Processing Records Related to Colorado Mining and Steel Industries

Recipient: Allen, Beverly (Pueblo, CO 81004 USA) in affiliation with Bessemer Historical Society (Pueblo, CO 81001 USA)

Goal: Arrangement and description of 300 cubic feet of archival records related to the mining and steel industries, trade unions, and labor relations at a Colorado fuel and iron company from 1872 to 1993.

Description: We seek NEH funding for a two year project to achieve basic physical and intellectual control over the entire CF&I Archives (5,000 c.f.) and folder level control over the Labor Relations subgroup (300 c.f.) Products will include:(1)An EAD-encoded finding aid to be mounted on our website and the Rocky Mountain Online Archive. The finding aid will have record group level scope and content notes and box lists for the entire collection and folder level descriptive inventory for the Labor Relations subgroup.(2)A collection level MARC/AMC catalog record, and linked record group level catalog records to be added to the RLIN/AMC file.

Grant: 179464 / PA-51939-06,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2006

Hard Traveling: Itinerant Workers and the Industrialization of the West

Recipient: Wormser, Richard L (New York, NY 10019 USA) in affiliation with Alternative Media Information Center (New York, NY 10038 USA)

Goal: To support planning of a one-hour documentary film on itinerant workers, their contribution to the industrial development of the West from 1865 to 1914, theirsubculture, and the mythology that grew up around them.

Grant: 156821 / GN-24825-94,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1994

United Steelworkers of America Archive

Recipient: Gottlieb, Peter (Madison, WI 53706 USA) in affiliation with Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus (University Park, PA 16802 USA)

Goal: To support the arrangement and description of the archives of the United Steelworkers of America.

Grant: 159186 / RC-21505-88,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Access,   Year Awarded: 1988

Historical Sociology of American and European Labor

Recipient: Sewell, William H (Chicago, IL 60637 USA) in affiliation with University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA)

Grant: 129735 / FS-21710-87,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1987

Bibliographic Center for Records of Solidarity Movement

Recipient: Olmsted, Hugh M (Cambridge, MA 02138 USA) in affiliation with Harvard University

Goal: To support a computerized, international union listing of materials that document the Solidarity movement in Poland.

Grant: 136925 / RC-20883-84,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Access,   Year Awarded: 1984

The Working People of Paris, 1871-1914, by Lenard Berlanstein

Recipient: Tom, Henry Y. K. (Baltimore, MD 21218 USA) in affiliation with Johns Hopkins University

Goal: To support publication of an analysis of the impact of industrial change on thelives of the working people of Paris and its environs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Grant: 138809 / RP-20537-84,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1984

The Industrial Working Class in Gilded-Age Chicago

Recipient: Jentz, John B (Chicago, IL 60610 USA) in affiliation with Newberry Library

Goal: To support research for a social history of Chicago's industrial working class from 1850 to 1873.

Grant: 139157 / RS-20393-83,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: State and Local and Regional Studies,   Year Awarded: 1983

Labor/History Archives Processing Project

Recipient: Miller, Fredric M (Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA) in affiliation with Temple University

Goal: To support the arrangement and description of labor union collections.

Grant: 136809 / RC-20450-83,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Access,   Year Awarded: 1983

An Examination of the Relationship Between International Industries and Women in the Work Force

Recipient: Gray, Lorraine W (Washington, DC 20009 USA) in affiliation with Educational TV and Film Center

Goal: To support production for a one-hour documentary film about the impact of industrial relocation policies on working women and their families in the U. S.and in the free trade zones of less-developed countries.

Grant: 134740 / GN-20693-82,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1982

Connecticut Labor Records Survey

Recipient: Jimerson, Randall C (Bellingham, WA 98225-9056 USA) in affiliation with University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT 06269 USA)

Goal: To support a statewide program of records management and preservation advice for labor unions.

Grant: 136787 / RC-20406-82,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Access,   Year Awarded: 1982

Processing the AFL-CIO Archives

Recipient: Kennedy, James J (Silver Spring, MD 20903 USA) in affiliation with George Meany Center for Labor Studies

Goal: To support processing of four major record groups.

Grant: 136782 / RC-20394-82,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Access,   Year Awarded: 1982

Completion of Descriptive Guide to the Labor Management Documentation Center

Recipient: Strassberg, Richard L (Ithaca, NY 14853 USA) in affiliation with Cornell University

Goal: To support completion of a descriptive guide to labor history materials held atthe Labor-Management Documentation Center of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Grant: 136765 / RC-20322-82,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Access,   Year Awarded: 1982

Seafaring Life of the American Mariner in the 19th Century

Recipient: Fetchko, Peter J (Salem, MA 01970 USA) in affiliation with Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA 01970-3783 USA)

Goal: To support implementation of a permanent exhibition, catalogue and public program on the life and work of the American mariner, introducing the public tothe working and social conditions of seafaring.

Grant: 133956 / GM-20690-82,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1982

Baltimore Steelworkers History Project

Recipient: Zeidman, Linda F (Baltimore, MD 21237 USA) in affiliation with Community College of Baltimore County

Goal: To support implementation of a traveling exhibit of photographs, artifacts, memorabilia and oral histories interpreting the history of two local steel- worker unions in Baltimore.

Grant: 133893 / GM-*1750-81,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1981

From the Bottom Up: The ILWU in the Political & Social Life of Working Class Communities on the West Coast and in Hawaii

Recipient: Wellman, David T (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Berkeley

Goal: To support six monographs on the history of the ILWU, with special attention to its role in a diverse group of West Coast and Hawaiian communities.

Grant: 139070 / RS-*1383-81,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: State and Local and Regional Studies,   Year Awarded: 1981

The Workers' World: The Industrial Village and the Company Town

Recipient: Porter, Glenn (Wilmington, DE 19807-0000 USA) in affiliation with Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, Inc. (Wilmington, DE 19807 USA)

Goal: To support a social history exhibit of photographs, artifacts, and documents relating to communities of laboring men and women in the American industrial revolution, focusing on the industrial village and the company town from the early 20th centuries.

Grant: 133316 / GM-*0372-81,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1981

Connecticut Workers and a Half Century of Technological Change, 1930-1980

Recipient: Stave, Bruce M (Storrs, CT 06269-1205 USA) in affiliation with University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT 06269 USA)

Goal: To support a study on 50 years of changing work technology through oral historyinterviews. The study will explore changes in the quality of working life among workers, on labor relations, and on the quality of goods and services produces over the period studied.

Grant: 135011 / GP-*0517-81,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Special Projects,   Year Awarded: 1981

Indiana Labor History Project

Recipient: Suter, Mary C (South Bend, IN 46634 USA) in affiliation with Indiana University, Bloomington (Bloomington, IN 47405 USA)

Goal: To support development of a statewide network of scholars, trade unionists, andcommunity members for preserving Indiana's 20th-century labor history. The project will include oral history workshops, writing clinics, public meetings, interpretive exhibits, and regional labor history pamphlets.

Grant: 135033 / GP-*0708-81,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Special Projects,   Year Awarded: 1981

Connecticut Labor Studies Project

Recipient: O'Connell, George E (Storrs, CT 06268 USA) in affiliation with University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT 06269 USA)

Goal: To support a project to provide opportunities for union members and leaders, other working adults, and unemployed and retired workers to learn about the history and philosophy of the Connecticut labor movement through booklets, educational materials, courses, conferences, and public presentations.

Grant: 134964 / GP-*0166-81,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Special Projects,   Year Awarded: 1981

Sons and Daughters, Sisters and Brothers: Voices of Labor in Baltimore

Recipient: Durr, W. Ted (Baltimore, MD 21203 USA) in affiliation with University of Baltimore Educational Foundation

Goal: To support a program to stimulate the interest of youth from union families in the humanities through their participation in social history research, performance-and-discussion forums, and the development of film and study guides related to labor union heritage and traditions.

Grant: 136072 / GZ-*2170-81,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Humanities Projects for Youth,   Year Awarded: 1981