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National Domestic Workers Alliance – New York

History Sites, National Domestic Workers Alliance, ResourcesJanuary 3, 2022

Domestic work is the work that makes all other work possible. Together, we can win the protections and recognition that this vital American workforce needs. Join us today!

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Domestic work is the work that makes all other work possible. Together, we can win the protections and recognition that this vital American workforce needs. Join us today!

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This project explores the history of the IWW in its first three decades, presenting information that has never before been available. We have compiled databases of more than 1,800 strikes, campaigns, arrests, and other incidents involving IWW members and present this information both yearbook format…

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.

Lowell Mill Girls, by Popflock

History Sites, Lowell, Lowell Mill Girls, Lowell Mills, Massachusetts, Popflock, Resources

The Lowell mill girls were young female workers who came to work in industrial corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States.

Remembering the 1911 Triangle Factory Fire

Cornell University, History Sites, Kheel Center for Labor-Management and Archives, Resources

Near closing time on March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Waist Factory in New York City. Within 18 minutes, 146 people were dead as a result of the fire. This site includes original sources on the fire held at the ILR…

Three miners with federal soldier prepare to surrender weapons.

Matewan and the Battle of Blair Mountain–WVA coal miners, 1920

History Sites, Protests, Strikes & Rallies, Resources, Smithsonian Magazine, West Virginia

What Made the Battle of Blair Mountain the Largest Labor Uprising in American History. Its legacy lives on today in the struggles faced by modern miners seeking workers’ rights

The Schools Chicago’s Student Deserve 2.0

Chicago, Illinois, Media, PDF, PDF WTM, PDF WTM Illinois, Research Collections, Resources, The Chicago Teachers Union, When Teachers Mobilize

In 2012, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) issued the groundbreaking report, The Schools Chicago’s Students Deserve. The report provided a counter-narrative to ideas popular among corporate education reformers (or de-formers, as some like to say).

2019 CES Union Membership Report

Department of Labor, Media, PDF, PDF WTM GOV, Research Collections, Resources, US Government Publications, When Teachers Mobilize

In 2019, the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions—the union membership rate—was 10.3 percent, down by 0.2 percentage point from 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Wisconsin Labor History

History Sites, Local and Regional Resources, Resources, Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Labor History Society is a volunteer-based organization working to record and catalogue the historical labor events of Wisconsin.

Boott Cotton Mills Museum

Boott Cotton Mills Museum, Clio, History Sites, Lowell, Lowell Mill Girls, Lowell Mills, Massachusetts, Resources

The Boott Cotton Mills Museum gives a snapshot of what is was like to work in New England cotton mills in the 1800s. The Museum, once Boott Mill #6, was originally owned by Kirk Boott, an industrialist who was responsible for much of the early urban planning that shaped Lowell’s industrial and residential landscape.