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Primary Sources: U.S. Labor

General Primary Resources in American Labor History

On this tab you'll find primary source documents related to the American labor movement. For more documents and secondary articles on this subject, see the Appendices in the Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor.

Descriptions and Recollections of Labor in the U.S.

Documents from Labor Organizations

Legislation and other Government Documents

Articles

Nonfiction

Speeches

Contract Examples

Fiction and other works