A Weekend Oral History Conference of Washington State Labor, 1988-01

File — Box: 9, Folder: 2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This folder has draft agendas, biographical sketches of all panelists, as well as recruitment letters to union members and academic historians, and lists of all conference participants. This conference was also videotaped on ½ inch tape by the media center.

Dates

Creation: 1988-01

Creator

From the Collection: Leahy, Dan (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to the public and must be viewed in The Evergreen State College Archives and Special Collections reading room.

Biographical / Historical

The Labor Center staff wanted to learn about labor history and decided to organize this conference led by Helen Lee, Dan Leahy, Mike Luther, Melissa Roberts with the assistance of Doug Cox at the media center and the Communications Building staff. The Labor Center staff first interviewed and then organized six panels on the most significant strikes and unions in Washington state: The Long Shore Strike, the PI Newspaper Guild Strike, the organization of the Machinists Union at Boeing, the organization of the IWA, and two panels, one on women in labor and one on public employees.