Data Center records
Scope and Contents
Consists of materials relating to California and Bay Area labor, predominately newspaper clippings and other print sources, the bulk dating from 1965-1990. Topics include the United Farm Workers, Union W.A.G.E.; the Bay Area Progressive Labor Party; San Francisco neighborhood activism; and socialism. The collection also contains the papers of community activist and campaigner against San Francisco Mission redevelopment Sharon Gold, 1966-1968, which were donated with the collection.
Dates
- 1934 - 1996
- Majority of material found within 1965 - 1996
Creator
- Data Center. (Oakland, Calif.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Languages represented in the collection: English.
Availability
Collection is open for research.
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Labor Archives and Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Labor Archives and Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Administrative History
The Data Center (Oakland, Calif.) was founded in 1977 by Jon Frappier, Fred Goff, Loretta and Harry Strharsky and forty activist, organizer and student volunteers in affiliation with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) as an activist library and publication center. Its mission was "to address the political economy and the injustice of class inequities worldwide, and to provide actionable information to those in frontline organizations engaged in those struggles for justice."
Extent
15 Cubic Feet ( (12 cartons))
Abstract
Consists of materials relating to California and Bay Area labor, predominately newspaper clippings and other print sources, the bulk dating from 1965-1990. Topics include the United Farm Workers, Union W.A.G.E.; the Bay Area Progressive Labor Party; San Francisco neighborhood activism; and socialism.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged as received, in the following series: Series 1: California Labor; Series 2: Fields of Work; Series 3: Working Conditions; Series 4: Unions; Series 5: Government and Labor; Series 6: Management and Labor; Series 7: Bay Area Labor; Series 8: Sharon Gold; Series 9: UNION W.A.G.E.; Series 10: United Farm Workers; Series 11: General Labor; and Series 12: Progressive Labor Party (PLP).
Location
Collection is available onsite.
Location
Vault: 06:05:D-06:05:F
Acquisition
The Data Center Records were received from Leon Sompolinsky, June 23, 1998, accession number 1998/0062. These materials reflect the portion of the Data Center Records related to labor topics in California; the remainder of their records were donated to The Bancroft Library at UC, Berkeley.
Processing Information
Processed by Eva Martinez in 2015.
- Agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- United States -- History.
- Information services -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
- Labor -- California -- History -- 20th century.
- Labor unions -- California -- History.
- Progressive Labor Party. Bay Area Committee (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Union WAGE (Organization)
- Urban renewal -- California -- San Francisco.
Creator
- Data Center. (Oakland, Calif.) (Organization)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Data Center Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Eva Martinez.
- Date
- 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English.
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu