U.S. Labor and Working Class History

Prepared by the Labor Archives Roundtable Society of American Archivists.

Online stories and exhibits on the Flint sit-down strike, the United Farm Workers, the IWW, Walter Reuther, and more). Also guides to the archives collections. The Reuther is the largest labor archives in the U.S.

The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives is the unit of Catherwood Library (Cornell) that collects, preserves, and makes accessible special collections pertaining to the history of the workplace and labor relations.

"LHF works to preserve and promote knowledge of the cultural heritage of the American worker through the arts, including music, poetry, written works, theatre, and artistic works; and conducts historical research through written and oral histories."

A listing of labor-related organizational and personal papers available for research in the Manuscript Reading Room of the Library of Congress.

Rutgers Special Collections includes the IUE Labor Archives Project.

Includes articles on Illinois labor history figures and events.

“The International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI) brings together archives, libraries, document centres, museums and research institutions specializing in the history and theory of the labour movement from all over the world." Includes a Labour History News Service.

“LAWCHA is an organization of scholars, teachers, students, labor educators and activists, who seek to promote scholarly awareness of labor and working class history through research, writing and organizing.”

Includes Penns. labor history powerpoint presentation and downloadable tour of labor history "markers".

Offers materials that go beyond Wisconsin, including lists of labor history books for children, advice for unions on preserving records.