American Labor History
An Online Study Guide

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General Sites
International
Research Sites
Publishers & Books

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General American Labor History sites include an online general history of Labor in America, the Labor History Chronology. LaborNet has a nice collection of Labor Quotes distilled from this past experience. See also the discussion of A Concerned Clergy and the Labor Movement.

Local developments are the focus of the Illinois Labor History Society with its Tour of Chicago Labor History Sites and an online visit to the Union Miners' Cemetery at Mount Olive, Illinois. There are also a set of links on San Francisco Labor and Texas Labor History.

As well as the notice of May-Labor History Month, there are several online celebrations of May 1, the traditional labor day. These include: May Day Remembered, May Day, and May Day in Madison.

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Research sites are maintained by the George Meany Center for Labor Studies, Wayne State's Walter P. Reuther Archives, Industrial and Labor Relations Library with the allied Industrial Relations Research Association. NYU's Bobst Library hosts the Tamiment Institute with the online research guides at the Robert F. Wagner Archives. Professional historians consult over the subject through H-LABOR 
North American Labor History Conference - NALHC
Ozarks Labor Union Archives
Samuel Gompers Papers Project: A Documentary History of Trade and Labor Unions in the US and Canada
H-Labor WWW Site
Welcome to the Center for Working-Class Studies Home Page
Library of Congress Labor History Manuscripts
LaborNotes Home Page 
nmahsweatshop exhibition -- floorplan 
SpotlightBiography: Labor Reformers 
GrangeNet 
LondonSocialistHistoriansGroup 
AFL-CIOWorkin Progress 
MirabilisLTD.-UserLists- Labor Unions 
WholeCloth 
UnionOnline 
Strikes 
H-SHGAPEAHAPaper: Martin J. Sklar, "Capitalism and Socialism in the Emergence of Modern America, 1890s-1916" 
SFP:Taft-HartleyAct 
AssociationforUnion Democracy 
Teamstersfora Democratic Union 
GCIU:Searchfor a union print shop 
Welcometothe Center for Working-Class Studies Home Page 
SteamEngineLibrary 
TheOntarioWorkers Arts and Heritage Centre 
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Course related materials include the Internet Resources for Labor History, Hawaii's Center for Labor Education And Research, and Lane College's Labor Studies Club. In addition to a posted Labor History Bibliography, the Illinois Labor History Society offers a Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers, a Bibliography of Women's Labor History.

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Publishers & Bookstores. See the American Social History Project's Who Build America? The Norman Ross Publishing Company has excellent Labor Lists of microfilmed newspapers and periodicals going back through the nineteenth century. Also see the Ayers Press Reprints on Labor history and Agricultural history. There is also a remarkably thorough Labour's Online Bookstore, and other resources which provide online ordering for titles on such interesting subjects as Tramp Printers
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Global & International perspectives are provided by the International Association of Labour History Institutions and the Dutch International Institute of Social History has Labor & Business History Library with an exceptionally good index. See also Australia's Labour History, the Canadian Labour History Bibliography and Left History
LabourStart: Labour Webmasters Forum

 

 
 

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