Penn State University Libraries - Labor Studies

The following Web sites are available to all researchers:

• International Association of Labor History Institutions
  "The International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI) brings together archives, libraries, documentation centres, museums and research institutions specializing in the history and theory of the labour movement from all over the world."

• National Labor College
  "The National Labor College (NLC) [...] began with the vision of George Meany that labor have its own college - a national center that would provide continuous labor education for all union activists."

• The Institute for Labor Studies
  "The Institute for Labor Studies is a joint project of the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Longview Community College. Its aim is to serve the educational needs of organized labor: its leaders, staff and members and to educate students of Longview and UMKC as well as the community on the significance of the labor movement in U.S. society."

• International Institute for Labor Studies (IILS)
  "The International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS) was established by the International Labour Organization in 1960 as a centre for advanced studies in the social and labour field to further a better understanding of labour issues through education and research."

• Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
  "The Center supports research, teaching and community outreach, all focusing on labor's contribution to society, and promotes the study of labor in all of its facets — locally, nationally, and worldwide. Our mission is to help make labor studies, broadly conceived to include working men and women everywhere, a central concern in higher education."

• The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
  "The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University form a unique, internationally-known center for scholarly research on Labor and the Left. The primary focus is the complex relationship between trade unionism and progressive politics and how this evolved over time. Archival, print, photograph, film, and oral history collections describe the history of the labor movement and how it related to the broader struggle for economic, social, and political change."

• The United Association for Labor Education
  "Born of the merger between Workers' Education Local 189 and the University and College Labor Education Association, the UALE welcomes all labor educators into this new, exciting national and international organization. Together we will work to promote education as an essential tool in the process of union transformation, to develop new leadership, and to strengthen the field of labor education in order to meet the ever-changing needs of unions and workers."

• Institute for Labor Studies and Research
  "The Institute for Labor Studies and Research provides education and training that enables working people and the labor movement to have a stronger voice in the workplace, participate more effectively in the changing global economy and create a more just and equitable society."

• Center for Labor Research and Studies at Florida International University
  "The Center for Labor Research and Studies was established at Florida International University in 1971 to promote research, curriculum development, teaching and community services in labor-management relations across the state."