Greater New Haven Labor History Association

Local Union Records Research Guide

main
surveys
for unions
for researchers
about
home

 

Information for Researchers

Below is a starter's list of printed sources for the New Haven labor historian. Feel free to e-mail us the titles of any additional sources.

 

Archival Collections at the GNHLHA:

AFSCME Local 1939
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Local 125
Greater New Haven Unemployed Workers Council
International Association of Machinists Lodge 1990 (Frank Panzarella Papers)
International Ladies Garment Workers Local 151
New Haven Federation of Teachers Local 933
New Haven Typographical Union No. 47

 

PAPERS AND BOOKLETS AT GNHLHA:

Andrias, Kate., "Lessons of a Different Sort: The New Haven Teachers' Strike of 1975," unpublished student paper, April 1997.
Annunziato, Frank R., "'Elevating Us to that Standard of Honesty, Respect, and Sobriety that we Once Held..." The New Haven Strike Wave of 1886,'" unpublished paper, n.d.
Baris, Mackenzie, "The Cold War Comes to New Haven: A Case Study of the Raids Against United Electrical Workers Local v243, 1947-1995," Senior Essay in History, April 2001 (unpublished.)
Kathy Bridges, Lonnie Hailey, and Joelle Fishman, eds., "The UE Struggle for Workers' Rights at Circuitwise," 1991. This is a booklet which contains articles written by the editors and others for the PEOPLE'S DAILY WORLD covering the fourteen month strike and its aftermath.
Jack Gillette, "The World of the Carriage Workers: New Haven, 1886," unpublished student paper, May, 1981.
Mariko Lockheart and Diane Westerback, coordinators, "Walking the Line: Students and the Workers Struggle at Yale," 1978. This booklet was written by members and friends of the students and friends of the Student Strike Support Committee "to record our impressions of the 1977 strike at Yale and, at the same time, to add another chapter to the history of student activism at Yale."
Strohl, Nicholas, "The Origins of Organized Progressive Teacher Power within the New Haven Federation of Teachers," unpublished student paper, April, 2004.
Wright, Joseph, "A Toolmaker's Memoir: My Experiences at Sargeant & Company, 1946-1952," unpublished paper, 1999.

 

Collections at Yale University Manuscripts and Archives:

Yale University Federation of University Employees Local No. 35, AFL-CIO Records, YRG 36-A in Yale University Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library.

 

Bibliography:

Annunziato, Frank R., ed. Labor Almanac: New Haven's Unions in the 1990s. New Haven: Greater New Haven Labor History Association, 1995.
Annunziato, Frank R., "'Made in New Haven': Unionization and the Shaping of a Clothing Workers' Community," Labor's Heritage 4 (Winter 1992), 20-33.
Charney, Craig, Chris Lowe, Kathryn Oberdeck, and Ian Robinson for the Yale Labor Support Group Research Committee, "Organizing Yale: A Historical Sketch of Unions and Labor-Management Relations at the University."
Elkin, Deborah, "Labor and the Left: The Limits of Acceptable Dissent at Yale University, 1920s to 1950s," Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1995
Gillette, Jonathon H. "Inside Contracting at the Sargent Hardware Company: A Case Study of a Factory in Transition at the Turn of the Century." Theory and Society Vol 17 p. 159-177 (1988).
Gilpin, Toni, Isaac, Gary, Letwin, Daniel, and McKivigan, Jack. The Yale Strike of 1984-85 (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company), 1987
Janick, Herbert. "Yale Blue: Unionization at Yale University, 1931-1985." Labor History 28 (Summer 1987): 349-369.
Kreas, Saul. My Life and Struggle for a Better World: a world without exploitation of man by man without war, without discrimination of race, religion or nationality. [New Haven?]: Saul Kreas and Joelle Fishman, 1977.
Mininberg, Mark J. Saving New Haven: John W. Murphy Faces the Crisis of the Great Depression. New Haven: Fine Arts Publications, 1988.
Moret, Marta. A Brief History of the Connecticut Labor Movement. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut Labor Education Center, n.d. [1982]
Shubert, Bruce B. "The Palmer Raids in CT: 1919-1920." Connecticut Review 5 (October 1971): 53-69
State of Connecticut. Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Sometimes called the Connecticut Labor Bulletin--1908, 1909, 1911-and Connecticut Labor Report--1911-12, 1913-14, 1915-16.) Annual and biannual volumes, 1874 to 1930.
Wessel, Paul. "Jewish Immigrant Radicalism in Early 20th Century New Haven." A talk delivered to the New Haven Jewish Historical Society on December 1, 1988.

Questions? Comments? webmaster@laborhistory.org
Last modified: 5/20/2000

Research Guide Main Page | List of Record Surveys | Information for Unions
Information for Researchers | About the Project | GNHLHA Home

contact: labor_history@hotmail.com