Trying to find historical NYS Department of Labor publications.
I am an author trying to locate data on NY State employment or unemployment during the years 1928 through 1940. I understand that New York was one of the first states to systematically collect such data, during the governorship of Franklin Roosevelt and when Frances Perkins was NY Secretary of Labor. Staff at the NY [...]
Can you help me find copies of 19th century labor speeches and periodicals?
I am looking for periodicals or speeches from 1820-1840 that would be what a working man would have read. Also Tristam Burges writings in the same years, and the speeches of William Heighton. I am interested in the race relationship of free blacks and white workers during those years. I was told that Catherwood library [...]
How can I find the hourly wage of a Teamster in 1963?
I am a reference librarian for the Virginia Beach Public Library in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I am trying to help a patron locate the hourly wage of a member of the Teamsters in 1963. I have checked with the Walter Reuther Library, Bureau of Labor Statistics, George Washington University, and the Historical Statistics of the [...]