Globalization and the Workplace

New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Globalization

Labor movement

Industrial relations

Social movements

Labor unions -- Political activity

Globalization & the Workplace is a portal to documentation on the effects of globalization on workers and working conditions, labor relations, and social movements.

The site's main goal is to capture, preserve, and make available documentation that was created in digital format, especially if generated by underfunded organizations that use the Internet as their main tool for their activities. The documentation of these activities is thus in danger of being lost. Digital content is vulnerable and often becomes unavailable. The site captures it and stores it in a digital repository, thus ensuring that the content will remain available online and the links will not change. The site will add content as it becomes available online.

New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Cornell University

Web sites

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Labor Photo Database

New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Labor movement -- History

Industrial relations -- History

The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives' collections include approximately 350,000 images from the 20th century on film, paper, glass, and other media. The collected photographic materials provide invaluable documentation of the nature of labor and management history. While the digital database will be added to continually, it represents only an introduction to the Kheel Center's holdings.

New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Cornell University

Photographs

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Triangle Factory Fire Exhibit

New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

Women textile workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century

Sweatshops -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century

Textile factories -- Fires and fire prevention

Labor laws and legislation -- History

Industrial relations -- History

Labor movement -- History

Women -- Social conditions

This web exhibit presents original documents and secondary sources on the Triangle Fire, held by the Cornell University Library. They are housed in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections also contributed to the exhibit. The bulk of the primary sources were drawn from the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Archives which, along with the records of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, form the basis for the archives of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!) which reside at Cornell.

This site includes selected information on a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of many young working women in a New York City sweatshop at the beginning of the 20th century and the resulting investigations and reforms. You will find original documents, oral histories, and photographs. You can hear and read first-hand accounts by survivors and others that will provide a glimpse into the lives of workers and a sense of the horrors of a factory fire that claimed the lives of 146 young workers.

New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Cornell University

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees

Fonds (collections)

Photographs

Articles

Songs (document genre)

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Digital Commons @ ILR

New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Industrial relations

Labor literature

Social sciences -- Research

Learning and scholarship

Electronic scholarly publishing

The digital repository of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations contains nearly 9,000 full-text papers and journal articles relating to the work of the school, its faculty, and students.

New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Cornell University

Articles

Collective labor agreements

Papers

Electronic publishing

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