Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.ms.0398
Description:
The bulk of materials in this collection consists of correspondence, articles, budgets, and reports related to California
State University (CSU) faculty salaries and higher education funding.
Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
Accession number:
1987/005
Description:
The scrapbook, predominantly of newspaper clippings from the and from April 29 through September 21 1948 records the strike
between the International Association of Machinists (IAM), Lodge 751 and Boeing Aircraft Company in Seattle, WA. The scrapbook
also includes: Picket
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.oh.alexander
Description:
Sound recording of interview with Robert "Red" Alexander conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Describes boat building in military,
World War II; master boat builder for Pacific Dry Dock/Crowley Maritime in East Bay, 1950-1979; traces great changes in shipbuilding
over time; master
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.oh.petric
Description:
Sound recording of interview with Faith Craig Petric conducted by Estelle Freedman. Describes her social work with poor and
migrant farm workers, 1930s and 1940s; her time as a ship fitter during World War II; her longtime affiliations with the
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.ms.0001
Description:
The Bay Area Typographical Union (BATU) collection contains organizational records and materials donated by the San Francisco
Typographical Union Local 21, the bulk consisting of the records of Local 21, Oakland Local 36, Palo Alto Local 521 and San
Jose
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.ms.405
Description:
Consists of materials documenting John Reimann's activism in Bay Area Carpenters unions Local 36 (Oakland, Calif.) and Local
713 (Hayward, Calif.). Includes material on the Coordinated Housing Organizing Project (CHOP) focused on organizing the unorganized;
materials on Carpenters for a
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
Accession number:
1988/043 and 1990/012
Description:
Consists of materials generated by the California Labor School, spanning the entire life of the School from its founding as
the Tom Mooney Labor School in 1942 until its closing by the Internal Revenue Service in 1957. Materials include: catalogs,
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.ms.0425
Description:
The records of Jobs with Justice (JWJ) contain materials that document the organization's mission, campaigns, projects, and
activities. The materials in this collection reflect those issues that were central to the group, including living wages plus
accessible healthcare, quality public
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.ms.0432
Description:
Consists of the papers of Ina Clausen, related to the Coalition of University Employees (CUE), with a special focus on labor
issues surrounding the University of California Press.
Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.pam.0010
Description:
Consists of published materials, largely pamphlets and reports, from agencies in the U.S. Department of Labor and the Work
Projects Administration (WPA). Though mainly national in scope, some materials specifically address working conditions in
California. Although the earliest publication is
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.ms.0078
Description:
Consists of a selection of George Hardy's papers, including personal files, correspondence, clippings, materials relating
to the George Scalise case of the 1930s, a biography titled "So Much to be Done: George Hardy's Life in Organized Labor,"
and an oversized
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.pam-0016
Description:
Consists of 154 pamphlets related to the socialist movement in the United States, circa 1889-1934. The collection has a particular
depth of materials created by the Socialist Party of the United States and affiliated but independent publishers, such as
Charles
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.ms.0145
Description:
The bulk of the Asiatic Exclusion League records span the years 1906-1910 and consist of the minutes and proceedings of monthly
meetings and the first convention of the League, which had the explicit goal of discriminating against Asian workers. The
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.ms.0422
Description:
This collection consists of the personal papers of researcher Henry P. Anderson. The materials cover agricultural labor conditions;
corporate agriculture and farm economy; pesticide use and effect on workers; agriculture-related legislation; farmer associations;
and labor, religious and political organizing efforts
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.ms.0105
Description:
Includes minutes of the executive board for the years 1900-1916 and 1942-1981; applications for membership, 1908-1912; jurisdictional
disputes file, 1953-1957; history file, 1902-1957; a 1955 civil suit, and the financial secretary’s record book, 1940-1941.
Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
Accession number:
1987/057
Description:
Consists of a staple-bound volume of short stories and poems by San Francisco writers working under the authority of the Works
Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Writers' Project in San Francisco, on the American Guide and other publications. The
volume was
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.ms.0135
Description:
Materials related to the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBCJA) at the national, California and local
levels, including convention proceedings, bylaws, agreements, and pamphlets, collected in the course of Johnson's work as
business agent for UBCJA's Local
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
Accession number:
85-3
Description:
The Records in this collection primarily reflect the activities of the SFLC during the 1960s and early 1970s. A number of
individual items and files, two of the record series, and most of the long newspaper runs document earlier history
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.ms.0248
Description:
Material collected by Alan Weaver related to organizing Sierra Club employees, including the Sierra Employee Alliance (SEA),
United Autoworkers Union, Local 2103; and John Muir Local 100. Includes correspondence, emails, clippings, meeting agendas
and minutes, contracts, committee records, flyers and
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco State University::Labor Archives and Research Center
Collection Number:
larc.ms.0024
Description:
Consists of records from International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 85 of San Francisco, donated by Peter Comacho. Materials
include canceled checks from 1904 to 1906; general meeting minutes from 1907 to 1910; executive board minutes from 1908 to
1910; contract
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