Labor unions--United States; Labor unions--Social aspects--United States
This is a study of the American labor movement, particularly how national labor policy is enacted at the local level. Specific differences between business unionism and social movement unionism, as defined in the literature, are combined and...
Segregation in education; African American construction workers; Construction workers; African Americans; Labor unions; Race relations; Laborers' International Union of North America; Women construction workers; African Americans--Employment; A....
Oral history interview conducted with James "Jimmy" Stewart on April 4, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Mr. Stewart, business manager for Local 576 of the Laborers' International Union of North America discusses segregation in education in Tennessee...
Copy of a poster with the three-story Union Labor Temple on it. The stone building has arched windows on the third and second stories. The text above reads "For Sale." The temple was at 127-133 West Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
A man and two boys carry signs for the Transport Workers Union. One reads, "[Employees] want more - Service - Safer running time - More heat on street cars." Another sign reads, "Louisville Railway defies the civil rights of...
Three men stand with signs on top of trolley tracks. One wears a trolley conductor's hat with the number 899 on it. Signs read, "Lou. Railway unfair to organized labor," "Lou. Railway employees want more - Service - Safer running...
A row of men stand behind a row of women sitting at a table. A sign behind them read, in part, Telephone Workers on Strike. N.F. T. W. Title supplied by cataloger.
Large assembly room with rows of people, mostly women, sitting in chairs. Some men stand along the back wall. Many of the people wear ribbons that read "On Strike T.W.U.A. Local No. 2" (Textile Workers of America).
Large group of people sitting in rows of chairs in Laborers Hall facing a table in the back of the room where five men sit and one man stands. Above the table is a mural and the words "Let There Be Light."
