Labor Archives of Washington State Now Open
The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies is pleased to announce the opening of the Labor Archives of Washington State in the Special Collections Division of the University of Washington Libraries....
View ArticleThe Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell...
This is the first entry of a series of blogs dedicated to discussing labor archives. Thanks to Conor Casey for organizing this series. Since its founding in 1949, the Kheel Center has focused on...
View ArticleNew Projects from the Labor Archives Roundtable of the Society of American...
In an effort to update and expand tools for Labor Archives Roundtable members and our users, the Labor Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists has been working on new projects of...
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Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike
Tired of reductions in pay and jobs, increased workloads, and harassment of United Automobile Workers organizers, on December 30, 1936 automotive workers in the General Motors Fisher Number One Plant...
View ArticleSLSA Symposium and Labor Archives
NOTE: This event has been cancelled as a result of weather. On March 5, 2015, the Center for the History of the New America at the University of Maryland will host a symposium exploring workers and...
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Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike
Originally posted on December 17, 2010. Written by Troy Eller English, Society of Women Engineers Archivist at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University. Tired of reductions in pay and...
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Battle of the Overpass
Originally posted at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University. May 19, 2011. Written by Kristen Chinery, Reference Archivist. On May 26, 1937, nearly...
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Collection Spotlight: The Utah Philips Papers
Originally posted October 16th, 2014. Written by Dallas Pillen, Archives Technician at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University. Bruce Duncan “Utah”...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Merger: In Commemoration of the AFL-CIO’s 60th Anniversary
Before 1955, the AFL (American Federation of Labor) and the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) were separate, competing organizations. The two organizations chose to merge in 1955 to strengthen...
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AWOC Audio Recordings Now Digitized
The Reuther Library is pleased to announce the digitization of over 100 reel-to-reel audio recordings related to the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC). AWOC was chartered by the American...
View ArticleNational History Day Students Win 2016 Regional Video Contest Employing Labor...
Every year the Labor Archives of Washington at the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections works with National History Day students on their projects. This year, students Ashley Luty,...
View ArticleWe Do the Work: An Interview with Conor Casey
The latest episode of the Labor Archives of Washington’s regular segment on the KSVR radio show We Do the Work is now streaming online via KSVR and Public Radio International’s Exchange. This interview...
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The ILWU History Project
In the February-March 2016 issue of Labor, under LAWCHA Watch, John W. McKerley and Jennifer Sherer write that multiple generations of labor scholars, labor educators, unionists, students, and others...
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Collection Spotlight: UAW Local 174 Mural
In 1937, United Auto Workers Local 174 sponsored the creation of a series of murals to enliven their Union Hall and celebrate their rich, if relatively young, history. The resulting work proved to be...
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