International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Empty Mills and zombie cities
Tramps’ Bread Ticket
The Jewish psychiatric hospital, Zofiowka, in Otwock, Poland
Physical growth and ethnic inequality in New Zealand prisons, 1840–1975
The patriarchy index: a comparative study of power relations across historical Europe
History of the Women’s Bureau
The Women’s Bureau was established in the Department of Labor by Public Law No. 259 of June 5, 1920. The law gave the Bureau the duty to “formulate standards and policies which shall promote the welfare of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment.”
Shuttered factories and closed politics
Photography and radical psychiatry in Italy in the 1960s. The case of the photobook Morire di Classe (1969)
From paranoia querulans to vexatious litigants: a short study on madness between psychiatry and the law. Part 2
Survival on the streets for homeless kids
CBC reporter Molly Hughes talks to “Judith,” a Saint John teen whose parents made her leave home. Homeless for two months, she endured physical abuse and heartbreak in her time on the streets. Now back with her parents, Judith sits down in this 1979 clip to talk about the dangers, the friendships and surviving life when you’re homeless.
Beatles vs. Stones
The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania / The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania
Constance Pascal’s Chagrins d’amour et psychoses (1935): a French psychiatrist’s views on psychoanalysis
Making Change Happen: Black and White Activists Talk to Kevin Cook about Aboriginal, Union and Liberation Politics
Welcome to Vancouver’s Skid Row
This documentary, produced by Allan King, examines the life of the alcoholic derelict on Vancouver’s “skid row”. In this segment, Jimmy, who lives by the harbour, talks about his life over the years and how he has survived living on the streets. His answers reflect the hopelessness he feels about his day-to-day existence, often panhandling and spending the money on alcohol.
1933: Orwell, Griffin and others The (in)humanity behind statistics
Shell shock in Ireland: The Richmond War Hospital, Dublin (1916-19)
Selma to Saigon: the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War
Frances Perkins: The Roosevelt Years
The genius of Earth Day: how a 1970 teach-in unexpectedly made the first green generation
‘Just Surviving’: Domestic work as a form of structural violence in Sistren Theatre Collective’s Domestick
W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963)
Call for Participation: Interviews with Archival Researchers
Radicals on Relief: Black Chicago Writers and the WPA
Race Always Mattered: Black-on-Black Mob Violence and Interracial Relations in Kansas
Bluey and Sol: Antisemitic Humour in a German-Australian Outpost, 1937–1939
Vanishing for the Vote: diverse suffragettes boycott the 1911 census
BBC Radio Free Thinking Series: Madness in Civilisation (audio)
50 Years of Medicare: How Did We Get Here?
Prison and the colonial family
The Birth of Modern Criminology and Gendered Constructions of Homosexual Criminal Identity
WPA workers protest relief cuts. Washington, D.C.
WPA workers from 26 states, head by David Lasser, President of the Workers Alliance, today protested to Assistant Administrator Aubrey Williams the recent cuts in relief. Their kicks were against the current wage scales, geographical wage differentials, inadequate number of WPA enrollees and the ‘unjust and unfair’ labor relations setup. Lasser is on the right and Aubrey Williams in center seated, 12/15/38
Register now – informal study group WPA Workers Education Project, Henry Street Settlement
Bread and Roses Strike of 1912: Two Months in Lawrence, Massachusetts, that Changed Labor History
Lawrence History Center, Lawrence, Massachusetts, and University of Massachusetts Lowell History Department and students
Standoff between militia and strikers, Lawrence, Mass. 1912. Prompted by a wage cut, the walkout spread quickly from mill to mill across the city. Strikers defied the assumptions of conservative trade unions within the American Federation of Labor that immigrant, largely female and ethnically diverse workers could not be organized. The Lawrence strike is referred to as the “Bread and Roses” strike and “The Strike for Three Loaves.”