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This is your source of information on the activities of the New York Labor History Association, dedicated to making the history of workers, their organizations, and their struggles in New York State a vital and ever-present part of our culture.

Check this site regularly for labor history news, announcements of events, and sources for researching New York State's labor history.

• As part of Labor History Month, we showed the award winning film, The Inheritance. The event took place at the United Federation of Teachers in New York City, and it was cosponsored the Association of the Teachers of Social Studies of the United Federation of Teachers. Irwin Yellowitz, President of the New York Labor History Association, commented on the film, and Vice-President George Altomare led a spirited discussion of it.
• May is Labor History Month. Download the 2010 Labor History Month Calendar, describing events and exhibits concerning labor history in New York State during May, by clicking here.
• The twenty-third Annual John Commerford Labor Education Awards honoring George Altomare, United Federation of Teachers and Steven Greenhouse, New York Times, took place on December 1, 2009, at the Tamiment Library, New York University.
• The 2009 Barbara Wertheimer Prize for the best paper by an undergraduate student on a topic in labor or work history was awarded to Brian Sarnacki for his honors thesis at Notre Dame University on "A Not So Golden Oldie:  Rethinking the Golden Age of Capitalism through the 1959 St. Louis Newspaper Guild Strike."   His mentor for this paper was Professor Daniel Graff.  Read more on how to submit an entry for the 2010 contest.
• The Labor and Labor Movements section of the American Sociological Association grants student papers awards as well.  For further information contact the Association.
• We will cosponsor a panel on Can Women Be Part of the American Labor Movement? at the Tamiment Library, New York University on March 30, 2010, at 6 PM.  The program is part of Women's History Month.  Other sponsors include the Metro New York Labor Communications Council and the Tamiment Library.  For further information, contact Jane LaTour at JLatour@dc37.net.  
  NOTE: The program has been cancelled for this date, and will be rescheduled..