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Labor Weblinks
- History Matters Over 150 original documents relating to labor, plus websites continually added to the list. Site is keyword-searchable. Links to other labor history websites and on-line exhibitions. - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/home.taf
- Curriculum guide for k-12 from the Illinois Labor History Society - http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/curricul.htm
- Organized Links to labor history subjects - http://www.links2go.net/topic/Labor_History
- American Labor History: An On-line study guide - http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/6460/AmLabHist/index.html
- Illinois Labor History Society Website: sites in Illinois history, curriculum, books, much more! - http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs
- Women and Social Movements, 1820-1940 : Searchable site, with important primary documents and lesson plans on women and labor, including the 1909-1910 New York shirtwaist strike, Lawrence, Massachusetts textile strike of 1912, the 1938 Pecan Shellers strike in SanAntonio, and much much more - http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
- Sweatshops, then and now: Between a Rock and A Hard Place Smithsonian Exhibition - http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/
- Child Labor In America - http://historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
- History of General strikes around the world, including U.S. - http://www.dnai.com/~figgins/generalstrike/
- Freedmen and Southern Society - http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/home.html
- Freedmen's Bureau material on labor - http://www.freedmensbureau.com/labor.htm
- Chinese laborers exclusion act - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/chinex.htm
- Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Pictures and Texts-this web site gives a wonderful overview of coal mining and its dangers. Material on Mollie Maguires, child labor in the mines, and the 1902 anthracite strike - http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/Lessons_US/Gilded_Age/
- Early Days of Coal Mining in Northern Illinois - http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/earlydays.html
- Copper mining in Michigan-on line exhibits - http://www.uppermichigan.com/coppertown/main.html
- Samuel Gompers Papers: biography, photos, documents - http://www.inform.umd.edu/Hist/Gompers/web1.html
Haymarket
- Haymarket Massacre Archive - http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/haymarket/Haymarket.html
- The Dramas of Haymarket: Chicago Historical Society exhibit on Haymarket - http://www.chicagohistory.org/projects.html#dramas
- Haymarket Digital Collection: primary source material, especially trial transcripts, of the Chicago Historical Society materials on Haymarket - http://www.chicagohs.org/hadc/collection.html
- Haymarket Trial Website - http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/Haymarke.htm
- Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World - based on the acclaimed book Like A Family, this site includes some primary documents, oral histories, teaching ideas, photos of the Piedmont mill world from late 19th through 1930s - http://www.ibiblio.org/sohp/
- Imperialism website. Contains numerous documents from labor leaders about the labor movement's relationship to foreign policy. Includes statements from George McNeill and Samuel Gompers opposing imperialism, and labor's responses to the White Man's Burden. Continually updated, use site's search engine for full list. - http://www.boondocksnet.com/
- Inside the Westinghouse factory, 1904 - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html
- New York Tenement Museum - http://www.wnet.org/tenement/
- Marot, Helen. American Labor Unions (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914; BoondocksNet Edition, 2001). Entire book on-line, from anti-imperialism website. - http://www.boondocksnet.com/editions/marot/index.html
- Compendium of quotes on labor subjects for the general interest and use of those involved in labor related struggles. Includes many historical quotes - http://www.igc.apc.org/laborquotes/index.html
- On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century This collection of articles, documentary sources, and study guides was compiled to accompany the course, An Urban Experience: New York City's Lower East Side, 1880-1920 - http://acad.smumn.edu/History/contents.html
- Minnesota Labor Interpretive Center-Some online exhibits on working men and women of Minnesota - http://www.pierz.com/~mlic/
- Italian Workers Across the World - http://unccvx.uncc.edu/~DRGABACC/
- Farmer-Labor Movement across the world - http://freenet.msp.mn.us/people/fholson/fla-hist.html
- When Toil Meant Trouble: Labor in Butte, Montana (miners, mine disasters, IWW) - http://www.butteamerica.com/labor.htm
IWW
- IWW Historical Reclamation Website-a treasure trove of material related to IWW and labor in the early 20th century - http://fletcher.iww.org/history.html
- Memories of the IWW by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Interview by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in 1961. - http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/rebelgirl.html
- Trial of Big Bill Haywood, 1907 - http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/haywood/haywood.htm
- Joe Hill: PBS on-line: The story of Joe Hill, IWW organizer and troubadour, executed in 1915 - http://www.pbs.org/joehill/
- Emma Goldman - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
- When Toil Meant Trouble: Butte, Montana - http://www.butteamerica.com/labor.htm
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911 - http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
- Bread and Roses Strike, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912 - http://www.flyinglemon.com/breadroses/index.html
- Bisbee, Arizona, 1917 deportation of striking copper miners - http://digital.library.arizona.edu/bisbee/
- Seattle General Strike of 1919 - http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/strike/strikehome.htm
- Seattle General Strike of 1919 and 1934 strike - http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/STRIKES%21/exh.html
- Documents on 1930s labor history - http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/subject.htm#22
- The New Deal Labor Unions: Then and Now Lesson plans, including Background on Labor History, Labor in the 1930s, the Flint Sit-Down Strike - http://www.davison.k12.mi.us/newdeal/index.htm
- 1934 San Francisco Longshoremen/ General Strike - http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist/thursday.html
- Harlan County-which side are you on? - http://newdeal.feri.org/voices/voce04.htm#1
- 1934 general textile strike - http://www.ibiblio.org/sohp/protestinterviews.html
- Textile workers in 1930s and 1940s - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/search.taf?_function=detail&layout_0_uid1=32967&_UserReference=38EC2880B83444EEBE49075E
- 1934 SanFrancisco General Strike - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/search.taf?_function=detail&layout_0_uid1=38960&_UserReference=69326DC92905A3B5BE23565C
- 1934 SanFrancisco General Strike - http://newdeal.feri.org/voices/voce05.htm
- 1936-7 GM Sit-down strike - http://www.uaw.org/History/sitdown.html
- 1938 Pecan Shellers Strike - http://womhist.binghamton.edu/teacher/pecan.htm
- Labor and the Holocaust - http://remember.org/educate/labor.html
- Oakland General Strike of 1946 Exhibit - http://www.museumca.org/exhibit/exhi_called_work_holiday.html
- National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis 1968 garbage strike - http://www.mecca.org/~crights/nc2.html
- Steelworkers vs. Weber - http://www.auaa.org/library/weber.html. On the affirmative action lawsuit that ended discrimination against African-Americans in the steel mills
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