Bracero History Archive

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Brown University, George Mason University, History Sites, Resources, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, The Institute of Oral History at UTEP, The Smithsonian National Museum of American HistoryJanuary 21, 2022

The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.

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Welcome to the Haymarket Affair Digital Collection. The Chicago Historical Society has created this digital collection to provide on-line access to its primary source materials relating to the Haymarket Affair, a controversial moment in Chicago’s past and a pivotal event in the early history of…

Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project

History Sites, Local, Resources, University of Washington (UW)

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History Sites, Local and Regional Resources, Lowell, Lowell Mills, Massachusetts, Resources

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Action Center on Race and the Economy, Georgetown University, Labor Studies Journal, Media, Official Journal of United Association for Labor Education, PDF, PDF WTM, Research Collections, Resources, Rutgers University, When Teachers Mobilize

This article examines both the Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) contract campaigns that have emerged among teachers unions in the years since the Great Recession and the #RedforEd strikes and mobilizations of 2018.

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Fraser Paper, History Sites, Resources

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California, Los Angeles, Media, PDF, PDF WTM, PDF WTM Los Angeles, Research Collections, Resources, UTLA - United Teachers Los Angeles, When Teachers Mobilize

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History Sites, Library of Congress, Resources

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History Sites, Resources, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, The Robert F. Wagner Archives/Tamiment Library, The Tamiment Library

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Amanda Girdler, Media, Oklahoma, People, Poem, Poem WTM, Resources, Video, Video WTM, Videos, Videos WTM, When Teachers Mobilize

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