My name is Yvonne Rivas and I am a sophomore economics major participating in the Association of Research Libraries Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence with the Tamiment Library. As part of my internship, I have been working on the New York City Labor History
Today’s entry is written by Rachel Schimke, an archives assistant at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. On March 2, 1937, United States Steel signed a contract with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC). SWOC, which would become the United Steel Workers
Today’s entry is written by Margaret Fraser, Project Archivist for the New York Taxi Workers Alliance Records. The New York Taxi Workers’ Alliance (NYTWA) grew out of the Lease Driver Coalition, a segment of the Committee Against Asian American Violence (CAAAV), in 1998. In May
Today’s entry is written by David Olson, an archives assistant at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. He is currently a graduate student in NYU’s Archives and Public History Program and at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science. On May