United Steelworkers of America and Labor Oral History collection, 1926-1987 (bulk 1966-1977).

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United Steelworkers of America and Labor Oral History collection, 1926-1987 (bulk 1966-1977).

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The collection consists of interviews, transcripts, and correspondence with prominent labor leaders such as I.W. Abel, as well as a variety of union members. Topics include union organizing in the 1930s and 1940s by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) and United Steelworkers of America (USWA), as well as women in unions and workers' education. Penn State labor professor Alice Hoffman directed and conducted many interviews for this project.

46 cubic feet + 656 items.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7275755

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Hoffmann, Alice M.

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Alice M. Hoffman was labor archivist and associate professor of labor studies at King of Prussia, Penn State in the 1970s. She supervised and conducted numerous oral history interviews with labor leaders, served as an officer of the Oral History Association and Pennsylvania Labor History Society, and joined Bryn Mawr College after retiring from Penn State. From the description of Alice M. Hoffman papers, 1920-1998. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 190824...

United Steelworkers of America

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The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) was established 22 May 1942, by a convention of representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AAISTW) and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) after an intensive organizing initiative by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s. After mergers in 2005, it was renamed United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW...

Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.)

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