No Strength Without Unions?
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Information on Conducting Interviews for Oral History can be found on the 20th Century Interactive website.

City University of New York has the American Social History Project which contains many primary sources on labor history.

The National Endowment for the Humanities' American Social History Project features History Matters which contains primary sources on labor history. Click on "www.history" and the go to "Labor and Labor Movements." Browse the site for the great information provided, then at the top of the page, do a search for the articles: "Thugs for Hire," "Pride and Joy," and "We Do Not Understand the Foreigners."

High school student-generated oral history projects on union workers are featured on the Miami Valley Cultural Heritage Project.

The Ohio Historical Society features "The African-American Experience in Ohio" with manuscripts, printed text and images drawn which illuminates the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920.

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has a great resource site with tons of links for African American Labor History titled Memphis: We Remember.

Toledo has an active history of labor issues. Information can be found at Toledo's Attic: A Virtual Museum of Toledo

Check out Unite! the garment workers union in New York has a history site that features key events in the union's history as well as a special site on women involved with Unite!

For an overview about labor, visit the Legal Information Institute.

Why Unions Matter is an article written by Elaine Bernard, Executive Director, Harvard Trade Union Program, on the role and strategy of organized labor in our society.

There are several resources for information on the Taft-Hartley Act, also known as the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947. You might want to start with an overview from Information Please. History Central has the full text of the Taft-Hartley Act for the more studious among us.

The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act.

Solidarity Forever is a site aimed at promoting labor activities and labor activists and providing information on labor issues and laws.

National Public Radio produced an hour-long program on it's "Talk of the Nation" program on the Future of the Labor Movement, on August 30,1995. At the time of the interview, Thomas Donahue was briefly President of the AFL-CIO (following the resignation of Lane Kirkland). He was running to retain the seat and was challenged by John Sweeney, who was running on the New Voice Ticket. Donahue lost; Sweeney is now president of the federation of America's labor unions, which represents more than 13 million working women and men. The program talks about the future of unions in this country.

History of Procter & Gamble

A brief history of labor in the twentieth century can be found at The Learning Page.

Several recent articles on the future of organized labor can be found at A Rumble in the Heartland

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