- Pullman Strike (6)
- Learn about Pullman Strike, the wildcat strike by the Pullman Palace Car Company in Illinois on May 11, 1894. Sites feature historical background, events, consequences, labour related transcripts, museum exhibits, excerpts from the U.S Strike Commission's report, and analysis of the labour strike and its impact on the U.S. history.
- Curriculum of Labor History for Teachers of US History
 - A resource of documents and lessons for use by high school U.S. history teachers. This is put together by a group of Chicago educators. - Labor Arts
- Working to gather and display the cultural and artistic history of the labour movement and working people.
- Rosie the Riveter Memorial: Honoring American Women's Labor During WWII
- Celebrating and interpreting women's crucial contributions to the World War Two Home Front.
- Lost Labor: Images of Vanished American Workers, 1900-1980
- Selection of photographs documenting America's business and corporate industrial history.
- Haymarket Riot (8)
- Read about Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, which is considered to be one of the major influences on the origin of international May Day observances for workers. Sites feature history, articles, manuscripts, pro-labour speeches, photographs, illustrations, and library archives about the historical clash between the business class and working class in late 19th century Chicago.
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire@
- Learn about Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, the 1911 factory fire in New York City which killed many women garment workers through sites with history, images, and background info about the industrial disaster which offset legislation for improved factory safety standards in the U.S.
- Homestead Strike (7)
- Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
- About the film library collection held by the Library of Congress.
- Illinois Labor History Society
- Wayne State University: The Great Flint Sitdown
- Short pictorial history of the Great Flint Down Strike of 1937.
- Ludlow Massacre (8)
- Pressures of PATCO: Strikes and Stress in the 1980s
- From Essays in History, written by Rebecca Pels.
- San Francisco General Strike of 1934 (6)
- Find sites for San Francisco General Strike of 1934 which triggered a unified strike of sailors along all the West Coast ports of the United States. Sites background information, magazine articles, virtual tour, and bibliography for the strike also known as West Coast Longshire Strike which lasted eighty three days.
- USA 1840-1960: Trade Unionism
- Provides sketches of activists, unions, and events.
- Child Labor in America 1908-1912
- Investigative photos with Lewis W. Hine's original commentary.
- Taft-Hartley Act of 1947@
- Wayne State University: La Causa
- History of the United Farm Workers of America.
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops 1820 - Present
- Smithsonian exhibition.
- Labor History in the United States
- From Suite101.com.
- Nineteen Nineteen: The Boston Police Strike in the Context of American Labor
- Undergraduate essay by Zachary Moses Schrag.
- Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor
- Features information about the permanent exhibit By the Sweat of Their Brow: Forging the Steel Valley, which examines the impact of the iron and steel industry on Youngstown and other Mahoning Valley communities.
- American Labor History
- Gives an overview of labour in the U.S., with definition of terms, and resources for further study.
- Mine Workers Union@
- Jerome Deportation of 1917@
- U.S. Labor and Industrial History World Wide Web Audio Archive
- Features recorded interviews, speeches, and more. From SUNY Albany.
- Pacific Northwest Labor History Projects
- Features research papers, documents, photographs, and other resources as well as a historic photo collection from the Seattle Museum of History and Industry.
- Summer 2000 Colorado Coal Field War Archaeological Field School
- Investigating archaeological sites from the 1913-1914 coal strike in order to understand how conditions in the coal camps led to the strike and how the strike changed those conditions.
- Bisbee Deportation of 1917@
- Molly Maguires@
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