- Labor Arts
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Working to gather and display the cultural and artistic history of the labor movement and working people.
www.laborarts.org
- Rosie the Riveter Memorial: Honoring American Women's Labor During WWII
Celebrating and interpreting women's crucial contributions to the World War Two Home Front.
www.rosietheriveter.org
- Pullman Strike (5)
Learn about Pullman Strike, the wildcat strike by the Pullman Palace Car Company in Illinois on May 11, 1894. Sites feature historical background, events, consequences, labor related transcripts, museum exhibits, excerpts from the U.S Strike Commission's report, and analysis of the labor strike and its impact on the U.S. history.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Labor/Pullman_Strike
- Lost Labor: Images of Vanished American Workers, 1900-1980
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Selection of photographs documenting America's business and corporate industrial history.
www.lostlabor.com
- Haymarket Riot (6)
Read about Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, which is considered to be one of the major influences on the origin of international May Day observances for workers. Sites feature history, articles, manuscripts, pro-labor speeches, photographs, illustrations, and library archives about the historical clash between the business class and working class in late 19th century Chicago.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Labor/Haymarket_Riot
- Homestead Strike (4)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Labor/Homestead_Strike
- Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
About the film library collection held by the Library of Congress.
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html
- Child Labor in America 1908-1912
Investigative photos with Lewis W. Hine's original commentary.
www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire@
Learn about Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, the 1911 factory fire in New York City which killed many women garment workers through sites with history, images, and background info about the industrial disaster which offset legislation for improved factory safety standards in the U.S.
dir.yahoo.com/.../1910s/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Fire
- Ludlow Massacre (5)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Labor/Ludlow_Massacre
- San Francisco General Strike of 1934 (5)
Find sites for San Francisco General Strike of 1934 which triggered a unified strike of sailors along all the West Coast ports of the United States. Sites background information, magazine articles, virtual tour, and bibliography for the strike also known as West Coast Longshire Strike which lasted eighty three days.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Labor/San_Francisco_General_Strike_of_1934
- USA 1840-1960: Trade Unionism
Provides sketches of activists, unions, and events.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtu.htm
- Taft-Hartley Act of 1947@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Employment_Law/Taft_Hartley_Act_of_1947
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops 1820 - Present
Smithsonian exhibition.
americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops
- Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor
Features information about the permanent exhibit By the Sweat of Their Brow: Forging the Steel Valley, which examines the impact of the iron and steel industry on Youngstown and other Mahoning Valley communities.
www.ohiohistory.org/places/youngst
- Labor History in the United States
From Suite101.com.
www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/labor_history
- U.S. Labor and Industrial History World Wide Web Audio Archive
Features recorded interviews, speeches, and more. From SUNY Albany.
www.albany.edu/history/LaborAudio
- Pacific Northwest Labor History Projects
Features research papers, documents, photographs, and other resources as well as a historic photo collection from the Seattle Museum of History and Industry.
faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/pnwlabor
- Bisbee Deportation of 1917@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Bisbee/Community
- Summer 2000 Colorado Coal Field War Archaeological Field School
Investigating archaeological sites from the 1913-1914 coal strike in order to understand how conditions in the coal camps led to the strike and how the strike changed those conditions.
www.du.edu/anthro/ludlow/cfblurb.html
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