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Workers, Labor Unions, and the American Left in the 20th Century: Federal Records

ProQuest History Vault
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To link to this database use: https://libraries.indiana.edu/databases/workers

Digital access to a range of collections documenting the American workers and labor unions in the 20th century, with a special emphasis on the interaction between workers and the U.S. federal government. 

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Includes the Strike Files of the U.S. Department of Justice, records of the Woodrow Wilson Administration and American Workers and records on U.S. government surveillance of radical workers. Also includes government surveillance files, consisting of U.S. Military Intelligence Reports on radicals from 1917-1941 and Department of Justice investigations of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Communist Party, and the use of military force by the federal government in domestic disturbances between 1900 and 1938. The U.S. Military Intelligence Reports contain significant files on IWW strikes and organizing efforts during and immediately after World War I. There are also files on anarchist, socialist, social democratic, and libertarian groups. The other collections in this module covering unemployment relief in the 1930s, farm tenancy, labor strife during World War II, and records on migratory labor in the 1950s and 1960s.

Coverage: Varies

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Interlibrary Loan Type: Not Permitted

Simultaneous User Limit: Unlimited simultaneous users

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