Links for Primary and Contemporaneous Documents for American Labor History

I have written the following page to provide guidance on primary and contemporary sources for my students in American labor history at Colorado State University - Pueblo. My hope is that using materials posted on the World Wide Web for research papers will make up for the limited primary and contemporary sources available here and at other college libraries. All students should consult a web citation guide so that the sources they use will be properly credited. I would suggest the one on H-Net at Michigan State University. Its address is - http://www.h-net.msu.edu/about/citation/.

Due to the rapid growth of labor history on the World Wide Web, this site will always be a work in progress. If you have suggestions for links that should be posted here, E-mail me at:  Jonathan [dot] Rees [at] colostate-pueblo [dot] edu                                                                                                                               

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General Sites:

Labor History Speeches and Interviews (at SUNY Albany) - http://www.albany.edu/history/LaborAudio/

Lause's Links - University of Cincinnati (You have to read his study guide for American Labor History to get to the documents, but they're there) -

http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/6460/AmLabHist/index.html

The Making of America (General sources on American social history) - http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

Women and Social Movements in the U.S. (at SUNY Binghamton) - http://womhist.binghamton.edu/projectmap.htm

America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894 - 1915

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/awlhome.html

Lost Labor

http://www.lostlabor.com

 

Local Labor History:

Austin at Work -

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/ahc/work/

Bridgeport Working: Voices from the 20th Century -

http://www.bridgeporthistory.org/mast.cfm

Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904  -

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

http://www.ibiblio.org/sohp/

Los Angeles at Work 1920 - 1939

http://www.lapl.org/photo/laatwork

Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory -

http://www.emji.net/bamberger/index.html

U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906 - 1971

http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/steel/

Working in Patterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wiphtml/

 

Important Individuals:

Samuel Gompers Papers - http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Gompers/page7.html

The Emma Goldman Papers - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/

The Frederick W. Taylor Project - http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/~rdowns/index.html

Statement of Eugene V. Debs before Conviction of Sedition - http://www.wfu.edu/users/zulick/341/Debs1918.html

 

Strikes:

The Homestead Strike of 1892 - http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/HomesteadStrike1892/

The Coal Strike of 1902 - http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/coal/1902anthracitestrike/

The Chicago Teamsters Strike of 1905 - http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/laborconflict/chicagostrike/

1968 Memphis Garbage Strike - http://www.afscme.org/about/memphist.htm

 

Lowell:

Autobiography of Harriet Robinson:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.html

 

Molly Maguires:

"The Overthrow of the Molly Maguires" - http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/Coal/MollyMaguire/mollymaguires.htm

 

Haymarket:

Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair 1886 - 1887 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ichihtml/hayhome.html

The Dramas of the Haymarket -

http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas 

Haymarket: Statement of August Spies - http://www.wfu.edu/users/zulick/341/spies.html

 

Sweatshops/Labor Reform:

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops 1820 -

Present -  http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/index.htm

The Lower East Side - http://acad.smumn.edu/History/contents.html

How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis - http://tenant.net/Community/Riis/title.html

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - http://www.assumption.edu/HTML/Academic/history/Hi113net/TriangleTofC

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire

Child Labor Resource Page (Library of Congress) - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson98/labor/resource.html

Child Labor Photographs of Lewis Hine - http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html

 

The Industrial Workers of the World:

Official IWW-approved Literature -

http://www.iww.org/culture/

The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 -

http://digital.library.arizona.edu/bisbee/index.php

IWW Pamphlets at Michigan State - http://www.lib.msu.edu/spc/digital/radicalism/subj_struct.html

IWW Pamphlets at the University of Arizona - http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/iww/iwwdocs.htm

 

The 1930s:

The New Deal Network - Document Library (many documents on labor subjects from the Roosevelt Era) - http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/index.htm

Voices from the Dust Bowl -

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html

 

WWII Era:

Rosie the Riveter (Women Workers in WWII) -

http://www.rosietheriveter.org/

Labor and the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Anti-Nazi    Struggle -

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/exhibits/tam/JLC/opener.html

 

Farm Workers:

La Causa: A History of the United Farm Workers union Huelga

http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/ufw.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jonathan Rees
Associate Professor of History
Colorado State University - Pueblo
2200 Bonforte Boulevard
Pueblo, CO 81001
(719) 549-2541

E-Mail: Jonathan [dot] Rees [at] colostate-pueblo [dot] edu

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