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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The Flint sit-down strike, which started on Dec. 30, 1936, represented a shift in union organizing strategies from craft unionism (organizing white male skilled workers) to industrial unionism (organizing all the workers in an industry). The sit-down strike changed the balance of power between employers and workers.

The Making of a Teachers’ Union: The National Education Association, USA, 1957-1973

Media, PDF, PDF WTM, Research Collections, Resources, The Making of a Teacher's Union, When Teachers Mobilize

Not long ago, in the pages of this journal, I argued a number of propositions about the current state of historical research in the area of teacher unionism. One of those propositions was that a full explanation of the history of teacher union activity in the U.S.A. quite likely would require a three-pronged analysis involving the local, state, and national arenas.

Southern Oral History Program

Center for the Study of the American South, History Sites, Local, Resources, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Southern Oral History Program Interview Database provides detailed descriptions of interviews in the Southern Oral History Program Collection (04007). The interviews in this collection were conducted or collected under the auspices of the Southern Oral History Program in the Center for the Study of…

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 61-70

Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University, edX, Media, Nancy Cott, Nick Juravich, People, Resources, Suzanne Kahn, Video, Videos, Vivian Gornick, Women Have Always Worked, Women Labor

Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.

Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting

History Sites, Library of Congress, Resources

This collection presents 470 interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The four-month study of occupational culture in Paterson, New Jersey, was conducted in 1994. The documentary materials presented in…

Encyclopedia of Chicago

Chicago History Museum, History Sites, Local, Northwestern University, Resources, The Newberry Library

This encyclopedia appeared first as a published volume in 2004, but the published and electronic versions evolved together, part of an integrated vision of a new kind of historical encyclopedia. It includes thousands of entries, historical sources, and special features. One special feature, a map…

Samuel Gompers Papers

History Sites, Resources, University of Maryland at College Park

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…

Teacher Unions conflict in New York City, 1935–1960

Department of Political Science, Media, PDF, PDF WTM, Research Collections, Resources, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, The College of New Jersey, When Teachers Mobilize

While studies of the New York City Teachers Union (TU) generally attribute its eventual demise to the Red Scares of the 1940s and 1950s, this article situates the TU in the history of New York City teachers associations more generally.

LAUSD Strike Report 2019, LOS ANGELES PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY REPORT

California, Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, Media, PDF, PDF WTM, PDF WTM Los Angeles, Research Collections, Resources, Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles, When Teachers Mobilize

LMU is a private Catholic university with 6,250 undergraduates, 2,150 graduate students and 1,100 law students from diverse backgrounds and many perspectives.