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Al Nash, "A unionist remembers", Spring 1977

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

Al Nash (1915–1996) was a labor organizer, union educator, and later a faculty member in the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) at Cornell University. The article is about militant unionism and political factions. Published at the New York State School of ILR, Cornell University. Reprint Series No. 415.

Dates: Spring 1977

Biographies of labor union leaders, organizers, and activists, 1979 - 2002

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents Individuals represented include Ralph Fasanella (union organizer and self-taught painter known for depicting working‑class life), Katie Quan (labor organizer, one of the organizers of the New York's Chinatown garment workers’ strike in the 1982), Ray Markey (library union organizer and president of Local 1930), Lane Kirkland (president of the AFL‑CIO), Judith Vladick (labor lawyer noted for her work on women's rights in the workplace), Debra Bernhardt (labor historian), Dorothy Day...
Dates: 1979 - 2002

Biographies of women. Early labor organizers and reformers, 1972 - 1979

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Individuals represented include Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), American birth control activist, nurse, and sex educator; Betty Friedan (1921-2006), feminist author and activist; Dorothy Day (1897-1980), founder of the Catholic Worker Movement; Alice Paul (1885-1977), suffrage leader; and Alexandra Kollontai (1972-1952), feminist, Russian revolutionary socialist.

Dates: 1972 - 1979

Biographies of women: A - F, 1961 - 1980

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents In this folder can be found interviews and articles about labor organizers, among others Evelyn Dubrow (International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) legislative representative and national labor lobbyist), Jessie de la Cruz (United Farm Workers' first woman filed organizer and farmworker activist); Eleanor G. Goit (labor education specialist), Gladys Dickason (labor economist and union officer best known for her long leadership role within the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
Dates: 1961 - 1980

Biographies of women: G - L, 1973 - 1996

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents In this folder are interviews and articles about labor organizers, including Bessie Hillman (organizer and labor educator with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America); Ida Klaus (a labor lawyer who served as chief counsel of the National Labor Relations Board); Alice M. Lord (cigar maker and early organizer with the Women’s Trade Union League); Grace Hartman (Canadian labor leader and president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees); Hannah Shapiro Glick (garment worker and Chicago...
Dates: 1973 - 1996

Biographies of women: M - R, 1972 - 1980

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

This folder contains interviews and articles about labor organizers, including Olga M. Madar (a president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women and a longtime leader in the United Auto Workers) and Jean Maddox (a labor educator and union activist).

Dates: 1972 - 1980