Scope and Contents
The Archives Foreign File is a collection of printed ephemeral documents, issued primarily by foreign and international trade unions and labor organizations. All continents are represented, though the majority of materials is of European origin. Topics covered in this collection include union organizing, unemployment, working conditions, the working class, the labor movement, industrial relations, worker education, international trade unionism, works councils, automation, economic conditions and trends, labor markets, foreign relations, and political movements, including fascism, socialism, and communism. Included in this collection are materials on the World Confederation of Labor and the World Federation of Trade Unions.
Due to the volume of material in this collection the finding aid has been divided into four sections.
Section 1: Boxes 1-22
Section 2: Boxes 23-44
Section 3: Boxes 45-66
Section 4: Boxes 67-79
Boxes 80-81 have not been inventoried at this time.
Dates
- 1844-9790
Language of Materials
Collection material in English, Czechoslovakian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Extent
86.94 cubic feet
Quantity:
80.1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Pamphlets.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, March 24, 2016
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, March 24, 2016
- Automation
- Communism
- Economic history
- Fascism
- Industrial hygiene
- Industrial relations
- Industrial safety
- International labor activities
- International relations
- Labor market
- Labor movement
- Labor unions
- Labor unions -- Political activity
- Labor unions and communism
- Labor unions and fascism
- Labor unions and foreign policy
- Labor unions and socialism
- Management -- Employee participation
- Socialism
- Unemployment
- Work environment
- Working class
- Working class -- Education
- Works councils
- Title
- Archives Foreign File (AFF), Section 1
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- March 24, 2016
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853