In this folder can be found interviews and articles about labor organizers, such as Theresa Wolfson (an educator, economist, and early leader in workers’ education), Anna Sullivan (a labor organizer active in women’s trade union campaigns), Doris Turner (a union activist involved in labor and community organizing), Marion Sills (a labor educator and union training specialist); and others.

Reprints and pamphlets by Joyce Maurin on "Working Women and their organizations" (1974), and "Labor Heroines" (1974); "You can't scare me …", Labor Heroines: 1930s-1980s" (editor) (1981), articles about household workers, and other publications.

Early women’s labor organizer and leader in the New England textile workers’ movement

Labor leader, socialist organizer, and founder of the American Railway Union. The folder contains the publication: Debs, Theodore. 1973. Sidelights: Incidents in the Life of Eugene V. Debs. Terre Haute, IN; Chicago, IL: Marguerite Debs Cooper; C. H. Kerr.

Founding labor leader and long‑time president of the American Federation of Labor. The folder includes photocopies of the publication's introduction: Gompers, Samuel. Seventy Years of Life and Labor: An Autobiography. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1925.

New York City labor leader and executive director of District Council 37, a public employees’ union. Photocopies of the magazine The Business of New York, Manhattan Inc are included in the folder.

Labor organizer and activist known for her work with miners and child labor reform.

Labor activist and organizer. The folder includes the essay: Sandeiss, Katherine L. “Among My Own People”: An Oral History of Anna Lincore’s Involvement in the Men’s Clothing Unions, 1907–1930. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University, 1980. Not for quotation without permission.

Labor leader and first president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Labor organizer and social reformer with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The folder includes an oral history interview (1976), Folder 1 of 2; and handwritten and typed notes, photocopies of articles (Folder 2 of 2) (1951-1976).