This Catherwood Guide lists web sites for and about labor unions.
The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives in the ILR School’s Catherwood Library is one of the foremost archives in the country that documents both labor and management. This guide is a comprehensive resource of all the Kheel Center’s digital collections. It presents materials that are currently available online as well as others that are digitized and available by request. Please reach out to kheelref@cornell.edu for any inquiries pertaining to your research needs.
This guide is organized topically below:
1. Unions
2. Garment and Textile Industry
3. Railroad Collections
4. Miners and Mining Collections
5. Collective Bargaining Agreements
6. Strikes, Unrest and Tragedies
7. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
8. Working Conditions & Working Life
9. Films and Video
10. Photograph Collections
11. Oral History Collections
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Please call us or email us before you travel to the Kheel Center.
Phone: (607) 255-3183
kheelref@cornell.edu
Some collections are restricted and require special permissions.
The Kheel Center encourages the use of privately owned digital cameras to duplicate unrestricted material that is safe to handle.
Please inquire about other allowed devices.
Bring two forms of identification (one photo ID).
You will be required to register upon arrival.