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A summary of labor issues in the public eye in 1896, including the Homestead strike of 1892 and the Pullman Railroad strike of 1894.
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A pictorial tour of sweatshops from 1820 to the present. From the National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution.
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Presentation of an online study guide, searchable by topic or by period.
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Selected events from 1806 to the present. Also provides links to other resources for further research.
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Museum in Belleville, IL, that preserves history of industrial movement in post-Civil War to Great Depression Era.
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Excerpts from an oral history describing the struggles of the CIO in the 1930s.
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History of recent leadership, includes links on union policy and recent news regarding the AFL-CIO.
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A detailed, illustrated history of the Seattle Empire Laundry by Cynthia Rose, with Charlene K. Roise's assessment of its architecture.
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Extensive resources on IAMAW history, including chronologies, oral histories, archives of the Machinists' Monthly Journal (1889-1956) and the Machinist newspaper (1946-1994), biographies, histories of locals, and links. From Georgia State University Library.
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Project to make primary sources in American labor history available to students and researchers. Includes extensive biographical information about Gompers, plus information, photos, and images of primary documents related to other leaders and historical events.
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A description of the working conditions prior to unionization.
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Accounts, photos, and resources relating to the 1919 Seattle General Strike.
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Commemorating the centenary of the birth of the San Francisco trade unionist who led the 1933 General Strike in that city.
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Examines the past and present of labor media in the Pacific Northwest, with reports on socialist, IWW, and union newspapers. Includes photos and bibliographic information.
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The constitution of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations created after the merger.
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Dedicated to the explication of the trial of U.S. labor leader Bill Haywood in Idaho in 1907.
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Includes oral histories, important historical speeches and proceedings from a conference titled "The Fight for America's Future: A Teach-In with the Labor Movement," held October 3-4, 1996 at Columbia University, NYC. Archives complied by Department of History University at Albany, State University of New York.