Left Labor Caucuses Collection 1966-1995

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Left Labor Caucuses Collection 1966-1995

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This collection principally consists of printed ephemera from left rank and file caucuses within labor unions in the United States and other Anglophone countries from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. Labor unions most prominently represented are the United Automobile Workers (aka the International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America), the United Steel Workers of America, the International Longshoremen's and Warhousemen's Union, the Communications Workers of America, the National Maritime Union, and the American Federation of Teachers.

8.5 linear feet; in eight record cartons and one manuscript box.

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6331443

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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