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Rogin, Lawrence M. Central labor bodies and independent political action in New York City, 1918-1922.

Title: Central labor bodies and independent political action in New York City, 1918-1922. 1931.

ArchivalResource: 39 l.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58459289 View

Rogin, Lawrence. Interview. CSEA-AFSCME Merger, March, 1982.

Title: Rogin, Lawrence. Interview. CSEA-AFSCME Merger, March, 1982.

ArchivalResource: 1 audio cassette.

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Rogin, Lawrence M. Interviews. [sound recording].

Title: Interviews. [sound recording].

ArchivalResource: 27 sound cassettes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64091604 View

National Institute of Labor Education. Series 3. Inter-organizational files, 1957-1971.

Title: Series 3. Inter-organizational files, 1957-1971.

Consist chiefly of correspondence of Joseph Mire with the faculty of universities and executives and staff of foundations, international labor agencies, unions, and federal government agencies regarding proposals, planning and implementation of various National Institute of Labor Education (NILE) projects in workers' education. University correspondence includes correspondence of John Glynn (acting director, University of Connecticut Labor Education Center) Alice H. Cook, Lois S. Gray, Maurice F. Neufeld (professors) and David G. Moore (dean) of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Samuel H. Mitchell (director of union research and education projects, University of Illinois); Walter H. Uphoff (director of labor education programs, University of Minnesota); Fred K. Hoehler (associate director) and Hy Kornbluh (director of Labor Education Services) of the University of Michigan Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations); Andrew J. Wann (director of Labor Education and Research Services, Ohio State University); Leonard Breen (associate professor of sociology, Purdue University); and Wayne A.R. Leys (dean of Graduate Division), Frank McCallister (director of Labor Education Division), and Agnes Douty (assistant director of labor education), Roosevelt University.). Also includes Irvine L.H. Kerrison (acting director) and Herbert A. Levine (associate extension specialist) at Rutgers University Institute of Management and Labor Relations; Robert Farley (director of Extramural Studies, University of the West Indies); James L. Stern (professor of economics), and Anthony Luchek and Jack Barbash (professors of economics and labor education) at the University of Wisconsin. Other correspondents include various faculty and administrators at the University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles, Colorado University, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Iowa, the University of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania State University. The correspondence concerns international workers' education; union leadership; grant proposals; residential study institutes for workers' education; comparative labor movements; reorganization of NILE; unions and public interest; preretirement education; mental health projects; automation and urbanization; the teaching of ethics and moral standards; adult education; civil rights; undergraduate curricula in workers' education and labor studies; developing education services with the labor movement in a metropolitan industrial center; women's education; the Youth Employment Program; blue collar worker participation in adult education; union research and education projects; and technological change and human values. Ford Foundation files pertain to the relationships and activities of NILE and the Ford Foundation Fund for Adult Education (FAE). These include proposals for grants and financial assistance; copies of NILE publications; financial statements; news releases and reports of FAE and NILE; and memoranda and correspondence of Mire with Robert J. Blakeley (vice president), C. Scott Fletcher (president) and Neil Chamberlain (director) of FAE concerning proposals and reports of NILE projects in worker participation in local and state government affairs; community participation; training for union leadership; a clearinghouse on workers' education; code of ethics and moral standards; urbanization; residential study institutes; evaluation and development of labor's interest in foreign affairs; and long-term non-residential study institutes in trade-union leadership. Correspondence with foundations, workers' education and research organizations includes that of the following individuals: Eleanor Coit (executive director, American Labor Education Service); Malcolm S. Knowles (executive director, Adult Education Association); Florence Anderson (secretary, Carnegie Foundation); Paul Jacobs (staff administrator, Fund for the Republic); Vernon Eagle (executive director, New World Foundation); and the administrators and staff of the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults; the Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty; the Community Welfare Council; the Continuing Committee on Urban Life; the Danforth Foundation; the Field Foundation; the Friederich Ebert Foundation; the Fundamental Education Readership; the Hill Family Foundation; the Rockefeller Foundation; the Self-Help Upper Ohio Foundation; the Stern Foundation; and the World Affairs Center. Correspondence concerns conferences in workers' education; applications and proposals regarding grants for workers' education projects; residential workers' education study institutes; Fulbright scholarships; international workers' education programs; automation and adult education; NILE publications; civil rights; civil liberties; urbanization and labor; scholarships; inter-group relations; financial assistance to foreign students; the Youth Employment Program; and the Southern Staff Training Institute. Correspondence from international labor agencies includes that of Kenneth Holland (president, Institute of International Education); Walter Galenson (professor, University of California, Institute of Industrial Relations); Serafino Romualdi (executive director, American Institute for Free Labor Development); Ralph H. Bergmann (chief of Automation Unit, International Labor Office); Peter Strong (director, American Scandinavian Foundation); Hans Gottfurcht (assistant general secretary, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions); and executives and staff of the International Federation of Workers' Educational Associations; the Afro-American Labor Center; the Canadian Labour Congress; the Austrian Training Program; the Foreign Policy Association; and the Pan American Union. The correspondence concerns the establishment of a central organization for the promotion of workers' education; programs in international workers' education; technological change and automation; occupational training of African students; participation of NILE in various conferences in international workers' education; international workers and trade-union exchange programs; training programs for Latin American trade-unionists; a proposal for operational research evaluation and development of labor's understanding and participation in international affairs; education for public responsibility; and adult education programs. Union correspondents include executives of the AFL-CIO: Lawrence M. Rogin (director of education); Russell Allen (director of education, Industrial Union Department); George Meany (president); John W. Conners (director of education); and Jack Barbash (director of research and education). Correspondence regards joint NILE-AFL-CIO programs and activities; vocational training for the Peace Corps; Fulbright scholarships; grant proposals; the exchange of international labor leaders; automation and workers' education; union-sponsored programs in basic adult education; farm workers' education; a field project in mental health; industrial health; AFL-CIO summer schools for workers; equal opportunity in higher education; and cooperation between unions and universities. Also includes correspondence between Mire and the staff of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 189, the United Steelworkers of America, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the International Association of Machinists and the United Automobile Workers concerning international labor education, labor's public responsibility, and the summer internship program for labor leaders. U.S. government agency files include correspondence and memoranda exchanged between Mire and the staff of various federal government agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Peace Corps, the International Cooperation Administration, and the Agency for International Development. The correspondence discusses scientific activities of non-profit institutions; a summer institute for improving the teaching of labor economics in colleges; experimental union-sponsored youth service programs; proposals for research in international workers' education projects; residential study institutes; the international trade-union education program; and the exchange of international scholars and trade-union leaders.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear ft.

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Inter-University Labor Education Committee. Inter-University Labor Education Committee. Series 3, Subseries 1. General office files, 1952-1957.

Title: Inter-University Labor Education Committee. Series 3, Subseries 1. General office files, 1952-1957.

Records of the Inter-University Labor Education Committee (IULEC) project conducted by the faculty and staff of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University (NYSSILR) include programs and agenda of IULEC-Cornell conferences; IULEC contact reports on meetings with Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) committees, members of common councils, city health commissioners, social action agencies, chambers of commerce of New York State communities, health and multiphasic screening projects; international affairs, films on workers' education, readership development project for union members, workers' education projects in foreign countries, progress reports on NYSSILR projects, and budgets; drafts and copies of a report by Jack Barbash (professor of labor economics, University of Wisconsin) on the history of IULEC; and relevant bibliographies.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 linear ft.

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Larry Rogin on the CSEA-AFSCME Merger, 3/4/1982.

Title: Larry Rogin on the CSEA-AFSCME Merger, 3/4/1982.

ArchivalResource: 1 audio cassette.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64064439 View

Larry Rogin papers

Title: Larry Rogin papers

This collection offers valuable items for researchers interested in the history of the workers’ education movement. It contains material used by Rogin in creating his class lectures and course outlines for instruction at the Brookwood Labor College and other schools, universities, and labor research/education departments. Topics include: collective bargaining, effective organizing methods, union leadership, and labor history. The collection also focuses on his affiliation with the Textile Workers Union of America. Researchers interested in southern labor and in race relations can find information about the TWUA’s role in the CIO’s 1946 southern organizing drive known as Operation Dixie.

ArchivalResource: 3.15 Linear Feet

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Barkan, Alexander E. Textile Workers Union of America oral history project interviews, 1977-1985.

Title: Textile Workers Union of America oral history project interviews, 1977-1985.

Tape-recorded oral interviews conducted with union leaders by James A. Cavanaugh of the Historical Society staff, documenting the origins, growth, and decline of the TWUA, internal disputes, relations with other unions, and organizing drives. The interviews document textile unionism prior to the formation of the TWUA, as well as discussing major strikes and gains made through collective bargaining. Specific references are made to organizing activities in Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Interviewees are Solomon Barkin, Adolph Benet, Emanuel "Slim" Boggs, Wesley W. Cook, Kenneth Fiester, William Gordon, Scott Hoyman, Joseph Hueter, George Perkel, Lawrence M. Rogin, Francis Schaufenbil, Sol Stetin, Paul Swaity, Norris Tibbetts, Edward Todd, George Watson, and Herbert S. Williams. Accompanying the tapes are abstracts of the interviews and an index which contains references to information in the interview on labor leaders George Baldanzi, Sidney Hillman, John L. Lewis, George Meany, William Pollock, Walter Reuther, and Emil Rieve and to numerous other trade unions. Also present are recorded speeches and music from a reunion of TWUA activists and staff in 1984; included is a speech by Alexander E. Barkan and textile labor songs by Joe Glazer.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) and102 tape recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701498 View

National Institute of Labor Education. National Institute of Labor Education. Series 1. Administrative files and governance records, 1957-1971.

Title: National Institute of Labor Education. Series 1. Administrative files and governance records, 1957-1971.

Consist of minutes of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors (1957-1971); copies of National Institute of Labor Education (NILE) bylaws and articles of incorporation; reports of Joseph Mire (executive director) to the Board of Directors (1960-1964); financial reports (1965-1968); news releases on the promotion of NILE programs; drafts and copies of NILE promotional brochure; photographs of participants at NILE conferences; routine office financial records and memoranda, and reports of Mire regarding grants and routine organizational business.

ArchivalResource: 20.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63541160 View

Rare Pamphlet Collection.

Title: Rare Pamphlet Collection.

This is a collection of publications primarily authored by U.S. individuals unaffiliated with any organization.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180689699 View

Rogin, Lawrence. Lawrence Rogin. Interview, May 1978.

Title: Lawrence Rogin. Interview, May 1978.

ArchivalResource: 11 sound cassettes + 257 p. transcript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64039039 View