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Africa | Albania | Algeria | Argentina | Asia | Australia | Austria | Belgium | Brazil | Canada | Caribbean | Chile | China | Costa Rica | Croatia | Cuba | Czechia | Denmark | Eastern Europe | Egypt | Europe | Finland | France | Germany | Greece | Hungary | Iceland | India | Indonesia | Ireland | Israel | Italy | Japan | Korea, Republic of | Latin America | Lebanon | Mexico | Middle East | Morocco | Netherlands | New Zealand | Nicaragua | Norway | Philippines | Poland | Portugal | Romania | Russia | Scandinavia | Singapore | Slovakia | Slovenia | South Africa | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland | Turkey | United Kingdom | United States | Uruguay | Viet Nam
Africa
- Africabib.org Two online bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature, and a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa. The site is hosted by The African Studies Centre (ASC) in Leiden, The Netherlands.
- African Studies Gateway An index of African studies discussion networks on H-Net.
- African Studies WWW Site of the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Newsgroups, links etc.
Archives and Libraries
- Africa Research Central A gateway to archives, libraries, and museums in Africa, Europe and North America with important collections of African primary sources.
- Afrika Studiecentrum (Leiden) African Studies Centre - Centre d'Etudes Africaines: research institution and documentation centre for African studies in the Netherlands. Online catalogue and many other resources including working papers, 'Web Dossiers' containing topical information on Africa, 'African Studies Abstracts Online', and bibliographies.
Research Institutions
- Afrika Studiecentrum (Leiden) African Studies Centre - Centre d'Etudes Africaines: research institution and documentation centre for African studies in the Netherlands. Online catalogue and many other resources including working papers, 'Web Dossiers' containing topical information on Africa, 'African Studies Abstracts Online', and bibliographies.
- CODESRIA, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Dakar, Senegal. It was established in 1973 as an independent Pan-African research organisation with a primary focus on the social sciences, broadly defined.
Special Topics
- Africa - Labor at Stanford University. Some links to labour-related and labour history sites.
- Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu These 206 manuscripts, in Arabic, include documentation on Africans in slavery and manumission in Muslim societies. They are from the Bibliothèque Commémorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali, and were selected for conservation treatment and digitization in order to make them accessible via the Web.
Discussion Lists
Journals
Reference
 African Studies Internet Resources World-Wide Web Virtual Library Africa at Columbia University.- ILiSSAfrica A portal giving access to websites, bibliographic databases and other information resources on sub-Saharan Africa from the Frankfurt university library, the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Hamburg, the African Studies Centre Leiden, and tables of contents from 170 serial publications on Africa.
Albania
Special Topics
- Southern Albanian Society Personal website of sociologist Beryl Nicholson. Some of her publications including a bibliography on Albanian society between the wars, and articles on women, the Albanian family, and migration are online.
Algeria
Data Archives
- Database on Return Migrants to the Maghreb (DReMM) Based on the MIREM survey carried out in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia the DReMM constitutes a rich source of information regarding the processes of reintegration of around one thousand return migrants and their post-return conditions in their countries of origin. From the European University Institute, Florence.
Special Topics
- Database on Return Migrants to the Maghreb (DReMM) Based on the MIREM survey carried out in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia the DReMM constitutes a rich source of information regarding the processes of reintegration of around one thousand return migrants and their post-return conditions in their countries of origin. From the European University Institute, Florence.
Argentina
- Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas en la Argentina (Buenos Aires). General information; its bulletin has details on some of the collections.
- Centro de Estudios, Investigaciones y Publicaciones "León Trotsky" (Buenos Aires)
- Juan B. Justo Biographical and bibliographical data on, and writings by, one of the founders of socialism in Argentina, at the Partido Socialista Democrático website.
- Red de Recuperación y Protección de Archivos de los Trabajadores y de los Movimientos Sociales Argentinos REMOS General information.
- UNIRED The Argentine economic and social science bibliographic information network. Includes CACOBE, a business libraries union catalog. No links, general information.
Archives and Libraries
Research Institutions
Associations and Societies
- Society for Irish Latin American Studies Formerly The Irish Argentine Historical Society. The Society's scope of study is the migration of people from Ireland to Latin America, their settlement, lives, and achievements, as well as those of their descendants, together with contemporary presence of Ireland and people of Irish ancestry in the life and culture of Latin America, and the presence of Latin Americans in Ireland.
Special Topics
- Society for Irish Latin American Studies Formerly The Irish Argentine Historical Society. The Society's scope of study is the migration of people from Ireland to Latin America, their settlement, lives, and achievements, as well as those of their descendants, together with contemporary presence of Ireland and people of Irish ancestry in the life and culture of Latin America, and the presence of Latin Americans in Ireland.
Journals
Asia
- Burma Archives Project at the International Institute of Social History. Online newsletter.
- Heritage - Archives of Bangladesh History Introduction brochure from a new initiative in Bangladesh.
- Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection at Cornell University. Extensive list of resources.
- SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet World-Wide Web Virtual Library South Asia at Columbia University.
Data Archives
- Human capital hub of the CLIO-INFRA initiative As part of the CLIO-INFRA, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Debrecen has taken the initiative to set up this website on human capital data. Our mid-term plan is to extend the activities of the hub into an online community of Scholars working in this field, providing them with a forum and hosting their data and research papers. Our long-run plan is to create a comprehensive dataset on human capital with annual and historical data and a global coverage. The site provides data, papers and links. The hub is maintained by Péter Földvári and Bas van Leeuwen.
Research Institutions
Associations and Societies
- Asian Association of World Historians (AAWH) An international organization for world history founded on May 4, 2008 at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. The purpose of the Association is to advance research, teaching, and public discussion on large-scale historical studies in or for the Asia-Pacific region. General information, conferences.
- European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS) A professional, non-profit organisation of scholars engaged in research and teaching concerning South Asia with regard to all periods and fields of study. The objectives of EASAS are to support and promote South Asian Studies in all countries of Europe
Special Topics
Discussion Lists
- ALSnet at the International Institute of Social History. The Asian Labour Studies network.
Reference
- Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library at Australian National University.
- Central Eurasian Studies Worldwide at Harvard University. Humanities and social science resources.
- Savifa Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Südasien An information gateway for South Asia Studies: a collection of internet resources in English and Indian languages, an electronic platform for publishing and archiving academic literature in the field of South Asian studies, access to the OLC-SSG South Asia bibliographical article database, and monthly lists of new acquisitions of the Library of the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg.
Australia
Archives and Libraries
- Archives of Australia Gateway A collaboration between the National Archives of Australia, the State and Territory archives, and a number of other Australian archive organisations
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Archives and Library Services Brief information on its radio, television and document archives.
- Australian Labour Party Records at the National Archives of Australia. Finding aid.
- Australian Libraries Gateway.
- Australian Society of Archivists Home Page Membership information, and a directory of archives in Australia.
- Australian Trade Union Archives Australian Trade Union Archives [ATUA] is an online gateway for researchers and scholars of labour history, designed to link together historical detail, archival resources, published material and current information about Australian industrial organisations, mainly including trade unions and also employer bodies. Published by the University of Melbourne.
- Directory of Archives in Australia at the University of Melbourne.
- Fryer Library at the University of Queensland. Regional labour collections.
- Labour Council of New South Wales Labor Council Information Centre Online Library Catalog.
- Libraries Australia Libraries Australia is a modern Internet-based service for Australian libraries and their users. It provides access to the national database of material held in Australian libraries, known as the Australian National Bibliographic Database. You can search for any item and locate which library in Australia holds it. Gateways to other major library databases are also provided.
- Melbourne University Archives Holdings include archives of trade unions and professional associations, community, political and other organisations. Finding aids, online catalogue.
- Noel Butlin Archives Centre at Australian National University. The NBAC holds archives of industrial organisations, businesses, professional associations, industry bodies and the labour movement. List of the holdings.
- Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts a guide to collections of personal papers and non-governmental organisational records held by Australian libraries and archives.
- University of Newcastle Archives and Special Collections - Labour History Overview of the holdings.
- University of Wollongong - Archives and Manuscripts Collections Overview of the substantial labour and business history holdings.
Data Archives
Research Institutions
Associations and Societies
Special Topics
- Australian Centre For Fraternal Studies The Centre for Fraternal Studies (CFS) is a research, conservation and display facility furthering the study of fraternalism and the neglected world of fraternal associations, ie, in the main, trade unions, friendly societies and Freemasons.
- Australian Mining History Bibliography Compiled on behalf of the AMHA by Mel Davies, University of Western Australia, 1997
- Awaba An electronic database and guide to the history, culture and language of the Aboriginal peoples of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, Australia. The site gives access to a articles, a bibliography, documents and materials. At the University of Newcastle, Australia.
- Communism: An exhibition of highlights from the Monash University ibrary Rare Books Collection Over 150 items covering all aspects of Communism from the USSR, Britain, America, China, Indonesia, and Australia. This is an online version of an exhibition at the Sir Louis Matheson Library, Clayton campus, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia, 16 March - 27 May 2005.
- Eight Hour Day 2006 marks the 150th anniversary of the Eight Hour Day in Victoria. Action taken by stonemasons on 21 April 1856 led to the establishment and maintenance of the Eight Hour Day, recognised internationally as a world first. The website contains news and announcements of a series of events to mark the anniversary, a history of the eight hours day, fact sheets and other resources.
- History of Refractories in Australia A history of Newbold General Refractories in Sydney, by Michelle Watson (1996).
- LaborNet Links to Australian labour organizations, campaign groups and other political organizations.
- Radical Tradition - Australia maintained by Takver in Brunswick, Victoria. Articles on Australia's labour history and its anarchist currents.
- Vere Gordon Childe, How Labour Governs: A Study of Workers' Representation in Australia (1923) PDF file, 126 pp., from the University of Sydney Library.
- Working Lives Australians website devoted to the role of the individual in labour and social history. Online articles, a report on the progress of the Biographical Register of the Australian Labour Movement, short biographies of activists who feature in the Register.
Journals
- Labour History Published by the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, ISSN 0023-6942.
Reference
Austria
Archives and Libraries
Research Institutions
Museums
Associations and Societies
Special Topics
Journals
- Dokumentationen A publication of the Verein für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (Vienna)
Belgium
Archives and Libraries
Research Institutions
Museums
Associations and Societies
Conferences
Journals
Reference
Brazil
Canada
Archives and Libraries
- Canadian Library Gateway
- CCA Directory of Archival Repositories at the Canadian Council of Archives.
- Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto. Home to the Jean and Dorothy Newman Industrial Relations Library. General information.
- Contested Terrain: Aboriginal Land Petitions in New Brunswick, 1786-1878 A digital collection of 90 petitions relating to land grants in colonial New Brunswick. In addition to the digitized petitions the website also features learning activities for teachers and students, contextual materials, a gallery of contemporary images, and a comprehensive bibliography; from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.
- Dalhousie University Libraries - Special Collections Listings of its archives which include the Nova Scotia Labour Archives.
- Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries at the National Library of Canada.
- Guide to Canadian Labour History Resources at the National Library of Canada.
- Hudson's Bay Company Archives at the Provincial Archives of Manitoba. Holdings information.
- Killam Library at Dalhousie University. Business and labour archives from Atlantic Canada. General holdings information.
- Library and Archives Canada
- Maritime History Archive at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Documents "relating to the history of sea-based activities in the North Atlantic region". Extensive holdings information, online catalogue.
- Robert S. Kenny Collection at the University of Toronto Library. A diverse collection covering many aspects of radicalism in Canada. The primary focus of the collection is Communism in Canada during the period 1919 to the mid-seventies.
- Stauffer Library - Queen's University Library (Kingston, Canada) The humanities and social sciences library at Queen's University includes most of the May Ball Library collection on industrial relations.
- University of British Columbia Manuscript Collections Information on the labour and business records, especially in fishing, foresting and mining.
- University of Saskatchewan University Library Special Collections: Major Collections See also the Special Resources section for Aboriginal studies, Herstory and Doukhobors, a small sect of Russian pacifist dissenters, in Canada.
Research Institutions
Museums
- Canada Museum of Science and Technology Corporation The aim of the Corporation and its three Museums - the Canada Agriculture Museum, the Canada Aviation Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum - is to foster scientific and technological literacy throughout Canada by establishing, maintaining and developing a collection of scientific and technological objects, with special but not exclusive reference to Canada, and by demonstrating the products and processes of science and technology and their economic, social and cultural relationships with society.
- Cape Breton Miners' Museum (Glace Bay, Nova Scotia). General information
- Nova Scotia Museum of Industry (Stellarton). General information.
- Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (Hamilton). General information.
Associations and Societies
Special Topics
- Black History Canada An annotated guide to online resources on the history of Canada's black community. Its topics include enslavement, black settlement, Caribbean and African immigration, and equity and human rights.
- Canada's Unique Social History Educational website on the history of social welfare and social work. It contains hundreds of pages of text, audio lectures, videos, and photographs. Part of a larger site on social work and welfare in Canada maintained by Steven Hick, Ottawa, Ontario.
- Canadian Association for the History of Nursing / l'Association canadienne pour l'histoire du nursing (CAHN/ACHN) General information, newsletter, a Guide to Canadian Nursing Archival Resources
- Canadian Labour History at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. A multimedia presentation.
- Canadian Labour History Bibliography at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Updated quarterly.
- Contested Terrain: Aboriginal Land Petitions in New Brunswick, 1786-1878 A digital collection of 90 petitions relating to land grants in colonial New Brunswick. In addition to the digitized petitions the website also features learning activities for teachers and students, contextual materials, a gallery of contemporary images, and a comprehensive bibliography; from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.
- Cradle of Collective Bargaining: History of Labour and Technology in Hamilton and District A visual history of the rise of trade unionism in Hamilton and the changing conditions of work in the city from the early decades of the century through to the 1950s. It is based on the photographic collection housed in the Labour Studies Programme at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and supplemented with photos and written documents drawn from union archives held at the University library.
- Early Chinese Canadians 1858-1947 A website devoted to Canada's early Chinese immigrants, covering the period 1858 to 1947; from the Library and Archives of Canada (LAC).
- 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.
- In Their Words: The Story of BC Packers A history of the British Columbia Packers Limited, Steveson, once the largest fishing and fish processing company in British Columbia. The website features interviews with men and women employees of BC Packers. (Macromedia Flash Player).
- Institute for Anarchist Studies (Canterbury, Quebec). A nonprofit foundation established in 1996 to support the development of anarchism, is primarily a grant-giving organization for radical writers. Publisher of a biannual newsletter, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory.
- North American Anarchist Studies Network - l'Association Nord-Américain des Etudes Anarchistes North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN)
- On the Job A century of Canadians at work. Photographic exhibition at the Library and Archives Canada.
- Social Progress Gallery at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. "The story of how Canadians worked to advance social progress": Canadian labour history, the history of the vote, the history of public pensions.
Journals
Reference
- Canadian Statistics Selection of summary tables providing an overview of statistical information on Canada?s people, economy and governments.
- History of Coal Mining in Nova Scotia This website, maintained by Gary W. Ellerbrok, contains transcripts of existing old publications, historical editorials based on research, photographs, diagrams and plans. The information comes from the Cape Breton Development Corporation, the Beaton Institute, and the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources.
Caribbean
- CASBAH A pilot web site for research resources relating to Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian peoples in the UK. CASBAH currently contains a demonstrator sample of c400 records relating to relevant resources.
Chile
Archives and Libraries
- Archivo Central Andrés Bello at the Universidad de Chile (Santiago). General information on the collections, Pablo Neruda's papers among them.
Museums
China
- Chinese Pamphlets Political communication and mass education in the early period of the People's Republic of China. Mass education materials published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China, particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954. These cartoon books, pamphlets, postcards and magazines, on topics such as foreign threats to Chinese security, Chinese relations with the Soviet Union, industrial and agricultural production, and marriage reform, were produced by both Kuomintang (Nationalist) and Gongchantang (Communist) supporters. From the Center for Research Libraries.
- Chinese Posters 1937 - Present: Propaganda, Politics, History This website is an initiative of Stefan R. Landsberger (Leiden University, University of Amsterdam) and the International Institute of Social History (IISH, Amsterdam). Its aim is to present the Landsberger and IISH collections of Chinese propaganda posters (over 4,000 pieces) through virtual exhibitions, theme presentations and a web-database.
- Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages maintained by Stefan Landsberger (Amsterdam). A growing collection, with historical notes.
- Fairbank Chinese History Library at China News Digest.
- Li Zhensheng: Red-Color News Soldier Photographer Li ZhenSheng documented the Cultural Revolution in China through thousands of photographs he took from 1964 to 1976. This online exhibition, which accompanies a touring exhibition and a book, presents a few dozen with explanatory texts in English and French.
- Picturing Power at Ohio State University: posters of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
- Political Advertising in China at Rice University. Part of the Transnational China Project showing a series of "outdoor political advertising and public service announcements in Shanghai".
- Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping at the People's Daily. Articles, 1938-1992.
- Tiananmen Square, 1989 The Declassified History. A National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book: At George Washington University. US intelligence and other government documents on the Chinese student movement.
- Virtual Museum of the "Cultural Revolution" at China News Digest.
Special Topics
- Early Chinese Canadians 1858-1947 A website devoted to Canada's early Chinese immigrants, covering the period 1858 to 1947; from the Library and Archives of Canada (LAC).
Reference
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
- Cuba Poster Project (Berkeley, CA): 16 of the many postrevolutionary posters collected by the project.
Czechia
Denmark
Archives and Libraries
Data Archives
- Danish Emigration Archives The Danish Emigration Archives in Aalborg, Denmark was established in 1932 to record the history of the Danes who emigrated and to maintain cultural bonds to those who have their roots in Denmark.
- Dansk Data Arkiv The Danish Data Archives (DDA) is a national data bank for researchers and students in Denmark and abroad.
Museums
Associations and Societies
Special Topics
Journals
Reference
Eastern Europe
- REENIC: Russian and East European Network Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Slavic, East European, and former USSR resources Links to Internet resources, from the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.
- Slavic-Eurasian Studies Web Japanese site with links to Internet resources for Russian, Post-Soviet, and East European Studies.
- TOL: 20 Years After - Life beyond Communism in Central and Eastern Europe Articles, essays, videos and other material related to the revolutions of 1989 in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania, and to the state of democracy, culture and civil society in the region today.
Archives and Libraries
- Osteuropa-Institut (Regensburg). The Institute for Eastern European Studies is focused on Eastern Europe and non-European states of the former Soviet Union. Its library is one of Europe's most comprehensive research libraries on Eastern European history, economy, politics, and society.
Research Institutions
- GESIS Servicestelle Osteuropa GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe: an organization for the transfer of social science information and data between Eastern and Western Europe.
- Osteuropa-Institut (Regensburg). The Institute for Eastern European Studies is focused on Eastern Europe and non-European states of the former Soviet Union. Its library is one of Europe's most comprehensive research libraries on Eastern European history, economy, politics, and society.
Associations and Societies
- SocialEast Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe The goal of SocialEast is to encourage comparative research into the art history of the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, as well as consider wider issues in socialist visual culture. The website contains general information and announcements, and promises a database.
Special Topics
- Making the History of 1989 Primary sources (in English translation) and scholar interviews focusing on the history and events of 1989 in Eastern Europe. An educational resource from The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
- SocialEast Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe The goal of SocialEast is to encourage comparative research into the art history of the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, as well as consider wider issues in socialist visual culture. The website contains general information and announcements, and promises a database.
Journals
Reference
- European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) This database contains the data of two former EBSEES databases, one for 1991-2000, the other for 2001-2006. The new unified database with about 85.500 titles has been developed by the Berlin State Library in cooperation with the Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Paris. For the years 1975-1990 EBSEES is available in printed form only. Work on adding records to EBSEES ended in 2007, and no further editing will take place after December 2007. The end date for each country’s contribution varies.
- REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies Virtual Library at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Virtual Library Eastern Europe Academic portal for the countries of Eastern, Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe which provides information in German, Russian and English on the history, culture, politics and society of the countries and regions of Eastern Europe; maintained at the Osteuropa-Institut München, Germany.
Egypt
Europe
- TOL: 20 Years After - Life beyond Communism in Central and Eastern Europe Articles, essays, videos and other material related to the revolutions of 1989 in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania, and to the state of democracy, culture and civil society in the region today.
Archives and Libraries
- European Library The European Library is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals, both digital and non-digital) of the 45 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced.
- Filmarchives online Filmarchives online provides access to moving image collections of five European film archives. Partner archives and institutions of filmarchives online include the Deutsche Filminstitut, the British Film Institute (BFI), the Cineteca di Bologna, the DEFA-Foundation and Národní Filmový Archiv Prague (NFA). Currently, more than 4.000 film works are searchable in four different languages.
- Labourline Labourline is the on-line catalogue of the ETUI-REHS Documentation Centre. The ETUI-REHS - European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education and Health and Safety - is a specialised institute of the ETUC.
Associations and Societies
- European Network in Universal and Global History ENIUGH Organizes a European Congress on themes of World and Global History; publishes 'Comparativ' and 'history.transnational'; offers administrative help for bi- and multilateral cooperation in the fields of Masters and PhD programmes.
Special Topics
- 1968 in Europe: Online Teaching and Research Guide This website provides a range of written and audio-visual resources as well as articles, bibliographies, chronologies and links related to the experience of the sixties in Europe. It accompanies 1968 in Europe - A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77, a book edited by Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth.
- Migrant Workers across European Labour Markets 16th-18th centuries
Besides project information, the website of a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship FP7 project contains a list of published articles and a selected bibliography on migrant workers in early modern Europe.
Reference
- European Network in Universal and Global History ENIUGH Organizes a European Congress on themes of World and Global History; publishes 'Comparativ' and 'history.transnational'; offers administrative help for bi- and multilateral cooperation in the fields of Masters and PhD programmes.
Finland
Archives and Libraries
- Ammattiyhdistysarkisto (Helsinki). The Finnish Trade Union Archives. Detailed overview of the collections.
- Institute of Migration Institute of Migration aims to promote and carry out migration and ethnic research and to encourage the compilation, storage and documentation of material relating to international and internal migration in Finland.
- Institutions of the Labour Movement Heritage in Finland at the University of Tampere. Links to information on all Finnish labour history collections.
- Kansan Arkisto (Helsinki). The People's Archives. Overview of the collections, including the records of the Finnish Communist Party.
- Työväen Arkisto (Helsinki). The Finnish Labour Archives. Collections information.
- Työväen perinnelaitokset Suomessa Institutions of Labour Heritage in Finland: links to labour and labour history organizations in Finland.
- Työväenliikkeen Kirjasto (Helsinki). The Library of the Labour Movement. Collections information, online catalogs, links to other Finnish labour history institutions websites.
Data Archives
- Institute of Migration Institute of Migration aims to promote and carry out migration and ethnic research and to encourage the compilation, storage and documentation of material relating to international and internal migration in Finland.
Research Institutions
Museums
- Lenin Museo (Tampere). "The only normally operating Lenin museum in the world". Offers a picture gallery.
- Työväen Keskusmuseo (Tampere). The Central Museum of Labour. Extensive general information, overview of the collection.
- Työväen perinnelaitokset Suomessa Institutions of Labour Heritage in Finland: links to labour and labour history organizations in Finland.
Associations and Societies
Special Topics
- Institute of Migration Institute of Migration aims to promote and carry out migration and ethnic research and to encourage the compilation, storage and documentation of material relating to international and internal migration in Finland.
Journals
- Työväentutkimus Published by Työväenliikkeen kirjasto, Helsinki. Online, free.
Reference
France
Archives and Libraries
- Archives d'Histoire contemporaine at the Centre d'histoire de l'Europe du vingtième siècle, École des Sciences politiques (Paris). Overview of the collections, the papers of Léon Blum among them.
- Archives nationales de France On the server of the Ministry of Culture.
- Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (Nanterre). The largest collection on labour history in France. Online catalog.
- Bibliothèque marxiste de Paris Important communist archival holdings (pre-1945). Collections information.
- Bibliothèque nationale de France The French national library. Its Gallica project offers a large collection of digitized publications on topics like industrial and world fairs, Saint-Simonism, syndicalism, anarchism, among many others.
- Centre Ascaso-Durruti (Montpellier). Home to the papers and library of Abel Paz (Diego Camacho), chiefly on the Spanish Revolution. Library catalog (over 2 Mb).
- Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation d'Information et d'Action sociales (Paris). General information about the Centre's activities, its collections and publications.
- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements Trotskyste et Révolutionnaires Internationaux CERMTRI (Paris). General information.
- Centre d'Histoire du Travail (Nantes). Archival centre and library for French labour history, founded by the trade unions CGT, CGT-FO, and CFDT.
- Centre de recherche d'histoire sociale du XXe siècle CHS (ex- Centre de recherche d'histoire des mouvements sociaux et du syndicalisme).
- Centre des Archives du Monde du Travail (Roubaix). A subsidiary of the French National Archives, collecting social and economic history sources from its region.
- Centre historique minier de Lewarde Overview of the archival collection.
- Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme CIRA (Annexe de Marseille) Founded in Marseille in 1965, this repositoy of anarchist materials originally was a branch of the CIRA in Lausanne.
- CODHOS Collectif des centres de documentation en histoire ouvrière et sociale Association of labour history institutions in France. The website provides detailed information on the collections, addresses, opening hours etc. of the member institutions.
- Institut CGT d'Histoire sociale (Montreuil). Overview of the records of the Confédération générale du Travail and related organizations.
- Office universitaire de recherche socialiste L'OURS Information about this research centre, library and archives, activities and publications; extensive information about its collections which include the archives of the Parti socialiste SFIO (1944-1969).
- Parti communiste français - Archives Post-1945 records. Address, opening hours.
- Réseau ANACT (Lyon). Agence nationale pour l'Amélioration des Conditions de Travail. Documentation centre.
- Souvarine, La - Bibliothèque d'Histoire sociale des Hauts-de-Seine (Nanterre). Institute for the history of communism, socialism,
anarchism, and syndicalisme named after its founder, Boris Souvarine (1896-1985). Information on its library collections; online catalogue. The Souvarine publishes Les Cahiers d'Histoire sociale.
Data Archives
Research Institutions
- Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation d'Information et d'Action sociales (Paris). General information about the Centre's activities, its collections and publications.
- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Migrations ibériques CERMI at the Bibliothèque de Documentation internationale contemporaine (Nanterre). General information, tables of contents of its journal.
- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements Trotskyste et Révolutionnaires Internationaux CERMTRI (Paris). General information.
- Centre de recherche d'histoire sociale du XXe siècle CHS (ex- Centre de recherche d'histoire des mouvements sociaux et du syndicalisme).
- Clio site d'histoire sociale Bibliography, links, and conference information especially on immigration and ethnic relations in France.
- Laboratoire de Démographie historique (Paris). Research projects, publications.
- Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris). Program information of a major coordinator of French and international historical and social science research.
- Office universitaire de recherche socialiste L'OURS Information about this research centre, library and archives, activities and publications; extensive information about its collections which include the archives of the Parti socialiste SFIO (1944-1969).
- Souvarine, La - Bibliothèque d'Histoire sociale des Hauts-de-Seine (Nanterre). Institute for the history of communism, socialism,
anarchism, and syndicalisme named after its founder, Boris Souvarine (1896-1985). Information on its library collections; online catalogue. The Souvarine publishes Les Cahiers d'Histoire sociale.
Museums
Associations and Societies
- Amis des Combattants en Espagne républicaine General information.
- CODHOS Collectif des centres de documentation en histoire ouvrière et sociale Association of labour history institutions in France. The website provides detailed information on the collections, addresses, opening hours etc. of the member institutions.
- Comité Régional Nord Pas-de-Calais
d’Histoire de la Sécurité Sociale
et de la Protection Sociale
"Dictionnaire des acteurs sociaux de la région"; periodical Prévoyance, Passé, Présent, Avenir.
- Espaces Marx General information.
- Fourier, Charles - charlesfourier.fr Website of the Association d'études fouriéristes and the Cahiers Charles Fourier.
- Génériques Association for French migrant history working to preserve migrants' organizations archives and personal papers and to make them accessible. Its site gives acces to various resources, including guides to archival collections, databases for posters, newspapers, and biographical information.
- GERME (Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements étudiants). Documents on the French student movement, 1968-1986. Under construction.
- Mémoire, Industrie, Patrimoine en Provence Directory, journal Industries en Provence, Musée industriel virtuel
- Proudhon - Société Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Infomation on its annual conference, a list of its publications, Les Travaux de l'Atelier Proudhon and Les Cahiers de la Société Proudhon, links.
- Réseau international de Recherche sur les Pays d'Europe centrale et orientale (RIDECO, Nanterre). General information, weekly chronicle.
Special Topics
- A Dozen Posters from Paris May '68 A small selection from the IISH collection on the May-June events in Paris 1968, which also includes many broadsheets, pamphlets, and bulletins.
- Annales historiques de la Révolution française
- Bianco: 100 ans de presse anarchiste Online version of the dissertation by René Bianco: Répertoire des périodiques anarchistes de langue française : un siècle de presse anarchiste d’expression française, 1880-1983, Aix-Marseille, 1987.
- Bibliothèque virtuelle sur les Premiers Socialismes Documents produced by Saint-Simonians, Fourieristes, Cabet and the Icarians, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon; with introductory texts and bibliographies; from collections at the Université de Poitiers.
- Cantinières and Vivandières of the French Army Cantinières and vivandières were women who served as official auxiliary personnel to French (and other) army combat units from early modern times until about the time of World War One. Their official task was to sell food and drink to the soldiers of their regiment to supplement the always inadequate army rations. On this site Thomas Cardoza provides information about cantinières and vivandières focusing specifically on cantinières and vivandières of the French army, but also on cantinières and vivandières from other countries and cantinières serving such non-military entities as the sapeurs-pompiers (firefighters).
- Centre historique minier de Lewarde Overview of the archival collection.
- Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme CIRA (Annexe de Marseille) Founded in Marseille in 1965, this repositoy of anarchist materials originally was a branch of the CIRA in Lausanne.
- Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration (Paris). A museum for French immigration history, especially from the 19th century onwards.
- Clio site d'histoire sociale Bibliography, links, and conference information especially on immigration and ethnic relations in France.
- Commune de Paris Commemorating the events of 1871. Includes a portait gallery.
- Conservatoire des mémoires des et universitaires (CME) Organization for safeguarding the archives of student movements. The website gives access to digitized student periodicals and recorded interviews and more.
- Dejacque, Le Libertaire Joseph Déjacque (1822-1864), worker and poet, went into exile in London and Jersey after the Coup d’État of 1851. Later, in New York, he published Le Libertaire, Journal du mouvement social and the anarchist utopia L’Humanisphère. He returned to France in 1859 where he died in 1864. The website contains the complete text of Le Libertaire et La Question révolutionnaire (1854), Béranger au pilori (1857), La lettre à Proudhon, and more.
- Fourier, Charles - charlesfourier.fr Website of the Association d'études fouriéristes and the Cahiers Charles Fourier.
- Garibaldi et la France A virtual exhibition on the image (or images) of Giuseppe Garibaldi in France (19th-20th century). It is a collection of iconographic materials with French explanatory texts to document the construction of Garibaldi’s heroic image and the public uses of 'the Two Worlds' Hero' in France.
- Génériques Association for French migrant history working to preserve migrants' organizations archives and personal papers and to make them accessible. Its site gives acces to various resources, including guides to archival collections, databases for posters, newspapers, and biographical information.
- GERME (Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements étudiants). Documents on the French student movement, 1968-1986. Under construction.
- Granier, Caroline. "Nous sommes des briseurs de formules". Les écrivains anarchistes en France à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. . This dissertation (l'Université Paris 8, 2003) is available on the Research on Anarchism website.
- Imaging the French Revolution Popular images of the French Revolution and essays by various scholars that analyze differing depictions of the Revolutionary crowd; from the Center for History & New Media at George Mason University and the Department of History at UCLA. You need the Macromedia Flash Player.
- König, Mareike, Bibliotheken deutscher Einwanderer in Paris (1850 - 1914) : Benutzer und Bestände In the 19th century a large number of German speaking migrants from different strata of society lived in Paris. Several German reading rooms, such as the Deutscher Sozialdemokratischer Leseklub (Paris) Archives and libraries of these immigrants ensured that through literature they did not loose contact with their home country and native language.
- La Bataille socialiste A French educational site, named after the French Marxist paper of the nineteen thirties, containing topical and historical information, documentary sources, short biographies of Marxist thinkers and militants, book reviews and more.
- Le site des médecins du travail des hôpitaux: dossier histoire French texts on the history of occupational health on the website of Association nationale de médecine du travail et d'ergonomie du personnel des hôpitaux.
- Maitron. Site d'histoire sociale Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier. Information on this series.
- Palante - Georges Palante (1862-1925) Website devoted to the French individualist philosopher. Biography, bibliography, online texts, photographs, related links.
- Paris, May '68 at the University of Toronto Library: "icons of revolution", a poster exhibition.
- Pelloutier.net - Histoire du syndicalisme révolutionnaire et de l'anarcho-syndicalisme Biography, digitized documents and articles on Fernand Pelloutier (1867-1901), secretary of the Fédération nationale des Bourses du travail, and revolutionary syndicalism in Europe, the USA and Africa.
- Proudhon - Société Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Infomation on its annual conference, a list of its publications, Les Travaux de l'Atelier Proudhon and Les Cahiers de la Société Proudhon, links.
- Révolution française.net Resources for students of the French Revolution
- Schifres, Sébastien, Le Mouvement autonome en Italie et en France (1973-1984) This online MA thesis (Université Paris VIII) is a sequel to another text on the same subject published in 2004. Both texts are available from this website.
- Siege and Commune of Paris at Northwestern University: 1,500 photographs, drawings, political cartoons etc on the events of 1870-1871.
- What Is the Third Estate? at the University of Maryland Libraries: from the collections pertaining to the French Revolution.
Journals
Reference
- Album des sciences sociales The Virtual Library History of France, or, Vlib Histoire, has changed its title but remains affiliated to the WWW Virtual Library project.
- Association des Bibliophiles universels Free access to public domain works in French, including the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, and texts by Pierre de Coubertin, Denis Diderot, Charles Fourier, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Louise Michel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Sand, Voltaire, Emile Zola and other - mainly French - writers.
- Bianco: 100 ans de presse anarchiste Online version of the dissertation by René Bianco: Répertoire des périodiques anarchistes de langue française : un siècle de presse anarchiste d’expression française, 1880-1983, Aix-Marseille, 1987.
- Granier, Caroline. "Nous sommes des briseurs de formules". Les écrivains anarchistes en France à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. . This dissertation (l'Université Paris 8, 2003) is available on the Research on Anarchism website.
- König, Mareike, Bibliotheken deutscher Einwanderer in Paris (1850 - 1914) : Benutzer und Bestände In the 19th century a large number of German speaking migrants from different strata of society lived in Paris. Several German reading rooms, such as the Deutscher Sozialdemokratischer Leseklub (Paris) Archives and libraries of these immigrants ensured that through literature they did not loose contact with their home country and native language.
- Schifres, Sébastien, Le Mouvement autonome en Italie et en France (1973-1984) This online MA thesis (Université Paris VIII) is a sequel to another text on the same subject published in 2004. Both texts are available from this website.
- WWW Virtual Library History of France
Germany
Archives and Libraries
- 1989-1990 Wende-Zeiten Bilder, Töne, Kommentare aus dem DDR-Fernsehen Images, sound and commentary documenting the Fall of the Wall and the other events of 1989-1990 from the GDR television archives in the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv Babelsberg.
- Arbeiterfotografie Digitized German labour photo's from 1925 to around 1935, with some additions from after the War until around 1980; from the Deutsche Fotothek (Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden)
- Archiv APO und soziale Bewegungen at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Collects material on the German extra-parlementarian movements since 1945. General information.
- Archiv der Arbeiterjugendbewegung (Oer-Erkenschwick). Overview of the collections.
- Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung (Witzenhausen) Archival institution for the collection and safeguarding of German youth movements documents from around 1890 to the present. Publisher of the Jahrbuch des Archivs der deutschen Jugendbewegung.
- Archiv der Münchner Arbeiterbewegung The Archive of the Munich Labour Movement collects all documents from the labour movement, new social movements, industrial culture and the lives of the working people of Munich. General information about the Archive's collections and activities.
- Archiv der sozialen Bewegungen in Bremen Overview of the collections.
- Archiv für alternatives Schrifttum in Nordrhein-Westfalen (Duisburg). Catalogue of its serials and pamphlet holdings, with a regional focus, mainly from the 1960s on.
- Archiv für soziale Bewegungen in Baden Documents on post-WW II social movements in the Upper-Rhine area. General information, overview of the collections.
- Archive in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland by Andreas Hanacek (Wangen im Allgäu). Links to German archives.
- Bergbau-Archiv Bochum Under Wirtschaftsarchive: Overview of its holdings, links to other mining history sites.
- Bibliothek der Freien: Anarchistische Bücherei im Haus der Demokratie Berlin An anarchist library containing more than 1,500 monographs from the collection of the Berliner Gesellschaft zum Studium sozialer Fragen. General information, an overview of the collections, a list of periodical titles, and LidiaP (Liste digitalisierter anarchistischer Periodika) free download of more than 300 libertarian periodicals in 19 languages covering 134 years.
- Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte - Dokumentationsstelle für unkonventionelle Literatur at the Württembergische Landesbibliothek (Stuttgart). Overview of the collections.
- Bibliothek zur Geschichte der DDR at the Haus der Geschichte (Bonn). General information.
- Bibliotheken, Bücher und Berichte at the University of Hanover. Links to German libraries.
- Bundesarchiv The German national archives.
- Bundesarchiv The Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR is in Berlin.
- Deutsche Bibliothek The German national library.
- Deutsches Freimaurer Museum The library of the German Masonic Museum in Bayreuth is considered to be the largest special collection in German speaking countries with approximately 16,000 volumes. General information, online catalogue.
- Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv (Frankfurt am Main and Babelsberg). Overview of the collections.
- Dokumentationszentrum für europäische Gewerkschaftspublikationen at the University of Bremen. General information, access to the Presse-Spiegel aus der europäischen Gewerkschaftspresse.
- Dokumentationszentrum und Museum über die Migration in Deutschland DOMiD Documentation Centre and Museum of Migration in Germany (Cologne) is a merger of the associations Migration Museum e.V. and DOMiT e.V. The collection consists of books, grey literature, newspapers, magazines, documents, photos, film, audio recording, leaflets, posters and objects.
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Bonn) of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. Historical research, rich library and manuscript collections. Online catalogue (Web), guide to the archives, exhibitions etc.
- Fritz Hüser Institut für deutsche und ausländische Arbeiterliteratur (Dortmund). This institute is entirely devoted to working-class culture and literature. Information about the collections.
- Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung Overview of its research projects and collections, in particular on "Protest, Widerstand und Utopie in der BRD".
- Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets The House for the History of the Ruhr is home to the Stiftung Bibliothek des Ruhrgebiets (SBR) and the Institut für soziale Bewegungen (ISB). The Haus der Geschichte holds the stock of the Bibliothek des Ruhrgebiets and the Archiv für soziale Bewegungen.
- HBZ Werkzeugkasten International lists of online directories, libraries, bookshops, antiquarian bookshops, auctioneers, bibliographies, discographies, article databases, and many other reference tools for librarians, at the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum, Nordrhein-Westfalen (HBZ) in Cologne.
- Karl Marx Haus (Trier), of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Home to the Karl Marx Studienzentrum and its library.
- Max Stein Collection on German socialism, in the Bibliothek der Freien Universität (Berlin). Overview.
- Museum der Dinge Werkbundarchiv (Berlin). Records of the Deutscher Werkbund founded in 1907.
- Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur A German foundation dealing with the history of the SED. Information about its activities, publications, archive and library. Its Newsletter can be downloaded from the website.
- Thüringer Archiv für Zeitgeschichte
„Matthias Domaschk” (Jena) An archival institution founded in 1991 for documents from the opposition in the former GDR: private papers, photos, audio-visual materials, and a library.
- Wir waren so frei This site contains films and photos taken in 1989 and 1990, during the time of the Fall of the Wall and the reunification. All of the material is from private collections. It is a cooperative project by the Deutsche Kinemathek and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.
Data Archives
- Sozio-ökonomisches Panel at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Berlin). "A representative longitudinal study of private households in the entire Federal Republic of Germany" (1984-1997). Newsletter, bibliography etc.
Research Institutions
- Forschungsstelle für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas Bibliography, Conferences, Publications and Journal.
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Bonn) of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. Historical research, rich library and manuscript collections. Online catalogue (Web), guide to the archives, exhibitions etc.
- Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung Overview of its research projects and collections, in particular on "Protest, Widerstand und Utopie in der BRD".
- Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets The House for the History of the Ruhr is home to the Stiftung Bibliothek des Ruhrgebiets (SBR) and the Institut für soziale Bewegungen (ISB). The Haus der Geschichte holds the stock of the Bibliothek des Ruhrgebiets and the Archiv für soziale Bewegungen.
- Karl Marx Haus (Trier), of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Home to the Karl Marx Studienzentrum and its library.
- Sozio-ökonomisches Panel at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Berlin). "A representative longitudinal study of private households in the entire Federal Republic of Germany" (1984-1997). Newsletter, bibliography etc.
Museums
- Alte Völklinger Eisenhütte Information on these steel works in the Saarland, an industrial-archeological site. With images of labour in the steel works (video clips).
- Clara Zetkin Museum Birkenwerder, Germany. General information.
- Deutsches Bergbaumuseum (Bochum). An important mining museum. General information.
- Deutsches Freimaurer Museum The library of the German Masonic Museum in Bayreuth is considered to be the largest special collection in German speaking countries with approximately 16,000 volumes. General information, online catalogue.
- Dokumentationszentrum und Museum über die Migration in Deutschland DOMiD Documentation Centre and Museum of Migration in Germany (Cologne) is a merger of the associations Migration Museum e.V. and DOMiT e.V. The collection consists of books, grey literature, newspapers, magazines, documents, photos, film, audio recording, leaflets, posters and objects.
- Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit (Mannheim).
- Museum der Arbeit (Hamburg). The world of labour in Hamburg in the last 150 years. Extensive general information.
- Museum der deutschen Binnenschiffahrt (Duisburg). General information.
- Museum der Dinge Werkbundarchiv (Berlin). Records of the Deutscher Werkbund founded in 1907.
- Rheinisches Industriemuseum A group of six industrial museums in the Rheinland. General information.
- Sächsisches Industriemuseum A cooperative of industrial museums in Chemnitz, Crimmitschau, Ehrenfriedersdorf and Knappenrode.
- Virtual Library Museen Virtual Library Museums contains museum related information in Germany and in German-language countries.
- Virtuelles Museum für Industriekultur maintained by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Industriekultur (Duisburg). Discussion list, extensive German and international links to heritage sites.
Associations and Societies
- Arbeitskreis für Moderne Sozialgeschichte German association for modern social history. General information.
- Arbeitskreis für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Schleswig-Holsteins General information, project information, a timeline.
- Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung German working group for peace history and peace studies
- Arbeitskreis Militär und Gesellschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit AMG An international Working Group for Military and Society in the Early Modern Era. The AMG is dedicated to a new military history that is oriented to cultural and social historical approaches. It is based in Potsdam, Germany.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Demographie: Arbeitskreis Migration - Integration - Minderheiten The German Society for Demography's working group for migration, integration and minorities. General information, conferences.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pflegewissenschaft General information on the German Society of Nursing Science, an independent forum for the development and promotion of nursing science and nursing research in Germany.
- Förderverein für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (Berlin). A German association established in 1992 for the promotion of researching and educating the history of the labour movement and other social movements. General information, tables of contents of their JahrBuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung.
- Gesellschaft für Exilforschung (GfE) (Marburg). An international interdisciplinary organization founded in 1984; publisher of Exilforschung. Ein internationales Jahrbuch and a newsletter, Neuer Nachrichtenbrief.
- Kommission Arbeitskulturen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde. Information about the Commission's activities and publications, contact information.
- Kritische Geschichte. Netzwerk Gesellschaftskritik und Geschichtswissenschaft Website of a German network for social criticism and history. You need to open a uswer account.
- Verein für Socialpolitik - Wirtschaftshistorischer Ausschuß General information.
- Virtuelles Museum für Industriekultur maintained by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Industriekultur (Duisburg). Discussion list, extensive German and international links to heritage sites.
Special Topics
- 1968 in West Germany at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. A guide to sources and literature by Philipp Gassert and Pavel A. Richter.
- Arbeiterfotografie Digitized German labour photo's from 1925 to around 1935, with some additions from after the War until around 1980; from the Deutsche Fotothek (Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden)
- Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung German working group for peace history and peace studies
- Archiv der Arbeiterjugendbewegung (Oer-Erkenschwick). Overview of the collections.
- Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung (Witzenhausen) Archival institution for the collection and safeguarding of German youth movements documents from around 1890 to the present. Publisher of the Jahrbuch des Archivs der deutschen Jugendbewegung.
- Bibliographie zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung und zur Theorie und Praxis der politischen Linken - Online-BizGA An online bibliographic database of publications related to the German labour movement and the political left, from 1976 onwards. At the library website of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
- Bibliographie zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte des deutschen Südwestens 1750-1919 at the University of Mannheim. Searchable database of close to 10,000 entries up to 1998, with abstracts. Two general introductions.
- Bibliothek der Freien: Anarchistische Bücherei im Haus der Demokratie Berlin An anarchist library containing more than 1,500 monographs from the collection of the Berliner Gesellschaft zum Studium sozialer Fragen. General information, an overview of the collections, a list of periodical titles, and LidiaP (Liste digitalisierter anarchistischer Periodika) free download of more than 300 libertarian periodicals in 19 languages covering 134 years.
- Chronologie der deutschen Gewerkschaftsbewegung von den Anfängen bis 1918 By Dieter Schuster, with a preface by Rüdiger Zimmermann and indexes by Hubert Wolteringat; the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
- Deutsche Dichterhandschriften des poetischen Realismus at Brigham Young University. A finding aid for manuscripts of many nineteenth-century German writers; includes August Bebel, Moses Hess, Wilhelm Liebknecht and other socialist authors.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Demographie: Arbeitskreis Migration - Integration - Minderheiten The German Society for Demography's working group for migration, integration and minorities. General information, conferences.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pflegewissenschaft General information on the German Society of Nursing Science, an independent forum for the development and promotion of nursing science and nursing research in Germany.
- Deutsches Freimaurer Museum The library of the German Masonic Museum in Bayreuth is considered to be the largest special collection in German speaking countries with approximately 16,000 volumes. General information, online catalogue.
- Dokumentationszentrum und Museum über die Migration in Deutschland DOMiD Documentation Centre and Museum of Migration in Germany (Cologne) is a merger of the associations Migration Museum e.V. and DOMiT e.V. The collection consists of books, grey literature, newspapers, magazines, documents, photos, film, audio recording, leaflets, posters and objects.
- FES-Netz-Quelle: Geschichte und Politik Online publications and documents concerning the history of the German and international trade union movements, the women's movement and other social and political issues, from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung library website.
- Freies Schaffen Rundbrief Information from the Datenbank des deutschsprachigen Anarchismus - DadA
- Fritz Hüser Institut für deutsche und ausländische Arbeiterliteratur (Dortmund). This institute is entirely devoted to working-class culture and literature. Information about the collections.
- German Propaganda Archive at Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI). Includes a section on propaganda in the German Democratic Republic.
- German Revolution at Subversion (Manchester). English translations of historical Council Communist texts on the movement of 1918-1919.
- Germany - Extraparliamentary Movement , 1967-1984. Online Archive of California, Stanford University.
- Geschichtstheatergesellschaft 1848 German revolutionaries in the American Civil War.
- Gesellschaft für Exilforschung (GfE) (Marburg). An international interdisciplinary organization founded in 1984; publisher of Exilforschung. Ein internationales Jahrbuch and a newsletter, Neuer Nachrichtenbrief.
- Gewerkschaften und industrielle Beziehungen Database at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Searchable database containing 7,000 citations of books, articles, working papers, brochures, proceedings etc. on labor relations in Germany, the EU and Eastern Europe.
- Kommission Arbeitskulturen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde. Information about the Commission's activities and publications, contact information.
- König, Mareike, Bibliotheken deutscher Einwanderer in Paris (1850 - 1914) : Benutzer und Bestände In the 19th century a large number of German speaking migrants from different strata of society lived in Paris. Several German reading rooms, such as the Deutscher Sozialdemokratischer Leseklub (Paris) Archives and libraries of these immigrants ensured that through literature they did not loose contact with their home country and native language.
- Migration-audio-archiv Audio accounts of migration to Germany after 1955. The initial collection includes 100 audioclips each lasting between 30 and 45 minutes. They can be listened to online and on air (WDR radio).
- Portal zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung This German labour history site brings together text documents, online periodicals, databases, visual collections, and historiography. The material covers all subjects from the beginnings of the labour movement, trade unionism, social democracy and the political left.
- Programmatische Dokumente und Statuten der deutschen Gewerkschaftsbewegung und der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands Online database at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung containing more than 1.200 digitized programs, thematic leaflets and statutes of the German Trade Union Movement and the Social Democratic Party of Germany from the 19th century onwards.
- RAF - Die RAF als Geschichte und Gegenwart Texts and materials related to the 'German Autumn' and its aftermath; edited by Jan-Holger Kirsch and Annette Vowinckel; from the Zeitgeschichte online website.
- Revolution 1848-1849 in Deutschland Under construction A site on "150 years of revolution in Baden Württemberg".
- Sozialgeschichte der KPD The history of communism in the Weimar Republic. Elections statistics, a bibliography, photographs, posters, and other documents. By Ulrich Eumann.
- Statistisches Bundesambt Deutschland Website of the Statistical Office of Germany. Statistical tables dealing with almost every aspect of the country, including employment rates, education, environment, wages, and population. Most of the site is available in English.
- Thesaurus Professionum (THEPRO). Datenbank frühneuzeitlicher Berufsnamen
(Deutschland) The Thesaurus Professionum now contains about 22.000 entries for occupational titles found in Early Modern funeral sermons and similar texts in German libraries and archives.
- This Is Baader-Meinhof maintained by Richard Huffmann. Biographies, documents and photographs from the German decade of terror, 1968-1977. - See also Rote Armee Fraktion.
- Veröffentlichungen deutscher Parteien und Gewerkschaften at the Friedrich Ebert Stfitung (Bonn). Extensive bibliography of German political and trade union publications received by the library.
Discussion Lists
Journals
- Arbeiterbewegung und Sozialgeschichte. Zeitschrift für die Regionalgeschichte Bremens General information in German, online tables of contents (up to 2003), a few online articles.
- Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung (Witzenhausen) Archival institution for the collection and safeguarding of German youth movements documents from around 1890 to the present. Publisher of the Jahrbuch des Archivs der deutschen Jugendbewegung.
- Archiv für Geschichte des Widerstandes und der Arbeit Information from H-Soz-u-Kult
- Archiv für Sozialgeschichte Information from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: tables of contents (with abstracts since 1997) from 1981 to present, author index from 1961 to 1980, book reviews available online.
- Beiträge zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung BzG Detailed information about the journal's history and publishers, tables of contents, online supplements, full text versions of vols 1998 and 1999.
- Beiträge zur Marx-Engels-Forschung - Neue Folge Tables of contents of current and back issues. Archive of publications before 1991; from the website of the Berliner Verein zur Förderung der MEGA-Edition e.V.
- Demokratische Geschichte. Jahrbuch für Schleswig-Holstein TOC from H-Soz-u-Kult.
- Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen Online tables of contents, abstracts
- Freies Schaffen Rundbrief Information from the Datenbank des deutschsprachigen Anarchismus - DadA
- International Newsletter of Communist Studies From the 2000/2001 issue on The Newsletter is published in the Jahrbuch für historische Kommunismusforschung (Yearbook for Historical Communist Studies).
- Internationale wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung (IWK). Tables of contents of current and back issues.
- Interventionen. Beiträge zur Geschichte und zur Gegenwart politischer Sozialisation und Partizipation Published by POSOPA Verein zur Förderung von Forschungen zur politischen Sozialisation und Partizipation, Neu Zittau
- JahrBuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung A publication of the Förderverein für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, Berlin.
- Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung (Yearbook for Historical Communist Studies); published by Aufbau Verlag Berlin. From the 2000/2001 issue on, the Yearbook includes The International Newsletter of Communist Studies. Online Tables of contents of current and back issues.
- Mitteilungen Gesellschaft für Politik und Bildung Schleswig Holstein Beirat für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung und Demokratie in Schleswig-Holstein. Information from Labour History Serials Service.
- Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts für soziale Bewegungen published by Institut für Soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; continues Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts zur Erforschung der Europäischen Arbeiterbewegung.
- Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Tables of contents, abstracts
- WerkstattGeschichte Published by the Verein für kritische Geschichtsschreibung
Reference
- Clio Online Fachportal für die Geschichtswissenschaften.
- H-Soz-u-Kult Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften This German information network for historians, which is part of H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online, is maintained at the Humboldt-University in Berlin.
- Historicum.net: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften im Internet German historical information network: topical web guides, bibliography, electronic journals, reviews, educational materials, announcements, lists of documentary and research institutions and much more.
- Historisches Zentrum Hagen: Fachinformationen Historical information services from the Hagen Historical Centre, Germany. The Centre is home to the Virtual Library Frühe Neuzeit, the Virtual Library Zeitgeschichte, the Virtual Library Museen, H-Museum, and a number of German regional historical information resources.
- König, Mareike, Bibliotheken deutscher Einwanderer in Paris (1850 - 1914) : Benutzer und Bestände In the 19th century a large number of German speaking migrants from different strata of society lived in Paris. Several German reading rooms, such as the Deutscher Sozialdemokratischer Leseklub (Paris) Archives and libraries of these immigrants ensured that through literature they did not loose contact with their home country and native language.
- Wir waren so frei This site contains films and photos taken in 1989 and 1990, during the time of the Fall of the Wall and the reunification. All of the material is from private collections. It is a cooperative project by the Deutsche Kinemathek and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.
- World-Wide Web Virtual Library: German Subject Catalogue A list of German humanities, sciences and social sciences resources, at the University of Karlsruhe.
- Zeitgeschichte-online A portal for German contemporary history on the web. It is a project of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Greece
Archives and Libraries
- Archeia Synchronis Koinonikis Istorias (Athens). General information in Greek about this major labour history institution in Greece, collections information, tables of contents of Archeiotaxio, its periodical publication.
Hungary
Iceland
India
- Association of Indian Labour Historians AILH (Delhi) Founded in 1996, the Association of Indian Labour Historians is a professional body of historians, social scientists and scholars interested in furthering the historical understanding of the conditions of labour and labouring people.
- Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Calcutta). General information, guide to the Hitesranjan Sanyal Memorial Collection containing microfilms of old and rare printed materials as well as photographs.
- Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (Bangalore, India). CSCS aims to function as a site for interdisciplinary teaching and research spanning the humanities and social sciences.
- Labour File: A Bi-monthly Journal of Labour and Economic Affairs The site contains articles on the current situation of labour in India. It is closely associated with the Centre for Education and Communication, a labour resource centre based in New Delhi, India.
- Roja Muthiah Research Library (Chennai). Specializes in Tamil studies. Online catalog.
- Salt Lake Society for Labour Studies (Calcutta) A "non-profit association of professionals involved in academic projects on varied histories and cultures of labouring classes in eastern India during the colonial and post-colonial periods". Details from a list of ITH member institutes.
Archives and Libraries
- IndCat Online Union Catalogue of Indian Unversities is unified Online Library Catalogues of books, theses and journals available in major university libraries in India. The union database contains bibliographic description, location and holdings information for books, journals and theses in all subject areas available in more than 112 university libraries across the country. A Web-based interface is designed to provide easy access to the merged catalogues. The IndCat is a major source of bibliographic information that can be used for inter-library loan, collections development as well as for copy cataloguing and retro-conversion of bibliographic records.
Special Topics
- Archives of Indian Labour The AIL is a repository of documents related to labour movement, personal narratives, memoirs and video and audio material. Eight special collections comprising 40,000 printed pages, 100 hours of taped interviews are stored in digital form and made online available. In addition several special reports and articles on labour history of India, a detailed inventory of material and sources on labour history and papers on technical aspects of digital archiving are included.
Indonesia
- Cornell Modern Indonesia Collection A series of studies from the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project (CMIP). The 'Interim Reports' deal with topics ranging from the 1965 coup to the Japanese Occupation, elections, decentralization, foreign policy, the role of the nation's armed forces, and the status of Chinese citizens in Indonesia. Original documents translated and published by CMIP include speeches from independence leaders such as Sukarno, Sjahrir, and Hatta, as well as significant studies authored by Indonesian intellectuals, economists, and politicians. CMIP Monographs tend to focus on contemporary Indonesian politics, but include anthropological and social analyses as well. The Bibliographies illuminate a range of works that were important to research on Indonesia in the middle of the century and after.
- National Archives of The Republic of Indonesia
- WWW-VL History Index. Indonesia
Data Archives
- Human capital hub of the CLIO-INFRA initiative As part of the CLIO-INFRA, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Debrecen has taken the initiative to set up this website on human capital data. Our mid-term plan is to extend the activities of the hub into an online community of Scholars working in this field, providing them with a forum and hosting their data and research papers. Our long-run plan is to create a comprehensive dataset on human capital with annual and historical data and a global coverage. The site provides data, papers and links. The hub is maintained by Péter Földvári and Bas van Leeuwen.
Special Topics
- INDOC database on Indonesian labour The INDOC database contains 17,858 references to articles on labour in Indonesian newspapers since 1996. At the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Ireland
- Views of the Famine maintained by Steve Taylor at Vassar College. Contemporary articles and illustrations related to the Irish Famine and subsequent massive migration, 1845-1851.
Archives and Libraries
- 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.
- Irish Labour History Society Museum, Archives: general information.
Data Archives
- Database of Irish Historical Statistics Recurrent statistics for Ireland for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries collected from a variety of printed census sources. At The Queen's University of Belfast.
Associations and Societies
- Dublin Labour Studies Group "A forum for the discussion of issues in labour economics". Working papers and other publications.
- Economic and Social History Society of Ireland (Dublin). General information about the Society and its journal - Irish Economic and Social History.
- Society for Irish Latin American Studies Formerly The Irish Argentine Historical Society. The Society's scope of study is the migration of people from Ireland to Latin America, their settlement, lives, and achievements, as well as those of their descendants, together with contemporary presence of Ireland and people of Irish ancestry in the life and culture of Latin America, and the presence of Latin Americans in Ireland.
Special Topics
- 1798 Ireland maintained by Sean McGoldrick. Documents on the Irish Rebellion.
- 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.
- Connolly - CELT: James Connolly At University College Cork. Some of his major writings, from the Corpus of Electronic Texts.
- Connolly - James Connolly Society of Canada and the United States Large collection of essays and other writings by the Irish socialist.
- Great Famine Commemoration A page dedicated to the Irish Famine of 1845.
- Society for Irish Latin American Studies Formerly The Irish Argentine Historical Society. The Society's scope of study is the migration of people from Ireland to Latin America, their settlement, lives, and achievements, as well as those of their descendants, together with contemporary presence of Ireland and people of Irish ancestry in the life and culture of Latin America, and the presence of Latin Americans in Ireland.
- Songs of Irish Labour maintained by Helena Sheehan. Texts and sound files, links to related sites.
Journals
Israel
Archives and Libraries
- Ben-Gurion Archives at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. General information.
- Machon Lavon (Tel Aviv). Labour movement records. General information. Hebrew script.
Data Archives
Italy
Archives and Libraries
- Archivi italiani in rete Links to Italian archives.
- Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico (Rome). Some 150,000 photographs and thousands of films, videos etc. General information, online guide and catalogue.
- Archivio del lavoro L’Archivio storico - Biblioteca della Camera del Lavoro di Milano (Sesto San Giovanni, Milano)
- Archivio Famiglia Berneri-Aurelio Chessa Centro di documentazione sul movimento anarchico (Reggio Emilia). General information about the archives, online library catalogue.
- Archivio per la storia del movimento sociale cattolico in Italia - Sezione di Brescia General information.
- Archivio Storico della Nuova Sinistra "Marco Pezzi" The Historical Archive of the New Left "Marco Pezzi", established in 1989 in Bologna, Italy, has a collection of newspapers, leaflets, posters, documents, photo's, and video's produced by Italian movements of the extreme left. Detailed collections information.
- Archivio-Biblioteca Enrico Travaglini per gli studi sociali e il libero pensiero (Fano). This library specializes in anarchism and anticlericalism. The website gives access to digitized documents related to the libertarian educator Francisco Ferrer and contains a section about the history of social and political movements in the Pesaro province.
- Biblioteca Alfredo Oriani (Ravenna). Overview of its collections of pro- and anti-fascist literature, local communist and trade-union records.
- Biblioteca Franco Serantini (Pisa). Overview of its (mainly anarchist) collections and publications.
- Biblioteca Umberto Balestrazzi (Parma). The former local library of the Communist Party. General information.
- Centri documentazione e archivi storici A directory of CGIL (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro) repositories and documentation centres; from the CGIL Toscana website
- Centro di documentazione Mauro Rostagno at the Museo storico in Trento. Overview of the collections, mostly related to local labour history.
- Centro di documentazione Valerio Verbano (Rome). Catalogue of its holdings of contemporary social movements.
- Centro ligure di storia sociale (Genoa). Information on the Centre's collections, activities and publications.
- Centro studi Feliciano Rossitto (Ragusa). Overview of its collections, mainly on the socio-political history of Sicily.
- Centro Studi Libertari / Archivio Giuseppe Pinelli (Milan). General collections information, Italian bibliography on anarchism, information bulletin (toc).
- Centro studi libertari Luigi Fabbri (Jesi, Ancona). General information.
- Centro studi Piero Gobetti (Turin). On the anti-fascist, labour and students movements. General information.
- Centro studi storia del lavoro (Imola). General information.
- Comune di Rimini - Biblioteca Gambalunga Holds the Lettimi-Francolini papers containing socialist and anarchist documents.
- Consorzio biblioteche e archivi istituti culturali di Roma BAICR consisting of the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, the Istituto Luigi Sturzo, the Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso-Issoco, and the Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, the latter two being particularly strong in labour history. General information.
- Fondazione Anna Kuliscioff (Milan). General information.
- Fondazione Antonio Gramsci (Rome). Records and publications of the Italian Communist Party and many leading members. Detailed holdings information.
- Fondazione Biblioteca Archivio Luigi Micheletti (Brescia). General information.
- Fondazione culturale Vera Nocentini. Biblioteca e archivio storico-sindacale (Turin). General information, history, overview of the collections.
- Fondazione di studi storici Filippo Turati (Florence). The most important repository of Italian socialist records. Overview of the collections.
- Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Milan). Extensive Italian and international labour holdings. Overview of the collections. Parts of the library catalogue can be consulted through Italy's Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale, or its Polo regionale Lombardo
- Fondazione Giuseppe Emanuele e Vera Modigliani (Rome, Turin). Institution and library for the history of socialism and the Italian labour movement. Information about its activities and its library from the Associazione delle Istituzioni Culturali Italiane website.
- Fondazione Gramsci Torino (Turin). Records of mainly regional communist and related organizations. General holdings information.
- Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso - ISSOCO (Rome). Italian and international library and archives for the history of social movements. Extensive collections information.
- Fondazione Luigi Einaudi (Turin). General information on its social-economic history collections.
- Istituti di storia della Resistenza e dell'età contemporanea in Italia Links from the Istituto regionale per la storia del movimento di liberazione nelle Marche, Ancona.
- Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane National central library catalog.
- Istituto di Storia Contemporanea "Pier Amato Perretta" (Como). Information about this library and archival institution specialized in the history of early associations, the cooperative movement of Como and Lombardy.
- Istituto di Studi sul Capitalismo (Genoa). Information on the activities of the Institute, access to bibliographic databases.
- Istituto Gramsci (Ferrara) Local Communist Party records. Brief general information.
- Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna (Bologna). General collections information.
- Istituto Gramsci siciliano (Palermo). Collections information.
- Istituto Gramsci toscano (Florence). Regional and local records of the Italian Communist Party and some private papers. Publications, overview of the library.
- Istituto Luzzatti (Rome). Cooperative studies. Brief overview of the collections.
- Istituto nazionale per la storia del movimento di liberazione in Italia Insmli (Milan). Overview of the collections, online catalogue of part of them.
- Istituto per la storia della resistenza e della società contemporanea della Marca trevigiana (Treviso). General information, overview of the collections.
- Istituto per la storia della resistenza e della società contemporanea della provincia di Asti (Asti). General information, links to other institutions.
- Istituto per la storia della resistenza e della società contemporanea in provincia di Alessandria (Alessandria). General information, online catalogue.
- Istituto per la storia della resistenza e della società contemporanea nelle province di Biella e Vercelli (Borgosesia). Overview of the collections.
Research Institutions
Associations and Societies
Special Topics
- Archivio Biografico del Movimento Operaio (ABMO): Biographical Archives of the Workers' Movement published in 2012 by the Istituto "Sergio Motosi" per lo Studio del Movimento Operaio Internazionale and the Istituto di Studi sul Capitalismo. When complete, the database will contain biographies of thousands of well and lesser known figures from the Italian labour movement.
- Canti di Lotta della sinistra italiana maintained by Domenico Donato. Texts of mainly Italian revolutionary songs.
- Centro Studi Francesco Saverio Merlino Website devoted to the Italian lawyer, anarchist activist and theorist of libertarian socialism, Francesco Saverio Merlino (1856-1930).
- Centro Studi Libertari / Archivio Giuseppe Pinelli (Milan). General collections information, Italian bibliography on anarchism, information bulletin (toc).
- Garibaldi and the Risorgimento A digitized "Panoramic Lecture" of the "Heroic Life and Career of Garibaldi" and a collection of some 400 prints from illustrated newspapers that feature either Garibaldi or significant moments in the movement for Italian Unification from special collections at the Brown University libraries.
- Garibaldi et la France A virtual exhibition on the image (or images) of Giuseppe Garibaldi in France (19th-20th century). It is a collection of iconographic materials with French explanatory texts to document the construction of Garibaldi’s heroic image and the public uses of 'the Two Worlds' Hero' in France.
- Schifres, Sébastien, Le Mouvement autonome en Italie et en France (1973-1984) This online MA thesis (Université Paris VIII) is a sequel to another text on the same subject published in 2004. Both texts are available from this website.
- Updated Società Italiana di Storia del Lavoro
Journals
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Japan
Archives and Libraries
Research Institutions
Associations and Societies
Special Topics
- Images of Japanese Labor Posters of the Japanese Labor Movement in Post-1945 Japan. Virtual exhibition from the Ohara Institute for Social Research.
- Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training Besides information on the Institute the website contains texts of the Japan Labor Review, the Japanese Journal of Labour Studies, the Japan Labor Bulletin, statistical data, research reports, and other resources for Japanese Labour.
- Tanaka Sigeto's Homepage at Osaka University. Electronic papers on changes in the sexual division of labour in Japan.
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Latin America
- H-LatAm WWW Site at Michigan State University. Latin American studies links: discussion list, reviews, resources, announcements.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies at the Library of Congress. A searchable annotated bibliography.
- Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Country and subject directories.
- Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD) Comparable economic and social data for 20 countries in Latin America for 1900-2000. The series are downloadable free of charge, with accompanying methodological notes and sources, from our website. The website, which is available in Portuguese, Spanish, and English, also includes bibliographic references, links to world, regional, and national statistical offices and data sources, and comprehensive methodological discussion of data definitions and adjustments.
- Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina REDIAL Directory.
- Revolutionary Art of Peru maintained by the Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru (Berkeley, CA): posters of "Shining Path", the Peruvian guerilla movement, with a few songs.
- Transnational Poster Art at Stanford University Libraries: posters from the German Democratic Republic concerning Latin America, 1970-1989.
Associations and Societies
- LabourAgain A research network on Latin America, social mobilisation and the centrality of labour. Working papers, a discussion list aiming to be a channel for exchanging information and discussing recent developments in the field of Latin American labour studies through e-mail.
Discussion Lists
- LabourAgain A research network on Latin America, social mobilisation and the centrality of labour. Working papers, a discussion list aiming to be a channel for exchanging information and discussing recent developments in the field of Latin American labour studies through e-mail.
Journals
Reference
- Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection A collection of more than 5,000 recently cataloged and digitized titles in Harvard's Widener Library. The catalog records are linked to page images of the digitized pamphlets. As additional pamphlets are cataloged and digitized they will be added to this Collection.
- WWW Virtual Library Latin American Studies at the Latin American Network Information Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Lebanon
- Institute for Palestine Studies Library (Beirut) "The (...) largest library in the Arab world specializing in Palestinian affairs, Judaica, and the Arab-Israeli conflict." Collections information, online catalog. The web site can be accessed in three languages: Arabic, English, and French.
Mexico
Archives and Libraries
Research Institutions
Associations and Societies
Special Topics
- 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.
- Fills i Néts de l’exili republicà, mexicans a Catalunya Interviews with descendants of Catalonian exiles to Mexico.
Middle East
Morocco
Data Archives
- Database on Return Migrants to the Maghreb (DReMM) Based on the MIREM survey carried out in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia the DReMM constitutes a rich source of information regarding the processes of reintegration of around one thousand return migrants and their post-return conditions in their countries of origin. From the European University Institute, Florence.
Special Topics
- Database on Return Migrants to the Maghreb (DReMM) Based on the MIREM survey carried out in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia the DReMM constitutes a rich source of information regarding the processes of reintegration of around one thousand return migrants and their post-return conditions in their countries of origin. From the European University Institute, Florence.
Netherlands
Archives and Libraries
- Archiefnet (Archivenet): a portal site for websites of archival services all over the world maintained by the Historical Centre Overijssel.
- Centrum Arbeidsverhoudingen (The Hague). On labour relations in the public sector. Online catalogue, relevant links.
- Collection Social Documentation Index to a large collection of materials from mainly but not exclusively Dutch underground, youth and student movements, squatters, and new age movements at the International Institute of Social History. Information in Dutch.
- ID-Archiv im IISG at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. A documentation centre on the German-language alternative press. Collections information, searchable database, links.
- International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam). One of the largest research and documentary institutions in labour history anywhere. Collections information, extensive links. Online catalog, including archival and audiovisual holdings; separate guide to the archives and collections.
- Katholiek Documentatie Centrum at the University of Nijmegen. Its holdings include Roman Catholic trade unions' and women's organizations' records. For a list go to: Stands- en vakorganisaties.
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek The national library of the Netherlands.
- Nationaal Archief The national archives of the Netherlands. The collection includes records of the central government, the province of Zuid-Holland and the former County of Holland. These consist of manuscripts, books, photographs, maps and drawings. Highlights of the collection include: the Counts of Holland; the Dutch East India Company; the Upper and Lower Houses of parliament; ministerial records.
- Occasio: Digital Social History Archive at the International Institute of Social History is a collection of Internet documents concerning social, political and environmental issues, for the greater part available online.
Data Archives
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS): the Dutch organization responsible for storing and providing permanent access to research data from the Humanities and Social Sciences. It incorporates the Steinmetz Archive for the social sciences and the Netherlands Historical Data Archive (NHDA), which were part of NIWI (Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services) from 1997 to 2005.
- Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) Project information on this representative sample of about 80,000 people born in the Netherlands between 1812 and 1922 intended as a tool for research in Dutch history and demography.
- Life Courses in Context A collaboratory based on Dutch population registers and censuses (19th and 20th century). The programme's objective is to develop a database with about 40.000 individual life courses of people born in the period of 1863-1922
- RGP Online The Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën (RGP) is a series of source editions, the first volume of which was published in 1905. Today, the series comprises 450 volumes that contain documents about the history of the Netherlands.
The ING, The Hague is in the process of digitising the RGP series and has developed an application that makes it possible to browse the pages online. The online version aims, as far as possible, to be a faithful replica of the original edition. At the same time, efforts have also been made to exploit the new opportunities afforded by an electronic publication by making it possible to search the text and, where possible, adding clickable lists of contents and/or indices. More information about the approach that was selected can be found under explanation.
Since December 2007 137 volumes have been made available on the Internet (november 2009).
Research Institutions
Museums
- Burcht - Vakbondsmuseum De Burcht (Amsterdam) The Netherlands' Trade Union Museum. General information.
- Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis Museum Website of a museum dedicated to one of the founding fathers of Dutch socialism and anarchism.
- Multatuli Museum Website Website of the Multatuli Museum and Multatuli Society of Amsterdam. Multatuli, Ps. of Eduard Douwes Dekker(1820-1887) was a Dutch writer and freethinker. General information about the Museum and the Society, a brief biography, a bibliography, links, and a catalogue of Douwes Dekker's personal library.
- Nederlands Textielmuseum (Tilburg). With a specialized library and documentation centre. General information.
Associations and Societies
Special Topics
- Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland on the site of the International Institute of Social History (in Dutch).
- Centrum voor de Geschiedenis van Migranten The Dutch Centre for the History of Migrants was founded in 1995 as a cooperation of several research centres. The website offers general and project information in Dutch, a bibliography and links.
- Collection Social Documentation Index to a large collection of materials from mainly but not exclusively Dutch underground, youth and student movements, squatters, and new age movements at the International Institute of Social History. Information in Dutch.
- European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations at the University of Utrecht.
- FNV Geschiedenis On the occasion of its centennial the Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions FNV presented a new website on its history. It contains a timeline, small biographies of all its presidents and an online poll; all texts are in Dutch.
- Geheugen van Nederland 'The Memory of the Netherlands' is a project of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands. The website contains digitized materials from Dutch archives, libraries and museums. The International Institute of Social History contributes six thousand photographs, prints, posters and banners documenting the Dutch labour movement from 1860 through 1918.
- Meis - Fré Meis Website devoted to Dutch communist trade union leader and politician Fré Meis (1921-1992).
- Multatuli Museum Website Website of the Multatuli Museum and Multatuli Society of Amsterdam. Multatuli, Ps. of Eduard Douwes Dekker(1820-1887) was a Dutch writer and freethinker. General information about the Museum and the Society, a brief biography, a bibliography, links, and a catalogue of Douwes Dekker's personal library.
- Nederlands Textielmuseum (Tilburg). With a specialized library and documentation centre. General information.
- Nurses from Surinam Photos from the private albums of Surinamese women who came to Holland in the 1950s to become nurses; from the Historical Image Archive on Migrants (Dutch text).
- Occasio: Digital Social History Archive at the International Institute of Social History is a collection of Internet documents concerning social, political and environmental issues, for the greater part available online.
- Rode Droom at Erik van Rosmalen's homepage (Amsterdam): 100 years of social democracy in the Netherlands.
- Spoorwegstaking van 1903 Railway strike educational game (in Dutch)
- Staatsarchief Dutch squatters archive: a catalogue of papers, periodicals, audio and video tapes, newspaper clippings, photos and posters.
- Stakingen in Nederland Strikes in the Netherlands: online database containing data on more than 16,000 strikes and lockouts in the Netherlands (1830-2000) compiled by Sjaak van der Velden, at the International Institute of Social History (Dutch text).
- Steun! Stem! Staak! at the International Institute of Social History: 150 posters from the largest collection in the Netherlands.
- Vakbeweging in de oorlog Trade Unions during the War. Website devoted to the history of the Dutch trade unions during the German occupation, 1940-1945. Dutch text. The site is under construction: not all listed documents are available.
Journals
Reference
- Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland on the site of the International Institute of Social History (in Dutch).
- Digitized maps at the University Library of Utrecht A presentation of maps in the collections of the Utrecht University Library, the Netherlands.
- RGP Online The Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën (RGP) is a series of source editions, the first volume of which was published in 1905. Today, the series comprises 450 volumes that contain documents about the history of the Netherlands.
The ING, The Hague is in the process of digitising the RGP series and has developed an application that makes it possible to browse the pages online. The online version aims, as far as possible, to be a faithful replica of the original edition. At the same time, efforts have also been made to exploit the new opportunities afforded by an electronic publication by making it possible to search the text and, where possible, adding clickable lists of contents and/or indices. More information about the approach that was selected can be found under explanation.
Since December 2007 137 volumes have been made available on the Internet (november 2009).
New Zealand
Archives and Libraries
- Beaglehole Room General information about the trade union records in the J. C. Beaglehole Room, the official repository within the Library of all archives and manuscript material at the library of the Victoria University of Wellington.
- Macmillan Brown Library Detailed overview of the trade union collections at the Macmillan Brown Library, the University of Canterbury's research collection of New Zealand and Pacific Islands materials.
Research Institutions
Associations and Societies
- Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Newsletter, journal, links.
- Trade Union History Project This organization was established in 1987 to foster and record New Zealand trade union and labour history. Besides an extensive introduction to the Projects activities, the website includes timelines of New Zealand labour history, recommended reading, newsletters, information on publications, seminars and conferences and links. The site will also include the material from David Verran's New Zealand Labour History website.
Special Topics
- Black Tuesday at NZHistory.net. On the Waihi miners' strike of 1912.
- New Zealand Labour History Articles by Kath Clark and David Verran on New Zealand trade unions and their leaders.
- Radical Tradition - Aotearoa New Zealand maintained by Takver in Brunswick, Victoria. Articles on New Zealand's labour history and its anarchist currents.
- Trade Union History Project This organization was established in 1987 to foster and record New Zealand trade union and labour history. Besides an extensive introduction to the Projects activities, the website includes timelines of New Zealand labour history, recommended reading, newsletters, information on publications, seminars and conferences and links. The site will also include the material from David Verran's New Zealand Labour History website.
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Nicaragua
Norway
Archives and Libraries
Data Archives
- Norwegian Historical Data Centre at the University of Tromsø. The computerizing of Norwegian censuses from 1865 onwards together with the parish registers and other sources from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Journals
Reference
Philippines
Poland
- Polish Poster Gallery at The Art of Poster (Przasnyska): section on Polish posters 1950-1970.
- Warsaw Uprising at Princeton University. On the 1944 insurrection. Under construction.
Archives and Libraries
- Archiwum Partii Politycznych at the Instytut Studiów Politycznych of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw).
- Biblioteka Sejmova (Warsaw). See: Czytelnia Zbiorów Historii Spo³ecznej (ZHS): Brief description of the library holdings of the former Central Archives of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (until recently the Archives of the Polish Left), now in the library of the Polish Parliament.
- Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America PIASA Archives and Library holdings include materials from the Polish labour movement. Online inventory, links to Polish collections elsewhere.
- Stowarzyszenie Archiwum Solidarnosci The Society of Solidarity Archives holds documents related to the independent social movements in Poland. Detailed collection information, a list of publications.
Special Topics
Reference
Portugal
- Associação 25 Abril General information.
- Centro de Documentação 25 de Abril at the University of Coimbra. Documents and bibliographies on recent Portuguese history; online catalog.
- Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa at the University of Lisbon. Extensive general information.
Archives and Libraries
Research Institutions
Associations and Societies
Special Topics
- Arquivo de História Social Edgar Rodrigues On the history of anarchism, especially in Brazil and Portugal.
- E-topia A Portugese electronic journal on utopianism from the digital library of the Faculty of arts, University of Porto.
- Spaces of Utopia An electronic journal in English on utopianism, from the digital library of the Faculty of arts, University of Porto.
Journals
- E-topia A Portugese electronic journal on utopianism from the digital library of the Faculty of arts, University of Porto.
- Spaces of Utopia An electronic journal in English on utopianism, from the digital library of the Faculty of arts, University of Porto.
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Romania
- Society for Romanian Studies (Huntington, USA) An inter-disciplinary academic organization founded in 1973 to promote professional study, criticism, and research on all aspects of Romanian culture and civilization. The website provides an Internet gateway to information and links relevant to the study of Romanian culture and civilization, particularly concerning the countries of Romania and Moldova.
Archives and Libraries
- Institutul Român de Istorie Recentã The Romanian Institute for Recent History (IRIR). Information in English on its library, archives and activities.
- Open Society Archives at the Central European University in Budapest. Home to the collections of Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, among others. The holdings include materials relating to Romania.
Russia
- REENIC: Russian and East European Network Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Revelations from the Russian Archives Site accompanying an exhibition organized by the US Library of Congress in the 1990s. It was the first public display of the highly secret internal record of Soviet Communist rule.
- Slavic, East European, and former USSR resources Links to Internet resources, from the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.
- Slavic-Eurasian Studies Web Japanese site with links to Internet resources for Russian, Post-Soviet, and East European Studies.
- Soviet Archives Exhibit organized by the Library of Congress and Rosarkhiv.
Archives and Libraries
- Alexander Baykov Library The Baykov Library is part of the European Resource Centre, at the University of Birmingham. It was originally established in 1963 as part of the newly created Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) Holdings total aprox. 90,000 volumes and 500 Soviet Era Posters
- ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia An overview of archives in Moscow and St Petersburg; maintained by the International Institute of Social History.
- Arkhivy Rossii Website of the Federal Archival Agency of Russia (Rosarkhiv)
- Friends of the Victor Serge Library website General information.
- Gosudarstvennaia Istoricheskaia Publichnaia Biblioteka (Moscow). Collections information of the Public Historical State Library, one of the major resources in Russian and Soviet history. Cyrillic font.
- Gosudarstvennaia Obshchestvenno-Politicheskaia Biblioteka (Moscow). General information on the Socio-Political State Library, formerly part of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism and one of the finest libraries in labour history anywhere.
- Guides to Russian Archives M.J. Berry and M.J. Ilic, Using the Russian Archives: an Informal Practical guide for Beginners Based on Users' Experience. British Academic Committee for Collaboration With Russian Archives, in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. Part 1. Moscow Archives (PDF).
- Memorial - Moscow Documentary and research centre on human rights in past and present. Cyrillic font.
- Memorial - Ryazan' Regional department of the Memorial society.
- Moskovskaia Nezavisimaia Obshchestvennaia Biblioteka MNOB Overview of its collections, particularly rich in current serials.
- 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.
- Rossiiskaia Natsional'naia Biblioteka (St Petersburg). The Russian National Library, formerly named after Saltykov-Shchedrin. Cyrillic font.
- Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial'no-politicheskoi istorii (RGASPI) The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History is the main depository for documentation relating to the history of socialism, the records of the CPSU and its predecessors, mainly before 1953, as well as the records of the Komsomol. RTsKhIDNI was established in October 1991 on the basis of the former the Central Party Archive—TsPA IML, under the Institute of Marxism-Leninism.
- Victor Serge Library Moscow's library of alternative socialist and radical thought.
Data Archives
Research Institutions
Museums
Associations and Societies
- BASEES Study Group on the Russian Revolution This study group of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies aims to help promote new approaches to the study of the Russian revolution between the 1880s and 1932. It has an annual international conference and a journal, Revolutionary Russia
- Memorial - Moscow Documentary and research centre on human rights in past and present. Cyrillic font.
- Memorial - Ryazan' Regional department of the Memorial society.
- Memorial Italia L'associazione Memorial Italia is a society for studying the history of 20th century Russian History focusing on human rights then and now.
Special Topics
- Commissar - The Commissar Vanishes The falsification of photographs in Stalinist Russia.
- Evolution of Labour Relations in Russian Industry (1880s-1920s) Documents, maps, photographs, statistics, articles, bibliography ands other online resources from the Center for Economic History of Moscow Lomonosov State University; Russian text.
- Gulag Italia Italians in the Gulag. Website maintained by the Fondazione Feltrinelli (Milan) and the Memorial association (Moscow) on the Italian victims of the Soviet camp system. It contains information (maps, chronology, history) on the Gulag in general; a database containing 1026 biographical notes on the Italian victims, and a full bibliography compiled by Hélène Kaplan
- Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online Digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS) consisting chiefly of summary transcripts in English of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War.
- Lenin - Vladimir Ilich Lenin Home Page List of lists maintained in Lithuania.
- Lenin Museum (St Petersburg). General information.
- Lenin Museum (Moscow) Biographical texts and digitized photo's; some information about the Museum, but not on opening hours.
- Makhno The Nestor Makhno Archive. Pages dedicated to the Ukrainian anarchist, Nestor Ivanovich Makhno who was active in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War. Maintained by Nestor McNab.
- NEP at Duke University Libraries. A bibliography of Soviet and Western literature (1965-1995) on the New Economic Policy in Soviet Russia, by Peter Frykholm.
- Russian Revolution maintained by David Barnsdale in London. Links to sites on the topic.
- Russian Socialists and Anarchists after October 1917 Documentation on Russian socialist and anarchist movements opposing the Bolshevik Party after (but also partly before) the October Revolution of 1917. Includes documents, memoirs, scholarly articles, biographical notes etc. (Russian text.)
- Russische und Sowjetische Plakatkunst At RussianPoster.Ru.
- Sibir' Sovetskaia at Sibirskaja Zaimka. Articles by various authors on Siberia in Soviet times. Cyrillic characters.
- Soviet Defence Industry: The Numbered Factories and Other Establishments of the Soviet Defence Industry, 1928 to 1967 at the University of Warwick. A guide by Mark Harrison (2004). Downloadable files.
- Soviet Nationalities Data at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Data from the censuses of 1926 and 1959, compiled by Brian Silver. PDF and downloadable file.
- Sowjetunion 1917-1953 at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. A publication of official documents prepared by Helmut Altrichter.
- Stalinka: Digital Library of Staliniana Visual materials and artifacts relating to Stalin: photographs, posters, paintings, banners, sculptures, chinaware, pins, etc.; at the University of Pittsburgh.
- SULAIR: Russian Reference Works at Stanford University Libraries. Special sections on the humanities, the arts, and the social sciences.
- Tattood Stalin An exhibition of photographs of Soviet prisoners' tattoos. Information about the exhibition, a few photographs and symbols; at the Hungarian Statuepark website, www.szoborpark.hu
- Ukrainian Soviet Posters at Brama's Ukrainian Gateway: 12 posters, mainly from the 1920s and 1930s.
- Université et Révolution at the University of Geneva. A study of East-European students in Geneva in the times of Plekhanov and Lenin, by Ladislas Mysyrowicz.
- Vlast' i Narod A study by G.L. Olekh on the Russian Communist Party and its political police in the early 1920s. Cyrillic characters.
- Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia A selection of digitized family archives that had been concealed by the survivors of the Stalin Terror. A project of Memorial Society and Orlando Figes.
- WWW Virtual Guide to the History of Russian and Soviet Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Meta-index. Includes a bibliography.
Discussion Lists
- H-Russia This list is a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. It encourages scholarly discussion of Russian and Soviet history and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids.
- List@ceh.org.ru This moderated list, maintained at the Center for Economic History of the Faculty of History at the Moscow Lomonosov State University, aims to "organize the discussion of
actual problems of socio-economic history of Russia and the world"; Russian text only.
Reference
Scandinavia
Singapore
Slovakia
- Slovak National Archives General information, overview of the collections, links, digitized images.
Archives and Libraries
- Státne archívy v SR Archives in Slovakia. From the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic–Archives and Records Management Department.
Museums
- Povazske Muzeum (Zilina). The Povazie museum is the only museum in the world entirely devoted to the tinker trade. Its collections include almost 2 500 pieces of objects related to the tinker trade.
Special Topics
- Povazske Muzeum (Zilina). The Povazie museum is the only museum in the world entirely devoted to the tinker trade. Its collections include almost 2 500 pieces of objects related to the tinker trade.
Slovenia
- Arhiv Republike Slovenije General information. The three Branch Record Departments contain the records of the Central Committee of the Communist League of Slovenia, the former Institute of the History of the Labour Movement, and the Ministry of the Interior, respectively.
Reference
South Africa
- South African Labour History Project A joint project of the Labour Research Service and Khanya College (Woodstock) to promote knowledge and understanding of the history of the South African working class and the role of women in its development. Project information, timeline, documents in PDF format.
- University of the Western Cape (UWC) / Robben Island Mayibuye Archives Collections include documents related to the African National Congress, the South African Congress of Trade Unions, South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Women's National Coalition, Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement, Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee, South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee, Film and Allied Workers Organisation, the United Women's Congress and the Legal and Research Departments of the International Defence and Aid Fund.
Archives and Libraries
Research Institutions
Spain
Archives and Libraries
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives at Brandeis University. General information, Spanish Civil War links.
- ArchiEspa at the Carlos III University (Madrid). Directory of Spanish archives.
- Biblioteca Nacional The National Library of Spain.
- Biblioteca Pública Arús (Barcelona). A century-old library with ca 65,000 vols on Spanish anarchism, freemasonry etc. Overview of the collection.
- Centre d'Estudis Històrics Internacionals (Barcelona). Brief overview of the considerable collections on the Second Republic, Civil War, and Franco period; catalogue through the University of Barcelona.
- Centre de documentació antiautoritari i llibertari Cedall An organization for 20th century libertarian history. Information about the Centre and its activities, E-books, online interviews and articles on the labour movement in Badalona (1915-). The library collection is housed in the Biblioteca de Can Casacuberta, Badalona.
- Centro de Documentación de la Emigración Española CDEE: Spanish emigration research centre. General information, extensive collection information, all in Spanish; from the website of the Fundación 1o de Mayo.
- Centro de Información Documental de Archivos Information from the Ministry of Education and Culture.
- Centro de Investigación y Estudios Republicanos CIERE Centre for Spanish Republican Studies (Madrid); publishes the Cuadernos Republicanos; general information, access to its online catalogue.
- Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica (Salamanca). Republican and other (notably masonic) records seized by the victors during and after the Spanish Civil War.
- F.A.L. - Fundación de Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo (Madrid). Anarchist collections, but the page contains mainly information on its publications.
- Fundació Rafael Campalans: Arxiu Històric (Barcelona). The collections in the Historical Archive of the Fundació Rafael Campalans documents the political history of Catalonia
- Fundación de Investigaciones Marxistas (FIM) Archivo histórico PCE, the historical archives of the Spanish communist party.
- Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero Historical institute, library and archives of the Unión General de Trabajadores. Information about the collections, online information bulletin ('Ámbitos').
- Fundación Pablo Iglesias (Madrid). The archive of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español. General information.
- Fundación Primera de Mayo (Madrid). Research and documentation centre created by the Comisiones Obreras. General information.
- Marx Memorial Library (London). The Specialist Collections include materials on the Spanish Civil War, the US labour movement, the Bernal peace collection, early radical and chartist materials, the Daily Worker/Morning Star and the Unemployed Workers' Movement. Online catalogue, a selection of book reviews first published in the Marx Memorial Bulletin.
- Red de Archivos Historicos de Comisiones Obreras Collections information, membership directory, lists of publications, links.
- 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.
Research Institutions
Associations and Societies
Special Topics
- 1936-2006: The 70th anniversary of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War This internet tv site by ChristieBooks runs films made by the CNT between July 1936 and 1938. See also the Arts and Posters section.
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives at Brandeis University. General information, Spanish Civil War links.
- Asturias Republicana Website devoted to the history of the First Republic and the Second Republic in Asturias. Transcripts of documents, memories, some photographs, biographies. The section "Entre Repúblicas" contains documents and a bibliography relating to freethinking and Freemasonry.
- Biblioteca Pública Arús (Barcelona). A century-old library with ca 65,000 vols on Spanish anarchism, freemasonry etc. Overview of the collection.
- Centre d'Estudis Històrics Internacionals (Barcelona). Brief overview of the considerable collections on the Second Republic, Civil War, and Franco period; catalogue through the University of Barcelona.
- Centre de documentació antiautoritari i llibertari Cedall An organization for 20th century libertarian history. Information about the Centre and its activities, E-books, online interviews and articles on the labour movement in Badalona (1915-). The library collection is housed in the Biblioteca de Can Casacuberta, Badalona.
- Centro de Documentación de la Emigración Española CDEE: Spanish emigration research centre. General information, extensive collection information, all in Spanish; from the website of the Fundación 1o de Mayo.
- Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica (Salamanca). Republican and other (notably masonic) records seized by the victors during and after the Spanish Civil War.
- Dictionnaire des guérilleros et résistants antifranquistes Contains entries for anarchists, communists, socialists, and non-party activists who were active between 1936 and 1975 against the Franco dictatorship. Begun by Antonio Tellez Sola (1921-2005) in collaboration with the Centre International de Recherches sur l’Anarchisme (CIRA). See also the Dictionnaire international des militants anarchistes.
- F.A.L. - Fundación de Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo (Madrid). Anarchist collections, but the page contains mainly information on its publications.
- Fills i Néts de l’exili republicà, mexicans a Catalunya Interviews with descendants of Catalonian exiles to Mexico.
- Friends of Durruti Group 1937-1939 at the Spunk Archive. English translation of the monograph by Agustín Guillamón (1996).
- Garrido - Fernando Garrido Tortosa Spanish revolutionary (1821-1883). Biography, bibliography.
- Giménologues. Souvenirs de la Guerre d’Espagne d'Antoine Gimenez Bruno Salvadori was the real name of this member of the Colonna Durruti. This site offers French translations of his recollections of the Spanish Civil War.
- Grupo Memoria Libertaria Valladolid This website devoted to the history of the libertarian movement in Valladolid offers online articles, a bibliography, links, news and announcements about anarchism in Valladolid, the CNT, the Spanish Civil War, and more.
- Guerra Civil Española A Spanish site dedicated to the 1936-1939 Civil War.
- Liberados del olvido. Memorial sobre la Guerra Civil y el Franquismo en Aragón This website has a directory of archival institutions, a database containing the names of 34,000 persons affected by the Civil War in Aragón, and links to other resources to find information about the Spanish Civil War, especially in Aragón. It is a project of the Fundación Bernardo Aladrén.
- Marx Memorial Library (London). The Specialist Collections include materials on the Spanish Civil War, the US labour movement, the Bernal peace collection, early radical and chartist materials, the Daily Worker/Morning Star and the Unemployed Workers' Movement. Online catalogue, a selection of book reviews first published in the Marx Memorial Bulletin.
- Mio, Andrea, Cultura libertaria e nuova società. Le riviste spagnole di divulgazione alternativa (1923-1936) Online dissertation on Spanish libertarian, alternative periodicals. The subjects are mainly sexuality, naturism and eugenics.
- Pozo González, Josep Antoni, El poder revolucionari a Catalunya durant els mesos de juliol a octubre de 1936 / Crisi i recomposició de l'Estat Online dissertation from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (pdf); with abstracts in Catalan and English on the index page.
- Proyecto filosofía en español Spanish philosophy website. Many resources, including digitized articles from the Cuadernos de Ruedo ibérico and Nuestra Bandera.
- 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'
- Spanienfreiwillige - Biografisches Handbuch von A – Z On this website you can find the annotations to the biographical dictionary of the Swiss volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, that was published in March 2009; German text.
- 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.
- Spanish Revolution and Civil War maintained by Eugene W. Plawiuk. Articles, links.
Conferences
Journals
Reference
Sweden
Archives and Libraries
Data Archives
Research Institutions
Museums
Special Topics
Journals
Reference
Switzerland
Archives and Libraries
- Archiv für Agrargeschichte AfA Archives of Rural History. Swiss organization for the safeguarding of documents relating to the history of rural society and the agricultural sector in the 19th and 20th centuries. AfA locate and catalogue but do not store the documents but instead deposit them in existing repositories. The website has information in German, French and English about their method of working and gives access to a database containing information about archived collections.
- Archive der Schweizer Arbeiterbewegung A new web portal to facilitate access to the archives of the Swiss labour movement. Documents from trade unions, political parties, women's and youth movements, associations and societies. A collaboration of the Association pour l'Etude de l'Histoire du mouvement ouvrier AEHMO, the College du Travail and the Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv.
- Centre international de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme (Lausanne). General holdings information, lists of books, pamphlets, music, films and periodicals in the Centre's collections.
- Circolo Carlo Vanza (Minusio). Detailed listing of its (mainly anarchist) holdings.
- Fondazione Pellegrini-Canevascini (Bellinzona). Swiss archival and documentation centre holding the papers of Guglielmo Canevascini and Piero Pellegrini, trade union archives (Camera del Lavoro, VPOD, Flmo, SEI) and socialist party archives (PST, PSA, PSU).
- Memoriav Association for the Preservation of the Audiovisual Heritage of Switzerland. General information in French, German, Italian and English, a directory of relevant institutions, bibliography, newsletter, and access to Memobase, which contains data of 150,000 photos, films, video and sound recordings.
- Repertorium der handschriftlichen Nachlässe in den Bibliotheken und Archiven der Schweiz at the Swiss National Library. Directory of personal papers.
- Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv (Zurich). The largest labour history collection in Switzerland. Extensive holdings information. Online catalogs.
- Stiftung Studienbibliothek zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (Zurich). Overview of the collections.
Associations and Societies
Special Topics
Conferences
Journals
Turkey
- Türkiye Sosyal Tarih Arastirma Vakfi (Istanbul). The foundation in charge of the heritage of the Turkish Communist Party. General information.
- Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfi The Turkish Economic and Social History Foundation, Istanbul, is a non-governmental organization working in the public interest with the objective of developing and extending history consciousness in Turkey. It organizes oral history projects and provides library, archival and bibliographical services through its Information-Documentation Centre.
- Turkology Update Leiden Project (TULP) Working papers archive Articles in Turkish, English and Dutch on various topics in modern Turkish history. At Leiden University's Department of Turkish Languages and Cultures.
- TUSAM The Center for Class Studies in Turkey is a non-profit scientific research institution based in Istanbul and founded in 2003 as a part of the Foundation for Social Researches (SAV); information in Turkish.
Archives and Libraries
- ArchiMac: Turkish Archives Site Website by Bekir Kemal Ataman providing information on the Archives and Records Management profession, links to and information about various archival organizations in Turkey, including information for Genealogical Researchers (in Turkish), the first archives journal in Turkey, and the Journal of Archival Studies.
Special Topics
- Coal Miners A website concerning the Zongdulgak coalfield during the Ottoman era, containing photographs, maps, and documents. It is a supplement to the book 'Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire: the Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822-1920, by Donald Quataert.
- History from Below in the Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East: An Archive A website devoted to labor history during the late Ottoman and modern Middle East era. It contains originals and translations of books, articles and contemporary original documents. It is a joint project of Binghamton University, SUNY, and the London School of Economics and Politics.
United Kingdom
- Chez la Veuve: Women Printers in Great Britain 1475-1700 A brief introduction to the subject with pictures of books printed or sold by women. Online exhibition from the University of Illinois Library.
Archives and Libraries
- Alexander Baykov Library The Baykov Library is part of the European Resource Centre, at the University of Birmingham. It was originally established in 1963 as part of the newly created Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) Holdings total aprox. 90,000 volumes and 500 Soviet Era Posters
- Archif Wleidyddol Gymreig (Welsh Political Archive) at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. General information
- Bishopsgate Institute and Library The library and archives of this educational foundation that opened in 1894, offers free public access to its historical collections about London and the early labour, free thought and co-operative movements.
- British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Lots of political cartoons, mainly from the British press. Collections information.
- British Library
- Commonweal Collection at the University of Bradford Library. An independent specialist library concerned with issues relating to non-violent social change. It contains over 11,000 books and pamphlets, 250 current journals and a variety of videos and educational materials on peace and disarmament, environmentalism etc. It also contains archival material from the peace and other movements.
- DANGO Database of Archives of Non-Governmental Organisations This project aims to gather as much information as possible on the availability of records relating to non-governmental organisations and pressure groups active in the UK since 1945. The project's outcome will be a fully functional online database (currently already available for research, although as a trial and incomplete version). DANGO is based at the University of Birmingham.
- Dundee University Archives - Indian Textile Industry Source List Detailed index.
- Fabian Society Online Archive Around 580 pamphlets published between 1884 and 1997, and some of the earliest Fabian Society minute books are available on the site of the London School of Economics and Political Science LSE.
- Guide to 19th Century Pamphlets (1801-1914) in 49 collections housed in the CURL libraries.
- Guide to Holdings - Manuscript Collections - Manuscripts & Special Collections - The University of Nottingham Go to Business records: Records of Nottinghamshire businesses and employees' organisations.
- Guildhall Library (London). Overview of its sources for social and economic history.
- Hackney Archives Department (London). An overview of the collections, which include sources for social and labour history (local societies and clubs, trade unions), online catalogue.
- Hull University Archives The labour history collections include materials related to Chartism, Christian Socialism, and many Trades Unions records. Online catalogue.
- Kate Sharpley Library (London) Named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist, the Library was founded in South London in 1979 and reorganized in 1991. Its holdings include 10,000 English language books, pamphlets and periodicals on anarchism; a collection of posters, leaflets, manuscripts, letters, and internal records, including reports from the IWA (AIT/IAA), the Anarchist Federation of Britain (1945-1950), the Syndicalist Workers Federation (1950-1979), Cienfuegos Press, and ASP.
- Labour History Archive and Study Centre (LHASC) The Labour History Archive and Study Centre (LHASC) is the main specialist repository for research into the political wing of the labour movement. It holds archives of working class organisations from the Chartists to New Labour, including the Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain.
- Leeds University Library - Guide to Collections The Special Collections include the Leeds Russian Archive and the Quaker Archives Database.
- Library and Museum of Freemasonry The repository for the archives of the United Grand Lodge of England and the Supreme Grand Chapter of England, their predecessor bodies, buildings and sites associated with Freemasonry, charitable bodies associated with Freemasonry, some individual Freemasons and some lodge and chapter records.
- Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science Over 1m vols, 28,000 journals. Online catalog (Web). Guides to the manuscript and pamphlet collections.
- Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru - The National Library of Wales General information, online resources.
- Marx Memorial Library (London). The Specialist Collections include materials on the Spanish Civil War, the US labour movement, the Bernal peace collection, early radical and chartist materials, the Daily Worker/Morning Star and the Unemployed Workers' Movement. Online catalogue, a selection of book reviews first published in the Marx Memorial Bulletin.
- Modern Records Centre at the Library of the University of Warwick in Coventry. Records of the Trades Union Congress, the British Confederation of Industry and other union and company archives. Summary guide to the holdings.
- Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading. Information on its collections, which include artefacts, books, archives, photographs, film and sound recordings, and are all related to the history of food, farming and country life. The Museum is also responsible for the The Rural History Database, an online bibliography of British rural history.
- National Archives Maintains ARCHON, a directory of British archival repositories, and the National Register of Archives
- National Co-operative Archive The former Co-operative Union Archive, which has now been merged with another Archive. At the Co-operative College in Manchester, UK.
- National Library of Scotland Scotland's largest library and a UK library of deposit.
- Political Archives: Commonwealth and Latin American Archives Project This website is the product of a project sponsored jointly by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (London) and the Institute for the Study of the Americas (London) aiming to improve access to and use of their extensive collections of political ephemera. It offers collection information, an online catalogue, and a selection of digitized posters and pamphlets.
- Public Record Office The national archive of England, Wales and the United Kingdom.
- Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
- Scottish Textile Heritage Online "This groundbreaking pilot project aims to provide a one-stop shop for anyone wanting information about the richness and diversity of Scottish Textile heritage collections. Users will be able to browse through a database of some 4,000 descriptions of archive and museum collections and objects with supporting images."
- Sources for Labour History A Research Guide from the National Archives. See also the Ministry of Labour Records Research Guide.
- South Wales Miners' Library at University College Swansea. General information.
- Special collections in the University of Huddersfield Archives The G. H. Wood collection: manuscript wages material, monographs, pamphlets, government reports and periodicals. The subjects covered include economic and social history, education, health, housing and women's history. There is also a valuable collection of pamphlets published by feminist organisations in the early twentieth century as well as a substantial set of Fabian Society material.
- The National Archives: The Catalogue: Research Guides: Sources for Labour History Domestic Records Information 125. These notes briefly describe the unpublished sources noted in the National Register of Archives (NRA), the principal relevant repositories with strong collections relating to the history of the labour movement, other useful links and works of reference.
- TUC Library Collections at the London Metropolitan University
- UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery Information on archives and resources.
- University of Liverpool Library: Special Collections and Archives These include the Sports Archives, Social Work Archives, the papers of John and Katharine Bruce Glasier, the Gypsy Lore Society Archive, the Scott Macfie Gypsy Collection, the Rathbone family papers, the Josephine Butler papers, and the David Owen Archive.
- University of Sussex Special Collections Indexes to the collections, among them the records of the Common Wealth party and the New Statesman, and related personal papers.
- Working Class Movement Library (Salford). Overview of the collections (50,000 books, pamphlets etc), online catalog (Web).
Data Archives
- ESDS Qualidata This specialist service of the ESDS led by the UK Data Archive (UKDA) at the University of Essex provides access and support for a range of social science qualitative datasets.
- Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website
An online resource of almost 200,000 pages of all the published population reports created by the Registrars-General and its predecessors for England and Wales and for Scotland for the period 1801–1920.
- Mass-Observation Archive at the University of Sussex. Materials 1937-1949 and from 1981. Several search facilities.
- Moving Here A British database of digitized photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items from 30 local and national archives, museums and libraries which record migration experiences of the last 200 years.
- Scottish Economic History Database 1550-1780 Crop yields, demographic data, price and wage series, weather statistics; at the International Institute of Social History.
- Scottish Emigration Database The Database currently contains the records of over 21,000 passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports between 1 January and 30 April 1923, and at other Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960. Based at the University of Aberdeen's AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies.
- UK Data Archive (UKDA) A resource centre that acquires, disseminates, preserves, and promotes the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom.
- UK National Digital Archive of Datasets at the University of London Computer Centre, in cooperation with the University of London Library and the Public Record Office. Archived digital data from UK government departments and agencies.
Research Institutions
Museums
- Black Country Living Museum (Dudley, West Midlands). Brief overview of the collections.
- Dunaskin Open Air Museum (Doon Valley, Scotland), on the site of the Dalmellington Iron Works. General information.
- Ironbridge Gorge Museum (Shropshire). General information on the museums and sites at this "birthplace of the industrial revolution".
- Library and Museum of Freemasonry The repository for the archives of the United Grand Lodge of England and the Supreme Grand Chapter of England, their predecessor bodies, buildings and sites associated with Freemasonry, charitable bodies associated with Freemasonry, some individual Freemasons and some lodge and chapter records.
- Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading. Information on its collections, which include artefacts, books, archives, photographs, film and sound recordings, and are all related to the history of food, farming and country life. The Museum is also responsible for the The Rural History Database, an online bibliography of British rural history.
- Museum of Liverpool Life houses collections of regional provenance and national importance, including material relating to housing, public health, transport, employment, trade unionism, and recreation.
- Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester The Museum's archive and library collection mainly relates to the industrial, scientific and social history of the Manchester region. The archive material include books, business records, films, letters, oral history recordings, personal records, photographs, textile sample books, written and printed papers. General information, with "stunning visuals and sound", if you have all the plug-ins.
- National Coal Mining Museum (Wakefield, West Yorkshire). General information.
- National Museum of Science and Industry consisting of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (Bradford), the National Railway Museum (York) and the Science Museum (London).
- Owen - Robert Owen Museum Newtown, Powys, U.K. General information, a short online biography.
- People's History Museum (formerly National Museum of Labour History, Manchester). Holdings include the records of the Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain. The public galleries are housed at the Pump House.
- Rochdale Pioneers Museum The museum of the co-operative movement.
- Scottish Textile Heritage Online "This groundbreaking pilot project aims to provide a one-stop shop for anyone wanting information about the richness and diversity of Scottish Textile heritage collections. Users will be able to browse through a database of some 4,000 descriptions of archive and museum collections and objects with supporting images."
- Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum (Dorchester). General information, highlights of the new exhibition on "the foundation of modern day trade unionism".
Associations and Societies
- Anarchist Studies Network A Political Studies Association (UK), Specialist Group for the Study of Anarchism. General information, calls for papers, news, links.
- BASEES Study Group on the Russian Revolution This study group of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies aims to help promote new approaches to the study of the Russian revolution between the 1880s and 1932. It has an annual international conference and a journal, Revolutionary Russia
- British Universities Industrial Relations Association The UK association of academics in industrial relations and associated disciplines, at Keele University. Newsletter, links.
- Family and Community Historical Research Society General information.
- Labour Movements Group of the Political Studies Association. Conference proceedings, links.
- Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society Llafur's aims include bringing together those interested in the history of the working class and its organisations, unions, co-operative societies or political bodies.
- London Socialist Historians Group The official blog of the LSHG
- Manchester's Radical History The Manchester Radical History Collective's blog devoted to the city's radical and grassroots history.
- North East Labour History Society Britain's oldest regional labour history society is dedicated to the study of working people's history in the region, particularly during the modern period. The website offers information about the Society and its annual journal North East History, a reading list and links to other sites.
- North West Labour History Group General information, journal table of contents, some online articles.
- Scottish Labour History Society Conferences, essays, links.
- Social History Society General information, conferences.
- Socialist History Society A group based in the UK concerned with the study of history from a socialist perspective, broadly defined. It publishes the journal Socialist History and a monograph series, Occasional Papers. It originated in 1946 as the Communist Party Historians' Group, but is now independent.
- Society for Co-operative Studies
- Society for the Social History of Medicine Journals tables of contents, conferences, seminars.
- Society for the Study of Labour History Journal, conferences, links.
Special Topics
- Anarchist Studies Network A Political Studies Association (UK), Specialist Group for the Study of Anarchism. General information, calls for papers, news, links.
- Carlyle - The Carlyle Letters online The archive contains over 10,000 letters by Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Visitors can search the database or browse these documents by date, recipient, or subject. From Duke University Press.
- Centre for Research into Freemasonry at the University of Sheffield. Access to the online version of Lane's Masonic Records of England and Wales, Draffen's Scottish Masonic Records, an Introductory Bibliography of English-Language Works and other resources.
- Chartist Ancestors For family historians wanting to find their radical roots in the Chartist movement of the nineteenth century. The names listed here are drawn from newspapers and books of the time, from later histories and from other sources. The site also has a timeline and links to other Chartist resources. Maintained by Mark Crail.
- Dictionary of Labour Biography General project information: background, aims and objectives; index of the DLB.
- Fabian Society Online Archive Around 580 pamphlets are now available on the website of the London School School of Economics and Political Science. In addition, some of the earliest Fabian Society minute books are also available online.
- Glasgow Digital Library Digital collections about the history of Glasgow and Scotland including resources on the 'Red Clydeside' period in Scotland's political history (1910-1932), ebooks on Glasgow's radical tradition, and the social, political and economic developments in Victorian Britain (1837-1901)
- History of the Workhouse Website devoted to the history of the workhouse in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It contains lists of workhouses and Poor Law unions, maps, photographs, transcripts of documents, introductory articles on the history of the Poor Laws, histories of individual institutions, and other resources. Created by Peter Higginbotham.
- I.A. Recordings (Telford, Shropshire). Dedicated to recording past and present industry processes on film and video. Overview of the productions, industrial archeology links
- Kate Sharpley Library (London) Named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist, the Library was founded in South London in 1979 and reorganized in 1991. Its holdings include 10,000 English language books, pamphlets and periodicals on anarchism; a collection of posters, leaflets, manuscripts, letters, and internal records, including reports from the IWA (AIT/IAA), the Anarchist Federation of Britain (1945-1950), the Syndicalist Workers Federation (1950-1979), Cienfuegos Press, and ASP.
- Labour Left Briefing Links Links of mainly UK labour and green organizations, academic sites, bookshops, radical media etc.
- LabourNet UK Links to trade unions, campaign groups and other political organizations.
- Library and Museum of Freemasonry The repository for the archives of the United Grand Lodge of England and the Supreme Grand Chapter of England, their predecessor bodies, buildings and sites associated with Freemasonry, charitable bodies associated with Freemasonry, some individual Freemasons and some lodge and chapter records.
- Manchester's Radical History The Manchester Radical History Collective's blog devoted to the city's radical and grassroots history.
- Marx Memorial Library (London). The Specialist Collections include materials on the Spanish Civil War, the US labour movement, the Bernal peace collection, early radical and chartist materials, the Daily Worker/Morning Star and the Unemployed Workers' Movement. Online catalogue, a selection of book reviews first published in the Marx Memorial Bulletin.
- Moving Here A British database of digitized photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items from 30 local and national archives, museums and libraries which record migration experiences of the last 200 years.
- Owen - Robert Owen Museum Newtown, Powys, U.K. General information, a short online biography.
- Owned by the Miners: Tower at the National Library of Wales: Roger Tiley's photographs of Tower Colliery, purchased by the miners in 1995.
- Plymouth Labour History Website Online articles and some links.
- Scots Abroad Databases bringing together materials relating to the life of Scots at home and abroad; in the collections of the National Library of Scotland.
- Scottish Emigration Database The Database currently contains the records of over 21,000 passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports between 1 January and 30 April 1923, and at other Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960. Based at the University of Aberdeen's AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies.
- Scottish Labour History Collections This list contains summary details of all collections of significant size received to date by the Manuscripts Division of the National Library of Scotland in the field of Scottish labour and trade union history, including personal papers of individuals active in these movements.
- Sources for Labour History A Research Guide from the National Archives. See also the Ministry of Labour Records Research Guide.
- South Wales Miners' Library at University College Swansea. General information.
- Southwell Union Workhouse (1834-1871) Documents from Southwell Union Workhouse, England: correspondence between the union and the central authorities concerning individual paupers and workhouse staff as well as source material to study poor relief, education, public health, local politics and labour history, such as trade unions, Chartism and friendly societies. This is a joint project by The National Archives in partnership with the National Trust.
- Statistical Accounts of Scotland The two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, covering the 1790s and the 1830s, provide a rich record of a wide variety of topics: wealth, class and poverty; climate, agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools, and the moral health of the people. A free service is available to all users with the basic features of searching, viewing and printing from the two Accounts.
- Street Corner Society On the roots of democratic and labour organization in the early modern era. Includes material on Levellers, Diggers, Quakers, and others, mainly in Britain in the 1600s.
- UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery Information on archives and resources.
- Union - The Union Makes Us Strong: TUC History Online A history of the British trade union movement since the early 19th century, based on digitised images from the TUC Library Collections.
- University of Liverpool Library: Special Collections and Archives These include the Sports Archives, Social Work Archives, the papers of John and Katharine Bruce Glasier, the Gypsy Lore Society Archive, the Scott Macfie Gypsy Collection, the Rathbone family papers, the Josephine Butler papers, and the David Owen Archive.
- Ursula Stange's annotated bibliography of Chartism This bibliography was compiled in 1993 as part of the research for a Master's thesis on Ernest Jones and the Chartist Movement. Since Jones joined the movement only in 1844, the bibliography does not contain all the Chartism resources pertaining to the movement before that date.
- Winning Equal Pay: the value of women's work A partnership initiative between London Metropolitan University and the Trades Union Congress to record the long campaign to achieve equal pay for women. This interactive website will show filmed interviews with women who fought for equal pay, digitised images and documents, plus contributions from historians and other experts.
- Workers' War : Home Front Recalled This TUC History Online website holds an exhibition of hundreds of digitised images and documents, oral testimony from those who worked on the Home Front during the war and contributions from historians providing thematic perspectives on the period.
Journals
Reference
United States
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.
Discussion Lists
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
Reference
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Viet Nam
- Vietnam Studies Group A sub-committee of the Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. The website's resources include a directory of archives and research library collections in and outside Vietnam, a Vietnam scholars directory, and teaching and reference resources.
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