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Labor organizer and long‑time leader in New York public sector unions.

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Polish-born American labor organizer, women’s rights advocate, and leader in the garment workers’ movement.

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Labor leader, civil rights activist, and one of the first African American women to hold high office in a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union.

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The folder contains publications of the IWW, such as the pamphlet "The General Strike for Industrial Freedom (March 1972) and "One Big Union" (1979).

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The folder includes articles about the great Flint sit-down strike at the General Motors Fisher Body Number One plant in Flint, Michigan, in December 1936; the Rose Freeman and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; the Tenement Museum in Manhattan; women miners; Labor History Month events, and additional material.

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Maps included in this folder are the N.Y.C. labor history map prepared by the AFL-CIO and the History of Labor in New York State map by the New York Labor History Association, along with its index.

Scope and Contents Among other files, this folder includes a list of songs sung at the Summer School for Working Women; a copy of the call to all Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada (1881) for the historic meeting in Pittsburg on November 15, 1881 that resulted in the launching of the modern American labor movement; a reprint about the Pullman Strike; an article about John L. Lewis (President of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960, and the founding president of the Congress...

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The folder contains a reprint titled "Labor and the Holocaust, the Jewish Labor Committee, and the anti-Nazi struggle" (October 1991), a draft of an article "Craft Unionism revisited: the case of the waitress locals" by Dorothy Sue Cobble (American labor historian), a pamphlet of the celebration in 1998 of the first Labor Day parade in Union Square (NYC) in 1882, and more articles and drafts on labor history.

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The folder includes articles about the Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940 by Gavin Wright; the AFL-CIO Centennial Anthology (1981); booklets on unions in America, such as the "Heritage of struggle, a history of the American people" by Howard Harris; Radical historians newsletter No 75 (December 1996), and other short stories and articles on American labor history. Similar material can be found in Box 1, folder 31. Labor history: short histories and key events.