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Box 1

 Container

Contains 40 Results:

Labor history: significant events and people, 1993 - 1998

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents

The folder contains a reprint titled "Labor and the Holocaust, the Jewish Labor Committee, and the anti-Nazi struggle" (October 1991), a draft of an article "Craft Unionism revisited: the case of the waitress locals" by Dorothy Sue Cobble (American labor historian), a pamphlet of the celebration in 1998 of the first Labor Day parade in Union Square (NYC) in 1882, and more articles and drafts on labor history.

Dates: 1993 - 1998

Labor history: significant events and people, 1977 - 1996

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents

The folder includes articles about the Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940 by Gavin Wright; the AFL-CIO Centennial Anthology (1981); booklets on unions in America, such as the "Heritage of struggle, a history of the American people" by Howard Harris; Radical historians newsletter No 75 (December 1996), and other short stories and articles on American labor history. Similar material can be found in Box 1, folder 31. Labor history: short histories and key events.

Dates: 1977 - 1996

Labor unions: farm workers, 1972 - 1993

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

The folder contains a cloth banner of the United Farm Workers, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (UFW, AFL‑CIO), along with articles about Cesar Chavez (co-founder of the UFW in the 1960s) and the history of the union, written by Margaret Rose and others.

Dates: 1972 - 1993

Labor unions: federal employees, 1982, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents

The folder includes the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL‑CIO) manual for federal employees (1982).

Dates: 1982, undated

Labor unions: Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE), 1974 - 1993

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents

The folder includes tributes to the Canadian‑born American labor leader and women’s rights activist Myra Wolfgang, news related to HERE unions, and relevant studies.

Dates: 1974 - 1993

Labor unions: independent, 1973 - 1974

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings about the strike at the Museum of Modern Art (1973, 1974)and the strike at Harper and Row (publishing company, 1974).

Dates: 1973 - 1974