LABOR FILMS AND VISUAL CULTURE
Labor Film Database
Online database of over 1,000 labor films. Sponsored by the DC Labor FilmFest.
An annotated list of documentary and film films available for study through the Media Resource Center at the Moffitt Library at UC, Berkeley.
From the Winter 1997 Special Labor edition of the OAH Magazine of History by Fred Glass, Communications Director for the California Federation of Teachers.YouTube Index of U.S. Labor Unions (a project of Look Back Labor)
H-Labor Arts Discussion Network (part of H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online)
"A place for historians, labor activists, and artists to discuss the cultural and artistic artifacts of working people."
"LHF works to preserve and promote knowledge of the cultural heritage of the American worker through the arts, including music, poetry, written works, theatre, and artistic works; and conducts historical research through written and oral histories."
Resources assembled by Lincoln Cushing, co-author of Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labor Posters.
"The Center for the Study of Political Graphics collects, preserves, and exhibits posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change." Online exhibits include Solidarity Forever: Graphics of the International Labor Movement and Viva la Huelga: Graphic Heritage and Legacies of the United Farm Workers.
An online bibliographic reference by labor historian, Rosemary Feurer.Berkeley Labor Guide: Labor Culture
An online bibliography by Lincoln Cushing from the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library at UC Berkeley.
LABOR ARCHIVES AND STUDY CENTERS
Labor Archives in the United States and Canada
A directory prepared by the Labor Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists.Labor Movement Education - Labor Centers
Compiled by the Open Directory Project.Labor Research Portal
Published by the UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library.
LABOR HISTORY - FOR EDUCATORS
California Federation of Teachers - Labor in the Schools
"The CFT Labor in the Schools Committee has produced curricula for students at all levels of education, from pre-school coloring books to college and university readings, to union-based new member orientation programs."
"The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change."
"The American Labor Studies Center is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose mission is to collect, analyze, evaluate, create and disseminate labor history and labor studies curricula and related materials, aligned to the various state and national standards, to kindergarten through 12th grade teachers nationwide."
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Labor and Working Class History Association
"LAWCHA is an organization of scholars, teachers, students, labor educators, and activists who seek to promote public and scholarly awareness of labor and working-class history through research, writing, and organizing."
"Enhanc[ing] connections between academics and labor activists in the U.S. South."United Association for Labor Education
"The United Association for Labor Education is a new, united organization of labor educators launched at the start of a century which promises progress, growth, and hope for the labor movement. Born of the merger between Workers' Education Local 189 and the University and College Labor Education Association, the UALE welcomes all labor educators into this new, exciting national and international organization."
RESEARCH AND GRANT FUNDING
Jack Henning Graduate Fellowship in Labor Culture and History
"To encourage innovative study of the problems, identities, philosophies, and – particularly – the expressive cultures of working people in the United States."
"Support[ing] excellence in labor studies." Funds available at the graduate, undergraduate and faculty levels.
"Recogniz[ing] serious study in labor and work history among undergraduate students." Offered by the New York Labor History Association.
Offered by the Labor and Working-Class History Association.Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
Since 1978, the Taft award given by the Cornell University ILR School has honored the "most outstanding book on American labor history."
"The Archie Green Fellowships [support] new documentation and research into the culture and traditions of American workers and will create significant digital archival collections (audio recordings, photographs, motion pictures, fieldnotes) that will be preserved in the American Folklife Center archive and made available to researchers and the public." Awarded by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
