Resources

This page is intended to provide links to labor history resources relating to New York State. Some of the resources it refers to are nation-wide, but include specific sections on New York.

Help us build the single most complete source of information on labor history in New York State. Entries should be sent to Gail Malmgreen at gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

American Labor Studies Center
This is an excellent and comprehensive source for labor history and labor studies materials, and for educational resources.

H-Labor
The major electronic discussion list on the history of workers and their institutions. The link provides access to the site with information on how to join and use the list.

ILGWU Archives
The Kheel Center at the ILR School of Cornell holds the ILG archives. Recently it has created a website with a sample of the material available plus collection guides and a selective biography. Access to the website is at http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ilgwu/

Illinois Labor History Society
The new and dynamic Illinois Labor History Society website with resources for teachers and researchers as well as information on Illinois and Chicago labor history tours.

Labor Archives Directory
This directory of archives and special collection in the United States and Canada includes a section on New York State.

Labor Arts
The site presents images about the past and present lives of working people. It is a virtual museum exhibiting and cataloguing the art of the labor movement and working people.

LAWCHA
The Labor and Working Class History Association is a nation-wide organization that makes available a listing of labor-related resources, including other State Labor History Associations, Museums, Conferences, and Archives

Labor Films
For a comprehensive online directory, contact the website of the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO at http://www.dclabor.org, and follow the link on labor films, or contact https://laborfilms.dabbledb.com/page/laborfilms/ePjMknLk#. Also see Tom Zaniello, Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Rifraff: An Expanded Guide to Films About Labor, ILR Press, 2003.

Labor History Links
This valuable guid to many types of labor history materials was prepared by labor historian Rosemary Feurer for the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA).

New York State History links
Web sites of associations and organizations dedicated to the preservation of New York State's history.

Radical Walking Tours of New York
See the book by Bruce Kayton, Radical Walking Tours of New York City, Seven Stories Press, 2003. It provides information on tours, and includes a bibliography.

The Samuel Gompers Papers
The Samuel Gompers Papers collects, annotates, and makes available, primary sources of American labor history. Founded by Stuart Kaufman in 1974, the project has published two microfilm series of union records and eleven volumes of Gompers' papers. Peter Albert and Grace Palladino are the project directors.

Talking History: Sisters (University at Albany, SUNY)
Talking History, as part of its U.S. Labor and Industrial WWW Archive, has worked with NYLHA member Jane LaTour to create a complementary project to LaTour's book Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City (2008). Profiling the struggles of women who entered the blue-collar workforce during the late 1970's and early 1980's, the website contains biographical sketches, and interviews, photographs, documents, digital copies of LaTour's cassette tape interviews, as well as transcripts.

www.theunionsteward.com
Has essential information for the union representative, plus a Labor History This Month feature. Hosted by Robert Wechsler, former staffer for the Transport Workers Union of America, and a long time member of the Executive Board of The New York Labor History Association. He believes that remembering the past builds a stronger future for the labor movement.