Labor History
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| Flint Sit-Down Strike |
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| Story of the 1936-37 strike at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, and its significance. Includes photos, timeline, map and audio tapes. |
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| Labor Arts |
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| Art related to labor and trade unions including photographs and paintings, pamphlets, buttons, and banners of parades and demonstrations, people at work, strikes, cartoons, Bread and Roses posters. |
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| Solidarity Phenomenon |
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| A history of the first trade union in Eastern Europe independent of Communist rule, chronologically organized along a timeline between 1980 and 1981. Includes photographs, quotes from workers, images of posters. |
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| The Union Makes Us Strong |
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| Provides access to a number of resources relating to landmarks
in the history of the British labour movement taken from the Trades
Union Congress (TUC) library. Includes timeline and essays. |
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| Haymarket Affair |
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| Collection of images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints, and artifacts relating to the Haymarket Affair -- the violent confrontation between Chicago police and labor protesters in 1886. |
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| Illinois Labor History Society |
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| Features information about Illinois labor history locations, curriculum materials, and brief articles on subjects such as Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones), Samuel Gompers, and mine unions.
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| International Association of Labour History Institutions |
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| Includes archives, libraries, document centers, museums and research institutions specializing in the history and theory of the labor movement from all over the world. Contains articles, reviews, book announcements. |
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| Kheel Center Labor Photos |
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| Images from the Kheel Center archives at Cornell University, featuring photographs from labor unions, organizers and labor arbitrators. |
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| Rebellion on the Border |
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| Exhibit of photographs by David Bacon, documenting workers and unions in Tijuana, Mexicali, and Mexico City, Mexico. |
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| Samuel Gompers Papers |
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| Features a biography and timeline, quotations, a bibliography, and selected writings. |
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| Visualizing Ideology |
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| "Labor vs. Capital in the Age of Silent Film." Features a discussion of labor-capital films, self-tests in image interpretation, movie stills, and related materials. |
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| Women's Labor History |
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| Collection of annotated links to the history of women in the labor movement. Included are links to general women's labor history resources, labor song lyrics, biographies of women leaders. |
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| Work 'n' Progress |
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| History of the labor movement in the southern U.S., from the colonial and antebellum eras to the present, covering the textile industry, unions, the Great Depression. |
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| Worklore |
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| Addresses the themes of racial bias, women's changing work roles, immigrants, and unemployment in Brooklyn. Includes personal quotes, images, interactive games, recommended books. |
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