Labor History
Eugene V Debs
Rail union leader, a founding member of the IWW, Presidential
candidate of the Socialist Party
Eugene Debs, "The Canton, Ohio Speech," June 1918 For Which He Was Imprisoned
THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF LABOR: RULE OF GOLD OR GOLDEN RULE?
American Labor History—An Online Study Guide
Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania Labor Legacy
George Meany Memorial Archives
Online
Exhibit—A. Philip Randolph
Union Advocate Labor History Series
The Dramas of Haymarket
Black Populism in the South: 1886-1896
Kansas City Labor History
The Kansas City Labor History Tour
Some presentations from the 1992-93 Kansas City Labor History Bus Tour:
Packinghouse Labor
Garment Industry
The Streetcar Strikes of 1917-18
Minnesota African American Labor Leaders
We highly recommend this book—
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the
Twenty-First Century
by Paul Le Blanc
U.S. Labor History Books at Powells
The Holt Labor Library in San Francisco is one of the best selections of labor history materials on the web. They also provide an excellent list of links to major collections of labor history resources.
Another worthwhile project in progress is the IWW
History Reclaimation Project
The Bisbee Deportation of 1917
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
IWW agitator and strike leader; one of the founders of the
Communist Party
A very interesting site containing some labor history material is Famous Trials, put together by Professor Douglas O Linder, on the faculty of the University of Missouri/Kansas City.
For Canadian labor history here is an impressive site.
Some British labour history sites [from Tribune]:
Marx Memorial Library
North West Labour History Group
National Museum of Labour History
George Orwell : Political Writings
The Robert Tressell Centre
Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival
Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum
Working Class Movement Library
The Levellers organisation
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