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Cathy Murphy United Farm Worker (UFW) photographs

 Collection
Identifier: larc-pho-0073
Abstract This collection consists of photographs taken by Cathy Murphy of farm workers in California (and a few in Arizona), and Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers (UFW) movement from 1975 through 1979, including a few images of labor activists Fred Ross, Sr. and Dolores Huerta. Murphy documented the plight of workers in the field, Chavez’s fight against child labor, and the 1975 Thousand Mile March from the California/Mexico border to Sacramento and finally back to UFW headquarters in Keene,...
Dates: 1975-2013, bulk 1975-1979

Collection of Giacomo Patri materials

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0056
Abstract The collection consists of materials by or pertaining to artist and illustrator Giacomo Patri. Includes biographical materials about the artist as well as labor union pamphlets and handbooks for the Marine Cooks and Stewards Association, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6, and the Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Dock Builders Local 34. Also includes a collection of Patri's work published in the San Francisco Chronicle from 1942 to 1943,...
Dates: 1937-2003; Majority of material found within 1940-1946

Peo Monoldi Industrial Workers of the World collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-pam-0012
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the collection is print material, primarily pamphlets and newsletters relating to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The earliest item is the pamphlet, "The Pullman Strike," by Rev. William H. Carwardine, 1894. The most contemporary is the minutes of the Twenty-Second Constitutional Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago, Nov. 9-16, 1936.

Dates: 1894 - 1936

Lorraine Powell oral history

 Item
Identifier: larc-oh-powell
Abstract Sound recording of interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 union field representative for the Four Seasons Hotel, Lorraine Powell, conducted by Bob Owen. This recording is part of an oral history project documenting the historic 2004 hotel strike and lock-out in San Francisco that lasted 53 days. The struggle pitted a largely immigrant workforce against multi-national corporations which was part of a larger nationally coordinated contract campaign. In her interview, Powell describes her transition...
Dates: 2009 January 29

Katie Quan Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0419
Abstract Comprises notes, correspondence, memos, agendas, minutes, reports, convention materials, rosters, press material and other organizational documents collected and generated by Katie Quan in her role as a founding member of the Asian Pacific American Alliance (APALA). APALA, a nationwide organization of Asian Pacific American trade unionists formed under the auspices of the AFL-CIO, was created in response to the working conditions, concerns and aspirations of Asian Pacific American...
Dates: 1988-1998

Radical Elders Oral History Project Records

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0423
Abstract The Radical Elders Oral History Project Records consist of audio recordings in cassette and reel-to-reel format, transcripts and project files documenting early twentieth century activists in the Communist Party as well as labor and other social justice movements. Interviewees include Sam Krieger, Emmy Lou Packard, Eluard Luchell McDaniel, Irving Fromer, Nori Ikeda Lafferty, Alice Quaytman, Carl Sullivan, Jack Wagner, Malvina Reynolds, William (Billy) Allan, Elaine Johnson, Frank Rowe,...
Dates: 1947-1995; Majority of material found in 1978-1987

Riggers' and Stevedores' Union records

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0097
Abstract

The Riggers' and Stevedores' Union Records include nine bound volumes of minutes from meetings from the years 1906-1919, and four folders of loose items from the years 1906-1918.

Dates: 1906-1919

Lynn Riorden oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-riorden
Abstract

Interview with SEIU Local 1021 employee Lynn Riorden, conducted by Craig Scott.

Dates: 2011 October 17

Aurolyn Rush oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-rush
Abstract Sound recording of interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 member Aurolyn Rush conducted by Corey Datz-Greenberg. This recording is part of an oral history project documenting the historic 2004 hotel strike and lock-out in San Francisco that lasted 53 days. The struggle pitted a largely immigrant workforce against multi-national corporations which was part of a larger nationally coordinated contract campaign. Rush worked as a telephone operator at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco and served as a...
Dates: 2008 December 30

San Francisco Social Services Employees Union records

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0415
Abstract Records of the Social Services Employees Union (SSEU), an independent public workers union in San Francisco. The union, established in the mid-1960s and made up of rank and file social workers and social service employees within the San Francisco Department of Social Services (DSS), was entirely employee-run and governed, and remained unaffiliated with any other official union. Files consist of administrative records, correspondence, DSS inter-office memorandums and meeting minutes, SSEU...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1962-2010

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Service Employees Internation Union. Local 790 (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
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Names
UNITE HERE. Local 2 (San Francisco, Calif.) 24
Datz-Greenberg, Corey 4
Owen, Bob 4
Shields, Bill 4
Mehta, Riddhi 3
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Owen, Jill 3
Service Employees International Union. Local 250 (San Francisco, Calif.) 3
Hardy, George 2
Huerta, Dolores, 1930- 2
Inouye, Jessica 2
International Brotherhood of Teamsters 2
Ross, Fred, Sr., 1910-1992. 2
United Farm Workers 2
Wilson, Sarah 2
AFL-CIO 1
AFSCME. Local 101 (San Jose, Calif.) 1
Alta Bates-Herrick Hospitals 1
Amalgamated Transit Union. Local 192 (Oakland, Calif.) 1
Associated Farmers (Organization) 1
Beatty, Ned 1
Bebbisse, Usha 1
Bohner, Ernest 1
California Working Group 1
Carleto, Alfredo 1
Casey, Mike 1
Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993. 1
Chen, Tina 1
Chown, Paul 1
City College of San Francisco. Labor Studies Department 1
Coleman, William Neal 1
Cortez, Antonia 1
Curia, Patricia 1
Cutter Biological 1
Dalzell, Tom 1
Do, Tho 1
Durst, Will 1
Espinoza, Rafael 1
Exotic Dancers Union 1
Firestein, Netsy 1
Fuentes, Feliz 1
Gilb, Corinne Lathrop, 1925- 1
Hartmire, Wayne C. 1
Havenner, Franck, R. 1
Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 1
Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees International Union. Local 2 (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Industrial Workers of the World 1
International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers 1
International Association of Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Iron Workers. Local 509. (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union 1
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union. Local 6 (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
International Typographical Union 1
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 2103 (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Johnson, Walter 1
Knighton, Linda 1
Kozono, Gary 1
Kuang, Annie 1
Labor Project for Working Families 1
Labriola, Kathy 1
Lapham, Roger D. (Roger Dearborn) 1
Lawson, Bob 1
Lusty Lady Theater (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Mak, Ringo 1
Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast 1
Medina, Baltazar 1
Medina, Delia 1
Melnikow, Henry P. 1
Miller, Rhian 1
Mooney, Tom 1
Munoz , Humberto 1
Murphy, Cathy 1
Neylan, John Francis, 1885-1960 1
O'Neill, Patrice 1
Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union 1
Pacific Maritime Association 1
Patri, Giacomo 1
Powell, Lorraine 1
Retail Clerks International Union 1
Riggers' and Stevedores' Union. (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Riorden, Lynn 1
Rosales, Gerson 1
Rush, Aurolyn 1
Salmeron, Leslie 1
Sampson, Timothy J. 1
Scott, Craig 1
Service Employees International Union. Local 1021 (Oakland, Calif.) 1
Service Employees International Union. Local 400 (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Service Employees International Union. Local 535 1
Sierra Club 1
Sierra Employees Alliance 1
Taylor, Jim 1
Tejada-Flores, Rick 1
Tobriner, Mathew Oscar, 1904-1982 1
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Dock Builders. Local Union no. 34 1
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. Local 1412 (Oakland, Calif.) 1
United Healthcare Workers-West 1
University of California, Berkeley 1
University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Industrial Relations 1
Vail, Larry 1
Villanueva, Lorna 1
Weaver, Alan 1
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