Primary Sources: Labor Studies

Full-text of American newspapers from 1897-1910. From the U.S. Library of Congress.

Ohio State University Ehistory project multimedia collections. Cartoons and documents.

University of Arizona Library Web Exhibit. Personal papers, correspondence, newspaper articles, documents from the I.W.W., government reports, etc.

University of Albany History Department. Collections include Endicott Johnson Corporation, Glovers of Fulton County, Schenectady General Electric, and U.S. Labor and Industrial History Audio Project.

Everett Public Library. Photographs and newspaper articles. (Search is on the left side of the page.)

Photographs, documents, oral histories, music, and videos.

FBI documents of historical interest released to the public through the Freedom of Information Act. For more info, click the blue circle i.

From HistoricalVoices.org. Audio files.

Digital Collections include Women Working and American Immigration.

Library of Congress Chronicling America includes primary source news from the era.

From Jim Crutchfeld's IWW Page.

Cornell University Catherwood Library. Topics include the Triangle Factory Fire. Photographs.

Collections include the Haymarket Affair, America at Work, Inside an American Factory, and the National Child Labor Committee. Search the Ephemera Collection for pamphlets by various organizations.

Huge collection of historical prints and photographs. Most are in the public domain.

U.S. Department of Labor.

Classic movies and alternative news broadcasts. Some of these works are copyrighted; others are in the public domain.

Topics include longshoremen's association, agricultural workers, the oil industry, and labor camps.

Roosevelt University. Transcripts of oral histories on a number of labor topics.

University of Washington. Topics include the Seattle General Strike, the I.W.W., the Communist Party, and the Labor press.

University of Pittsburgh.

New York University Tamiment Library. Topics include Jewish labor and the Holocaust, New York City labor history, the anarchist movement, labor and culture, and the CPUSA.

(formerly, Electronic Text Center)

The Everett Massacre, the Centralia Massacre, Industries and Occupations Photographs, Clark Kinsey and Darius Kinsey photographs (logging industry), Social Issues photographs, WTO Seattle Collection

University of Washington. Planning documents, photographs, posters, signs, leaflets, etc. documenting the Seattle WTO protest.