Box 1
Contains 40 Results:
Labor unions: farm workers, 1972 - 1993
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.
Labor unions: federal employees, 1982, undated
The folder includes the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL‑CIO) manual for federal employees (1982).
Labor unions: Federation of University Employees, 1984 - 1996
Included documentation on the Yale University strike (1996).
Labor unions: food, commercial workers, 1978 - 1990
Labor unions: furniture workers, 1979
Labor unions: government employees, 1974 - 1979
Labor unions: Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE), 1974 - 1993
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.
Labor unions: independent, 1973 - 1974
Newspaper clippings about the strike at the Museum of Modern Art (1973, 1974)and the strike at Harper and Row (publishing company, 1974).
Biographies of women: S - Z, 1972 - 1979
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.
Biography labor: Summer school, women's labor history sources, 1974 - 1980
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.