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Center for Working Class Studies  The CWCS at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, is the only center of its kind in the United States devoted to the study of working-class life and culture.

Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO Online The Chicago Federation of Labor represents over 300 unions and 500,000 workers in Chicago. This site also features information on one the first nonprofit broadcast stations in the United States, WCFL, "The Voice of Labor." 

Christian County Coal Mine Museum Located in Taylorville, IL the Christian County Coal Mine Museum was founded by retired miner, William Stone to help preserve the history of coal mining in the region.

Coal Mining In Illinois Created by the Coal City Public Library, this site documents coal mining in Northern Illinois.

The Dirty Children and Little Miners are two stories on children and mining presented by the the Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration.

The Eugene V. Debs Foundation offers an attractive and informative site devoted to the life and work of Eugene V. Debs.

Haymarket Affair Digital Collection The Chicago Historical Society created this digital collection to provide on-line access to its primary source materials relating to the Haymarket Affair, a controversial moment in Chicago's past and a pivotal event in the early history of the American labor movement.

Internet Resources on Child Labor A list of links on the issue of child labor today. Compiled by the National Consumers League.

Historic Pullman Illinois, The Perfect Town

The Haymarket Massacre Archive Presented by the Anarchy Archives, an online research center on the history and theory of Anarchism.

Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations (ILIR) at the University of Illinois.

The Iowa Labor History Oral Project was initiated in 1974 by the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. For over twenty years, the Iowa Federation of Labor has funded the collection and, working with SHSI, has ensured the preservation of the rich materials recovered by the project. The Iowa Labor Collection currently consists of over 1,100 oral history interviews with Iowa trade unionists and 800 linear feet of labor records.

Labor Beat  Labor issues on Chicago Access Network TV, public access cable television in Chicago.

The Labor Heritage Foundation provides a list of labor history landmarks in Illinois. While somewhat incomplete, the list is a good starting point to review the many labor history landmarks in the state.

The Labor Trail, the product of a joint effort to showcase the many generations of working-class life and struggle in the Chicago area's rich and turbulent past. The Trail's neighborhood tours invite you to get acquainted with the events, places, and people -- often unsung -- who have made the city what it is today.

The CFT Labor In The Schools Committee was formed to assist teachers in reaching students with information about the history and current place of the labor movement in American democracy.

LaborNet  LaborNet supports human rights and economic justice for workers by provideing internet services, labor news and information, internet training and website design for union and labor organizations.

"Labor Watch" on ZNet is updated every two-weeks to bring short news and information notes on organized labor and the world of work. "Labor Watch" is produced by the Harvard Trade Union Program (by Elaine Bernard) and the Mid-West Center for Labor Research (by Dan Swinney and Carl Davidson) with support from union activists, labor support organizations and unions.

In October, 1996, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) launched The New Deal Network (NDN), a research and teaching resource on the World Wide Web devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal. NDN is now based at the Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT) at Columbia University. Student Activism in the 1930s Professor Robert Cohen's essay on the American Student Union is supported by dozens of autobiographies, articles, and graphics.

No Backward Step - The Struggle For Democracy In the Illinois Coal Fields - The companion web site for Greg Boozell's audio documentary on the 1930's Illinois mine war and the Progressive Miners of America.

The Samuel Gompers Papers - A Documentary History of the American Working Class Sponsored by the University of Maryland-College Park, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the George Meany Memorial Archives.

SEIU-Illinois the website for Locals 1, 73 and 73HC, of the Service Employees International Union, representing more than 85,000 workers.

The Walter P. Reuther Library is home to the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, the Wayne State University Archives and the Douglas Fraser Center for Workplace Issues. It is located on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

The Wisconsin Labor History Society is dedicated to telling the public of the contributions of labor to Wisconsin, getting labor's story in the schools and colleges and preserving documents and records of workers and their unions.

Women and Social Movements This site includes 17 editorial projects, each consisting of 15-20 documents delaing with an important event or group in the history of women and social movements.

The Working Class Movement Library (WCML) is a collection of English language books, periodicals, pamphlets, archives and artefacts, concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labour movement, its allies and its enemies, since the late 1700s.

The Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) currently hosts the photographic work of Illinois artist Lee Buchsbaum. His latest project Working in the Seams - African American Coal Culture In Illinois, documents African American coal miners in Southern Illinois. These photos were made possible in part by support from the IHC.

The Working Women's History Project - a network of Chicago history organizations. Among our sponsors are: Illinois Labor History Society, telling the story of Illinois labor for 25 years; The Center for New Deal Studies, Roosevelt University; Metro History Education Center, encouraging students to do original research on Chicago's history, the Teachers Union's Women's Rights Committee, the Chicago chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) and the Jewish Labor Committee.

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