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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:

Amalgamated Clothing Workers Local 125
International Ladies Garment Workers Local 151
New Haven Typographical Union No. 47

 

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.

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