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North American Working Class History Jenny Presnell | King Library | 9-3937 | presnejl@muohio.edu |
Secondary Resources:
Miami's Online Catalog
OhioLINK
Worldcat
These databases can be found under Indexes and Databases in MiamiLINK, or by clicking on the titles below.
America: History and Life
Abstracts journal articles, book reviews, media reviews, and dissertations on all aspects of American and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.Gender Watch
GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that
focuses on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of
subject areas.Ethnic Newswatch
Ethnic Newswatch is a comprehensive collection of full-text articles from the newspapers, magazines, and journals of
The ethnic, minority, and native press in America. Ethnic
Newswatch also includes some international publications.
Historical dictionary of organized labor King Ref HD4839 .D58 1996
ABC-CLIO companion to the American labor movement King Ref HD6508 .T39 1993
Encyclopedia of American cultural and intellectual history King Ref E169.1 .E624 2001
Encyclopedia of American social history King Ref HN57 .E58 1993
Monthly Labor Review 1915 -
Statistical Abstract of the United States 1878 - (with various title changes
Employment and Earnings 1954 -
U.S. Census 1790 -
Primary Materials
19th Century Masterfile/Pooles Index
New York Times 1854 -
Readers Guide to Periodical Literature (and Nineteenth Century Readers Guide) 1890-
Catalog Search:
Search by subject and then limit by date before, etc. For instance: labor-- united states, child labor-- united states, working class-- united states -- songs etc., immigrants, teamsters, farmers -- united states, Industrial Workers of the World
Search by author and then limit by date ie. International Workers of the World
Radical Periodicals in the United States -- micro series that includes many labor periodicals. To look at titles, type Radical Periodicals in the United States in our catalog as a title.
Government Documents has Department of Labor publications and various related offices /activities. The department has materials back into the 19c. Consult with a Government Documents Librarian for the appropriate index.
Look for papers and published books, etc. of major figures in the labor movement, ie.look for Samuel Gompers as an author in the catalog.
University Archives -- materials relating to Miami University, contact Bob Schmidt
Cincinnati Historical Society would have collections relating to labor and working class issues in Cincinnati. Contact them directly: http://www.cincymuseum.org/research/cincinnati_library.asp
Useful Web Sites
African American Labor History
http://www.afscme.org/about/aframlink.htmWeedpatch Camp
http://www.weedpatchcamp.com/
Published in 1939, John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath drew
attention to the hardships faced by the "Okies": poor farmers who moved
from the Dust Bowl area to California in search of work. While writing the
book, John Steinbeck visited Bakersfield, California and based his book on
Arvin Federal Government Camp which he portrayed as "Weedpatch
Camp."Hold Labor Library
http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org/
This site explores the "theoretical, historical, and experiential dimensions of the class struggle in the advanced industrialized world." The Internet Links section categorizes Web sites featuring labor-related news, law, libraries and archives, occupational health, periodicals, and the visual arts.Webilography of Labor History (US)
http://www.iisg.nl/~w3vl/vl-res.html#usaBetween a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops 1820-Present
http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/
A virtual exhibit of documents, garments, signs, and other artifacts illustrating sweatshop history, from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. History of American SweatshopsAFSCME LaborLinks: Women's Labor History
http://www.afscme.org/otherlnk/whlinks.htm
A collection of annotated links to diverse information on the history of women in the labor movement. Included are links to general women's labor history resources, labor song lyrics, biographies of women leaders, and histories of women in
particular organizations.Walter P. Reuther Library
http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/
A guide to doing labor research, a current list of links to Industrial libraries and other labor and urban archives, as well as links to Union Web sites related to their collections.Voices From the Dustbowl
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Covering 1940 and 1941, this collection documents the lives of Dust Bowl migrants living in Farm Security Administration (FSA) camps in California. It provides searchable access to 371 audio titles including songs, interviews and recordings of camp meetings, 23 graphic images, a sampling of the recording's dust jackets, and all the print material in the Migrant Worker Collection, including the full-text of over 100 songs. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.