Box 1
Contains 40 Results:
Labor history: significant events and people, 1993 - 1998
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.
Labor history: significant events and people, 1977 - 1996
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.
Labor unions: farm workers, 1972 - 1993
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.
Labor unions: federal employees, 1982, undated
The folder includes the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL‑CIO) manual for federal employees (1982).
Labor unions: Federation of University Employees, 1984 - 1996
Included documentation on the Yale University strike (1996).
Labor unions: food, commercial workers, 1978 - 1990
Labor unions: furniture workers, 1979
Labor unions: government employees, 1974 - 1979
Labor unions: Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE), 1974 - 1993
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.
Labor unions: independent, 1973 - 1974
Newspaper clippings about the strike at the Museum of Modern Art (1973, 1974)and the strike at Harper and Row (publishing company, 1974).