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- American Labor Movements at Spirit of America - Books and historical information on the labor movements in America, from Samuel Gompers and the A.F.L. to Joe Hill and the I.W.W. to Cesar Chavez and the U.F.W.
- Bread and Roses: Poetry and History of the American Labor Movement - Poems celebrating workers struggles and books and articles about the history of the American labor movement from the early 1800s to the 1920s.
- American Sociological Association Section on Labor and Labor Movements - Includes information about the section, its mandate, annual meeting, and the general activities and members. Also links to key labor unions, organizations, associations, federations, and online resources.
- Bread and Roses: Poetry and History of the American Labor Movement - Poems celebrating workers struggles and books and articles about the history of the American labor movement from the early 1800s to the 1920s.
- American Labor Unions - Analysis of the American labor movement by Helen Marot of the American Federation of Labor and Women's Trade Union League.
- The Labor Movement and Progressivism - Books, articles and videos on labor, progressive political topics and the oppression of poor and working Americans.
- Laborers International Union (LIUNA) Reform Group - Has compiled hard-to-find documents regarding abuses of authority by union officials, politicians and racketeers in the labor movement.
- The Institute for Labor Studies - A Kansas City based labor education program offering credit and non credit courses for union members and the general public. Sponsors a radio show: the Heartland Labor Forum.
- The Campaign to End Child Labor - Documentary history of the campaign to end child labor in the U.S. in the early 1900s, with contemporary photographs, political cartoons, poems, essays and books.
- Labor Relations Research Center - UMass Amherst - Equips graduates to work in the labor movement and other organizations advocating for workers' rights.
Wikipedia Articles
- Communists in the U.S. Labor Movement (1919-1937) - The Communist Party and its allies played an important role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but never succeeded, with rare exceptions, either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda or in converting their influence in any particular union into membership gains for the Party. The CP has had only negligible influence in labor since ...
- Communists in the U.S. Labor Movement (1937-1950) - The Communist Party and its allies played an important role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but never succeeded, with rare exceptions, either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda or in converting their influence in any particular union into membership gains for the Party. The CP has had only negligible influence in labor since ...
- Labor Forward - The Labor Forward movement was an organizing program of the American Federation of Labor from roughly 1910 to 1920. The program, which took place in approximately 150 cities across the United States, was designed to convince workers of the labor movement's commitment to Christian ideals and labor-management cooperation.
- Labor and Working-Class History Association - Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) is a non-profit association of academics, educators, students, and labor movement and other activists that promotes research into and publication of materials on the history of the labor movement in North and South America. Its current president is Columbia historian Alice Kessler-Harris.
- Labour movement - The labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labor relations. Labour unions and trade unions are ...