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Labor Day 2012

Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for … Continue reading

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Morgan Mahone Winner of 2012 Jacobs Labor Scholarship

Morgan Mahone is the 2012 recipient of the Joseph Jacobs Labor Scholarship. The scholarship was established in 1983 to honor Joseph Jacobs, a long-time labor attorney who represented unions in Georgia, by the Organized Labor and Workmen’s Circle Awards Committee … Continue reading

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Digital Collections provides online access to Library Resources

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Georgia State University Library’s Digital Collections is comprised of rare or unique resources which have been digitized or are born digital. These resources come from of the University Library’s Special Collections and Archives and, in some cases, its general collection, … Continue reading

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MLK and the Memphis Sanitation Workers

The Walter P. Reuther Library, official repository for the records of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, has produced an online exhibit about Dr. King’s fateful visit to Memphis in support of AFSCME Local 1733′s sanitation workers. … Continue reading

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Radical Voices added to Labor Oral History Collection

Oral histories with Modibo Kadalie and Ken Lawrence have been added to the Voices of Labor Oral History Project, part of the Southern Labor Archives in GSU Library’s Special Collections and Archives Department. Modibo Kadalie, professor of political science and … Continue reading

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New Electrical Workers’ materials now available for research!

Both the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 84 (Atlanta, Ga.), records and a new accession of the J.W. Giles papers are now available for research at Georgia State University Library’s Southern Labor Archives. About the IBEW Local 84 (Atlanta, … Continue reading

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9to5 Atlanta Working Women Records Now Open for Research!

The 9to5 Atlanta Working Women Records, part of Georgia State University Library’s Southern Labor Archives, are now open for research. These documents provide an in-depth view into the specific issues faced by working women since the 1970s as well as … Continue reading

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New PATCO Collections now available for research!

The Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University Library is excited to announce the availability of five new additions to the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) collections. Over 11,000 PATCO members were fired by the Reagan Administration after conducting … Continue reading

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GSU Library will celebrate Great Speckled Bird digitization and traveling exhibit

Join Georgia State University Library as we celebrate the digitized Great Speckled Bird and grant-funded traveling exhibit! What: Great Speckled Bird Launch Party When: Thursday, October 27th, 3:00p.m.-5:00p.m. Where: GSU Library, 8th floor of Library South (directions) The event is … Continue reading

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Author Joseph McCartin talks Reagan, Air Traffic Controllers at Carter Library on October 5

  “… Joe McCartin brilliantly and compellingly tells [a] tragic tale, and situates it in the broader narrative of middle-class America’s long and sickening decline,” says Harold Meyerson, Editor-at-Large of The American Prospect, regarding McCartin’s new book Collision Course: Ronald … Continue reading

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