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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.
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American Labor Studies Center
This is an excellent and comprehensive
source for labor history and labor studies materials, and for educational
resources.
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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.
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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/
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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.
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Labor Archives
Directory
This directory of archives and special collection in the United States and
Canada includes a section on New York State.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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New York State
History links
Web
sites of associations and organizations dedicated to the preservation of New
York State's history.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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