New York University, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives70 Washington Square South, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10012

New York University, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University form a unique, internationally-known center for scholarly research on Labor and the Left. The primary focus is the complex relationship between trade unionism and progressive politics and how this evolved over time. Archival, print, photograph, film, and oral history collections describe the history of the labor movement and how it related to the broader struggle for economic, social, and political change.

In 1977 the Robert F. Wagner Archives was established as a joint program of the New York City Central Labor Council and the Tamiment Library. The Wagner is the designated repository for the records of the Council's more than 200 member unions. Today the Library has an extraordinary research collection documenting the history of organized labor in New York and the workers who built the City.

Tamiment has one of the finest research collections in the country documenting the history of radical politics: socialism, communism, anarchism, utopian experiments, the cultural left, the New Left, and the struggle for civil rights and civil liberties. It is the repository for the Archives of Irish America, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, and a growing Asian American labor collection.

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Website: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/

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New York University, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

New York University, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives70 Washington Square South, 10th Floor New York, NY 10012

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New York University, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives70 Washington Square South, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10012