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Box 1

 Container

Contains 40 Results:

Labor unions: farm workers, 1972 - 1993

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

The folder contains a cloth banner of the United Farm Workers, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (UFW, AFL‑CIO), along with articles about Cesar Chavez (co-founder of the UFW in the 1960s) and the history of the union, written by Margaret Rose and others.

Dates: 1972 - 1993

Labor unions: federal employees, 1982, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents

The folder includes the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL‑CIO) manual for federal employees (1982).

Dates: 1982, undated

Labor unions: Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE), 1974 - 1993

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents

The folder includes tributes to the Canadian‑born American labor leader and women’s rights activist Myra Wolfgang, news related to HERE unions, and relevant studies.

Dates: 1974 - 1993

Labor unions: independent, 1973 - 1974

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings about the strike at the Museum of Modern Art (1973, 1974)and the strike at Harper and Row (publishing company, 1974).

Dates: 1973 - 1974

Biographies of women: S - Z, 1972 - 1979

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

In this folder can be found interviews and articles about labor organizers, such as Theresa Wolfson (an educator, economist, and early leader in workers’ education), Anna Sullivan (a labor organizer active in women’s trade union campaigns), Doris Turner (a union activist involved in labor and community organizing), Marion Sills (a labor educator and union training specialist); and others.

Dates: 1972 - 1979

Biography labor: Summer school, women's labor history sources, 1974 - 1980

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Reprints and pamphlets by Joyce Maurin on "Working Women and their organizations" (1974), and "Labor Heroines" (1974); "You can't scare me …", Labor Heroines: 1930s-1980s" (editor) (1981), articles about household workers, and other publications.

Dates: 1974 - 1980