Articles
Labor History Articles
1922 Railroad Shops Strike in Illinois broken by federal injunction
by Mike Matejka
Railroads, Federal courts, Rail Workers
by Mike Matejka
Topics: Labor Day; General Labor History
Address to 1894 Convention of American Railway Union
Author: Jennie Curtis, President of ARU Local 269
Topics: Pullman, Railroad History
Battle of the Viaduct-1877 Great Uprising
Author: Ryan Smith, Chicago Magazine
Topics: Battle of the Viaduct, 1877, Great Uprising
Bloomington's Patrick Morrissey led railroad labor Author: Bill Kemp Topics: Railroad History
Building a Railroad: 1850s Irish immigrant labor in Central Illinois Author: Mike Matejka Topics: Railroad History, Irish Labor History
Christmas Eve labor tragedy - Calumet, Michigan Dec 24, 1913 Author: Loretta Santejka Topics: Michigan Labor History, Mining History
Early Days of Coal Mining in Northern Illinois
Author: Richard Joyce
Topics: Mining History
Eulogy at Waldheim Cemetery
Author: Captain William P. Black, Attorney for the Haymarket defendants
Topics: Haymarket
Fannie Sellens
Author: Mara Lou Hawse
Topics: Mining History
First Labor Day Parade
Author: Ted Watts
Topics: General Labor History
Franklin Rosemont Remembered
Author: Les Orear
Topics: Memorial Remembrance
Gene Debs and the American Railway Union
Author: ILHS
Topics: Pullman, Railroad History
Governor John Peter Altgeld Pardons the Haymarket Prisoners
Author: Governor John Peter Altgeld
Topics: Haymarket
Haymarket and its Memorial
Author: ILHS
Topics: Haymarket
If the Rev. Martin Mangan were alive, he'd turn 75 years old today Author: Amy Hoak
Topics: Memorial Remembrance
Illinois Labor & Industrial Sites
Author: Mike Matejka
Topics: Historic markers, monuments, statues
Jacqueline B. Vaughn
Author: ILHS
Topics: Memorial Remembrance, Women in Labor History
Live Off Work, Not Off Workers
Author: John Keiser
Topics: General Labor History
Mary E. McDowell, Angel of the Stockyards
Author: Louis C. Wade
Topics: Women in Labor History, Chicago Stockyards
May -- Labor History Month
Author: William J. Adleman
Topics: General Labor History
May Day Remembered
Author: Susan King
Topics: Haymarket
Memorial Day Massacre
Author: William Brock
Topics: Memorial Day Massacre
Mine Union Radicalism In Macoupin and Montgomery Counties, IL
Author: Victor Hicken
Topics: Mining History
Mother Jones, the Miners' Angel
Author: ILHS
Topics: Mother Jones, Mining History
1978 Normal Fire Fighters' Strike Author: Mike Matejka Topics: Fire Fighter History
Rabbi Jacob Weinstein
Author: ILHS
Topics: General Labor History
Samuel Gompers
Author: ILHS
Topics: General Labor History
The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument as a Labor Icon
Author: Robin Bachin
Topics: Haymarket
The Parable of Pullman
Author: ILHS
Topics: Pullman, Railroad History
We owe them a great debt – Cherry Mine centennial
Author: Michael G. Matejka
Topics: Mining History
When Women Were Knights
Author: ILHS
Topics: Women in Labor History, Knights of Labor
Why Unions Matter
Author: Democratic Party of Evanston
Topics: General Labor History
William J. (Bill) Adelman Remembered
Author: Les Orear
Topics: Memorial Remembrance
