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 "Sit down
and read.
Educate yourself for the coming conflict."
--Mother Jones,
labor organizer, 1837-1930
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Bibliographies
Research
Portals
Information portals with significant contributions to
labor history. (A number of other research portals are categorized within
topical or chronological pages on this site)
- Reference
Sources In U.S. Labor Studies New York University and
- WWW Virtual Library--
Labour History -major listings of sites in US and other countries
- WWW
Virtual Library--Economic and Business History
- Cornell
University Labor and Working class history portal
- Holt
Labor Library -- Labor Studies and Radical History including Labor
and Employment Law
- Labor
Research portal from Berkeley
- Labor
Contracts database state by state, union name, occupation
- History
Matters General Search Page many of the primary source documents
that I have listed on this site are from this wonderful site which also
contains syllabi, lesson plans, and is a virtual treasure trove on the
net
- Women
social movements history, Alexander Street , has numerous documents
and lesson plan ideas; most are not accessible outside the numerous
university libraries that subscribe
- Library
of Congress American Memory collection use search engine to search
for workers, unions, labor
- Library
of Congress Labor History Sources in the Manuscript Division
- Reading Marx's Capital
With David Harvey - an on-line course. From the world's foremost
economic Marxist geographer, the net offers you a seat in his class
- The
George Meany Memorial Archives
Online exhibits, reference assistance and more at the archives established
by the AFL-CIO to preserve its historical records and make them available
for research.
- The
Garment Industry in the United States, 1860-1975
A Historian’s Bibliography
- How to Research
a Corporation
Digitized Collections of primary sources
While this site links many primary source materials
organized by topic or chronology on other pages, here I will begin to
list sites with significant amounts of digitized on-line materials.
I am just starting this section, so check back later for more materials.
- Early
American Marxism, 1864-1946 thousands of pages of documents, searchable
by year and subject.
- Haymarket
Digital Collection - primary source material, especially trial transcripts,
of the Chicago Historical Society materials on Haymarket
- Women
Working 1800-1939 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript,
and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum
collections. 500,000 digitized pages and images including 7,500
pages of manuscripts; 3,500 books and pamphlets
1,200 photographs"
- Michigan
State University sources on US radicalism -digitized
- Debs
Collection at Indiana State University -many documents have been
digitized
- Labor
and Radical Papers of the Pacific Northwest
- The
Masses On-Line
- Document
Sets from University of Pittsburgh Archives " complete set
or series of documents that have been scanned and can be used to do
online documentary research. 1877 railroad strike to 1940s
- The
Samuel Gompers Papers - hundreds of documents
digitized on-line
- American
Left Ephemera Collection including Socialist Party of America (SPUSA),
Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), and Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS). Digitized items include flyers, leaflets, pamphlets, posters,
postcards, illustrations, photographs, pins, ribbons, and miscellaneous
objects.
- Joe
Hill Collection, Tamiment
- Mother
Earth (Emma Goldman)
- Radicalized
Responses to the Great Depression- copies of literature, handbills,etc
- Documenting
Louisiana Sugar searchable databases that allow users to examine
in he evolution of cane sugar. Documents, data
- Fulton
Bag and Cotton Mills Digital Collection documents the business activities
and concerns of management and workers in the Atlanta mill during the
early twentieth century; 1914-1915 strike in Atlanta; child labor, labor
spies, police
- Farmworker
Movement Documentation Project
Digitized labor journals/directories/proceedings
- American
Federationist (search for other volumes)
- Proceedings
AFL (search site for other volumes)
- The
Communist (St. Louis, Missouri, 1868)
- Switchmen's
Journal 1893
1907 1918
- Locomotive
Engineers Journal
- Railroad
Trainmen 1904 1922
- Railway
Conductor
- Mixer
and Server,1920 (Hotel and Restaurant Workers)
- Sheet
Metal Workers Journal Vol 15; see also vol
17 Vol
27
- Railway
Carmen's Journal 1919;
see also Volume 21
- International
horseshoers' monthly magazine, Volumes 23-24
- The
Painter and Decorator 1914
- Machinists'
Monthly Journal Georgia State University Library Southern
Labor Archives " IAMAW's official journal published from 1889
to 1956, and The Machinist, a newspaper published from 1946 to 1994.
Containing images and stories of American and Canadian workers, these
publications document activities of the union and its local lodges for
over a century."
- 1894
St. Louis Labor Directory
- American
Labor Year Book 1919-1920
Guides to Primary Source Materials
I am just beginning this section, so check back later
for more listings
Labor
Terms & Quotes
Organizations
of Labor History
Journals in the
Field
Labor history is American history, global history, business
history, women's history, and African-American history, etc. So any thorough
search on a topic would include a search on JSTOR and other academic library
search engines for the appropriate articles in the field.
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