Massachusetts History Workshop.

The MHW was founded in 1978 by James Green, Susan Reverby, and Martin Blatt, three Boston-area labor historians, to bring together "worker-historians and university-based historians...to explore common historical and political concerns, and to work toward democratizing people's history." After sponsoring history workshops with shoe workers in Lynn (1976), and with textile workers in Lawrence (1981), the MHW turned its attention to clerical workers, and on April 24, 1982, presented a one-day conference on the past and future of clerical work. Held at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, the conference attracted more than 150 people, including a number of retired office workers. The MHW intended to use this workshop and the preparation for it as a means of involving clerical workers in writing their own history; interviews with more than fifty workers were conducted and in 1985 the MHW published a booklet entitled "They Can't Run the Office Without Us: Women Look at 60 Years of Clerical Work" (Cambridge, Mass.: Red Sun Press). This booklet is available in the book division of the Schlesinger Library.

From the guide to the Records, 1980-1984, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)

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