Labor History Links

Place/Space and Labor History

Regional/ State/Local Labor history

• Inventory of American Labor Landmarks organized by topic and by state

East

• Bridgeport (Connecticut) Working: Voices from the 20th century –30 oral histories
• Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting presents 470 interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project
• Mass Lowell Center for Lowell History in Lowell, Massachusetts -numerous links
• A Working People's Tour of Boston (pdf)
• Botto House Paterson, New Jersey --labor museum at site of meeting place for over 20,000 silk mill workers during the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike
• Kate Mullany National Historic Site Troy New York; organizer of first laundry union
• Rochester, New York labor history site
• New York Tenement Museum "We tell the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was home to nearly 7000 working class immigrants."
• Pittsburgh and Labor History Through the Years
• Pennsylvania AFL-CIO: Labor History A chronology of 200 years in the history of Pennsylvania labor.
• Toil and Turmoil Labor History Sites in the Pittsburgh Region
• Battle of Homestead site dedicated to memories of events and to preserve the pump house
• Homestead Town (Pennsylvania)- loving video tribute by Mike Stout to the steel city and working class life
• 40 state markers commemorate Pennsylvania labor history
• 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
• Bridgeport Lock Zero
• Greater New Haven Labor History Association
• New York Labor History Association
• On-Line Exhibits relating to New York Area labor history

Midwest

• Detroit Motor City Voices
• The Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor
• Debs Museum, Terre Haute Indiana
• New Harmony, Indiana -labor in a utopian community
• Wisconsin Labor History Primer
• St. Paul, Minnesota Labor History Tour
• Workday Minnesota essays on Minnesota labor history
• Minnesota Labor Interpretive Center - Some online exhibits on working men and women of Minnesota
• Chicago’s Labor History Sites
• Pullman town historic site
• A. Phillip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
• Working Chicago 1870-1930 from Homicides in Illinois website 
• Unions in Illinois
• Cherry, Illinois Mine Disaster Site
• Mine Wars of the 1930s in Illinois -Greg Boozell's site has a map of the struggles for miner democracy
• Belleville, Illinois Labor and Industry Museum
• St. Louis Labor History Tour
• Kansas City Labor History Tour

West

• When Toil Meant Trouble: Butte's Labor Heritage
• Ludlow memory site at Rebel Graphic
• Victor Miners Hall
• San Francisco Labor History
• Pacific Northwest Labor History Projects
• Portland, Oregon Labor History Tour
• Seattle General Strike Project—extraordinarily rich resource—loaded with information
• California Labor Map-Interactive
• San Francisco Labor Landmarks book (radio program)

South

• Southern Labor History Association see their website for a call for syllabi (which will, however, only be available to members of the organization)
• The lost world of the Belgian glass workers of South Charleston, West Virginia
• Belgian Glassworkers Exhibit to Open Sept. 12 West Virginia
• National Civil Rights Museum at Memphis - Lorraine Hotel has been transformed into a memory of Dr. King's activities, esp. the sanitation strike
• Austin at Work
• Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park (slave labor)
• Photo Gallery of Jacob Holdt 15,000 photos mostly of rural southern workers, racism and poverty from 1970s-present

Southwest/Hawaii

• Nevada Labor History
• Bisbee Deportation of 1917—contains regional information beyond the deportation and map
• Los Angeles at Work 1920 - 1939
• California Labor History – from the  California Federation of Teachers, slide show
• Hawaiian Labor History

 

Canada

•  Canadian Labour History 1850-1999
• History of the Canadian Auto Workers Union “combines retrospective history of key individuals, events and places which helped to shape the formation of the autoworkers’ union, the Canadian Automobile Workers”

Latin America

• Labor Section of the Latin America Studies Association
• Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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