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Title: Interview of labor activist Max Gazen
Creator: Gazen, Max
Date: 1980-09-20
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Labor activist Max Gazen talks about being born in the Netherlands in 1897, coming to the U.S. at age nine, working in Grand Rapids, MI, and joining the merchant marine. He also talks about working for the Hotel and Restaurant Workers union, being a delegate to the Detroit Federation of Labor, his participation in the wave of sit-down strikes, helping to cook for the Flint sit-down strikers, union leaders, strikes and picket-lines, and racial discrimination.

Title: Interview with UAW Local 724 president Dean Poggiali
Creator: Poggiali, Dean
Date: 2015-02-20
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Dean Poggiali, president of UAW Local 724 in Lansing, Michigan, talks about his career, his immigrant parents, and taking courses at Michigan State University as he rose in the union ranks. Poggiali also talks about how his union works with multiple employers and multiple bargaining units, the history of manufacturing suppliers in the Lansing area, how union membership fluctuates with market swings, his involvement with the United Way in mid-Michigan, and various union leaders he has worked...
Show moreDean Poggiali, president of UAW Local 724 in Lansing, Michigan, talks about his career, his immigrant parents, and taking courses at Michigan State University as he rose in the union ranks. Poggiali also talks about how his union works with multiple employers and multiple bargaining units, the history of manufacturing suppliers in the Lansing area, how union membership fluctuates with market swings, his involvement with the United Way in mid-Michigan, and various union leaders he has worked with. The interview is conducted by MSU Professor John Revitte.
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Title: Interview with labor leader Ken Germanson
Creator: Germanson, Kenneth
Date: 2012-03-28
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Ken Germanson, Allied Industrial Workers international union staff member, AIW newspaper editor, and president of the Wisconsin Labor History Society (WLHS), talks with Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte during a Wisconsin Labor Conference luncheon. Germanson talks about the history of the AIW, its turbulent relations with the UAW, and several AIW leaders. Germanson also talks about the AIW and its relationships with Harley-Davidson,...
Show moreKen Germanson, Allied Industrial Workers international union staff member, AIW newspaper editor, and president of the Wisconsin Labor History Society (WLHS), talks with Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte during a Wisconsin Labor Conference luncheon. Germanson talks about the history of the AIW, its turbulent relations with the UAW, and several AIW leaders. Germanson also talks about the AIW and its relationships with Harley-Davidson, Whirlpool, Checker Cab, Clark Equipment, and other companies.
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Title: La Confederation des Syndicats Nationaux : an analysis of its growth between 1961 and 1970
Creator: Ponak, Allen M.
Date: 1971
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Labor leader Ken Germanson talks with Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte via telephone. 2018-04-04
Creator: Germanson, Kenneth
Date: 2018-04-04
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Ken Germanson, Allied Industrial Workers international union staff member, AIW newspaper editor, and president of the Wisconsin Labor History Society (WLHS), talks with Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte via telephone. They discuss pending labor conferences at which they they hope to present, the founding of WLHS, AIW members and leaders they know and the varied attitudes among workers about unions. They also talk about the division among...
Show moreKen Germanson, Allied Industrial Workers international union staff member, AIW newspaper editor, and president of the Wisconsin Labor History Society (WLHS), talks with Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte via telephone. They discuss pending labor conferences at which they they hope to present, the founding of WLHS, AIW members and leaders they know and the varied attitudes among workers about unions. They also talk about the division among labor activists and anti-war activists in the late 1960s and early 70s and how that played to management's advantage, early socialists and how some of them were racist while others were pro-civil rights and other possible topics they might discuss in the future, including health and safety, collective bargaining, pensions and plant closings.
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Title: Making it in Detroit : songs of working class life
Creator: Duprie, Don
Date: 2015-09-24
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Musician Don "Doop" Duprie presents, "Making it in Detroit : songs of working class life." Duprie's music runs the gamut from rock to country as he seeks to bring out the sense of loss, confusion, and rage that accompany the struggle to make it in the Motor City. In between songs, Duprie talks about his life in River Rouge, MI, the inspiration for his songs, labor unions, his time as a firefighter, and his views on the gentrification of Detroit. Duprie is introduced by Michigan State...
Show moreMusician Don "Doop" Duprie presents, "Making it in Detroit : songs of working class life." Duprie's music runs the gamut from rock to country as he seeks to bring out the sense of loss, confusion, and rage that accompany the struggle to make it in the Motor City. In between songs, Duprie talks about his life in River Rouge, MI, the inspiration for his songs, labor unions, his time as a firefighter, and his views on the gentrification of Detroit. Duprie is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, the MSU Museum, and the MSU Libraries. Held in the MSU Main Library.
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Title: Marshall, Warren Oral History
Date: 1984
Collection: Making of Modern Michigan
Description: Recorded oral history of Warren Marshall and his recollections of life in Monroe County, Michigan.

Title: Michigan State University Professor Emeritus of Economics C. Patrick "Lash" Larrowe, talks about his life, academic career, and interest in labor issues
Creator: Larrowe, Charles P.
Date: 1989-06-12
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Michigan State University Professor Emeritus of Economics C. Patrick "Lash" Larrowe, talks about his family and childhood in Portland, OR, how his interest in working class issues and unionism grew and why he chose economics as a way of teaching about labor issues. Larrowe describes his early union experiences while in college, joining the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, his service in World War Two, getting his first professorship at the University of Utah, and finally coming to...
Show moreMichigan State University Professor Emeritus of Economics C. Patrick "Lash" Larrowe, talks about his family and childhood in Portland, OR, how his interest in working class issues and unionism grew and why he chose economics as a way of teaching about labor issues. Larrowe describes his early union experiences while in college, joining the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, his service in World War Two, getting his first professorship at the University of Utah, and finally coming to work at the Labor and Industrial Relations Center at MSU. Larrowe discusses settling in at MSU and the people he worked with including, Jack Stieber, Charles Killingsworth, and MSU President John Hannah. He also explains the tensions between the Labor School and state conservatives and why the MSU faculty grievance system was created in the face of professors being terminated. Larrowe says he left the Labor School and moved to the Economics Department when his research and published material was threatened with censorship. Larrowe is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
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Title: Nixon eats lettuce
Date: 1969/1970?
Collection: Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
Description: Nixon eats lettuce; union bug. Green background with black text union eagle

Title: No lettuce unless it's union label
Date: 1969/1980?
Collection: Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
Description: No lettuce unless it's union label; union bug; white background with red/black text and union flag

Title: Occupy the university : putting student and labor activism in perspective
Creator: Marvin, Thomas F.
Date: 2012-10-26
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Tom Marvin, professor of English and American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) delivers a talk entitled, "Occupy the University: Putting Student and Labor Activism in Perspective". Marvin suggests that public education is under attack by Neo-liberalism with its demand that all human activities justify themselves based on a narrow conception of profit and loss. He explains how and why it is important for students and labor unions to work together to affect...
Show moreTom Marvin, professor of English and American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) delivers a talk entitled, "Occupy the University: Putting Student and Labor Activism in Perspective". Marvin suggests that public education is under attack by Neo-liberalism with its demand that all human activities justify themselves based on a narrow conception of profit and loss. He explains how and why it is important for students and labor unions to work together to affect the affordability of higher education as well as the working conditions of faculty and staff. Marvin uses the tactics and goals of the recent "Occupy Wall Street" movement and juxtaposes them against corporate interests and influence in public education institutions. A question and answer session follows. Marvin is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations and the MSU Museum. Held at the MSU Museum.
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Title: Ong, Thomas Oral History
Date: 1984
Collection: Making of Modern Michigan
Description: Recorded oral history of Thomas and Ruth Ong and their recollections of life and events that occured during the Newton Steel Strike in Monroe, Michigan.

Title: Organization size and administration in national labor unions : a comparative analysis
Creator: Miller, Joe Alan
Date: 1969
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Organized labor and the capitalist state : the case of full employment policy
Creator: Berkey, Leonard George
Date: 1983
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Orientations toward unionism : an attitudinal study of a local union
Creator: Dansereau, H. Kirk (Harry Kirk), 1921-
Date: 1956
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Panel data with cross-section variation in the slopes as well as the intercept : the effects of unions on wages
Creator: Cornwell, Christopher Mark
Date: 1985
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Republican Party Hate$ Farm Workers
Date: 1960/1989
Collection: Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
Description: UFW seal on bottom left and right sides. Black font with orange background.

Title: Scott Bryson and Elizabeth Bunn from AFL-CIO, and Rachel Babale from the National Labor Relations Board talk about organized labor
Creator: Bryson, Scott (Of AFL-CIO)
Date: 2012-07-14
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: At a Michigan State University "study away" class held in Washington, D.C., Scott Bryson from the AFL-CIO talks about political activism and young people's involvement in electoral politics and explains why organized labor advocates for all workers. Elizabeth Bunn, director of the AFL-CIO organizing Department, talks about the level of unionization in the U.S. and how it relates directly to income inequality and organized labor as a broad social movement. Rachel Babale from the National Labor...
Show moreAt a Michigan State University "study away" class held in Washington, D.C., Scott Bryson from the AFL-CIO talks about political activism and young people's involvement in electoral politics and explains why organized labor advocates for all workers. Elizabeth Bunn, director of the AFL-CIO organizing Department, talks about the level of unionization in the U.S. and how it relates directly to income inequality and organized labor as a broad social movement. Rachel Babale from the National Labor Relations Board describes the experiences that motivated her to become involved in worker justice issues. They all answer questions from the class. Poor quality recording. Held at the AFL-CIO Building in Washington D.C.
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Title: Smith, Harry Oral History
Date: 1984
Collection: Making of Modern Michigan
Description: Recorded oral history of Harry Smith and his thoughts on a variety of topics he experienced throughout his life in Monroe, Michigan.

Title: Solidarity Farm Workers
Date: 1965/1980?
Collection: Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
Description: Red with black text and black union eagle in center.

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