preserved in the University's Southern Historical Collection, the country's foremost repository for research materials on the American South. The SOHP's archives contain series of interviews on labor, southern women's history, African American Life and Culture, and many other topics of interest to labor and working-class historians.
State Historical Society of Iowa Iowa Labor Collection
The Iowa Labor History Oral Project was initiated in 1974 by the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. For over twenty years, the Iowa Federation of Labor has funded the collection and, working with SHSI, has ensured the preservation of the rich materials recovered by the project. The Iowa Labor Collection currently consists of over 1,100 oral history interviews with Iowa trade unionists and 800 linear feet of labor records.
U.S. Labor and Industrial History World Wide Web Audio Archive
Features recordings drawn from numerous audio archives, though most come from -- or are processed at -- the University at Albany. They are organized by topic.
Utah Oral History Consortium Labor Oral History Project
Interviews on the history of labor in the state of Utah by BYU students. Topics include the history of Copperton and Castle Gate, Utah; railroad and mining history; and labor unions in the state.
Voices of Labor Oral History Project
The Voices of Labor Oral History Project is an enterprise to record the personal experiences of men and women who participated in the labor movement.
Voices of Workers Online: Oral History Recordings in Labor History
With the completion of its NEH Preservation and Access grant, the award-winning Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive of California State University, Long Beach, now is making available over 150 hours of original oral history recordings in labor history.
With its focus on orality, VOAHA brings to life the timbre and tone of voice, the richness of oral narratives, and the nuances of spoken language of 48 people, including Anglos, African Americans, Chicanos/as, working class men and women, and Southern and Eastern European immigrant women.
5 series, 48 narrators, 150 hours.
Topics: the fight to desegregate unions during WW2; organizing Mexican furniture workers; mobilizing workers in the oil fields in the Long Beach area; women garment workers in various cities, including the organizing of the Women's Local of ACWA in Chicago; and the lives and experiences of four individuals active in the labor movement in different industries and/or who were participants in historic moments in labor history in Flint, Michigan, Ludlow, Colorado and Oakland and or Los Angeles, California.
The interviews are been broken into organic time segments that are summarized and assigned search terms, enabling users to listen to specific interview segments driven by their own or selected search terms. Alternatively, users can browse the collections, working through the hierarchy and listen either to entire tapes or to selected segments. Full bibliographic citations are provided for each segment.
Contact Information:
For more information, contact Sherna Berger Glucksbgluck@csulb.edu or Kaye Briegel
kbriegel@csulb.edu
William Russell Pullen Library,Georgia State University Voices of Labor Collections
The Voices of Labor Oral History Project is an enterprise to record the personal experiences of men and women who participated in the labor movement.
Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting
Another creation of the American Memory Project, "Working in Paterson" presents 470 interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. "The documentary materials presented in this online collection explore how this industrial heritage expresses itself in Paterson today: in its work sites, work processes, and memories of workers. The online presentation also includes interpretive essays exploring such topics as work in the African-American community, a distinctive food tradition (the Hot Texas Wiener), the ethnography of a single work place (Watson Machine International), business life along a single street in Paterson (21st Avenue), and narratives told by retired workers."
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.
There are growing numbers of online exhibits on topics in labor and working class history ranging from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to the Bisbee Deportation. These sites contain primary documents, photographs, cartoons, film clips, songs, bibliographies and more. The links below are just a sample of what's out there. To suggest a new link or update an old one, please email lawcha@wm.edu.
A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979
This online exhibit is based on the 1992-2001 traveling exhibit on A. Philip Randolph sponsored by the AFL-CIO.
America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1895 to 1915
Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures, 88 of which are digitized for the first time (62 are also available in other American Memory presentations). Highlights include films of the United States Postal Service from 1903, cattle breeding, fire fighters, ice manufacturing, logging, calisthenic and gymnastic exercises in schools, amusement parks, boxing, expositions, football, parades, swimming, and other sporting events.
Anarchy Archives
An Online Research Center on the History and Theory of Anarchism
Art from The Masses
Online exhibit of art work from The Masses magazine, mounted by the libraries of Michigan State University
Austin at Work
On-line Exhibits from the Austin History Center
Behind the Veil
Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1821 to the present
This is a "virtual" version of the highly regarded Smithsonian exhibition on the history of American sweatshops. The exhibit was seen at the National Museum of American History.
Bisbee Deportation of 1917: A University of Arizona Library Web Exhibit
The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 was an event specific to Arizona that influenced the labor movement throughout the United States. What started as a labor dispute between copper mining companies and their workers turned into vigilante action against the allegedly nefarious activities of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). This site is a research-based collection of primary and secondary sources for the study of the deportation of over 1,000 striking miners from Bisbee on 12 July, 1917.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-38
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
Bridgeport Lock Zero
A brief history and look into one of Chicago's oldest neighborhoods
Bridgeport Working: Voices from the 20th Century
This project is a survey of the working history of Bridgeport over the last 100 years. Decade by decade, the project shows the growing importance of the worker and labor in the development of a city. By moving through the exhibit timeline and reading the political and social history of each period, we hope that the viewer will realize the important roles that those people who felt that they "weren't important" actually played in developing Bridgeport.
Read the worker's stories; listen to their words...join us in celebrating 100 years of history in a great industrial city, Bridgeport, Connecticut. The companies, the people and their legacy lives on.
Bridgeport Working: Voices from the 20th Century
This project is a survey of the working history of Bridgeport over the last 100 years. Decade by decade, the project shows the growing importance of the worker and labor in the development of a city. By moving through the exhibit timeline and reading the political and social history of each period, we hope that the viewer will realize the important roles that those people who felt that they "weren't important" actually played in developing Bridgeport.
Canadian Labour History, 1850-1999
This web site traces in French and English the history of Canadian Labour with the aim of showing how it served its members while forcing broader reforms....
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Founded in 1989, CDS connects the arts and humanities to fieldwork, drawing upon photography, filmmaking, oral history, folklore, and writing as catalysts for education and change. CDS supports the active examination of contemporary society, the recognition of collaboration as central to documentary work, and the presentation of experiences that heighten our historical and cultural awareness. CDS achieves this work through academic courses, research, oral history and other fieldwork, gallery and traveling exhibitions, annual awards, book publishing, radio, community-based projects, and public events.
Central Pacific Railroad: Photographic History Museum
It's not clear who created this site, but it contains lots of photos, maps, text, citations, and other useful information.
Cesar Chavez: The Farmworker Movement 1962-1993: Primary Source Accounts By The Volunteers Who Built The Movement
The project seeks to compile and publish primary source accounts from the volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement during the period, 1962-1993.
Primary source accounts include: essays, music, online discussion, art, photos, video, cartoons, glossary, etc. The publication of the Website marks the 40th Anniversary of the Delano Grape Strike.
Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair 1886 - 1887
This Library of Congress collection showcases more than 3,800 images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and artifacts relating to the Haymarket Affair.
Chinese-American Experience: An Introduction by Harpweek
Harper’s Weekly is an important primary source about Chinese living in America during the 19th- century, providing information about them and their communities, and commenting on the controversies that surrounded them.
Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory
This website is the aftermath of a Park Service exhibition, which featured photographs by Bill Bamberger documenting the demise of the 111-year-old White Furniture Co. of Mebane, North Carolina. According to the exhibit's promotional material, "the family-owned firm (the "South’s oldest maker of fine furniture") was first sold to a corporation and then shut down in May 1993, leaving 203 men and women out of work. Taken during the last four months of the plant's operation, and working side by side with White Furniture Co. employees on the factory floor, Bamberger captured the dynamic life of the factory and its workers. He recorded the vitality of the plant and the craft and the camaraderie of the workers, many of who have been together for 30 to 40 years. With his camera, Bamberger captured the concentration and confidence of employees going about their work, as well as their individual and collective distress when their jobs ended. He also photographed the aftermath of the closing--the dismantling of the plant and the sale of its machinery."
Did Florence Kelley's Campaign against Sweatshops in Chicago in the 1890s
With her arrival at Hull House in Chicago in 1891 Florence Kelley spearheaded a campaign to regulate garment sweatshops and limit the hours of labor of women and children. The documents in this project depict this reform effort and some of the opposition it generated. Kelley served four years as Illinois's first Factory Inspector, though her work was constrained by a ruling of the Illinois Supreme Court that declared the eight-hour provision of the law unconstitutional.
Documenting Labor Inside and Out
This exhibit features the labor-related collections held in the Archives of Public Affairs and Policy (APAP) at the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York. These collections contain a range of materials, from the most basic internal records to those that document unions' interactions with management, the larger labor community, and the world at large. This exhibit shows the wide array of records that labor organizations generate and the types of information that those records provide. These records are used by historians, scholars, and others interested in the labor movement and the labor history of New York's Capital District.
Dramas of Haymarket
The Dramas of Haymarket is an online project produced by the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University. The Dramas of Haymarket examines selected materials from the Chicago Historical Society's Haymarket Affair Digital Collection, an electronic archive of CHS's extraordinary Haymarket holdings. The Dramas of Haymarket interprets these materials and places them in historical context, drawing on many other items from the Historical Society's extensive resources.
Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1962
The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers is a project dedicated to bringing Eleanor Roosevelt's writings (and radio and television appearances) on democracy and human rights before an audience as diverse as the ones she addressed. The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers is a university-chartered research center associated with the Department of History
of The George Washington University.
Emma Goldman Papers Project
Since 1980, the Emma Goldman Papers Project, at the University of California, Berkeley has collected, organized, and edited tens of thousands of documents by and about Goldman from around the world. The Emma Goldman Papers: A Microfilm Edition (Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1991) and Emma Goldman: A Guide to Her Life and Documentary Sources (Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1995) are housed in libraries across the country and internationally. Most of the material is new to the scholarly community and provides a window not only into Goldman but also into social and cultural movements in late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. The Guide also includes unique documentation of government and press reactions to radicalism. Other publications include The Life and Times of Emma Goldman (ISBN 0-9635443-0-6), a 127-page high school curriculum guide highlighting twenty-four primary source historical documents. Since 1990, the Project has toured an exhibition of thirty-eight reproductions of historical photographs, personal letters, government documents and other memorabilia.
Farmworker Movement Documentation Project
The Farmworker Movement Documentation Project has published a new Website: "Cesar Chavez: The Farmworker Movement 1962-1993: Primary Source Accounts By The Volunteers Who Built The Movement."
Primary source accounts include: essays, music, online discussion, art, photos, video, cartoons, glossary, etc. The publication of the Website marks the 40th Anniversary of the Delano Grape Strike.
Fighters on the Farm Front: Oregon's Emergency Farm Labor Service 1943-1947
"Fighters on the Farm Front: Oregon's Emergency Farm Labor Service, 1943-1947" commemorates the state's Emergency Farm Labor Service, a program sponsored by the Oregon State College Extension Service to ensure an adequate farm labor supply during World War II and the years immediately after. It contains photos of Mexican Braceros, information on Women's Land Army, and other resources.
From Carbons to Computers: The Changing American Office
Carbons to Computers aims to enrich students' understanding of several familiar themes: trade and commerce; economics; the industrial revolution; work; women's roles; technology; inventions; power; beliefs and customs; capitalism; postindustrial economy; reform movements; and change.
Georgia Textile History Resources A Project of the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University
Welcome to the Georgia Textile History Resources Portal. The following is a list of online resources for Georgia textile history. These resources include museums, archives, exhibits, historic sites and online-only sources.
History of Mining in Cape Breton
"Coal mining has been a major factor in the history and development of the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia since the early 1700s. Many of the settlers of the area were hardy coal miners from other countries who would eventually help to unify the Cape Breton region through unionization, another result of the coal industry. The coal industry was frequently at the heart of disputes that took place between the people and the government and was often the impetus behind workers' rights movements. Explore the rich history of mining in Cape Breton, and learn about the social and economic developments in the region."
History of the Canadian Automobile Worker (in English)
A joint project of the Canadian Automobile Workers and the Labour Studies Program at McMaster University, this site introduces users to the early history of the Canadian auto industry. It traces the origins of industrial trade unionism, the struggles to establish collective bargaining in the 1930s and 1940s, and the decision by the Canadian locals of the United Automobile Workers to form an independent Canadian union, the Canadian Automobile Workers in the mid-1980s. It contains photos, on-line archives, essays, and teaching materials.
History Place. Child Labor in America, 1908-1912. Photographs of Lewis W. Hine.
This site contains sixty photographs of child laborers by Hine, with their original captions.
The History Place is a private, independent, Internet-only publication based in the Boston area that is not affiliated with any political group or organization. The site was founded and is owned and published by Philip Gavin who has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northeastern University and a Master of Science degree from Boston University. Except where noted, the articles and text appearing throughout The History Place Web site were written by Mr. Gavin.
History Place. Dorothea Lange. Migrant Farm Families. Photos with Original Captions.
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) has been called the greatest American documentary photographer. She is best known for her chronicles of the Great Depression and for her photographs of migratory farm workers. Below are 24 pre-World War II photographs, taken for the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA), investigating living conditions of families hired to work in cotton fields and farms in Arizona and California.
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 Institute of Social History Virtual Exhibitions
Dutch posters and work, health and safety, images from labor movements around the world, labor cartoons, and more!
La Causa: A History of the United Farm Workers (in English and Spanish)
To commemorate the struggles and triumphs of the UFW, the Walter P. Reuther Library and the Michigan Humanities Council are pleased to announce the opening of La Causa: A History of the United Farm Workers Union in the Library´s exhibit gallery. Partially funded by the Michigan Humanities Council, La Causa focuses on the formation and rise of the UFW, the life of its leader, Cesar Estrada Chavez, and the people of the UFW.
Labor and the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Anti-Nazi Struggle
This exhibit presents a portfolio of a hundred photographs and documents from the JLC Collection. The text has been adapted from an article by JLC archivist Gail Malmgreen, originally published in Labor's Heritage (October 1991). The exhibit's seven pictorial sections take the viewer on a chronological journey, from the origins of the JLC, through its anti-Nazi activity of the 1930s, to early rescue efforts and wartime assistance to the anti-Nazi Underground, and then examines three aspects of postwar aid and reconstruction. A final section offers a bibliography of resources for further study.
Labor Arts
LABOR ARTS is a virtual museum; we gather, identify and display images of the cultural artifacts of working people and their organizations. Our mission is to present powerful images that help us understand the past and present lives of working people.
Labor Arts Exhibits - IIR - UC - Berkeley
IIR is proud to display a permament collection of poster art and a featured exhibit of photographs covering a broad range of inspiring and educational labor themes.
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
Life of the People: Realist Prints from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948
This Library of Congress provides an extensive online view of prints from the Goldstein collection, major components of which include: Art of the People, the Radical Impulse, City Life, Capital and Labor, and the American Scene.
Along with landmark images in the history of American political art, Ben Goldstein assembled outstanding holdings of works by creators who shared his social concerns. Among these artists were women, African Americans, and the Mexican muralists who were so influential at the time. The collection is particularly rich in images from the 1930s, when the turmoil and uncertainty of the Depression led increasing numbers of artists to turn toward socially relevant subject matter. Their images include moving portraits, scathing satires, haunting images of social ills, and more lighthearted depictions of life in the first half of the twentieth century.
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
This site was created by Dr. James Leloudis and Dr. Kathryn Walbert as a part of the American Historical Association's program Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In building this website, our intent is to make oral history resources available to teachers at the secondary and college level and to suggest some of the ways in which the stories told in Like a Family can enrich the classroom experience for U.S. History students.
Los Angeles at Work 1920 - 1939
The rich assortment of images in this exhibit “Los Angeles At Work: 1920 -1939,” was chosen from an archive of thousands of negatives made by Chamber of Commerce photographers for its publication during those years.
Lost Labor
This website features incredible images of work from company publications.
Memories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Migrant Past Migrant Present: Thirty Years
This amazing exhibit of photographs celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Geneseo Migrant Center, which serves migrant farmworkers and their families. There are hundreds of photographs taken mostly by Elizabeth Boettger, Bill Cronin, Michael Greenlar and Roger Smith.
My Daddy Was a Miner
Photographs of miners and mining communities in Appalachia are featured in "my daddy was a miner," the newest web exhibit on LaborArts.org . Builder Levy, photographer and New York City school teacher of at-risk adolescents, has visited photographed mining communities for over three decades. The web exhibit displays fifteen of his photographs spanning the years 1968 - 1982, in a retrospective dedicated to the twenty-four miners who died in Appalachian mines in early 2006.
New York City Shirtwaist Strike, 1909-1910
The Women and Social Movements website is a project of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Currently it contains 43 mini-monographs that interpret documents. Each mini-monograph poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Altogether the site includes nearly 1000 documents, almost 400 images, and 375 links to other websites.
Northland Poster Collective
Online gallery of labor and political posters (available for purchase)
Pacific Northwest Labor History Photographs of Workers, Strikes, and Unions
Here are more than 100 online labor history photos from the Museum of History and Industry Collection.
Pacific Northwest Labor History Projects
Directed by Professor James Gregory, the PACIFIC NORTHWEST LABOR HISTORY
PROJECTS bring together materials and research projects that will help
students, scholars, and labor activists explore this rich and vital
history. The site includes hundreds of photographs, documents, newspaper
clippings, even video interviews. The projects also offer a glimpse of the
exciting research being done by students in Labor Studies courses at the
University of Washington.
Contact Information:
The site is currently organized into six separate projects with more to be
added.
The Seattle General Strike Project
Communism in Washington State - History and Memory Project
The Labor Press Project
The Unions of UW Project
The WTO History Project
Labor history photographs from the Museum of History and Industry
Pamphlets in the Fight Against Taft-Hartley
An online exhibit by the Labor Studies and Radical History
Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania Labor Legacy Website
The Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania Labor Legacy Web Site was started in 1999 by Dr. David L. Rosenberg, Archivist, UE/Labor Archives, and John P. Montoya, University of Pittsburgh 2002, as a project within the University
Library System's Archives Service Center. The Labor Legacy Website represents a unique effort to "map" the historical terrain of the labor
movement in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania for the use of both the
academic and general public and has enjoyed support from local labor
organizations and individuals, as well as from the University.
Pullman
Red Scare
RED SCARE is an image database about the period in the history of the United States immediately following World War I. The dates are approximately from the Armistice in November of 1918 to the collapse of hyper-inflation in mid-1920.
Samuel Gompers Papers
The Samuel Gompers Papers is a documentary editing project that collects, annotates, and makes available to as wide an audience as possible, primary sources of American labor history. Drawing on Gompers material and other labor-related sources at the Library of Congress, the U.S. Department of Labor, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and the George Meany Memorial Archives, as well as public and university manuscript repositories, various union offices, and other locations, the project has published two microfilm series of union records and eight edited volumes of Gompers' papers. The project also makes available its wide collection of microfilm, photocopied material, and annotation files to students and researchers.
Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871
This site contains links to over 1200 digitized photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris cir.1871. In addition to the images in this set, the Library's Siege & Commune Collection contains 1500 caricatures, 68 newspapers in hard-copy and film, hundreds of books and pamphlets and about 1000 posters.
Slaves and the Courts, 1740 - 1860
Part of the Library of Congress's American Memory Project, "Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860" contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The documents, most from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance. Of the cases presented here, most took place in America and a few in Great Britain.
Southern Labor Movement
The Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University Library, sponsors a website that features several lessons on labor history, as well as an image gallery of primary sources and an overview of the (Southern) labor movement. It has been developed so that both teachers and students can utilize the online information.
Contact Information:
Lauren Kata, Archivist
Southern Labor Archives
Georgia State University Library
lkata@gsu.edu
(404) 651-3898
Fax: (404) 651-4314
Still Cookin' By the Fireside: African Americans in Food Service
Sponsored by The Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee, "Still Cookin' By the Fireside" is an on-line text and photo exhibit on the history of African Americans in Food Service from the colonial period to the present.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
The hundreds of images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public -- in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World. Note: The images on this website are provided for educational, non-commercial purposes. They are provided for the personal use of students, teachers, scholars, and the general public. Any commercial use or publication of them is strictly prohibited.
The Cradle of Collective Bargaining: History of Labour and Technology in Hamilton and District (in English).
This digital collection was produced under contract to the SchoolNet Digital Collections program, Industry Canada. It contains essays on "The Siege of '46", "Women, Work and Unions," "Unionism in Hamilton," as well as other topics. It also contains a slide show, teaching aids, and on-line archives.
The Labor Project: Dedicated to the Preservation of Labor and Working-Class History in the Pacific Northwest
The website provides a portal researchers can use to access the documentary history of labor in
Oregon and other western states. The site combines the convenience of online
searching with a carefully organized approach to research on the topic.
At the heart of the Labor Project site is a newly developed database that
allows users to search the UO's Special Collections holdings related to labor and working-class history by keyword, subject, date ranges, title, and
related authors. Users can also browse the contents of the database in eight
different labor-related topics.
Examples of archived material housed in Special Collections and referenced
in the database include documents on the timber industry in the Pacific
Northwest, arbitration papers from the International Longshore and Warehouse
Union (ILWU) and other unions, original pamphlets from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), legal documents related to the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, and extensive materials from native American tribes in Oregon.
Special Collections staff members have identified approximately 100
collections in its holdings that are relevant to the history of labor and
the working class in the Northwest. The materials include private papers,
arbitration records, corporate and organizational records, and political
material. Database searches yield an extensive description of these
individual holdings and their specific location within the UO Libraries'
Special Collections. Additional material will be added to the database as it is acquired and catalogued.
Contact Information:
For more information on the Labor Project website, contact James Fox,
(541) 346-1904, jdfox@oregon.uoregon.edu, or Alex Morrow, (541) 346-5908,
amorrow@darkwing.uoregon.edu
The Sixtieth Anniversary of the “War for Warner Brothers”
An exhibit about the Hollywood Studio Strikes of 1945-47, created by IATSE local 728
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
This web exhibit presents original documents and secondary sources on the Triangle Fire, held by the Cornell University Library. They are housed in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections also contributed to the exhibit. The bulk of the primary sources were drawn from the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Archives which, along with the records of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, form the basis for the archives of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!) which reside at Cornell.
The WTO History Project
The WTO History Project is largely and primarily a response to the momentous protests that took place on November 29-December 3, 1999 in Seattle during the WTO Ministerial meetings.
Transcontinental Railroad
This is the website companion to the PBS documentary.
U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906 - 1971
Created by Indiana University's Digital Library Program, this website presents the U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, a series of more than 2,200 photographs of the Gary Works steel mill and the corporate town of Gary, Indiana held by the Calumet Regional Archives at Indiana University Northwest. In images of compelling diversity, historians and the general public can view all aspects of this planned industrial community: the steel mill, the city, and the citizens who lived and worked there.
University of Washington Labor and Industry collections
Labor and Industry collections include material which depict the industries and occupations of the peoples of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. This includes logging, shipping, fisheries, mining, and agriculture activities. Other selected material focuses on the political struggles of local labor unions. Materials come primarily from the holdings of the University of Washington Libraries' Manuscripts, Special Collections and University Archives Division.
Virtual Prostitution Museum
This site is an attempt to preserve some of the history of prostitution through photos of relics, brothels, prostitutes and much more.
Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection
Part of the Library of Congress's American Memory Project, this is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips supported by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center).
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000.
Welcome! Organized around a collection of nearly 1000 primary documents, the Women and Social Movements website offers new ways for students, teachers, and scholars to study American History.
Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting
Another creation of the American Memory Project, "Working in Paterson" presents 470 interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. "The documentary materials presented in this online collection explore how this industrial heritage expresses itself in Paterson today: in its work sites, work processes, and memories of workers. The online presentation also includes interpretive essays exploring such topics as work in the African-American community, a distinctive food tradition (the Hot Texas Wiener), the ethnography of a single work place (Watson Machine International), business life along a single street in Paterson (21st Avenue), and narratives told by retired workers."
Working-class art exhibitions--IISG Virtual Library on Labor and Business History
A listing with links to 92 individual exhibitions on the world wide web dealing with labor and business and three meta-indexes to a large number of additional virtual exhibitions. This site was developed by the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
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