Scope and Contents These records represent the diverse interests of the Institute of Industrial Relations and include arbitration records, records of two employer associations, the Industrial Association of San Francisco and the Waterfront Employers Association, materials from the (U.S.) Pacific Coast Maritime Industry Board during World War II, studies by the Institute For Science and Labor in Japan, 1931-1932, and a strikes series, 1934-1949, including materials on the 1936 Salinas Lettuce Strike by the...

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...