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United States Labor History

Selected Primary Sources

The Second World War: 1939-1945

A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
BLS Publications, 186-1971
Bulletin 1749 Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
An Early History of Local 601
Shown Through Correspondence of Margaret Darin and A. Logan Burkhart
Executive Order 8802
Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
Helen Quirini and General Electric: A Personal Memoir of World War II
Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection
Margaret Darin: Union Pioneer in Westinghouse Electric
Rosie the Riveter
Ruth Young Jandreau
Strikes in 1941
Stabilizing of the National Economy
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order Providing for the Stabilizing of the National Economy, October 3, 1942
Todd/Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection
Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940 to 1941

Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II--Library of Congress

Rosie the Riveter