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Archives and Libraries
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives at Brandeis University. General information, Spanish Civil War links.
- American Radicalism Collection at Michigan State University Libraries. Including scanned texts of the Black Panthers, the Industrial Workers of the World, on the Sacco and Vanzetti case, the Rosenberg case etc.
- Archives of Irish America The Archives of Irish America is a repository of primary research materials related to the Irish migration to the USA at New York University. Collection information, images and transcriptions of selected primary documents, excerpts from the Ireland House Oral History Collection and other exhibits.
- Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh. General information on the Archives of Industrial Society and the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America Archives and Labor Collections.
- Bowling Green State University Center for Archival Collections Labor Bibliography Archives and manuscripts descriptions.
- Center for Agricultural History at Iowa State University. Information on the journal Agricultural History, links.
- Center for Labor Education and Research at the University of Kentucky. General information.
- Center for Labor Education and Research at the University of Hawaii. Newsletter and the Research Library on labour law and labour history (general information).
- Center for Migration Studies (New York). Overview of its research projects, online catalog of its documentation centre, related links.
- Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Detailed collections information.
- Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations A rich site offering the Martin P. Catherwood Library (200,000 vols) and the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archive
- Dewey Library : Management and Social Sciences. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada at Hunter Information Management Services Inc. February 1999 edition prepared by Amy Fischer and Liz Holum Johnson for the Business Archives Section of the Society of American Archivists.
- Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection Marquette University Libraries, Milwaukee, WI. The Catholic Worker was founded in New York City in 1933 by Dorothy Day (1897-1980), a radical journalist who had converted to Catholicism, and Peter Maurin (1877-1949), an itinerant French worker/scholar. The collection includes the personal papers of Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and others involved in the movement; records of past and present Catholic Worker communities; photographs; audio and video tapes of interviews, talks, television programs, and peace demonstrations; and a wide variety of publications.
- Free Speech Movement Archives (Berkeley, CA). Documents, images, links.
- George Meany Memorial Archives (Silver Spring, MD). Papers of Meany and other union leaders. Guide to the collections, information on Labor's Heritage.
- Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE). One of the largest repositories of business records in the US. Online catalog (Web). Information on the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society.
- Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington at Seattle. Sponsor of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Projects http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/
- Holt Labor Library (San Francisco, CA). General information.
- Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. One of the largest collections of labour records anywhere. Guide to the collections.
- Human Factor: 1920s and 1930s Industrial Photography Exhibit at Harvard Business School's Historical Collections The introductory exhibition and web site include a selection from the over 2,100 images that comprise the Industrial Life Photograph Collection, featuring the work of such artists as Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine.
- Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Holdings information.
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 A web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. It includes images from Harvard's Social Museum, which was established by F.G. Peabody to illustrate "problems of the social order" related to the rapid influx of immigrants.
- Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California at Los Angeles. General information.
- Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California at Berkeley. Information on research, working papers, abstracts of its journal, Industrial Relations, information on the library
- Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. General information.
- Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Extensive collection information, a guide to the collection, online virtual exhibitions and more.
- Labor & Industrial Relations Library At Michigan State University. Areas of strength in the LIR Reference Collection include labor and employment law, and grievance arbitration.
- Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University. Labour records from the Bay Area. List of holdings.
- Labor Archives at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Extensive guide to the holdings.
- Labor Archives Directory This directory includes repositories with partial holdings relating to labor and workers, as well as repositories whose whole holdings pertain to labor. The site covers the United States and Canada. Prepared by the Labor Archives Roundtable, Society of American Archivists.
- Labor History Resources At the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany, State University of New York. See also the Business and Industry subject guide.
- Labor History Sources in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress
- Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. General information.
- Labor-Related Films in the Library of Congress Collection
- Library of Congress
- Littauer Library at Harvard University. Information about the Slichter Industrial Relations Collection.
- Making of America at the University of Michigan. Digital library of primary sources in American social history: thousands of books and journal articles from the Antebellum period through Reconstruction.
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections at the Library of Congress.
- Newberry Library (Chicago, IL). An independent research library, with some business archives. General holdings information.
- Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library (Oakland, CA). General information.
- Northwest Digital Archives An online searchable database of guides to primary sources at 13 research institutions in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. The database now contains more than 2,200 guides on numerous topics in Northwest History, including: business, industry and labor, city and town life, ethnic groups, home and family, native Americans, pioneers, sexuality and more.
- Otis Historical Archives at the National Museum of Health and Medecine. General information.
- Ozarks Labor Union Archives at Southwest Missouri State University. Extensive listing of the collections.
- Pennsylvania State Libraries : Special Collections Library : Historical Collections & Labor Archives Major labour and business archives. Overview of the collections, more details on the United Steelworkers of America Archive and Oral History Collection.
- Princeton University Industrial Relations Library General information, collection information, a guide to research, recent acquisitions information, links to industrial relations web sites, Social Science Reference Center.
- Records for the Study of Labor and Business History in the National Archives-Pacific Sierra Region The National Archives-Pacific Region is a major source for research in labor and business history. It maintains historical records of Federal agencies in northern California, Hawaii, Nevada (except Clark County), American Samoa, and the Pacific Trust Territories.
- Reference Center for Marxist Studies (New York City). The Reference Center maintains a library of books, pamphlets, periodicals, manuscripts and documents, as well as graphic materials and other media related to the history of the Communist Party, socialism, Marxist theory, the working class, African Americans, national liberation struggles and other people's movements in the 20th Century. General information, newsletter.
- Research Guide to Soviet History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. General bibliography prepared by Donald J. Raleigh, and based on materials at the Davis Library.
- Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations General information, overview of the library collection.
- Rutgers University Libraries: Libraries: Special Collections and University Archives: Manuscripts Finding aids to the records of Consumers' Research Inc and the Modern School Collection, among others.
- Saint Peter's College Archives (Jersey City, NJ). Overview of its collections, strong on the Roman Catholic labour movement.
- Social Security Online: History This site contains one of the largest and most extensive collections of history-related materials in the federal government. Both the institutional history of the Social Security Administration and the history of the Social Security program itself are presented.(Baltimore, MD).
- Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota. Extensive holdings information.
- Sophia Smith Collection - Labor in the US at Smith College (Northampton, MA). Overview of related archival holdings.
- Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research (Los Angeles). Collections information.
- Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University. General information about the collections, finding aids, guides, detailed information on several special collections and projects, including The Voices of Labor Oral History Project, an enterprise to record the personal experiences of men and women who participated in the labor movement.
- Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection In the UCSD Mandeville Special Collections Library. A description of the materials collected by Herbert R. Southworth, now at the University of California at San Diego, USA. Access to finding aids, an online exhibition of Spanish Civil War posters, 'The Visual Front'
- Spanish Civil War Posters The collection of Spanish Civil War posters in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division consists of approximately 120 posters created between 1936 and 1939.
- Syracuse University Library - Television History Archive Detailed overview of the collections.
- Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University. Extensive collections information, specialized guides and finding aids. Catalog entries for the majority of the holdings are retrievable via Bobcat, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library's on-line catalog
- Telecommunications History Group THG maintains and operates one of the nation's largest privately held telecommunications archives and operates two small museums. The website has information on the collections, which include photographs, and scrapbooks and memoirs compiled by telephone company employees and their families.
- Thomas J. Dodd Research Center - Archives and Special Collections at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Important labour and business archives. List of the collections, with more detailed information on some.
- Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive of California State University, Long Beach This site provides access to the full audio recordings of oral histories that have been deposited in Special Collections of the University Library. The CSULB oral history collections have been assembled from a number of sources and cover topics such as women's history, ethnic studies and labour history. Some of the interviews date back to 1972 and include interviews with narrators born as early as the 1860s. The Real Audio player is required for listening to the audio segments.
- Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University. Includes the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs holding the records of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the Industrial Workers of the World, among many others. List of the collections, links to US industrial relations libraries and labour archives.
- Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri at St Louis. Collection-level information on the labour history and immigrant collections.
- Wirtz Labor Library at the Department of Labor (Washington, DC). Overview of the collections, bibliographies, online catalog.
- Wisconsin Historical Society Archives Important business and labour collections, among them the records of McCormick-International Harvester, and the American Federation of Labor and other unions. Online catalog and finding aids.
- Women, Enterprise and Society A Guide to Resources in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library, Harvard Business School.
- Wright State University Libraries - Special Collections and Archives (Dayton, OH). Strong in aviation history. Listing of its local and regional labour history holdings
- Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (New York). Holdings include the records of the Bund. Collections information.
- Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor (Ohio). List of finding aids and online catalog.
Data Archives
- Appalachian Center at the University of Kentucky at Lexington. Regional social-economic historical data available online. See publications
- Archival Data Online Repository at the Data and Program Library Service of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Direct access to datasets on Urban Racial Disorders 1961-1968, Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, Russian Imperial Bureaucracy 1762-1881, Rolls of Emigrants to the Colony of Liberia 1820-1843, French Intendants de Province 1661-1790, among others.
- Association of Public Data Users General information.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics of the US Department of Labor. Time series.
- Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University. US and international population data, a rich collection on China among them.
- Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Project disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on the former Communist world.
- Historical Census Browser The data presented here describe the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960. From the Geostat Center at the University of Virginia Library.
- Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States at the US Bureau of the Census. Working paper by Campbell J. Gibson and Emily Lennon (1999). Detailed tables.
- Integrated Public Use Microdata Series at the University of Minnesota. Census microdata for social and economic research.
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan. 'Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data'.
- National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) The national clearinghouse of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. NCCS is a program of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy (CNP) at the Urban Institute (Washington DC). The Center is home to the NCCS Data Web.
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) The PSID is a nationally representative longitudinal study of nearly 8,000 US families. Following the same families and individuals since 1968, the PSID collects data on economic, health, and social behavior.
Research Institutions
- Appalachian Center at the University of Kentucky at Lexington. Regional social-economic historical data available online. See publications
- Center for Millennial Studies (Boston, MA). Offers an extensive bibliography.
- Center for Socialist History (Berkeley, CA). General information.
- Center for Working-Class Studies (Youngstown, OH). The web site includes information about working-class studies as a field of study, information on courses, research, and programs at YSU, a bibliography, and links to related web sites.
- Center on Wealth and Philanthropy CWP Formerly Social Welfare Research Institute, at Boston College. Working papers, research projects.
- Fernand Braudel Center at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Engaged in "the analysis of large-scale social change over long periods of historical time". Newsletter, papers, table of contents of its journal, Review.
- Labor Education and Research Center (Olympia, WA). General information.
- Labor Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon at Eugene. General information.
- Migration Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.) From the website of this independent institution visitors can download working
papers and reports on American and European migration and migration policy.
- Social Science Research Council Founded in 1923 the SSRC is an independent, non-profit organization. Programs information, publications.
Museums
- Amana Heritage Museum The Amana Heritage Museum collections are comprised of approximately 12,000 objects and 10,000 archival pieces that pertain to the history of Amana and its associated religious group (The Community of True Inspiration) in Germany and America. The period of the collections covers ca. 1700 to the present, with emphasis on the communal period of Amana history (1855-1932)
- American Labor Museum (Haledon, NJ). General information.
- American Textile History Museum
- Baltimore Museum of Industry General information.
- Computer History Museum (Moffett Field, CA). General information, online exhibits.
- Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE). One of the largest repositories of business records in the US. Online catalog (Web). Information on the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society.
- Lowell National Historical Park (Lowell, MA), maintained by the National Park Service. Cotton textile mills, canals, operating gatehouses, worker housing etc, commemorating the American industrial revolution. General information.
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum A presentation and interpretation of the variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan's Lower East Side, New York, NY; general information.
- MOHAI: Seattle's Museum of History and Industry General information, searchable photo database.
- Monroe County Labor History Museum The museum buiding in Monroe, MI, is under construction; the web site already offers information on the beginning of the Michigan Labor history. There is a biographical sketch of Walter Reuther, and of Philip Murray, a photo gallery, and a virtual tour of the Newton Strike.
- Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, IL). Exhibits page.
- Museum of Work and Culture (Woonsocket, RI). General information.
- New Bedford Whaling Museum (New Bedford, MA). Includes the entire collection of the Kendall Whaling Museum. Online catalog (logbooks and journals), bibliographies, newsletter.
- TextileMuse The searchable online catalogue of Arthur D. Jenkins Library collections, the Textile Museum, Washington DC.
Associations and Societies
- After Slavery This international research collaboration (Queen’s University Belfast, the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina and the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University) promises to make available scanned copies of original documents from freedpeople, their allies and adversaries; contemporary images and interactive maps; extensive searchable bibliographies; blogs, podcasts and online interviews featuring some of the leading scholars in the field and other materials.
- Agricultural History Society General information, journal.
- American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN)
- American Printing History Association Newsletter, journal.
- American Sociological Association Information about the Association and its sections and committees, which include sections on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Family, History of Sociology, International Migration, Labor and Labor Movements, and Marxist sociology.
- American Sociological Association Section on Labor and Labor Movements General information, newsletter, calls for papers and other announcements.
- Association for Economic and Social Analysis (University of Massachusetts at Amherst). Journal (Rethinking Marxism), bibliography, conferences.
- Association of Public Data Users General information.
- Committee of Industrial Relations Librarians Directory.
- Communal Studies Association Conferences, journal, newsletter
- Greater New Haven Labor History Association General information, a "starter's list of printed sources for the New Haven labor historian", a few web links.
- Illinois Labor History Society Articles about the Haymarket Tragedy and other important events in Chicago labour history, educational materials, links to other American labour history websites.
- Immigration and Ethnic History Society Aims to promote the study of the history of immigration to the United States and Canada from all parts of the world, including studies of the background of emigration in the countries of origin; to promote the study of ethnic groups in the United States, including regional groups, native Americans and forced immigrants.
- Industrial Relations Research Association Directory, list of publications.
- Labor and Working Class History Association LAWCHA: an organization of scholars, union members, students and citizens promoting a wider understanding of the history of working class people, their communities, and their organizations in the United States.
- Labor Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists
- Labor History Museums, Centers and Societies A list of mainly US institutions from the Labor and Working Class History Association LAWCHA website
- Latin American Labor History Conference General information.
- Masonic Library & Museum Association - MLMA An international organization of librarians, archivists, curators, and directors. General information, links to some American Masonic libraries, and an E-Book Library containing online articles on freemasonry.
- Mining History Association (MHA) The MHA (USA) holds an annual meeting, publishes a scholarly journal and a quarterly newsletter, and provides a forum for discussion of the history of mining
- New York Labor History Association Information about NYLHA and its activities, labor history news, announcements of events, and sources for researching New York State's labor history.
- North American Anarchist Studies Network - l'Association Nord-Américain des Etudes Anarchistes North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN)
- Oral History Association (U.S.) In addition to fostering communication among its members, the OHA encourages standards of excellence in the collection, preservation, dissemination and uses of oral testimony. OHA publishes Evaluation Guidelines on ots website.
- Pacific Northwest Labour History Association General information, links.
- Peace History Society Extensive general information.
- Sloan Work and Family Research Network At Boston College. Literature database, newsletter.
- Social Science History Association
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies Caucus on Class Conference information, related links.
- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Directory, resources.
- Society for Industrial Archeology Journal, newsletter, links.
- Society for the History of Technology - SHOT The Society was formed in 1958 to encourage the study of the development of technology and its relations with society and culture.
- Southern Labor Studies Association The Southern Labor Studies Association (SLSA) brings together scholars interested in issues of working class and labor history in the South as well as scholars who teach labor and working class history at southern universities. It is affiliated with the Labor and Working Class Studies Association (LAWCHA). General information.
- Telecommunications History Group THG maintains and operates one of the nation's largest privately held telecommunications archives and operates two small museums. The website has information on the collections, which include photographs, and scrapbooks and memoirs compiled by telephone company employees and their families.
- Union for Radical Political Economics (New Haven, CT). Journal, newsletter, conferences.
- Wisconsin Labor History Society A bibliography, links, educational materials.
- Working Class Studies Association Genral information about the Association, calendar, conference, links, some of which are available only to the membership of the WCSA.
Special Topics
- A Short History of Labor Day Documents, graphics, and basic information about Labor Day and May Day parades and celebrations; from the Samuel Gompers Papers Project
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives at Brandeis University. General information, Spanish Civil War links.
- African American History This large website for African American artists also contains online texts of slave narratives.
- African Americans, Labor and the Left A catalogue from Bolerium books, 'purveyors of rare and out-of-print books, posters, and ephemera on social movements', listing 800 titles.
- After Slavery This international research collaboration (Queen’s University Belfast, the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina and the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University) promises to make available scanned copies of original documents from freedpeople, their allies and adversaries; contemporary images and interactive maps; extensive searchable bibliographies; blogs, podcasts and online interviews featuring some of the leading scholars in the field and other materials.
- Amana Heritage Museum The Amana Heritage Museum collections are comprised of approximately 12,000 objects and 10,000 archival pieces that pertain to the history of Amana and its associated religious group (The Community of True Inspiration) in Germany and America. The period of the collections covers ca. 1700 to the present, with emphasis on the communal period of Amana history (1855-1932)
- American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN)
- American Communism and Anticommunism A Historian?s Bibliography and Guide to the Literature compiled and edited by John Earl Haynes, at his Historical Writings on American Political History in the Twentieth Century website.
- American History in Song maintained by Manfred J. Helfert in Mainz. Includes a section on labour songs. Lyrics.
- American Labor History An online study guide. A link collection maintained by Mark Lause in Cincinnati, OH. An overview.
- American Social History Project at the City University of New York. Print, visual and multimedia educational tools.
- American Studies Web: Working Class and Labor Studies A link collection from the University of Georgetown.
- American Textile History Museum
- Aquifer American Social History Online (AASHO) Digitized photographs and cultural materials, books and pamphlets, journal articles, maps, sheet music, videos, data sets, political cartoons and posters, and oral histories from 175 American Social History research collections. This is a project of the Digital Library Federation.
- Archival Data Online Repository at the Data and Program Library Service of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Direct access to datasets on Urban Racial Disorders 1961-1968, Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, Russian Imperial Bureaucracy 1762-1881, Rolls of Emigrants to the Colony of Liberia 1820-1843, French Intendants de Province 1661-1790, among others.
- Archives of Irish America The Archives of Irish America is a repository of primary research materials related to the Irish migration to the USA at New York University. Collection information, images and transcriptions of selected primary documents, excerpts from the Ireland House Oral History Collection and other exhibits.
- Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record Hundreds of images, most of them dating from the period of slavery. At the University of Virginia Library.
- Bibliography on the Garment Industry Entrepreneurship in the garment industry - particularly in its golden age, from 1860 to 1975 - was a crucial element not only in the history of New York City's economy (and the U.S. economy), but also in its social history and the rise of the Jewish middle class. Yet while the labor side of this rich industrial history has been well told, surprisingly little has been written about the business side.
A bibliography, primarily intended for use by business historians interested in pursuing scholarship in this fertile field, is now available, compiled by Shirley Idelson. It includes primary and secondary sources on traditional business concerns such as manufacturing, retail, entrepreneurship and management as well as related topics like immigration, fashion, labor, and gender.
- Bisbee Deportation Documents About 1,600 court documents filed in 1919 and 1920 in Cochise County Superior Court relating to the Bisbee Deportation, that started as a labor dispute between some members of the International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union and the three mining companies in early June of 1917. From the Arizona Memory Project website.
- Bisbee Deportation of 1917 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. Materials include I.W.W. publications, personal recollections, newspaper articles, court records, government reports, correspondence, and journal articles that are part of the collections of three libraries: The University of Arizona Library, the Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, Arizona, and the Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, Arizona.
- Bracero History Project An attempt being coordinated by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso to collect, document, exhibit, and share a history of the bracero migrant workers from Mexico.
- California Labor History Map This interactive website enables users to explore, by location, date, or text search, over 1200 key events in the state’s labor history. Detailed short essays describe the larger historical context surrounding many of these events. You may first need to download Shockwave.
- Capitalism and Socialism in the Emergence of Modern America at H-Net. "The Formative Era, 1890s-1916". Extended version of an article by Martin Sklar (1993).
- Case of the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars, 1920-1921 at the West Virginia History Database. "The United States Army and the Return to Normalcy in Labor Dispute Interventions", an article by Clayton D. Laurie, from West Virginia History, 50 (1991).
- Causa La Causa is a web exhibition at the Walter P. Reuther Library on the formation and rise of the United Farm Workers of America, the life of its leader, Cesar Estrada Chavez, and the people of the UFW.
- Center for Millennial Studies (Boston, MA). Offers an extensive bibliography.
- Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism at the Holt House (Washington, DC). A timeline with references to online resources, compiled by Eddie Becker (1999).
- Communal Studies Association Conferences, journal, newsletter
- Dead Anarchists Website devoted to Voltairine de Cleyre, George Brown, Hugh Owen Pentecost and other American anarchists, mainly from Philadelphia, by Robert P. Helms.
- Digger Archives History of the San Francisco Diggers (1966-1968 and beyond) with archive of scanned and rare sixties ephemera including Digger and Free City Collective broadsides and manifestos. With some material on the original English Diggers (1649-50).
- Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral histories and archival materials documenting the social and political history of the disability movement from the 1960s to the present on a website hosted by the University of California, Berkeley.
- Documenting Louisiana Sugar 1845-1917 Two searchable databases that allow users to examine in micro and macro detail the evolution of cane sugar. At the University of Sussex, UK.
- Early American Marxism: A Repository of Source Material, 1864-1946 A website maintained by Tim Davenport dealing with the history of the early American Marxist movement. It contains brief histories of and downloadable documents from the First International, the foreign Language Federations, the Socialist Labor Party, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Communist International, and other organizations.
- Farmworker Movement Documentation Project A compilation, by LeRoy Chatfield, of primary source accounts from the volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement, 1962-1993. The accounts include: essays, music, online discussion, art, photos, video, cartoons, and glossary.
- Fighters on the Farm Front at the Oregon State University Archives: 67 images about Oregon's Emergency Farm Labor Service 1943-1947.
- Flint Sit-Down Strike Audio Gallery Online multi-media exhibition documenting one of the most celebrated strikes in American history, the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937, at Michigan State University.
- Freedom Now! An archival project of Tougaloo College and Brown University Freedom Now! focuses on the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi and its legacy. The 200 documents on this site fall into two related categories: the Mississippi Freedom Movement, in which Tougaloo played a pivotal role, and the Brown-Tougaloo Cooperative Exchange, which grew out of that activism and continues today. The heart of the site is a searchable database which links to electronic scans of the documents themselves.
- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Digital Collection The processed portion of this collection documents the business activities and concerns of management and workers in the Atlanta mill during the early twentieth century, including materials relating specifically to the 1914-1915 strike in Atlanta. Correspondence and operative reports also provide some documentation of union activities and working conditions at other Fulton Bag mills.
- Geschichtstheatergesellschaft 1848 German revolutionaries in the American Civil War.
- Girls fight for a living Online exhibition. Photographs with descriptions of women in several occupations: industrial work, journalism, the arts, the military, social reform work, and jobs they took over from the men who were fighting in World War II, including Baseball. From the University of Louisville Special Collections: Rare Books.
- Gompers - Samuel Gompers Papers At the University of Maryland; information on the first president of the American Federation of Labor. A chronology of American labor history, a photo gallery of trade union activists, guides to the Gompers Papers microfilm series, and a variety of sample documents dealing with subjects like women and minority workers, World War 1, and the McNamara case.
- Great Flint Sitdown at the Walter P. Reuther Library: a page on the strike at the General Motors factories in Flint, MI, 1936-1937.
- Gypsies (Romanies) and Travelers The University of Toledo has a large English-language collection of books and other materials on Gypsies and Travelers. "DX" is the United States Library of Congress subject category for 'Gypsies', which why this website is titled 'DX: Gypsies (Romanies) and Travelers.'
- Haymarket Affair Digital Collection Created by the Chicago Historical Society to provide on-line access to its primary source materials relating to the Haymarket Affair. See also the Haymarket Affair (American Memory, Library of Congress) for more than 3,800 images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and artifacts relating to the Haymarket affair.
- History and Industry of New York State's Hudson-Mohawk Region A bibliography by Sloane D. Bullough (1998).
- History at the Department of Labor (DOL) Research on DOL agencies and issues, and selected DOL documents. Topics include workers' safety and health, federal labor law, and government policies toward African Americans. By Judson MacLaury.
- History of the Farmer-Labor Movement Text of a thesis by Thomas Gerald O'Connell on Toward the Cooperative Commonwealth: an introductory history of the farmer-labor movement in Minnesota (1917-1948) (1979).
- History of US Labor Law from Congressional Digest, June-July 1993.
- Human Factor: 1920s and 1930s Industrial Photography Exhibit at Harvard Business School's Historical Collections The introductory exhibition and web site include a selection from the over 2,100 images that comprise the Industrial Life Photograph Collection, featuring the work of such artists as Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine.
- Human Relations Movement: Harvard Business School and the Hawthorne Experiments (1924-1933) New Exhibit & Website at Harvard Business School's Baker Library. 'Baker Library’s exhaustive archival record of the experiments reveals the art and science of this seminal behavioral study—and the questions and theories it generated about the relationship of productivity to the needs and motivations of the industrial worker.'
- Icarians The Icarians, followers of Etienne Cabet, came to Nauvoo to establish a utopian society. General information on "Utopia in Nauvoo" (Hancock County, IL) and the Icarian Living History Museum.
- Illinois Labor History Society Articles about the Haymarket Tragedy and other important events in Chicago labour history, educational materials, links to other American labour history websites.
- Images of the Antislavery Movement in Massachusetts Digital images of 840 visual materials from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Included are photographs, paintings, sculptures, engravings, artifacts, banners, and broadsides that were central to the debate and the formation of the antislavery movement. See also African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts.
- Immigration and Ethnic History Society Aims to promote the study of the history of immigration to the United States and Canada from all parts of the world, including studies of the background of emigration in the countries of origin; to promote the study of ethnic groups in the United States, including regional groups, native Americans and forced immigrants.
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 A web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. It includes images from Harvard's Social Museum, which was established by F.G. Peabody to illustrate "problems of the social order" related to the rapid influx of immigrants.
- Inside an American Factory: The Westinghouse Works, 1904 at the Library of Congress.
- Jewish Labor Committee A Temple University Libraries guide to the records of the Jewish Labor Committee - Philadelphia Metropolitan Area.
- Jim Crutchfield's I.W.W. Page Includes digitized versions of constitutions, by-laws, and other official documents from the past, as well as pamphlets and other publications of the IWW.
- Joseph Ishill and the Authors and Artists of the Oriole Press From the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan.
- Kheel Center Labor Photos
The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives' collections contain about 350,000 images that document labor history in the 20th century. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union ILGWU photographs (1885-1985), are now searchable at the Kheel Center website.
- Labadie - Joseph A. Labadie Website on the individualist anarchist and Michigan labour leader maintained by Carlotta Anderson.
- Labor Arts A virtual exhibition of art devoted to labor issues and particularly the trade union movement, at NYU Bobst Library, New York, NY.
- Labor History Bibliography by Timothy G. Borden. Reprint from the OAH Magazine of History (1997).
- Labor History Links A comprehensive bibliography of information, documents and links of U.S. labor history sites on the internet. It was developed by labor historian Rosemary Feurer for the Labor and Working Class History Association.
- Labor History on the Internet Many links on a website from the History Department of Tennessee Technological University pointing mainly but not exclusively to American resources.
- Labor History Weblinks Links to mainly U.S. resources for labour history, developed for Labor and Working Class History Association by Rosemary Feurer, Northern Illinois University
- Labor in the 1930s Bibliography at the New Deal Network. Currently some 250 titles, arranged by author and subject.
- Labor Project in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Oregon. A portal to the documentary history of labor in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. A database of labor collections and documents, and links to related organizations and similar projects.
- Labor Trail The Interactive Labor Trail: Chicago's History of Working-Class Life and Struggle is a map of 140 significant locations in the history of working-class culture in Chicago and Illinois to which users can contribute. Highlights include historical photographs, audio and video recordings of legendary activists and Chicago historians talking about their experiences as activists and workers. From the Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies.
- Labor-Management Conflict in American History An ehistory website on American labour conflicts including those in the Pennsylvania coal fields and the Chicago strike of 1905; from the Department of History at The Ohio State University.
- LaborNet Links to mainly North American labour organizations.
- Lewis Wickes Hine's Work Portraits at the New York Public Library: a sample of his post-WW I work.
- Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World A collection of images and interviews (MP3 or streaming Real Media format) documenting the life histories of cotton mill workers in the American South. It is based on interviews collected by the Southern Oral History Program's Piedmont Industrialization Project.
- Links for American Labor History A website maintained by John Russell at Indiana University.
- Los Angeles at Work An exhibition of Chamber of Commerce photographers, 1920-1939, at the Los Angeles Public Library.
- Lost Labor: Images of Vanished American Workers 1900-1980 A selection of 155 photographs excerpted from a collection of more than 1100 company histories, pamphlets, and technical brochures documenting America's business and corporate industrial history; published on the Web by Raymon Elozua.
- Masonic Library & Museum Association - MLMA An international organization of librarians, archivists, curators, and directors. General information, links to some American Masonic libraries, and an E-Book Library containing online articles on freemasonry.
- Masses Covers of the socialist magazine The Masses that attracted many radical artists, 1913-1917. At Michigan State University.
- Migration Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.) From the website of this independent institution visitors can download working
papers and reports on American and European migration and migration policy.
- Mining History Association (MHA) The MHA (USA) holds an annual meeting, publishes a scholarly journal and a quarterly newsletter, and provides a forum for discussion of the history of mining
- Nevada Labor History by Andrew Barbano (Reno, NV). Photographs, documents.
- New Deal / WPA Art Project New Deal Art During the Great Depression. As part of the New Deal, artists were hired to create paintings and sculptures for about 900 mail centers around the country, thus putting Americans back to work and goosing the economy. This is a list of cities and sites.
- New Deal Network at Columbia University. "A research and teaching resource [...] devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal", sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
- North American Anarchist Studies Network - l'Association Nord-Américain des Etudes Anarchistes North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN)
- Occupational Classification System Manual
- Ohio State University - Department of History Offers a series of 'Internet Documentaries'. Topics include temperance and prohibition, child labor and child reform, coal mining, labor management conflict, and lynching in American history
- Oneida Community Collection at Syracuse University Library. Finding aid, bibliographies, online publications.
- Oral History Project in Labor History Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Elizabeth Balanoff in 1970 with labor movement leaders in the Chicago area. PDF files, at Roosevelt University.
- Pacific Northwest Labor History Projects A gateway to a set of labour history projects sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington. Each project features research papers, documents, photographs, and other resources. Topics include the Seattle General Strike, Communism in Washington State, and the labour press in the region's history.
- Pacific Northwest Labor History Projects This page is a gateway to a set of labor and civil rights history projects sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies http://depts.washington.edu/pcls/, at the University of Washington. They bring together nearly one hundred video oral history interviews and several thousand photographs, documents, and digitized newspaper articles. Included are films, slide shows, and lesson plans for teachers.
- Parsons - Lucy Parsons (1853-1942) Activist who played a crucial role in the worker's movements in Chicago. She helped found the International Working People's Association (IWPA), an anarchist-influenced labor organization that promoted revolutionary direct action towards a stateless and cooperative society and insisted on the equality of people of color and women. A small biography by by Joe Lowndes.
- Parsons - Lucy Parsons Archive Biographical and bibliographical information from the Anarchy Archives.
- Peace History Society Extensive general information.
- Pioneer Publishers 1940-1948 at the Holt Labor Library: covers of pamphlets published for the Socialist Workers Party chosen to honour Black History Month.
- Produce for Victory at the National Museum of American History: posters on the home front (1941-45) "calling upon every American to boost production at work and at home".
- Prosperity and Thrift From the American Memory project at the Library of Congress. Source materials on the Coolidge Era and the consumer economy, 1921-1929.
- Psychedelic '60s at the University of Virginia Library: literary tradition and social change.
- Reference Sources in US Labor Studies at the Tamiment Institute Library (New York). A guide.
- Repository of Historical Documents on Slavery The repository contains high resolution images of over one hundred and fifty historical documents, some six hundred manuscript pages in all, as well as introductory headnotes, bibliographic information, and technical data. The original documents included in this repository can be found in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, the Rhode Island Historical Society Library, and the Brown University Archives.
- Society for the History of Technology - SHOT The Society was formed in 1958 to encourage the study of the development of technology and its relations with society and culture.
- Sophia Smith Collection - Labor in the US at Smith College (Northampton, MA). Overview of related archival holdings.
- Sources for the History of Agriculture and Rural Life at Iowa State University. Detailed overview of the archival holdings in the University Library.
- Sources in US Women's Labor History at the Tamiment Institute. Guide to materials on the history of American women and labour at the Tamiment and the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University, prepared by Kathleen M. Barry.
- Southern New England Telephone Company at the University of Connecticut: an exhibition on its first fifty years, 1878-1928.
- Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection In the UCSD Mandeville Special Collections Library. A description of the materials collected by Herbert R. Southworth, now at the University of California at San Diego, USA. Access to finding aids, an online exhibition of Spanish Civil War posters, 'The Visual Front'
- Spanish Civil War Posters The collection of Spanish Civil War posters in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division consists of approximately 120 posters created between 1936 and 1939.
- Sparrows Point Steelworkers The story of the steelworkers of Maryland Steel and subsequently Bethlehem Steel, Baltimore, MD, through oral history interviews, photographs and music. It is a project of the Labor Studies Program of the Community College of Baltimore County, MD
- Strikes! at the University of Washington: labour and labour history in the Puget Sound.
- Teamsters and Other Union Links Mainly American links.
- TextileMuse The searchable online catalogue of Arthur D. Jenkins Library collections, the Textile Museum, Washington DC.
- Tidewater Labor Support Committee (Hampton Roads, VA). Articles on local labour history.
- Tobacco Bag Stringing in North Carolina and Virginia This website presents images and text from a report in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documenting tobacco bag stringing work in North Carolina and Virginia in 1939.
- Traders at Northern Arizona University: on the United Indian Traders Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the authenticity of Native American arts and crafts.
- US Labor and Industrial History Audio Archive at the State University of New York at Albany. Real audio files of recordings of meetings, speeches and interviews.
- Voices from the Underground: Radical Protest and the Underground Press in the Sixties: An Exhibition Digitized magazine covers of alternative publications in the Alternative Press Collection, the Archives and Special Collections of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries, Storrs, CT.
- Whole Cloth at the National Museum of American History. A curriculum on "the history of textiles, and the technology and science of their invention and use". The site includes a section "Labor and Industrial Life".
- Women and Work in Hawaii at the College of Social Sciences of the University of Hawaii.
- Women Working in the United States, 1800-1930 This site provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. Featuring ca. 500,000 pages and images documenting women's roles in the U.S. economy between 1800 and the Great Depression.
- Women's Labor History A directory of websites devoted to - mainly American - women's labor history, from The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
- Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting 470 Interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The four-month study of occupational culture in Paterson, New Jersey, was conducted in 1994.
- World of Work at the Minnesota Labor Interpretive Center: 42 pages on the history of work in Minnesota.
- Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Instructional Technology Group, this site is designed to help researchers find primary source material related to slavery and its legacies within the university's many libraries and galleries.
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Journals
- International Labor and Working Class History (ILWCH) A semiannual publication of CUP in conjunction with the School of Management and Labor Relations and the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.
- Labor History Tables of contents of current and back issues.
- Labor's Heritage Magazine of the George Meany Center for Labor Studies-National Labor College. Subscription and Editorial Information.
- Work History News Newsletter of the New York Labor History Association
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