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Podcast: Jessica Levy on "Black Power, Inc.: Global American Business and the Post-Apartheid City"

... labor activities, International trade., Labor, United Automobile Workers) ...

Blog entry - mcourtney - 07/30/2018 - 12:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

George Burt Papers

... Burt served as Director of the Canadian region of the United Auto Workers from 1939 until his retirement in 1968. Mr. Burt’s ...

Abstracts - abarker - 02/16/2011 - 16:18 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

The Women of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.)

... had the greatest influence in the eastern region of the United States. As opposed to the western states, where workers tended to be ... in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the western United States in the 1960s, and contains political commentary as well as her ...

Blog entry - eclemens - 07/28/2015 - 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(33280) Chavez, La Paz, Fasts, Children, 1970s

... Photograph (Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993, United Farm Workers) ...

Image - eclemens - 05/18/2015 - 16:53 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

Collection Spotlight: Wayne State University Yearbooks

... and Philip Levine (1950), the current Poet Laureate of the United States. These yearbook collections are open to visitors to the ...

Blog entry - cwesterman - 02/11/2020 - 16:58 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

UFW Washington State Boycott Records

... with the Agricultural Workers Committee to form the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC). In 1973 the UFWOC became the United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO. Cesar Chavez led the farm workers from 1962 until ...

Abstracts - drice - 10/09/2012 - 07:45 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

(33277) Union Offices, La Paz, 1970s

... Physdesc:  Photograph (UFW, United Farm Workers) ...

Image - eclemens - 05/18/2015 - 16:32 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

Oral History Heroes: Dave Miller

... to America. After immigrating to the United States in 1920, Miller and his family settled in Detroit, where he first worked for the Detroit United Railway (or Detroit Urban Railway) and soon switched to a better-paying ...

Blog entry - rbizonet - 02/28/2017 - 17:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Collection Focus: Wayne University Illustrated Map, 1939 - Part 2

... the oldest historically black Greek-letter sorority in the United States, and Wayne's Beta Mu chapter has been active since 1936. This ...

Blog entry - cwesterman - 02/11/2020 - 17:01 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(8745) Walter Reuther and Richard Frankensteen "Battle of the Overpass" Dearborn Michigan

... of the Overpass”. The men were beaten for distributing United Auto Workers leaflets outside of the Ford Rouge Plant, Dearborn, ... Truman), 1907-1977 , Labor, Labor disputes, Labor leaders--United States, Labor movement, Labor unions--organizing, Reuther, Roy, ...

Image - eclemens - 04/07/2022 - 09:04 - 0 comments - 3 attachments