The Labor Archives of Washington is a special collection at the
University of Washington Libraries
The University of Washington Libraries (UW Libraries) is the academic library system of the University of Washington, based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It serves the Seattle, Tacoma, and Bothell campuses of the University of Wash ...
dedicated to preserving documents from the
labor movement
The labour movement is the collective organisation of working people to further their shared political and economic interests. It consists of the trade union or labour union movement, as well as political parties of labour. It can be considere ...
in
Washington state
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is often referred to as Washington State to distinguish it from the national capital, both named after George Washington ...
.
Background
The Labor Archives were founded by Conor Casey in 2010 funded by a $250,000 fundraising campaign run by the
Washington State Labor Council and a $150,000
matching grant from the
International Longshore and Warehouse Union
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii, and in British Columbia, Canada; on the East Coast, the dominant union is the Intern ...
.
The Labor Archives won the
John Sessions Memorial Award in 2013 and 2021.
The 2021 award citation commended the Archives for its Oral History Project, “Working in the Time of COVID19,” that was a collaboration with unions, faculty, and regional labor history organizations.
References
External links
Labor Archives of Washingtonhome page.
Archives in the United States
Labor literature
University of Washington projects
2010 establishments in Washington (state)
Works about the labor movement
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