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Annual Newsletter | Labor Archives | Publication | Commemorations
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In 1991, the Society began publishing a four-page newsletter. Our
newsletter keeps members up to date on upcoming events and informs readers
about discoveries in worker history. The newsletter is free with any
paid membership.
In recent years, the volume of members
and member organizations has made it difficult for the organization to
maintain the newsletter. We have since changed the format to a one
page bulletin. This bulletin will be available online starting in
Spring 2003. |
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In 1982, we established a labor archives at one of the oldest repositories
in the nation at the Rhode Island Historical
Society's Library. The Library and Archives are located at 121
Hope Street in Providence. A number of unions such as the meat
cutters, barbers, railroad trainmen, bus drivers, and printers (whose hand
printed records begin in the 1850's) joined several labor activists like
Ed Brown and Larry
Spitz in stocking the shelves with important organizational and
personal papers.
We continue to pursue documentary evidence and encourage
anyone with such materials to donate them to the Society. Our
records are kept in environmentally safeguarded conditions but are still
accessible to donors and researchers. We also initiated a series of oral
histories of rank and file members in the state. |
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The RILHS believes that its greatest contribution to Rhode Island's
immigrant and clue collar heritage us the publication
of easy-to-read histories. Since 1978 we have published several such
books, including a collection of scholarly essays, a pictorial history of
workers, and an edition of oral remembrances by labor activists.
In 1989 we produced a popular poster featuring convention ribbons, dues pins, parade badges, and other memorabilia related to local labor history. Please see our Publications
section for a list of works associates with the RILHS, as well as
other available labor history titles. |
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Over the past 14 years, we have honored present and past Rhode
Islanders whose impact on the labor movement has made a difference to
working-class people today. Through activism, writing, lobbying, and
other efforts, our honorees embody the spirit of the movement. back to top |
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