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Archives, Libraries, and Museums

Below are archives, libraries, and museums for labor and economic history. For additional resources, see History: Archives, Libraries, and Museums. To search for archival materials, use the resources at History: Databases and Indexes: Archival Resources.

• Archives of Industrial Society (University of Pittsburgh)
  Hundreds of historical collections related to the development of the urban industrial society, with an emphasis on Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania

• Directory of Labor Archives in the United States and Canada (Labor Archives Roundtable, Society of American Archivists)

• George Meany Memorial Archives

• Historical Collections and Labor Archives (Special Collections, Penn State University Libraries)

• Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives (Catherwood Library, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University)

• Labor and Industrial History: Manuscript Collection. (Indiana University of Pennsylvania Stapleton Library, Special Collections)

• Leab, Daniel J. and Philip P. Mason. Labor History Archives in the United States: A Guide for Researching and Teaching. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, c1992.
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• Southern Labor Archives

• Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University

• Unions' Archives (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

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Associations, Organizations, and Institutes

For additional listings, see History: Associations, Organizations, and Institutes.

• AFL-CIO

• Allegheny County Labor Council

• ALSC: American Labor Studies Center

• Economic and Business Historical Society

• Economic History Society

• Institute of Industrial Relations (University of California, Berkeley)

• Labor and Working-Class History Association

• WWW Virtual Library: Labour History: International Labour History Organizations

• Youngstown Historical Center of Labor and Industry

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Background

Sometimes you may need some information to get more familiar with your topic. Below are some materials that can provide background on labor and economic history. Additional resources are listed at History: Background.

• Arnesen, Eric, ed. Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History. 3 vols. New York: Routledge/ Taylor & Francis, 2006.
  HUNT REF-1 HD8066 .A78 2006

• Articles on [Allegheny] County Labor History (Allegheny County Labor Council)

• Burg, David F. A World History of Tax Rebellions: an Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present. New York: Routledge, 2004.
  HUNT REF-1 HJ2250 .B87 2004

• Carson, Thomas, ed. Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. 2 vols. Detroit: Gale Group, c1999.
  HUNT REF-1 HC102 .G35 1999

• Child Labour (Spartacus)

• Craft, Donna and Terrance W. Peck, eds. Profiles of American Labor Unions. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., c1998.
  HUNT REF-1 HD6504 .P64 1998

• Derks, Scott. Working Americans, 1880-1999. 6 vols. Lakeville, CT: Grey House Pub., 2000-2001.
  HUNT REF-1 HD8066 .D47 2000

• Docherty, James C. Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1996.
  HUNT REF-1 HD4839 .D58 1996

• EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History

• The Evolution and History of the Union (A. Phillip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum)
  History of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

• Filippelli, Ronald L., ed. Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Pub., 1990.
  HUNT REF-1 HD5324 .L32 1990
  HUNT STACKS-2 HD5324 .L32 1990

• The First Sixty Years: The Story of the National Labor Relations Board, 1935-1995 (NLRB, National Labor Relations Board)

• Foner, Philip S. First Facts of American Labor: A Comprehensive Collection of Labor Firsts in the United States. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1984.
  HUNT REF-1 HD8066 .F55 1984

• History at the Department of Labor: (U. S. Department of Labor)
  • Annals of the Department
    Links to brief histories of the Department of Labor
  • Departmental Timeline
    Includes chart of secretaries of labor with major dates and events.

• Hafer, R. W. The Federal Reserve System: an Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
  HUNT REF-1 HG2563 .H235 2005

• Hobbs, Sandy, Jim McKechnie, and Michael Lavalette. Child Labor: A World History Companion. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1999.
  HUNT REF-1 HD6231 .H63 1999

• Joe Hill (PBS)
  Background on labor in the early 1900s.

• Labor History: Two Hundred Years in the History of Pennsylvania Labor 1780-1990 (AFL-CIO Pennsylvania)

• Markham, Jerry W. A Financial History of the United States. 3 vols. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, c2002.
  HUNT REF-1 HG181 .M297 2002

• Mitchell, Susan. American Generations: Who They Are, How They Live, What They Think. 4th ed. Ithaca, N.Y.: New Strategist Publications, c2003.
  HUNT REF-1 HC110 .C6 M545 2003
  Accompanying disc is at the Hunt reference desk

• Mokyr, Joel, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. 5 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  HUNT REF-1 HC15 .O94 2003

• Northrup, Cynthia Clark, ed. Encyclopedia of World Trade: from Ancient Times to the Present. 4 vols. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, c2005.
  HUNT REF-1 HF1373 .W67 2005

• Northrup, Cynthia Clark and Elaine C. Prange Turney, eds. Encyclopedia of Tariffs and Trade in U.S. History. 3 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003.
  HUNT REF-1 HF1705 .E53 2003

• Porter, Glenn, ed. Encyclopedia of American Economic History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas. 3 vols. New York: Scribner, c1980.
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• Schlager, Neil, ed. St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide: Major Events in Labor History and their Impact. 2 vols. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale Group/Thomson Learning, c2004.
  HUNT REF-1 HD4839 .S74 2004

• Stearns, Peter N. The ABC-CLIO World History Companion to the Industrial Revolution. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1996.
  HUNT REF-1 D359.7 .S74 1996

• Taylor, Paul F. The ABC-CLIO Companion to the American Labor Movement. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1993.
  HUNT STACKS-2 HD6508 .T39 1993

• Weir, Robert E. and James P. Hanlan, eds. Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor. 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c2004.
  HUNT REF-1 HD8066 .H57 2004

• Wright, Russell O. Chronology of Labor in the United States. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., c2003.
  HUNT REF-1 HD6508 .W74 2003

• United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Brief History of the American Labor Movement. Washington: Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1976.
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• Van Horn, Carl E. and Herbert A. Schaffner, eds. Work in America: an Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2003.
  HUNT REF-1 HD8066 .W637 2003

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Biography

See also the resources listed at History: Biographical Resources.

• Biographies (ALSC: American Labor Studies Center)

• Craft, Donna and Terrance W. Peck, eds. Profiles of American Labor Unions. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., c1998.
  HUNT REF-1 HD6504 .P64 1998

• Dickerman, Marion, ed. Who's Who in Labor; the Authorized Biographies of the Men and Women who Lead Labor in the United States and Canada and of Those Who Deal with Labor. New York: The Dryden Press, 1946.
  HUNT REF-1 HD8073 .A45

• Dubofsky, Melvyn and Warren Van Tine. Labor Leaders in America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1986.
  HUNT REF-1 HD8073 .A1 L33 1986

• Fink, Gary M., ed. Biographical Dictionary of American Labor. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.
  HUNT REF-1 HD8073 .A1 B56 1984

• Hall of the Secretaries of Labor: Portraits and Biographies (U. S. Department of Labor)

• Joe Hill (PBS)

• Quaglieri, Philip L. America's Labor Leaders. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, c1989.
  HUNT REF-1 HD8073 .A1 A47 1989

• Who's Who in Labor. New York: Arno Press, 1976- .
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