Lectures > Charles Postel OUSD Teaching American History Grant, Summer Institute, UC Berkeley Berkeley, California, Wednesday, June 18, 2003 “Labor History and the Struggle for Democracy”     Charles Postel, Department of History California State University, Sacramento link Listen to this lecture | slides_1.pdf (3.6 mb) | slides_2.pdf (3.3 mb) Web Resources * Links active as of January 2004 Biography of John L. Lewis http://www.umwa.org/history/jll1.shtml San Francisco Longshoremen's Strike 1934 http://www.sfmuseum.net/hist/thursday.html Photographs from 1934 International Longshoremen's Association and General Strike http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7d5nb8zx/scopecontent/116444 The Big Strike: A Journalist Describes the 1934 San Francisco Strike http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/124/ Sidewalk memorial in chalk for two people killed in San Francisco confrontation http://teachingamericanhistory.us/photos/photo_7_11/memorial.html Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937 http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/ Sit-Down : A brief history of the Flint sit-down strike. http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/exhibits/sitdown.html Massacre at Republic Steel, Chicago, May 30, 1937 http://www.trussel.com/hf/memorial.htm “The Man . . . Died on My Lap”: One Women Recalls the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/138/ “Right After That They Walked Out”: Alice Wolfson Recalls the Origins of the CIO http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/130/ Golden Lands, Working Hands: California Labor History http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/scholarship/resources.html#golden UNFAIR ADVANTAGE Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/uslabor/

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