Political Economy of Labor Relations

Professor R. Free

free@easternct.edu

Windham, CT

Windham History and Textile Museum

Documents at other sites

The Walter P. Reuther Library

The Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University

General Motors Assembly Line 1920

The Electronic Text Center
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library
Contract for indenture of Susan, a girl of five years: August 19, 1865

The National Museum of American History
Textiles

Library of Congress

American Memory: A collection of photographs from the Depression.

Web Links for Labor History

The Haymarket Massacre Archive.
The Haymarket Tragedy

The Illinois Labor History Society Web Site
The following pages and many similar pages can be found at the Illinois Labor History Society Web Site.

A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers. This site has text and links to labor history documents.

Labor History Articles. This site contains short articles related to labor history, labor unions, and biographies of individuals who played important roles in labor history.

The UAW web site: This site has photographs, video clips, and short narratives describing critical moments in the history of the UAW.
Mother Jones: The Miners' Angel.  This is one of the articles from the UAW site .

Labor History Museum Sites

Lowell National Historical Park

Lowell National Historical Park Lowell National Historical Park preserves and interprets the history of the American Industrial Revolution in Lowell, Massachusetts. The park includes historic cotton textile mills, 5.6 miles of canals, operating gatehouses, and worker housing. Turn-of-the-century trolleys operate, and boat tours trace the city's canals.

Tsongas Industrial History Center Programs. An outline of the programs at the Tsongas Center and links to some of their pages that interpret the history of industry and workers in Lowell, Mass.

Old Sturbridge Village

Old Sturbridge Village This is the home page of the Old Sturbridge Village Living Museum in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.   The pages include photographs of buildings and other locations at the Museum and text that describes the typical family that would live in the houses and the way the farms, mills, shops, and offices would have been owned and run.  A very appropriate site for elementary and middle school students.

The Toledo Virtual Museum.
Toledo's Attic: A Virtual Museum of Toledo, Ohio.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum This museum interprets the experience of working people in New York City in the late 1800's and early 1900's.  The site takes you into the tenement, room by room.  It is a marvelous site for elementary and middle school students. Lower East Side Tenement Museum New York Tenement Life in the '30s and '40s.

Pullman Historic District
The Perfect Town: Pullman Historic District  This site has historical information about George Pullman, Pullman cars, and labor relations at the company.