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Mary Heaton Vorse Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000190
Abstract
Literary manuscripts and related papers, correspondence, daily notes and journals, reference and research material, notes, clippings, pamphlets, personal and family papers, and memorabilia, collected by Mrs. Vorse, writer, labor journalist, and social critic of the U.S. She also covered strikes, civil and labor disturbances, wars, revolutions, and political upheavals in other parts of the world. From the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts (1912) to the textile strike in Henderson, North...
Dates:
1841 - 1966
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Twentieth Century Trade Union Woman: Vehicle for Social Change Oral Histories
Collection
Identifier: LOH002227
Abstract
In the 1970s, the Program on Women and Work, a unit of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations (ILIR), a jointly administered body of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, coordinated an oral history project to document the lives and work of women active in the labor movement from 1900 through 1970. Joyce L. Kornbluh of ILIR served as project director. Many interviewers conducted interviews with participants across the United State. This project, "The Twentieth...
Dates:
1971 - 1979; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1979
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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