These are grouped together for convenience.
See also page on Industry. War bonds, etc. might be listed under the Military pages.
The Connecticut State Library has many resources on State Union contracts.
These are a few suggestions - try newspapers too. Please see also:
HeinOnline: "This database contains thousands of titles on the American workplace, covering the labor rights movement in the 19th century to the workplace of today."
A HeinOnline collection that brings together books, biographies and periodicals dedicated to the role of women in society and the law for users to research the progression of women's roles and rights in society over the past 200 years. Also included are more than 70 titles from Emory University Law School's Feminism and Legal Theory Project which provide a platform to view the effect of law and culture on the female gender.
Extensive backfile volumes of more than 2,500 full text, core scholarly journals in History, Political Science and other disciplines. The backfiles begin with the very first issues, many of which reach back to the 1800s.
Includes legislative histories, treatises, documents and more related to bankruptcy law in America. It also includes classic books dating back to the late 1800s and links to scholarly articles that are related to the study of bankruptcy in America.
These are only a few of the numerous resources at the Connecticut State Library. The examples are based on past research topics.
"The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1905...Membership declined dramatically in the late 1910s and 1920s. There were conflicts with other labor groups, particularly the American Federation of Labor (AFL), which regarded the IWW as too radical, while the IWW regarded the AFL as too conservative and opposed their decision to divide workers on the basis of their trades. Membership also declined due to government crackdowns on radical, anarchist, and socialist groups during the First Red Scare after World War I." - Wikipedia contributors, "Industrial Workers of the World," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Industrial_Workers_of_the_World&oldid=1307991576 (accessed August 28, 2025).
See also military pages in this guide, and other specific topics.
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