"A rank and file union built by the rank and file”: Toledo, progressives, and the rise of the UAW 1933-1937 - Adam Lax A paper by Adam Lax on the union movement in Toledo, Ohio in the 1930s.
Images from the South-St. Paul CIO-United Packinghouse Workers ̓strike of 1948 Images from a CIO strike in the meatpacking industry in St. Paul, Minnesota. The strike dragged on…
“They teamed up with the police and the Klan:” Jack O’Dell on red baiting in the National Maritime Union Brief account by Jack O’Dell of the CIO's 'Operation Dixie', a strategy to organize…
Oral history of Ernest DeMaio, head of the United Electrical Workers Midwest District 11 Oral history of Ernest DeMaio, from his early radicalizing experience of the First…
“A square deal?”: the Michigan CIO debates the no-strike pledge Selections from minutes of a 1943 Michigan CIO convention, debating the 'no-strike pledge' during…
“The man . . . died on my lap”: one women recalls the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937 The testimony of Lupe Marshall to a U.S. Senate committee on the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, a day…
Salt of the Earth This drama film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its plot centres on a long and difficult strike, based on the 1951 strike against the…
Reds riot at steel mill: 75 years later Mark R. Wolff on the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, in which police fired upon striking CIO workers.
Images from 1946 Rochester general strike Pictures from the 1946 Rochester, New York general strike, which happened in response to the mass firings of city workers attempting to organize…
Vulnerable Akron: the first great sit-down - Rose Pesotta An account by anarchist and union organizer Rose Pesotta of the 1936 Akron rubberworkers strike,…
A CIO organizer in Alabama, 1941 Reports from an organizer involved in efforts to organize a Goodyear plant in Alabama in 1941.
Toward a history of the CIO: a bibliographical report An essay by Robert H. Zieger on some of the various writings on the CIO up to 1985.
