Guide to the New York Hard Hat News Records, 1958-2002

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Guide to the New York Hard Hat News Records, 1958-2002

1958-2002

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/wag_212/wag_212.html

The New York Hard Hat News was a quarterly newspaper primarily for construction workers in the New York metropolitan area, published between 1989-1993 and 1997-2002. The newsletter covered topics of concern to workers in the building trades, with an emphasis on efforts to increase union democracy, job site safety, and combat corruption in labor unions and in the construction industry. The New York Hard Hat News Records date between 1958 and 2002, with the bulk of the material created between 1988 and 2002. The collection contains paper and born-digital materials created and assembled by editors Jane LaTour and Guy Robinson in order to prepare and print the newsletter, including clippings, research files, correspondence, drafts, and administrative files.

10.7 Linear Feet in 7 record cartons and two oversize flat boxes; 8.5 Megabytes in 50 computer files

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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New York Hard Hat News.

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The New York Hard Hat News is a quarterly newspaper for construction workers in the New York metropolitan area. Also known as Hard Hat News, it covers topics of concern to workers in the building trades, with a strong emphasis on efforts to both increase union democracy as well as combat corruption. From the guide to the New York Hard Hat News, Records, Bulk, 1986-2002, 1941-2002, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives) ...

LaTour, Jane

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Jane LaTouris a journalist, labor activist, and educator living in New York City. She has written for various union publications, managed the Women's Project of the Association for Union Democracy, and wrote the book Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City. She is a two-time winner of the Mary Heaton Vorse Award, the top labor journalism award in New York City....

Fitch, Robert, 1938-....

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Robert "Bob" Fitch was born in Chicago in December 1938. He received a PhD in sociology from the State University of New York (SUNY), Binghampton. A Marxist and prolific writer on many topics, Fitch was particularly concerned with unionism. As well as writing about them, he worked as union organizer for the American Federation of Musicians, Local 802 in New York City during the mid 1980s. Fitch also taught and lectured at universities throughout New York City. He died aged 72 in March 2011. ...