Saskatchewan Labour History Workshop The Canadian Committee on Labour History is pleased to announce plans for the annual labour history workshop. The organizing committee is led by Lorne Brown and Don Kossick, and the event is co-sponsored with the Saska
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.
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) has been called the greatest American documentary photographer. She is best known for her chronicles of the Great Depression and for her photographs of migratory farm workers. Below are 24 pre-World War II photographs, taken for
An experimental documentary film about a Woody Guthrie song and the story it tells — the story of the Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Michigan. A film about hope and survival, about the redemptive power of music, and about an American town's struggle