A gallery of photos to explore.
Mother Jones Museum is the website of the Mother Jones Heritage Project, a 501-c-3 non-profit. We are guided by the philosophy & model of Mother Jones, whose base was in Chicago, but who went across the US to organize and fight for justice.
The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives was founded in 1949 as the Labor-Management Documentation Center. Its continuing purpose is the preservation of original source materials relevant to the history of American labor unions, management theory as it applies to labor and industrial relations,…
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).
Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.
Just in time for a new academic year, the American Social History Project at the CUNY Graduate Center is releasing a new, expanded, and updated edition of the popular textbook Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History. A beta version is now available…
In 2007, the National Education Association celebrated its 150th year. Over this time, NEA has been a driving force in education at all levels.
In early summer 1982 an estimated 20,000 garment workers in New York City, members of ILGWU Local 23-25 and mostly Chinese immigrant women, walked off the job in protest. This collection from LaborArts memorializes the 40th anniversary of this historic action.
