Sound recording of interview with Robert "Red" Alexander conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Describes boat building in military, World War II; master boat builder for Pacific Dry Dock/Crowley Maritime in East Bay, 1950-1979; traces great changes in shipbuilding over time; master model ship builder whose replicas are widely known in maritime circles.

Sound recording of Allan Brotsky interview conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Brotsky recounts his life as a Bay Area labor and civil rights attorney.

Sound recording of interview with electrician Fred Brusati conducted by Harvey Schwartz.

Sound recording of interview with Carol Cuénod conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Topics include insightful reflections on politically active mother, Left politics in California during 1940s-1950s, California Labor School, and International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

Sound recording of interview with Fred D. Fletcher (b. 1920) conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Gives his recollections of the San Francisco Examiner and News-Call Bulletin merger of 1965 and the San Francisco newspaper strike of 1968.

Sound recording of interviews with labor and academic people involved in the founding of the Labor Archives in 1985 including Sandra Cate (Labor Foundation), Robert W. Cherny (SFSU History Dept.), Joanne Euster (SFSU, Director of Libraries), Lawrence Ianni (SFSU administrator), David Jenkins (retired ILWU), David F. Selvin (retired Newspaper Guild, Labor Foundation member), and Eric Solomon (SFSU administrator).

Sound recordings of ten interviews with Golden Gate Bridge workers, some of their wives, and nurses who cared for them, conducted by Harvey Schwartz. These interviews were collected between April 4 and August 6, 1987, as part of the Golden Gate Bridge Workers Oral History Project.

Sound recording of interview with Stanley Lathen conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Central figure in labor movement of Vallejo, California, World War II until retirement, 1968; organizer for Vallejo Plasterers Union, early 1930s to 1941; in 1941 revitalized Retail Store Employees Union Local 373 of Solano and Napa counties; led Local 373 for twenty-seven years; greatly expanded local's membership and influence while taking central role in civic affairs and Democratic Party politics.

Sound recording of interview with Dan Mahoney conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Irish nationalist, peace advocate, and organizer for Newspaper Guild in New York City; discusses Irish working class family life before World War II, co-founding chapter of the League against War and Fascism in high school, organizing for Guild in 1930s, Left politics, and his staff job with Hotel Workers Union, New York, after the war; ultimately settled in California.

Sound recording of interview with Madeline Mixer conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Recalls classes from Clark Kerr, UC Berkeley, and work for UC's Heller Committee for research in social economics; contains rich assessment of Women's Bureau leadership in Washington, D.C., 1960s-1970s, and in-depth coverage of own pioneering advocacy of non-traditional job training and placement for women, 1972-1996.