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June 7 at 6:30 pm: Photographer Richard Copley and the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike

Richard Copley Event Flyer

The Walter P. Reuther Library, in collaboration with the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights, is proud to host photographer Richard L. Copley as he discusses his work and experiences during the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike.  read more »

Tales from the Reuther Library -- We Have a Podcast!

Tales from the Reuther Library Podcast Artwork

We are excited to announce the release of our new podcast, Tales from the Reuther Library, in which archivists and researchers at the Reuther Library share stories from our collections about the American labor movement, metropolitan Detroit, and Wayne State University.  read more »

New UAW Archivist, Gavin Strassel

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(38398) Portrait, Strassel, UAW Archivist, 2018

The Reuther Library is proud to have Gavin Strassel as the new UAW Archivist.

Strassel has long been an important part of the Reuther Library team. He came to the Reuther in December 2013 as an Archives Technician.  read more »

Brown bag talk - Rediscovering Sabotage: How an Industrial Concept Became a National Threat in France and the United States, 1897-1918

(5429) IWW Worker Meetings, 1910s

Please join the Reuther Library at Noon on May 22 for a brown bag research talk from Dr. Dominique Pinsolle, Associate Professor, University of Bordeaux Montaigne entitled
"Rediscovering Sabotage: How an Industrial Concept Became a National Threat in France and the United States, 1897-1918."

Dr. Pinsolle’s research provides a comparative and transnational perspective on sabotage as a labor tactic in the United States and France. In both countries,  read more »

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