Showing Collections: 1 - 6 of 6
Tom Dalzell United Farm Workers of America collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0356
Abstract
United Farm Workers organizing and boycott material including leaflets (mostly in Spanish, some in Arabic), brochures, pamphlets, clippings, organizers' autobiographical notes, correspondence, a calendar, convention documents, and texts of legislation (1974-1975). Also includes leaflets issued by Teamster Farm Worker Local 1973, and other anti-UFW material created by the Teamsters. In addition, the collection contains a transcription of an oral history of Jim Leap by Sarah Rabkin (2008),...
Dates:
1966 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1976
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Nori Davis United Farm Workers of America (UFW) collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0354
Abstract
Primarily leaflets in Spanish related to the United Farm Workers organizing and contract drives in the Imperial Valley (1977-1978). Subject topics include farm worker organizing (Arakelian, Jack Brothers, Inter-Harvest, Colace Bros., Signal Produce, Gourmet, Sun World/Abatti, C.A.O) The Plan of Delano, and the UFW's 1976 statewide Yes on Proposition 14 campaign. Most leaflets were written and designed by Nori and featured artwork by Alberto Escalante.
Dates:
1974 - 1977
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast records
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0002
Abstract
The Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast records document the activities of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast (MFPC), more commonly known as the Maritime Federation of the Pacific (MFP), an organization representing the interests of longshoremen, seamen, ship cooks and stewards, other various maritime occupations, agricultural and cannery workers in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The collection consists of the organizational records of the MFP, including material...
Dates:
1935-1942
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
The Working Group records
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0064
Abstract
The Working Group records consist of production, research, outreach, and financial materials generated by The Working Group (TWG), an independent media production company based in Oakland, California. The bulk of the records span the years 1991 to 1999 and were created during the production of three television series related to working people: California Working, We Do the Work, and Livelyhood. The records...
Dates:
1979-2005; Majority of material found within 1991-1999
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Filtered By
- Subject: Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States. X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Agricultural laborers -- California. 2
- Labor unions -- Longshoremen -- United States. 2
- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 2
- Stevedores -- California -- San Francisco. 2
- Stevedores. 2
- Strikes and lockouts -- California -- San Francisco. 2
- Artists -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area. 1
- Communists -- United States -- Interviews. 1
- Documentary television programs. 1
- Downsizing of organizations -- United States. 1
- Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on. 1
- Fire departments -- California -- Oakland. 1
- Hate crimes -- United States. 1
- International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union -- History. 1
- Labor disputes -- Case studies. 1
- Labor unions -- Merchant seamen -- United States. 1
- Merchant mariners -- Labor unions -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 1
- Merchant mariners -- Labor unions -- United States. 1
- Merchant mariners -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 1
- Merchant mariners -- United States. 1
- Night work -- United States. 1
- Occupational retraining -- United States. 1
- Oral histories. 1
- Political activists -- California -- Interviews. 1
- Quality of work life -- United States. 1
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- History. 1
- Stevedores -- Labor unions -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 1
- Stevedores -- Labor unions -- United States. 1
- Stevedores -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- Merchant marine -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- Merchant marine -- United States. 1
- Strikes and lockouts. 1
- Temporary employment -- United States. 1
- Women -- Employment -- United States. 1
- Work and family -- United States. 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Beatty, Ned 1
- California Working Group 1
- Dalzell, Tom 1
- Durst, Will 1
- International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union 1
∨ more