Labor
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Kraus Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000112
Abstract
Mr. Kraus was the first editor of the UAW's newspaper The United Auto Worker (later changed to Solidarity). He was active in the early attempts by the UAW (first under the AFL and later under the CIO) to organize the auto industry. Files for the late 1920s and early 1930s cover the attempts by groups, including the Auto Workers Union of the Trade Union Unity League, to organize auto workers, and discuss such events as the Murray Body Strike (1929); the Ford Hunger March (1932); and the Briggs...
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Henry Kraus Papers
Jean Gould Papers
Collection — Small Processed Collections: G, Box 6, Folder: 2-5
Identifier: LP000426
Abstract
Author Jean Gould published various biographies, including, Walter Reuther: Labor’s Rugged Individualist, co-authored with Lorena Hickok. The papers of Ms. Gould relate to her work on the Reuther biography and on Charles Ervin’s autobiography, Homegrown Liberal. Important correspondents include Eugene Debs and Victor Reuther.
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Jean Gould Papers
Norbert Wiener Papers
Collection — Small Processed Collections: W-Z, Box 15, Folder: 9
Identifier: LP001168
Abstract
The author of "Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine," mathematician Norbert Wiener pioneered the science of communication and control theory known as cybernetics. Mr. Wiener’s papers consist of copies of correspondence with Walter Reuther regarding issues of labor and automated manufacturing.
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Walter P. Reuther Library
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Norbert Wiener Papers