| Collection Name: |
Labor History: Individual Labor Activists |
| Repository Name: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
Long Beach, California, United States |
| URL: |
http://www.csulb.edu/projects/voaha/summary/page18.html |
| Material Formats: |
[4 documents with audio] |
| Description: |
This series is comprised of several individuals who were active in the labor movement and/or were participants in historic moments in labor history.
In contrast to those included in the other labor history series, they are the sole narrators about the particular union(s) in which they were active and/or events in which they participated. They include: Genora Johnson Dollinger, the founder of the Women's Emergency Brigade during the 1936-7 auto workers strike in Flint, Michigan; Elinor Glenn, a leading organizer of public employees in Los Angeles starting in the 1940s and SEIU leader; Mary Thomas (O'neal), an eyewitness to the massacre during the Ludlow, Colorado strike of 1914; and Stan Weir, an activist and rank and file organizer among auto workers and longshoreman, and founder of Singlejack Books |
| Estimated Total of Interviews: |
4 |
| Interviews: |
[4 interview(s) listed in this collection] |
| Broad Subjects: |
Women's Studies; Industry and Labor; Economics |
| ASP Subjects: |
Employee rights; Labor unions--Officials and employees; Labor unions--Political activity; Labor unions--United States; Oral history; Strikes and lockouts; United States; Women labor leaders--United States; Women labor union members |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0004567 |
