Labor Movement

Additional Digital Collections related to Labor Movement

Communist Collection of AE Forbes

Henry Clay Frick Business Records

African American Construction Workers

For more Archival Collections related to Labor Movement, please visit the Archival & Manuscript Collections page.

This topic includes material pertaining to organized labor and the American Labor Movement. These collections document the activities of labor organizations, like the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, as well as publications and other items that generally address workers’ rights and workplace conflict.

American Left Ephemera Collection

A wide-range of primary source textual and visual material documents left-wing organizations in the U.S. during the 20th century.

Fred Wright Cartoons

Fred Wright, an American labor cartoonist and activist, created thousands of cartoons from 1939-1984 reflecting the politics and labor issues of the day, which were featured in newspapers, union publications, and overseas union activism.

Union Switch & Signal Strike Photographs

Collection Description: Visual images from June 1914 portray strikers from US&S, and several other Westinghouse plants, marching in the streets of Pittsburgh’s Swissvale neighborhood.

United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) Records

Contains all of the issues of the UE News, the official newspaper of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), from the newspaper’s founding in 1939 through 2010. Also comprises visual images from the 1930s-1950s that represent the activities, officers, and members of the UE in Pittsburgh and vicinity.