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About Labor History Links

Discover the Record of Working-Class Life

Labor History Links is a curated gateway to thousands of resources documenting the history of work, workers, and labor struggle in America and beyond. This isn't a general search engine — every entry has been selected and annotated with keywords and categories selected  by historians, giving you a starting point you can trust rather than a pile of unsorted results.

Inside, you'll find books, museum exhibits, digital archives, oral history collections, maps, documentary film and audio, movies, music, art,  podcasts, timelines, teaching materials, and more — spanning strikes and organizing drives, immigrant and radical labor traditions, women's labor history, civil rights and the labor movement, and the everyday experience of work across every region of the country and beyond.

We will build up this site further when we can acquire more financial resources.  You are invited to join us in this endeaver, to help others become aware of a project, book, exhibit, music, art, etc. that is missing from our lists, by submitting a link.  It's pretty easy!

Our Team

Prof. Rosemary Feurer - Northern Illinois University-- Curator/Concept/web design

Ondrew Tillotson- Web Developer/Design,   Data architect and Tech Expert

Research and data curation: 

Emma  Barton-Norris

Hollis Harris

 Matthew  Keath

Jack Vavrinchik

Billy Holladay

Anthony Villanueva

Masthead art is from the work of 

Kathleen Farrell, Joliet Illinois, and Kathleen Scarboro, Paris, France

We gratefully acknowledge grants from the following:

 

Thanks for assistance/suggestions from: ​

Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa

Elliot Gorn Loyola University,  Chicago

Dominic Pacyga, Columbia College Chicago

James Connolly,  Ball State University

Katie Sutrina-Haney Indiana State University

Nicole Etcheson, Ball State University

Jon Teaford, Purdue University

Wilson J. Warren, Western Michigan University

Janet K. Weaver, University of Iowa

Erik Gellman, University of North Carolina

John McKerley, University of Iowa

Carl S. Smith, Northwestern University

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