Wirtz Labor Library The Department of Labor Library, established in 1917, is one of the oldest Cabinet-level libraries. Large sections of the collection document the history of labor, labor unions and the growth and development of the labor movement in a national and world persceptive.
Samuel Gompers Papers Samuel Gompers was the nation’s leading trade unionist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 until his death in 1924. The website gives a biographical about Samuel Gompers and labor activities of his time.
Haymarket Affair Digital Collection The Chicago Historical Society has created this digital collection to provide on-line access to its primary source materials relating to the Haymarket Affair, a controversial moment in Chicago's past and a pivotal event in the early history of the American labor movement.
The Coal Culture Website The Coal Culture web site pilot project is funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). The regional focus of the collection is western Pennsylvania Coal culture featuring images of coal mine operations, coal miners, coal families, communities and activities
Windber Miners' Strike for Union, 1922-23 This website gives information on the strike of 1922-23 led by John Brophy and the District #2 Mineworkers in their fight for wages and better conditions.
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones Link off to this website to find out more about this crusader for the working people
IUP Libraries
The CQ Electronic Library Davis Bacon Wage Determination
Historical New York Times- Proquest Service Contract Act Wage Determination Database
Historical Pittsburgh Couier-Proquest Business Full Text
Historical Wall Street Journal- Proquest Lexis-Nexis/Academic Universe
American Periodicals Series Online- Proquest Sociological Collection
Legal Collection
America: History & Life- Ebsco
Lexis Nexis / Academic Universe
Women and Social Movements Currently the library has 220 databases covering 74 subject areas
Some Titles From Our Collection
Link To IUP Libraries Books and More
American Workers, American Unions:The Twentieth Century by Robert H. Zieger & Gilbert J. Gall 2002
Another Civil War:Labor, Capital, and the State in the Antharacite Regions of Pennslyvania, 1840-68 by Grace Palladino 2006
Gendering Labor History by Alice Kessler-Harris 2007
Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History edited by Eric Arneson 2007
The Human Tradition in American Labor History edited by Eric Arneson 2004
Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights by David Brody 2005
The Human Tradition in American Labor History edited by Eric Arneson 2004
Labor Enbattled:History, Power, Rights by David Brody 2005
Link Off To Collections
Records of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers-Local 459
United Mine Workers of America (AMWA) District #2
Publications of the United Mine Workers of America
United Steel Workers of America Local Union 1397
United Mine Workers Of America District #5
Records of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
United Mine Workers of America District # 25
On November 12, 2008, IUP students, faculty and local history enthusiasts were invited to join labor historians Dr. Irwin Marcus and Dr. Elizabeth Ricketts discuss the Labor Chautauquas of the local area in the 1920's. This is a important and fascinating chapter in labor and social history.
