Labor unions
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Labor League (Brockton, Mass.) Records
Collection
Identifier: I-267
Abstract
In the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, Brockton, Massachusetts was an industrial center that drew Jewish artisans and laborers to the city. They formed an organization known as the Labor League. This collection contains ledger books with member names and financial records.
Dates:
undated, 1914-1922
Sara Wernon Sloan Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-640
Abstract
Born in 1888 in Odessa, Sara (Buminowitz) Wernon Sloan immigrated to the United States at the age of ten with her mother and siblings. She became a garment worker and wrote of her experiences working in New York City. This collection contains typed manuscripts of her memoirs written in the 1970s and also includes related correspondence, in which various readers of the memoirs describe their impressions.
Dates:
circa 1974-1987