Labor History on the Internet
Professional Associations in Labor History
- International Association of Labour History Institutions
- American Social History Project (City University of New York)
- Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
- Eight Hour Day: Celebrate 150 Years of Work, Rest, and Play
- Canadian Committee on Labour History
- H-Labor (H-Net)
- H-Labor-Art: The Cultural and Artistic Heritages of Workign People (H-Net)
- Illinois Labor History Society
- Immigration & Ethnic History Society
- Pacific Northwest Labor History Projects (University of Washington)
- Industrial Relations And Trade Unions
- Institute of Industrial Relations (University of California, Berkeley)
- International Association of Labour History Institutions (Intl. Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Labor and Working Class History Association
- National Association of Ethnic Studies
- Newberry Library Labor History Seminar
- Scholars, Artists and Writers for Social Justice (SAWSJ)
- Study Group on International Labor and Working-Class History
- Pacific Northwest Labour History Association
- Wisconsin Labor History Society
- WWW Virtual Library: Labour and Business History (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- London Socialist Historians Group
- WorkGate (Library and Information Services, International Labor Organization)
- International Labour Organization
- World Press Review
Labor History and Studies Programs
Labor History Journals
General Information on Electronic History Journals
- History Cooperative [includes recent issues of American Historical Review and Journal of American History
(AHA, OAH, University of Illinois Press, and National Academy Press)
- History Journals and the Electronic Future,
the final report of a conference
held at Indiana University, Bloomington, August 3-8, 1997
- JSTOR: Journal Storage
- JSTOR Titles in Progress
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University Press)
- David F. Noble, "Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education,"
(First Monday, Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 1998)
- History Journals Guide [German/English] (S. Blaschke)
- History Journals Index (Universitat de València)
- The Nation magazine sin ce 1865: History Packs
- Northern Light (downloadable journal articles at affordable prices)
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
Labor History Journals Alphabetized by Titles
Specialized Sites in U.S. Labor History
- Presentations of Public History Online:
Focus on Work & Labor History [Public History Resource Center, August 4, 2003]
- Robert H. Zieger, "Bibliographical Essay," American Workers, American Unions, second edition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).
- A Short History of American Labor
(adapted from AFL-CIO American Federationist, March 1981)
- Contempotary Labor Bibliography (K. Scipes, Purdue University, North Central)
- Canadian Labour History, 1850-1999 (Canadian Museum of History)
- Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through American Textile History
(Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation/Society for the History of Technology)
- American Labor History (M. Lause)
- Labor History on the Web (AFL-CIO)
- African American Labor History Links (AFSCME)
- Program in Early American Economy and Society (The Library Company, Philadelphia, PA)
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
(Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
- Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (PBS)
- Voices from the Days of Slavery (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives (New Deal Network)
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
(American Memory, Library of Congress)
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (American Hypertext Workshop, University of Virginia)
- American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography [from WPA slave narratives collected in the 1930s] (Greenwood Publishing Group)
- Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (American Experience, PBS)
- North American Slave Narratives (Documenting the American South)
- Documenting the American South: Beginnings to 1920 (University of North Carolina)
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
(American Memory, Library of Congress)
- "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives (New Deal Network)
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (American Hypertext Workshop, University of Virginia)
- Tangled Roots: A Project Exploring the Histories of Americans of Irish Heritage and Americans of African Heritage (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Abolition, Resistance, and Slavery, Yale University)
- American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography [from WPA slave narratives collected in the 1930s] (Greenwood Publishing Group)
- Harriet Jacobs: Selected Writings and Correspondence (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University)
- Lost Labor: Images of Vanished American Workers, 1900-1980 (R. Elozua)
- Women Working, 1870-1930 (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program)
- The Samuel Gompers Papers: A Documentary History of the American Working Class
(University of Maryland, College Park)
- Labor-Management Conflict in American History (Ohio State University)
- Labor History Bibliography (T.G. Borden, OAH Magazine of History)
- Labor-Management Conflict in American History (Ohio State University)
- The Dramas of Haymarket (Chicago Historical Society)
- The Parable of Pullman (Illinois Labor History Society)
- Essay on Populism by Gene Clanton
- Frank Hobbs, Nicole Stoops, U.S. Census Bureau,
Census 2000 Special Reports, Series CENSR-4, Demographic Trends in the 20th Century (2002) [Adobe *.pdf format]
- Port of Entry: Immigration (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Ellis Island (Statue of Liberty--Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.)
- Save Ellis Island
- Ellis Island: Through America's Gateway (International Channel)
- Immigration (Ethic-America-On-Line)
- Immigration History Research Center (University of Minnesota)
- Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) (hypertext edition by tenant.net)
- Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) [Hypertext edition] (Yale University)
- On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century (W. Crozier et al.)
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum (WNET)
- Toledo's Attic: A Virtual Museum of Toledo, Ohio
(University of Toledo)
- Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
- The Jack London Collection (Sunsite Berkeley Digital Library)
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
(Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
- Inside an American Factory: The Westinghouse Works, 1904
(American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Children & Youth in America: A Documentary History
Editor: Robert H. Bremner
Associate Editors: John Barnard, Tamara Hareven, Robert Mennel
- Women Working, 1870-1930 (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program)
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911
(Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University)
- American Labor Museum / Botto House National Landmark
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present
(National Museum of American History)
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present
(National Museum of American History)
- Jane Addams' Hull House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago
- Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963 (Hull House/University of Illinois, Chicago)
- Katharine Bement Davis: New York City's Suffragist Commissioner (New York City Dept. of Correction)
- Women's Labor History (AFSCME Laborlinks)
- Women Working, 1870-1930 (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program)
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 (SUNY, Binghamton)
- Emma Goldman (American Experience, PBS)
- American Radicalism Collection (Michigan State University Libraries)
- Radicalism Collection: Titles in Subject Order (Michigan State University Libraries)
- Radicalism Collection: Titles in Alphabetical Order (Michigan State University Libraries)
- Digital Images from the American Radicalism Collection (Michigan State University)
- A History of the Socialist Party of America University of North Carolina)
- Eugene V. Debs Foundation
- Emma Goldman Papers (University of
California, Berkeley)
- In the Shadow of the I.W.W. (Walter P. Reuther Library)
- In the Shadow of the I.W.W. (Walter P. Reuther Library)
- The I.W.W.: Its History, Structure and Methods by Vincent St. John
- I.W.W. Pamphlets: Selections from the Colorful and Stirring I.W.W. Chapbooks
- I.W.W. Songs
- Bill Haywood Trial 1907 (Famous Trials in American History)
- Joe Hill (PBS station KUED, University of Utah)
- Seattle General Strike Project (Center for Labor Studies,
University of Washington)
- Communism in Washington State: History and Memory Project (University of Washington)
- STRIKES! Labor and Labor History in the Puget Sound
- The Labor Poject [Labor and Working-Class History in the Pacific Northwest] (University of Oregon)
- Who Won the Debate Over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s?
(Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000 (SUNY, Binghamton)
- The Henry Ford [Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Benson Ford Research Center]
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
(Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
- The Harry Bridges Project
- Highlander Research and Education Center (New Market, TN)
- Voices From the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Social Welfare and Visual Politics: The Story of Survey Graphic (New Deal Network)
- National New Deal Preservation Association
- History Page (Social Security Administration)
- The New Deal Art Project (Syracuse University Library)
- Studs Terkel: Conservations with America
- The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color (American Experience, PBS)
- L. Gordon, "Share-Holders in Relief: The Political Culture of the Public Sector"
(Russell Sage Foundation)
- The Great Flint Sitdown [1937] (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)
- The Battle of the Overpass [May 1937] (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)
- Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937 (Historical Voices.org)
- Labor in the 1930s Bibliography (New Deal Network)
- A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979 (George Meany Memorial Archives)
- Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II (Library of Congress)
- The Catholic Worker Movement
- Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1985 [1987, 2006] (American Experience, PBS)
- Cesar Chavez: The Farmworker Movement, 1962-1993 (Farmworker Movement Documentation Project
- United Farm Workers in Washington State (Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington)
- History (Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services) official government site
- I am a Man: An Exhibit Honoring the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State
University)
- Mike Westfall Papers (1980-2008) (Genesee Historical Collections Center, University of Michigan, Flint)
- [Mike} Westfall Blue Collar Papers [Flint, Michigan]
- Graduate Employees & Students Organization (GESO)
- J. M. Mancini, "Vox Pop: Reviving the Folk Revival," Common-Place 3 (October 2002)
- 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
- Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income
Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
- National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
- Wal-Mart's Social and Economic Impact
Four-Part Series Examines Influence of Largest U.S. Employer (National Public Radio)
- Wakeup Wal-Mart.com
- Wal*Mart (official corporate web site)
- Wal-Mart Facts (official Wal-Mart site)
- Wal-Mart Good Works (Wal-Mart Foundation official site)
- Measuring the Economic Impact of Wal-Mart on the U.S. Economy (Global Insight conference sponsored by Wal-Mart)
- The Wal-Mart Threat (United Food and Commercial Workers' Union
- Wal*Mart Watch
-
Aaron Bernstein, "A Stepped-Up Assault on Wal-Mart," Business Week, October 20, 2005
- Wal*Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (November 2005 Robert Greenwald film official site)
- Full Coverage: Wal-Mart (Yahoo! News)
- "walmart" search at Google News
Conferences in Labor History
Labor History Archives and Information
- UNESCO Archives Portal
- WorkGate (Library and Information Services, International Labor Organization)
- Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
- Labor History Sources in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress
- London Socialist Historians Group
- Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, U.K.
- Labour History Research Index:
a guide to british labor history archives, collections, and on-line research sources and web sites
- U.S. Department of Labor Historical Information
- Martin P. Catherwood Library: Specializing in Workplace Information
(School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University)
- Hagley Museum and Library
- Labor History Resources in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress
- Sources for Women's and Gender History (International Association of Labour History Institutions)
- Unheard Voices: American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age (Harvard Business School Library)
- Labor Studies and Radical History (Holt Labor Library)
- International Labour Organization
- Catherwood
Library, New York School of Industrial and Labor Relations
- Labor Libraries (Institute of Industrial Relations Library, University of California, Berkeley)
- Walter P. Reuther Library (Wayne State University)
- Industrial Relations Libraries, Urban and Labor Archive Links (Walter P. Reuther Library)
- Tamiment Institute Library & Robert F. Wagner Archives (Bobst Library, New York University)
- Reference Sources in U.S. Labor Studies (Bobst Library, New York University)
- Labor [Collections] (M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Albany, SUNY)
- Social Welfare History Archives (University of Minnesota)
- U.S. Labor and Industrial History World Wide Web Audio Archive (G. Zahavi,
University of Albany, SUNY)
- Harry Bridges Center for Labor Study (University of Washongton)
- Southern Labor Archives (Georgia State University)
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
(Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
- Highlander Research and Education Center (New Market, TN)
- Working Lives (Work and Organisation Studies, University of Sydney, Australia)
- Mike Westfall Papers (1980-2008) (Genesee Historical Collections Center, University of Michigan, Flint)
- [Mike} Westfall Blue Collar Papers [Flint, Michigan]
- Employment Policy Foundation
Contemporary Labor Issues and Information
- Contempotary Labor Bibliography (K. Scipes, Purdue University, North Central)
- XPDNC: Labour Directory
- LabourStart: where trade unionists start their day on the net
- Labor Unions and the Internet (School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Cornell University)
- International Labour Organization
- London Socialist Historians Group
- new Labor Forum: A Journal of Ideas, Analysis and Debate
- Albert Shanker Institute
- Joseph S. Nye, "Limits of American Power,"
Political Science Quarterly 117 (Winter 2002-2003): 545-559.
- Studs Terkel: Conservations with America
- Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income
Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
- National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
- Frank Hobbs, Nicole Stoops, U.S. Census Bureau,
Census 2000 Special Reports, Series CENSR-4, Demographic Trends in the 20th Century (2002) [Adobe *.pdf format]
- AFL-CIO
- Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)
- International Longshore and Warehouse Union
- LaborNet
- The Great Speckled Bird Strike Page
- Major Work Stoppages [Annual] (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Labor Notes
- Labor Project for Working Families
- National Writers Union
- UnionMembersWeb.com
- Unions-America.com: America's Union Internet Service Provider
- Union Resource Network
- Mike Westfall Papers (1980-2008) (Genesee Historical Collections Center, University of Michigan, Flint)
- [Mike} Westfall Blue Collar Papers [Flint, Michigan]
- Graduate Employees & Students Organization (GESO)
- United Professionalis
- United Steelworkers of America
- U.S. Department of Labor (Official site)
- United Way State of Caring Index: A Summary Measure of Americans' Capacity to Care for One Another
- National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
- Income Inequality Continued to Grow in Most States in the 1990s, Despite Economic Growth and Tight Labor Markets
(Economic Policy Institute and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
- Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps
Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
- The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
- Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
- Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
- Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
(Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
- Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
(Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- Tennessee Center for Labor-Management Relations
- Economic Policy Institute Datazone
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Income Inequality Continued to Grow in Most States in the 1990s, Despite Economic Growth and Tight Labor Markets
(Economic Policy Institute and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
- Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income
Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
- Money Income in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Poverty in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
- Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 1996 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Welfare Related Web Sites
- Welfare Reform Information (National Governors Association)
- National Internet Clearing House: Welfare Reform (National Association of Counties)
- International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (International Labour Organization)
- Public Works Online
- Assessing the New Federalism (The Urban Institute)
- If Not Now.Com
- National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- Office of Management and Budget (Federal Budget Information)
- The Beige Book (U.S. Federal Reserve Board)
- Publications (Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress)
- Joint Economic Committee (U.S. Congress)
- Economics Working Papers (Washington University)
- [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
(*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
- [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2003-2004 (Tennessee General Assembly)
(*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
- The Politics of Economic Inequality in the Twentieth Century (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
- William L. Goffe and Bob Parks, "The Future Information Structure of Economics"
- Executive PayWatch (AFL-CIO)
- Glass Ceiling Commission (Cornell
University)
- Future Labor and Skills Shortage Threatens America's Economic Prosperity (Employment Policy Foundation)
Significant Magazines with Articles on Labor
Last updated on July 18, 2008
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