Digital Collections
The California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO has collaborated with the IRLE Library to create a digital repository of its publications. The IRLE Library received a com run of proceedings, constitutions, legislative voting records and other internal documents, which were digitized and are now available for use. The IRLE Library continues to work on digitizing California AFL-CIO News, the Federation’s weekly newspaper. This work is currently forecast to be completed in 2009.
This project was made possible with the support of the University of California Labor and Employment Research Fund (UC LERF), which is administered by the Office of Research at the UC Office of the President.
The IRLE Library has digitized a substantial percentage of the publications of IRLE since its formation in 1945, and this collection is now available for use. This project was made possible with the support of the University of California Labor and Employment Research Fund (UC LERF), which is administered by the Office of Research at the UC Office of the President.
This collection provides an overview of labor's goals–and management's responses–during the high-water mark era of U.S. trade union membership. The collection includes a wide variety of reports, union and company publications, and topical collections of documents. Topics include:
- General Labor
- Longshore Workers
- Minority Workers
- Older Workers
- Personnel Policies
This digital collection was funded by the University of California Labor and Employment Research Fund (LERF).
This is database serves as a one-stop public on-line clearinghouse for cataloged and digitized complete text of union contracts. Most of these contracts were found on the public Web in a wide variety of file formats. They have been processed into Acrobat PDF's and are cataloged with the following information:
- Language and country
- Name and local of of union
- Name of agency bargained with
- State in which the contract was signed
- Years for which contract is valid
- Occupational titles of covered employees
- NAICS two-digit code for agency
- Source and format of the original digital version
- When available, name and address of contact person
The Living New Deal Project is supported by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. IRLE's California Studies Center and the IRLE Library are the sponsoring programs. The California Studies Center, chaired by Professor Richard A. Walker, coordinates all worked associated with volunteers, outreach and data collection; the IRLE Library oversees the technical administration of the Project's Web site.
Project History and Development
Geographer and writer Gray Brechin and photographer Robert Dawson began the Project in the fall of 2003 under the auspices of the California Historical Society (CHS) with a seed grant from the Columbia Foundation. They soon discovered that the New Deal legacy is so vast and poorly documented that it required others to help harvest information not neatly contained in federal archives. Since then, the Project has grown in numbers and ambition and, in 2007, the Institute for Research in Labor and Employment (IRLE) library and the California Studies Center at U.C. Berkeley partnered to host the project website.
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