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This website includes the records of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and a collection of six oral histories from the National Education Association (NEA).
Through the Montana Memory Project, the Montana Historical Society has created a rich archive of hundreds of interviews detailing the history of workers in key industries in Montana. The interviews capture the stories of laborers, labor leadership, and support industry workers, from the expansion in…
A comprehensive bibliography of information, documents and links of U.S. labor history sites on the internet. It was developed by labor historian Rosemary Feurer for the Labor and Working Class History Association. Visit site
Overall mine wars resources, a major collection.
The Wayne State University Library System, through its digital publishing initiatives, strives to bring unique, important, or institutionally relevant content to Wayne State University’s academic community and to the larger world. Our Digital Collections represent text, images, and audiovisual material that support this mission through…
The Iowa Labor History Society is a non-profit made up of individuals and affiliate organizations that have joined together to preserve and promote the rich history of Iowa’s workers—the lives, labors, and struggles that shaped the history of our state.
Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.
The Samuel Gompers Papers collects, annotates, and makes available primary sources of American labor history. Founded by Stuart Kaufman in 1974, the project has published two microfilm series of union records and eleven volumes of Gompers’ papers. The nation’s leading trade unionist in the late…
“Wildcat” strikes, like the one that teachers used effectively in West Virginia in February/March of this year, are when union members walk off the job despite the wishes of their leadership. By definition, they are something uncontrollable and spontaneous.