Susan Schacher Plant Closures Project collection, 1981-2005, bulk 1982-1987

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Summary

Creators:
Schacher, Susan
Abstract:
This collection documents the activities of the Plant Closures Project (PCP). Consists of organizational records dated from 1981 to 1991, the bulk from 1982-1989, including budget, planning and reorganization documents, minutes, funding requests, reports, newsletters, impact statistics, steering committee leadership handbook, lists of steering committee and advisory board members, and plant closure campaign records for Sierra Design, Rainbow Workers Cooperative, Delaval Foundry, and Blue Cross. The collection also contains articles and various documents dated from 1983 to 2005 pertaining to the Full Employment movement, workers ownership, eminent domain, organizations addressing unemployment, the Unemployment Exchange Association, and the Busy Needle Workers Cooperative.
Extent:
1.25 cubic ft. (1 carton)
Language:
Languages represented in the collection: English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Susan Schacher Plant Closures Project Collection, larc.ms.0393, Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection documents the activities of the Plant Closures Project (PCP). Consists of organizational records dated from 1981 to 1991 , the bulk from 1982-1989, including budget, planning and reorganization documents, minutes, funding requests, reports, newsletters, impact statistics, steering committee leadership handbook, steering committee and advisory board members, and plant closure campaign records (Sierra Design, Rainbow Workers Cooperative, Delaval Foundry, Blue Cross).

The collection also contains articles and various documents dated from 1983 to 2005 pertaining to the Full Employment movement, workers ownership, eminent domain, organizations addressing unemployment, the Unemployment Exchange Association, and the Busy Needle Workers Cooperative.

Biographical / historical:

The Plant Closures Project (PCP) was a coalition founded in 1981 by labor organizers, religious leaders and community activists to help workers address the problem of plant closures in the San Francisco Bay Area. The PCP was involved in community education, legislation, direct action, alternative economic development, and networking on a statewide and national level. Its main focus was building a grassroots movement to challenge plant closures. The PCP was located at 433 Jefferson Street, Oakland, California.

Susan Schacher was a community activist and a member of the Plant Closures Project steering committee in the 1980s.

Acquisition information:

This collection was donated to the Labor Archives and Research Center in 2015 by Susan Schacher, accession number 2005/001.

Processing information:

Processed by Eva Martinez in 2015.

Arrangement:

Arranged as received.

Physical location:
Materials are stored offsite; requires advance notice.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Susan Schacher Plant Closures Project Collection, larc.ms.0393, Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University.

Location of this collection:
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco, CA 94132-1722, US
Contact:
(415) 405-5549
specialcollections@sfsu.edu
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