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The Labor Archivist and the "Labor Question": Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

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Abstract

Although the "labor question" has carried various political, economic, and sociological meanings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, for the labor archivist it has been a question of preservation and control. Efforts of labor archivists and academics to collect, preserve, and make available the records of organized labor in the United States are traced from the early decades of the twentieth century through the 1980s. The state of labor's records cannot be separated from the state of the movement that created them. Labor archivists, too, must adapt to the changing environment facing organized labor in America if they are to construct their project "for the long haul."

How to Cite:

Connors, T., (1987) “The Labor Archivist and the "Labor Question": Two Steps Forward, One Step Back”, Archival Issues 12(2), 61–72. doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.10545