Irwin Marcus Collection - Library - Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Special Collections and University Archives

Manuscript Group 116

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Last Modified August 26, 2018

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Manuscript Group 116: Dr. Irwin M. Marcus Collection 2

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Dr. Irwin M. Marcus Collection, Manuscript Group 116

Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Special Collections and University Archives

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Biographical Note Dr. Irwin Marcus (November 19, 1935-March 31, 2016) was a professor of History at

Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) from 1969 to 2005. He earned his BA in

Economics from Penn State University, and his MA and PhD in History from Lehigh

University. He was married to Dr. Elizabeth Ricketts, Professor in the History

Department at IUP.

Scope and Content The Irwin M. Marcus collection not only represents Dr. Marcus’ career as a History

Professor at IUP from 1969-2005, but also his research into labor history, coal culture,

and the steel industry in western Pennsylvania.

Provenance The collection was donated by Dr. Irwin Marcus.

Restrictions None.

Processor

This collection was processed and re-housed by the IUP Special Collections and

University Archives.

Series Descriptions

Series I: Papers, Articles, Reviews, Correspondence and Course Materials

Series II: Research Files

Series III: Conference Materials

Series IV: Publications

Series VI: Media

Series VII: Oversized Materials

Series VIII: Publication Miscellany

Series IX: Recordings

Container List

Series I: Papers, Articles, and Reviews Written by Dr. Irwin Marcus

Correspondence and Course Materials

Box 1

1. "150 Years of Progress: Celebrating the 1850 Salem Women's Rights Congress"

Proposal

2. "An Alternative Perspective on the Global Economy: A Reference Handbook"

3. Altoona High School Presentation

4. "'American Exceptionalism', Reality or Myth?"


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5. "American Radicalism: Viewed Historically"

6. Art Shields, the Federated Press, and the Search for Labor Solidarity in the Post-

War Era"--essay by Dr. Marcus

7. "Battle over Americanism in Indiana County 1918-1928"--essay by Dr. Marcus

8. "The Big Apple: A Brief, Informal Guide to New York (Manhattan)"

9. "The Blairsville Area: A Socialist Enclosure in Indiana County 1930-1936"--

essay by Dr. Marcus

10. "Breaker Morant" - Notes

11. "A Brief Overview of the Activities of Irwin Marcus 1965-1970"

12. "A Brief Overview of Highlights of the Labor Movement, 1935-1990 in

Historical Context"

13. "Building a Union: Paul W. Fuller and Federation of Flat Glass Workers, 1937-

1939"

14. "Celebrating Diversity in the New Global Economy: IUP and the Norhtern

Appalachian Region, A Proposal for the creation of an IUP Area for Appalachian

Studies"

15. "Celebration of coal Mining" program – "John L. Lewis: Controversial Labor

Leader Played Key Role" by Dr. Marcus and other material presented at the

conference

16. Change and Continuity: Steelworkers in Homestead

17. "China's Contemporary Status"

18. "The Coal Miner"--musings by Dr. Marcus

19. Abstract-"The Coal Strike of 1894 in Central PA and the Pursuit of the Good

Society"--essay by Dr. Marcus

20. "The Coal Strike of 1919 in Indiana County and its Aftermath"

21. Material Dealing with The Cold War and American Labor book project

22. The Cold War and American Labor part 1

23. The Cold War and American Labor part 2

24. Commentary - PA Historical Assoc. Conference

25. "The Conference: A Retrospective Essay"

26. "Conflict in the Coal Fields of Tioga County (PA) 1900-1930" --essay by Dr.

Marcus

27. "Confrontation at Rossiter: The Coal Strike of 1927-1928"--essay by Dr. Marcus

28. Consultation: "Reflections on Windber"

29. "Coral Episode of the Coal Strike of 1919"--essay by Dr. Marcus

30. Correspondence

31. Correspondence

32. Correspondence

33. Correspondence

34. Correspondence

35. Correspondence

36. Correspondence

37. Course Syllabi and Related Materials

38. " Crosswaith, Frank : Black Socialist, Labor Leader, and Reformer"--essay by Dr.

Marcus

39. "Deindustrialization: A Panel Discussion


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40. "The Deindustrialization of America: Homestead, A Case Study"--essay by Dr.

Marcus


Box 2

1. "Duquesne Strike of 1889: Prelude to the Homestead Lockout of 1892," essay by

Dr. Marcus

2. "The Development and Analysis of a Data Base on the Wives of Coal Miners"

3. "Evolution of the University"--essay by Dr. Marcus

4. Exhibit-"Downtown Jewish Merchants"

5. Experiment in re-industrialization – facing an industrial decline

6. Faculty Evaluations and Info Concerning Dr. Marcus

7. "Ferment in the Coal Fields- 1933-43; Nanty Glo Case Study"--by Dr. Marcus

8. " Fletcher, Benjamin : Black Labor Leader"--essay by Dr. Marcus

9. "A Framework for an Alternative Economic Policy for the 1980's"--by Dr.

Marcus

10. "Free Enterprise or Socialism: Which Way Toward Economic Justice and

Prosperity"--essay by Dr. Marcus

11. "Henry Clay Fricke"--handwritten essay by Dr. Marcus

12. "From Industrialization to Deindustrialization: A National Perspective"--essay by

Dr. Marcus

13. "Paul W. Fuller and Worker's Education in Portsmouth, Ohio, 1937-1938: A

Special Program to Organize Industrial Workers"--essay by Dr. Marcus

14. "Dominick Gelotte: Labor and Community Activist, Nanty Glo, PA, 1919-1933"-

-essay by Dr. Marcus

15. "Gibbon Lucretius and Che: A Survey of Recent Contributions Toward a

Generalized Theory of Revolution-Benjamin Rigberg"--commentary by Dr.

Marcus

16. "The Global Economy" - Publishing Information

17. "The Global Economy: A Handbook for Reference and Research"

18. "The Global Economy: Divergent Perspective on economic Change" - Book and

publishing information

19. " Harrison, Hubert: Negro Advocate"--essay by Dr. Marcus

20. Hillel Club--Dr. Marcus served as advisor for this on campus Jewish group

21. Historian Advocates Economic Diversity

22. Historian Perspectives on Major Commemorations

23. History Department Business

24. "Homestead (PA) 1940-1990: The Story of a Steel Town"--essay by Dr. Marcus

25. Indiana Free Library Lectures

26. "The Indians--a sketch"--by Dr. Marcus

27. "The Indochina Scene: Another Perspective"--essay by Dr. Marcus

28. International Fundamental Conversion Conference -- Text of paper to

29. "The IUP Institute for Education and Democracy: A Proposal"

30. IUP Reports, etc.

31. "The Johnstown Strike of 1919: The Struggle for Unionism and Civil Liberties"--

essay by Dr. Marcus


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32. "Judge John Langham and the use of Labor Injunction in Indiana County 1919-

1928"--essay by Dr. Marcus

33. The Knights of Labor

34. "Labor Chatauquas: Grassroots Labor Education in 1920's"--essay by Dr. Marcus

35. "Labor Discontent in Tioga County, PA, 1865-1905: The Gutman Thesis, A Test

Case"--essay by Dr. Marcus

36. "Labor Ferment in Central Pennsylvania: The Coal Miners of Nanty Glo,

Sagamore, and Sykesville, 1924-1934"--essay by Dr. Marcus

37. "Labor and Management Relations in the Glass Industry: Paul W. Fuller and

Federation of Flat Glass Workers, 1937-1939"

38. "Labor Movement in the Hill District of Pittsburgh"--essay by Dr. Marcus

39. Labor – Indiana County, 1987-1988

40. Last Lecture, 2002

41. Last Lecture, 2003

42. "Law and Order Today with a Glance Backward"--essay by Dr. Marcus

43. Lecture Notes and Outlines

44. "Left-Liberal Cooperation in the 1970's: It's Lessons and Legacy"--essay by Dr.

Marcus

45. Letter to the Editor of the Indiana Gazette--by Dr. Marcus (09/19/2000)

46. "Living the Social Gospel: The Ministry of Reverend Theodore F. Miner in

Saltsburg, PA, 1930-1933"

47. Louis Goaziou: Pursuit of a Democratic Society, 1894-1904

48. Making Post-Industrial Societies--a supporting commentary by Dr. Marcus

49. "Manufacturing Memories: The Rise of Renewed Public Policies in Heritage and

History"

50. Memorial Day Incidents

51. "Military too Dominant in U.S. Policy"--essay by Dr. Marcus

52. Miscellaneous Information

53. Miscellaneous Outlines and short writings

54. Miscellaneous Photographs

55. "Mother Jones: A Biographical Sketch of a Labor Agitator"--by Dr. Marcus

56. "A Musing on Formal Leaders, Community Bridge Leaders and District 2

UMWA (1922-1926)"--essay by Dr. Marcus

57. "Musings on the 10th Anniversary of the Death of Herbert H. Gutman"--by Dr.

Marcus

58. "Nanty Glo: A Worker's Town Under Siege, 1921-1929"--essay by Dr. Marcus

59. Nanty Glo Exhibit, April 2005

60. "Negroes' Problems Remain"--essay by Dr. Marcus

61. News Dealing with Indiana

62. News Clippings-Miscellaneous

63. News Relating to Irwin Marcus

64. Notes on Symposium


Box 3

1. Notes for Labor History Course


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2. "Organizing the Unorganized: Paul W. Fuller and His Southern Campaign, 1930-


3. "The Palmer Raids Come to Johnstown"--essay by Dr. Marcus

4. Papers Written by Other Authors

5. "The Patch" a report compiled by Dr. Marcus

6. Peace Studies

7. Peace, Power, and Profits: The Struggle of Homestead Steelworkers- 1882-1986.

By Dr. Marcus, 1987

8. "People, Power and Profits: The Struggle of Homestead (PA) Steelworkers For

Economic Democracy, 1882-1986"

9. "People, Power and Profits: The Struggle of Homestead (PA) Steelworkers For

Economic Democracy, 1882-1986"

10. Peer Observation of Wang Xi

11. Personal papers of Dr. Marcus

12. PHA Conference 2000-Commentary by Dr. Marcus

13. Photographs of Dr. Irwin Marcus

14. Portage Baseball League

15. "The Political-Economic Context of American Education"

16. "Probing the Past and Interrogating the Future: The Industrialization of

Homestead"--essay by Dr. Marcus

17. Proposal for the Creation of IUP Center for Northern Applachian Studies

18. Proposal for Desegregation Program

19. "A Rationale for the Retention of U.S. Working Class History"

20. Recommendation letter and dissertation proposal from Ms. Christine Severenson

21. Remarks from History Department Commencement Ceremony, (6/15/99)

22. "Responses to the Employer Offensive of the 80's"--essay by Dr. Marcus

23. Resumes of Dr. Marcus

24. Reuben Einstein: Blairsville Merchant and Socialist Labor Leader

25. Review – Town of Steel

26. Review- Carlos Schwantes Coxey’s Army

27. Review-"Can Workers Have a Voice?: Politics of Deindustrialization in

Pittsburgh"

28. Review-"Cloud By Day" and "Out of the Furnace"

29. Review-"The Correspondence of Mother Jones"

30. Review-"Crisis in Bethlehem: Big Steel's Struggle to Survive"

31. Review-"Dead Laws for Dead Men: Politics of Federal Coal Mine Health and

Safety Legislation"

32. Review-"Hanging by a Thread; Social Change in Southern Textiles"

33. Review –“Hoods and Shifts”

34. Review-Keystone of Democracy: A History of Pennsylvania Workers"

35. Review- Less Than Forever

36. Review-"Lives of Dignity, Acts of Emotion: Central PA Coal Miner Families"

37. Review- "My Sisters Telegraphic: Women in the Telegraph Office, 1846-1950

38. Review-"Power and Greed: Inside the teamster's Empire of Corruption"

39. Review-"Socialist Cities: Policies and The Grass Roots of American Socialism"

40. Review- Steve Nelson-American Radical


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41. Review-"Taylorism Transformed"

42. Review-"Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History"

43. Review-"United We Stand: TheUnited Mine Workers of America 1890-1990"

44. Review-"The Voice of Terror: A Biography of Johann Most"

45. Review-"The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920"

46. "The Road to the Homestead Lockout: The Role of Developments in Duquesne"--

essay by Dr. Marcus

47. Robert Shaw Controls Co. (8/6/1980) -- handwritten paper

48. Role of the Populist Party in Homestead

49. "John D. Rockefeller: Robber Baron or Industrial Statesman?"--essay by Dr.

Marcus

50. "The Scott Nearing Case: Academic Freedom on Trial" --essay by Dr. Marcus

51. "The Search for Common Ground: Paul W. Fuller and the Textile Workers of the

Passaic Area, New Jersey, 1927-29" --essay by Dr. Marcus

52. "The Search for Solidarity: Essays in US Working Class History" Incomplete

53. The Search For Solidarity (part 1)--collection of essays with Dr. Marcus

contribution

54. The Search For Solidarity (part 2)--collection of essays with Dr. Marcus

contribution

55. Searching the Past and Shading the Future -- Breezedale Speech

56. Senior Thesis of Kristin L. Dailey-"The Development of the Palestinian-Israeli

Conflict 1945-1948"

57. "Socialism in Central Pennsylvania: Cambria, Indiana, and Jefferson Counties,

1912-1934"--essay by Dr. Marcus

58. "The Southern Negro and the Knights of Labor"--essay by Dr. Marcus

59. Speakers and other Programs at IUP

60. "The Struggle Continues: People, Power and Profits in Homestead, 1880-1895

61. "The Struggle Continues: People, Power and Profits in Homestead, 1880-1895" -

Notes/Draft

62. "The Struggle for Unionism and Civil Liberties"--essay by Dr. Marcus

63. Student Evaluations of Courses

64. "The Successful Campaign Opposing the Sale of Nanty Glo Waterworks 1929-


65. "William H. Sylvis: Advocate of Workers and Unionism"--essay by Dr. Marcus

66. "The Traffic Between Political and Cultural Radicalism: Greenwich Village,

1910-1920"--essay by Dr. Marcus

67. "The Tragedy at Oauley Bridge"--essay by Dr. Marcus

68. A Tribute to Jack Kadlubowski

69. The Tri-State Conference on Steel

70. "Two Sides to Protests in 1960s" - Published in Indiana Gazette

71. "US Working Class History and Contemporary Labor Movement Symposium"

72. "U.S. Women: Then and Now"--essay by Dr. Marcus

73. "The Underside of the Revolutionary Era"--essay by Dr. Marc

74. Various Resumes

75. Jay Weinberg Interview-Conducted by Dr. Marcus and Mike Peterson

(10/7/1986)


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76. "Wilson at Versailles"--essay by Dr. Marcus

77. "Workers and Homestead Politics, 1890-1894"--essay by Dr. Marcus

78. Working Class Historiography and the small industrial town: Homestead 1880-

1900

79. "The Works of Richard Hofstadter: A Course becomes a Community"--essay by

Dr. Marcus


Box 4

1. Audio Cassettes:

a. Responsibility of the University Q & A (Qty. 2)

b. Teaching Excellence Q & A (Qty. 3)

c. Implementing Diversity Q & A (Qty. 5)

d. Leonard Minsky Workshop

e. Bernice Sandler Workshop

f. Computers as the Next Revolution

g. Steelworkers, Labor Union speech

2. Video Cassettes:

a. Conference Material

i. Montgomery Conference (Qty. 4)

ii. Teachers Symposium

b. Correspondence/ Related Material

i. Bost and Landing Dedications

ii. Churches/ Cemeteries

iii. Mother Jones Dinner

iv. Philadelphia Prevention Point (1994), Robert L. Elser

3. A Binder of Newspaper Articles compiled by Dr. Marcus

4. Audio/Video/Micro Film

a. "Life in a Post-Industrial City: African-American Experiences in Buffalo"

Henry Louis Taylor jr. at Langston Hughes Institute (11/14/1990)

b. "Views on the Canon" (10/19/1989)

c. 2nd Annual Provost Mini Symposium "Perspectives on Race" Ashworth

and "Perspectives on Gender" Fernandez & Kelly (4/19/1990)

d. Cook Forest Conference, 1992

e. Alternative Indiana Roundtable

f. Conference Session 1 (video)

g. 2nd Annual Provost Mini Symposium "Perspectives on Race" Hodges and

Brutus (4/19/1990) (video)

h. Labor Review 1938-1940, Portsmouth, OH (microfilm)

5. Miscellaneous Media

a. "Ann Markleson" (Film Reel)

b. Untitled Scotch Magnetic Tape

c. Two 5 1/4" Floppy Disks

6. Audio Media

a. Tape #1 9-7-2000 1 of 2

b. Tape #1 9-7-2000 1 of 2


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c. Tape #2 9-7-2000 2 of 2

d. Tape #2 9-7-2000 2 of 2

e. Irwin Marcus Interview 11-3-2000 1 of 1

f. Irwin Marcus Interview 11-3-2000 101

g. Irwin Marcus 9-21-2000 Tape 1 of 1

h. Irwin Marcus 9-21-2000 Tape 1 of 1

i. Irwin Marcus 9-29-2000 Tape 1 of 1

j. Irwin Marcus 9-29-2000 Tape 1 of 1

k. Irwin Marcus Interview 1-30-2001

l. Irwin Marcus Interview 1-30-2001

m. Irwin Marcus Interview 2-6-2001

n. Irwin Marcus Interview 2-6-2001

7. Proceedings of the First Annual Provost’s Mini-Symposium, “Perspectives on

Our National Experience: Race, Class and Gender,” April 18, 1989, edited by

Stephen Keller, Corinne Carey, and Dr. Irwin Marcus


Box 1 1. 1970 Kent State Student Strike

2. 397 Rank and File (1)

3. 1397 Rank and File (2)

4. American Dreams Symposium: Women's Studies

5. American History

6. The Auto

7. Auto Workers

8. Bethlehem Mine Research

9. Bibliographies-Black History

10. Blacks and Popular Culture

11. Book Reviews

12. Center for Alternative Studies

13. Chicago 1920-1983

14. Civil Liberties

15. "Club for Serbs, Carrots for Russians and Chinese--Thoughts on the Kosovo

Crisis" --article by Dr. Wang Xi

16. Concessions, Closings, Negative Economic Effects

17. Defense of Paul Nyden

18. da Costa, Elena – Controversy

19. "Diary of A Coal Digger" from In Non Union Mines

20. Duberman-Zinn-Ginger

21. Foreclosure Effects/Defense Spending

22. Future

23. Louis Goazion-French Language Newspapers

24. Historical Musings

25. History of Chicago

26. Richard Hofstader -- Research Materials

27. Holocaust Research and Bibliographies


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Box 2 1. Homestead, 1882-1892: The Search for the American Dream, The Struggle

Continues

2. Homestead, 1947-1975

3. Homestead, 1976-

4. Homestead Lockout, 1892

5. Homestead Steel: Homestead, 4-22-1982

6. ICAP - Dr. Marcus on the Board of Directors

7. ICAP – Miscellaneous

8. Indiana Local History

9. Interview - John Russo and Staughton Lynd, 14 Jan. 1983

10. Interview - MSGR. Charles Owen Rice, 22 Nov. 1987

11. Interview - Ron Weisen Election, Homestead

12. Interview –Mon Valley Unemployed committee Demonstration 5 Oct. 1982

13. Interview – Ellerman and Pitegoff (Industrial Cooperative Association)

14. Interview - Roderick 9/12/1982

15. Interview - Chuck Bradford

16. Interview - Conrad and Shirley Shemo

17. Interview - Mike Stout (Summary)

18. Interview - Phil Nyden

19. Interview - Jay Weinberg 10/7/1986

20. Interview - Stanley Aronwitz 6/5/1996

21. Interview - Ron Weisen 11/15/1982

22. Interview - Jane Keller 27, March, 1989

23. Interview - Robert Anderson - Mon Valley Unemployed Committee

24. Interview - John Ingersoll 26 Oct. 1982

25. Interview - Ben Harrison 1 Nov. 1982

26. Interview - Barbara Ehrenreich 29 Dec. 1983

27. Interview - Frances Fox Piven 29 Dec. 1983

28. Interview - Michelle McMills (Homestead Study) 25 Oct. 1982

29. Interview - Steve Hansen and the Granadi Brothers of "G Force"

30. Interview - Frank O'Brien 4/13/1983

31. Interview – Charles Owen Rice , Bob Eickerson, Ruth Kish

32. Interview - "Our Steel Industry" Past, Present, Furture (WLVT-TV)

33. Jews in American History File 1

34. Jews in American History File 2

35. The Journal of United Labor, 1880-1886

36. The Journal of United Labor, 1887-1889

37. Knights of Labor (Chicago), 1886-1887

38. The Labor Enquirer (Denver), 1883-

39. Labor History Research

40. The Labor Leader, Boston

41. The Labor Leaf and Advance, 1885-1889

42. Langham, J.


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43. John L. Lewis, Labor Leader

44. Local 1397

45. McCreary Lockout (newspaper clippings)

46. McCreary Tire and Rubber Company Strike, 1986

47. McCreary Tire and Rubber Company, Strike, 1986 (newspaper clipping

photocopies)

48. Miscellaneous

49. Miscellaneous Material From an Expandable Folder File 1


Box 3

1. History of Economic Thought – Karl Marx

2. Miscellaneous Material From an Expandable Folder File 2

3. NAFTA Research

4. Scott Nearing Information

5. Newspaper and Magazine Clippings

6. Photocopies of Articles of Interest File 1

7. Photocopies of Articles of Interest File 2

8. Political Brochures

9. Present Danger: A Novel by Mike Marqusee File 1



12. Proceedings-Knights of Labor

13. Proceedings of the General Assembly, 1886-1887

14. Publications of the USWA File 1



17. Radicals Not Wanted": Communists and the 1929 Wilkes-Barre Silk Mill

18. Reagan - Pittsburgh Speech

19. Research Notes

20. Robert Shaw - Study and Clippings

21. Robert Shaw Documentary - Correspondence, 1974-1975

22. Robert Shaw Documentary - Correspondence and Meetings, 1972

23. Robert Shaw Study - Correspondence, Grevience, Arbitration

24. Robert Shaw Documentary - Donna and Doreen Wolfe Interview

25. Robert Shaw Documentary - Interviews, Notes

26. Robert Shaw Documentary - :Liz Rohacheck and Jim Morgan Interview

27. Robert Shaw Documentary – Miscellaneous

28. Robert Shaw Documentary - "A Vote of Thanks": Interviews

29. Robert Shaw Interview - Nap Pattie's Bar Interview


Box 4

1. The Southern Negro and the Knights of Labor (reprints)

2. Steel Vol. I 1982

3. Steel Vol. II 1982-1983


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4. Steel Industry 5/82--12/83

5. Steel Labor Research

6. Steel Revitalization Plan -- Tri-State Conference 10/29/83

7. Three Mile Island accident New York Times Indiana Penn

8. Tri-State Conference on Steel (Nov. 1986)

9. Tri-State Conference on Steel (Nov. 1987) (written update 8 '86)

10. Tri-State Conference on Steel - An Organizing Experience With the Tri-State

Conference on Steel 19 June, 1987

11. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Arogrom and Restructuring the Pittsburgh

Steel Industry

12. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Correspondence, Newspaper Clippings,

1984

13. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Denominational Ministry Strategy, 1983

14. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Dr. Marcus as a Board Member, 1987

15. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Gary Delgodu and Bob Anderson

Materials, 1983

16. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Homestead Centenniel Conference, July

1992

17. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Miscellaneous Documents,

Correspondence

18. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Press Conference: Closing the Open

Hearth (Homestead)

19. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Proposal for the Creation of a

Pennsylvania Industrial Capital Fund, Executive Board

Documentation,1986

20. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Proposals and Information on Policy, 1988

21. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Publications and Press Releases, 1982-1983

22. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Staughton and Lynd Material, 1987

23. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Steel Valley Authority Workshop, 15 May, 1983

24. Tri-State Conference on Steel - Tri-State Program for Revitalizing and

Resurrecting The Pittsburgh Steel Industry

25. Tri-State Conference on Steel

26. UPI Clippings, 1/3/1983-2/27/1983

27. Unemployed Steel, 5/13/1982-12/2/1982

28. U.S.-British Steel Merger


Box 5

1. Reynoldsville Star 1982- notes

2. Copy of Articles 1895-1898, 1899 3. Socialism in America: The French-Speaking Coal Miners in the Late 19th

4. The Suppession of Civil Liberties: Mayor Frank Hague

5. United We Stand- 1890-1990, 1894 Coal Strike Maier B. Fox

6. USW Newspaper clippings, 5/12/1983-9/6/1983

7. USW Newspaper clippings, 11/1/1983-3/24/1983

8. USX


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Conferences and symposiums follow chronological order, except in the event where a

conference or symposium occurs in multiple years. In this instance, all folders pertaining

to the specific conference or symposium will be placed together in chronological order.

The Technology and Society Conference is a series of conferences that occurred annually

from 1982 until 1984. This conference may also be referred to as the Industry and

Society Conference. The names of the individual conferences are as follows (please note

labeling differences):

-The Industrial North - labeled "The Industrial North"

21-23 October 1982

-Human Values and Policy Making - labeled "Technology and Society (2nd)

26-28 October 1983

-The Global Economy - labeled "Technology and Society (3rd)

24-26 October 1984


Box 1

1. Emphasis: Our African Heritage, 2-20 March 1969

2. Group for Social and Administrative History , 1972

3. Duquesne History Forum, 1974-1994

4. Group For A Just Society, 1980

5. Hunger March of 1936

6. First National Conference on Work sharing UI, 14-16 May 1981

7. The Keystone Progressive: The Center for Alternative Studies, Inc., 1981 & 1983

8. Social Costs Conference, May 1982

9. Homestead Conference & Related Materials, 1982-1992

10. Third Annual PennPic Conference, July 1982

11. Ohio Labor Conference , October 1982

12. Mon Valley Unemployed Committee, 1982 & 1983

13. The Industrial North Conference, 21-23 October 1982

14. Technology and Society (2nd), 26-28 October 1983

15. Technology and Society (3rd), 24-26 October 1984


Box 2

1 The Global Economy

2 Technology and Society, No date given

4 M. Harvey Brenner Presentation, No date given

5-8 Labor Notes Conference, 14 November 1982

9 Walter LaFaber - Speaker at IUP, 9 April 1984

10-12 George Orwell International Conference, 11-13 October 1984

13 PCA Conference, 1984

14 Proceedings of the Canal History and Technology Symposiums, vol. 4,

Anthracite Issue, 14-15 June 1985


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15-23 Voices of the Voiceless, IUP Symposium on Human Rights, April 26-29,

1985 (Spring 1985) Elena Decosta, Symposium Coordinator and Project

Director, and Louise Bem, Editorial Associate (see Manuscript Group 134)

24-38 American Dreams: The National Debate About the Future of Education,

23-25 October 1986

39 Kutztown Conference – worker in History

40-50 History of the U.S. Working Class Conference, October 1985


Box 3

1 History of the U.S. Working Class Conference, October 1985

2 SSHE History Forum, 1996

3 "The Conference" A Retrospective Essay, 17 March 1987

4-17 Provost's Lecture Series/Mini-Symposium, 1987-1991

18-21 Searching For New Horizons: "The University at the Gateway of the 21st

Century, 18-20 October 1989

22 Joe Bruchac & M.C. Richards at IUP, Sept/Nov 1990

23 M.C. Richards, No Date Given

24-28 Steel and Coal Communities in Comparative Perspective, 1900-1990: The

U.S. Economy, 20-22 April 1990

29 PSU - Conferencing and Continuing Education, UMWA Centennial, October 19-

20, 1990

30 EADS - "The Portrait of an Industrial Region," 1991

31 Historical Memory and Industrial Heritage, April 24-25, 1991

32-34 Folk life, 1991-1995

35 Homestead Strike Centennial

36 Oral History Association - 26th Annual Meeting, 15-18 October 1982

37-39 Popular Culture Association, 6 April 1994

40 Great Steel Strike Symposium, 22-24 September 1994

41 Youngstown conference, 1995

42 18th Annual North American Labor History Conference, 1996

43-44 1st Annual Conference Celebrating African American Culture and

Heritage, 7-9 February 1997

45 The Coal Strike, 1894

46 Workshop

47 PA Labor History Conference, 1999

48 Italian Americans in Western PA, 2000

49 PHA Conference - Marcus Commentary, October 2000

50-51 Women's Studies, No dates given

52 Conference notes and drafts of outlines by Irwin M. Marcus, Various

53 IUP Conferences and Symposiums, Various

54 IUP Conference and Symposiums: Programs and Pamphlets, Various

55-57 Conference Materials: Non-IUP, Various


Box 1


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1 A & P Closings and Concessions

2 "The Activist"--Journal of Politics and Opinion

3 An ADL Special Report: The KKK Today: A 1991 Status Report

4 Academic Governance: The End of Shared Authority

5 AFL-CIO publications File 1

6 AFL-CIO publications File 2

7 "Against the Current" Jan-Feb '86

8 "Allegheny Socialist" File 1

9 "Allegheny Socialist" File 2

10 "The Alternative"

11 "American Exceptionalism Revisited: The Importance of Management"

12 “American Legacy: the Magazine of African American History and Culture” 2005

“American Legacy: Healthcare Advatages” Winter 2005

13 The American Labor Yearbook

14 American Studies vol. 13 no. 2, 1974

15 Anarchism

16 The Amicus Journal

17 ASHP News

Audacity

18 "Authority, Intellectuals and the Politics of Practical Learning"

19 "Beat Politics: New Left and Hippie Beginnings in the Postwar Counterculture"

20 Black History

21 Black History/Civil Rights Publications

22 Black Voice

23 Black Women and The Peace Movement

24 Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in History

25 "A Brief History of the Amalgamated"

26 Buffalo Law Review

27 "Building a Citizen's League in Southwestern Pennsylvania"

28 "Camo Call" UMWA

29 Campaigner

30 Catalogue of Interviews

31 "The Catholic Worker"

32 The Causes, Nature and Consequences of Deindustrialization in the Mon Valley

33 Cited Works

34 "Citizens and Classes: Political Isolation and Class Formation"

35 Coal Mining Publications

36 The Cold War Expulsions and the Movement of the 1960's by Staughton Lynd

37 Communism/Revolution

38 “A Competition for Ethnic Community Leadership A Pennsylvania Bituminous

Mining Town, 1890s-1930s"

39 "The Concept of the Zeneca Mining and Metallurgical Combine Self

Management Organizat9ion"

40 Concrete Garden vol. 3 no. 1. Winter 1993

41 "Confessing Synod Ministries Newsletter" various, 1989

42 "Convergence Yes: But at Whose Expense?"


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43 Corruption and Reform

44 Culture Front

45 “The Day the Valley Wept: The Story of the Harwick Mine Disaster of 1904"

46 "Declaration of Economic Independence" poster

47 Defense Spending and Unemployment

48 Democratic Magazines and Literature

49 Dissent

50 Documentary/Research project on Coal Mining in Central Pennsylvania: A

Proposal

51 Dollars and Sense


Box 2

1 "Economy Centennial Souvenir Program June 6, 1924"

2. "Education Update

3. "Engineering the Industrial Diaspora: Lower Homestead and the Mill Expansion

of 1941"

4 Entrepreneurial Economy

5 "Fact Finding Report: Beyond the Bombing: The Militia Menace Grows"

6 Feminist Studies

7 Film Script (Americanism)

8 Fink, Leon Presentation: US Working-class Symposium IUP 1985

9 "F.I.R.R. News" Winter 1990

10 "Food First Development Report (Brand New Third) Feb. 1989"

11 Foreign Policy Newsletters

12 "The Genesis of the Idea of a Community Right to Industrial Property in

Youngstown and Pittsburgh, 1977-1986"

13 Georgia Historical Quarterly

14 Global Electronics

15 Glossary of Useful Labor Relations Terms

16 Grants and Proposals

17 Green Party Newsletter/Documents

18 Handouts/Flyers/Posters

19 "History and the New Deal"

20 Human Rights

21 ICA Bulletin

22 "The Impact of Robotics and High Technology on Industrial Policy, Workers and

the U. S. Economy"

23 In these times – Shutdown 1981-82 Plant Closing

24 Indiana Gazette- Need for Enlightenment in Education

25 "Industrial Relations" v. 24 n. 3 Fall '85

26 "Industrial Relations" v. 24 n. 3 Fall '85

27 "Industrial Worker"

28 Industrialization File 1




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31 Industrializations Exodus

32 Industrial Worker

33 "Interpreting the Pump House: A Project Update, 1999"

34 Intelligence Report

35 Inside

36 International Labor and working Class History

37 "IUP People's News" File 1



40 Jewish History

41 John Brophy Historical Marker in Nanty Glow

42 "Just Harvest News"

43 "Keystone Progressive"

44 Labor and the Government

45 "Labor Notes" File 1

46 "Labor Notes" File 2

47 "Labor Notes File 3


Box 3

1. "Labor Outreach”

2. "Labor Priest"

3. "Labor Research Review" 6, 8, 9

4. "Labor Research Review" 11, 12, 13

5. "Labor Research Review" 18, 19

6. Labor Studies Journal

7. "Labor Times"

8. New Labor Forum

9. Labor History Journal

10. "Labor's Heritage" Fall 1995, Summer 1998

11. L’ami Des Ouviers Journal Entrie

12. "Left Business Observer"

13. Life In the Valley “Streams of Coal”

14. Lilly Library Manuscripts (Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana)

15. Literature on Labor File 1



18. Literature on Steelworkers

19. London - Miscellaneous Articles

20. LRA's Economic Notes

21. "Marginality and the University Educator: Problems, Possibilities and

Professional Approaches”

22. Markets, Profits, and Labor Management Relations

23. Marxism

24. Anarchism, The Math Mediations


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Box 4

1 "Lloyd Mifflin: Poet and Painter of the Susquehanna

2 The Militant

3 "The Mill Hunk Herald"- Various issues- May 1979-Fall 1982

4 "The Mill Hunk Herald"- Various issues- Winter 1983-84- Fall 1986

5 "The Mill Hunk Herald"- Various issues- Summer 1987- Summer 1988 and

advertisements

6 "Mill Towns, the Underworld Fraternity; and the Working Man"

7 Miners For Democracy

8 Mining

9 The Mobilizer

10 The Monthly Review

11 Miscellaneous

12 "Mountain Life and Work"- 1980





17 "Mountain Life and Work," 1985-1987

18 "Multinational Monitor"

19 The Nation

20 The National Alliance

21 "The Need for a Gender-Balanced Curriculum"

22 Negro Digest

23 New Directions for Women

24 New Internationalists, 1988-1990

25 New International Review, 1980

26 New Technology

27 "New Views of China's Tradition and Modernization

28 "New York Folklore"

29 News

30 Newsletter "Tri-State Conference Call"

31 The New People

32 New Solidarity

33 Newspaper on Labor

34 Open Door

35 Nuclear News

36 Nuclear Times

37 Oral History of the American Left

38 "Out of the Crucible"

39 OX Family Exchange

40 The Progressive

41 Partners

42 PA History

43 The Penn


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44 The Penn Environment

45 "The Pennsylvania Railroad's Attempt to Repeal the Fair Crew Act of 1911"

46 Penndustry

47 Pennsylvania History Notes

48 "People's Culture"

49 "People's News" Feb-Mar 1979


Box 5

1 Plant Closings

2 Political Future Conference

3 Presentation: “Comparative History of Women’s Protest Movements”

4 "The Pollution of the Ruhr"

5 Portrait of an Industrial Region

6 Prisons

7 Proletarian Literature: A Case of Convergence of Political and Literary Radicalism"

8 Race, Prejudice, Discrimination

9 Quaker Action

10 Radical America

11 "Radical Historians" File 1

12 "Radical Historians" File 2

13 Radical Teacher

14 Radicalism File 1

15 Radicalism File 2

16 "Rainbow Kitchen News"

17 1397 Rank and File- March 1982 and Convention Issue – Plant Closings

18 "Rank and File Insurgency During the E. N. A. Period: Homestead a Case Study"

19 Rank and File Team Reports

20 Rational Reindustrialization 1981 Plant Closings

21 Reconstructed Homestead Maps

22 "Rebuilding the Tri State Regions Basic Industry

23 Reference Guide to Resources on Coal Mining and Associated Materials in the

AIHP Region

24 "The Reilley Mine Explosion"

25 Religious Publications

26 Review: Fernand Braudel Center

27 The Revitilizaton of Organized Labor

28 Ringer, Fritz Atricle

29 "The Role of Gender: A World Perspective"

30 "The Role of Race: A World Perspective"

31 Sage Race Relations Abstracts


Box 6

1 Sanders Scoop

2 Searching for New Horizons


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3 "Selections From the Black College Reading Skills"

4 “A Social Contract for the Coal Fiends: the Rise and Fall of the United Mine

Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund”

5 Shutdowns

6 Socialism File 1

7 Socialism File 2

8 Socialism File 3

9 Socialist Republic

10 Sojourners

11 "A Social History of Mine Workers in Indiana, PA, 1920-1929"

12 South African Labour Bulletin. Vol. 10, No. 5, March/April 1985

13 "Southern Exposure: Passing Glances"

14 “Special Report: Paranoia as Patriotism: Far-Right Influences on the Militia

Movement"

15 SPLC Report

16 Steel Industry (1)

17 Steel File 2

18 Steel Publications

19 Steel - Sadlowski Campaign Material

20 The Steel Strike in Johnstown, Pennsylvania

21 Steven, J. P. Boycott Fact Sheets

22 Strike Publications

23 Program Guide: “The Struggle for an American Way of Life”

24 Student Associations and Publications

25 Student Newspapers and Newsletters

26 The Sun

27 Sirvova; Si,,er Mews

28 "Surviving the Loss of a Job: Does Household Composition Make a Difference?"

29 SVAHA

30 Teaching Tolerance

31 Technology and Labor

32 Tito: Biographical Data

33 "There's Supposed to be a Law …"

34 "Transportation in American History"

35 "The True Story of the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) vs. Organized Labor"

36 U. E. Documents

37 "U. E. News" (1)

38 "U. E. News" (2)

39 "U. E. News" (3)

40 "U. E. News" (4)

41 "U. E. News" (5)

42 "U. E. News" (6)

43 U. E. Pamphlets


Box 7


21

1 "Unions in Trouble"

2 Unions Literature (1)

3 Unions Literature (2)

4 Univ. Pitt Women’s Studies Program

5 Uphill all the way: Johnstown and its inclined Plane

6 "Using Stakeholder Processes in Environmental Decision making"

7 "United Mine Workers Journal," November-December 1977

8 URPE Newsletter – Union for Radical Political Economics

9 Various Newsletters

10 A View for the Valley

11 A vote of thanks

12 Voter's Guide

13 Wages

14 War, War Protest Publications

15 "'Wash Tubbs' Go to War, 1942-1945"

16 "Washington Spectator"

17 Weapons and War

18 "Western Pennsylvania to Support the UMW, 1977"

19 Wilson Quarterly

20 Women and Power

21 Women's History

22 Women's Publications

23 "Women's Reality"

24 Working Class Notes

25 "Working in Hospitals: Then and Now"

26 “Workers and Allies: Female Participation in the American Trade Union

Movement, 1824-1976"

27 "Working Papers"

28 "Workplace Network News"

29 World Military and Social Expenditures, 1986

30 World Monitor

31 World watch Paper 84: "Rethinking the Role of the Automobile"

32 "Yesterday is Hardly Gone"

33 Young Socialist

34 Zeta Magazine

Series VI: Media

Box 1 Media

Box 2 Media

Series VII: Oversized Materials

Box 1 Oversized Materials

Box 2 Oversized Materials


Box 1


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1. “Black Workers on the New York Waterfront, 1890-1920,” 2002

2. “Black History in Pennsylvania” A Conference, April 1979

3. “Congress of Industrial Organization: The Homestead Strike of 1892”

4. “Catholic Worker,” December 2004

5. “Deindustrialization and the Two Tier Society- Challenges for an Industrials

Policy,” 1984

6. “Economics: Crisis and Reforms in Socialist Economy in the 1980s,” 1986

7. General Conference Information- Conference on Technology

8. The Global Economy Handbook/ A Preliminary Framework, 1988

9. Guest Speaker Form- Ms. Nancy Sahli- “National Archivist”

10. “Historical Musings” Vol. II, No.2, 1974

11. “Inspiration Information Involvement Course- Growth and Effect of Global

Economy, 1250-2000”

12. “Intelligence Report” Holy War, Spring 2005

13. IUP Conference on Industry and Society on the Industrial North, October 1982

14. Packet of Materials from- Conference of History and Politics, 2002

15. Memo: Women’s Studies Faculty about “Making History: Women in Pa

Conference,” March 12 1988

16. Memo: Faculty Professional Development Council, October 24, 1991

17. Memo: Irwin Marcus to History Dept on Retirement and Senior Association, 2002

18. “Labor Journalism in Historical Context: The Careers of Art Shield, Tom Tippett

and Ernest Calloway,” 2000

19. “Labor Law for the Rank and Filer” by Staughton Lynd, 1978

20. Labor’s Voice Conference Packet of Materials from October 2000

21. Letter of Invitation to “Industrial North Conference,” 1982

22. Occupational Safety and Health Conference, June15-19, 2003 State College

23. “People’s Culture,” November 1994-February 1995 “Labor Movement Issue”

24. Seth Cotlar at IUP “A Description and Assessment of Atlantic Studies”

25. Steel Industry Heritage Corporation “Cultural Conversations,” Autumn 2004

26. “Steel and Communities in Comparative Perspective, 1900-1990

27. The Third Annual Conference on Industry and Society “The Global Economy,”

October 24-26, 1984

28. U.S. Working Class History and the Contemporary Labor Movement, October

1985

29. IUP Documentary – “Steel Workers Urge to Fight,” August 27, 1984

30. Labor Notes, August 23, 1984 “Teamster Try New Tactic to Sell National

Contract”

31. “Labor Notes” University Urged to Avoid Intrusion by Improving Relations with

States”

32. “Southern Poverty Law Center” Mail Replay Card

33. “SPLC Report” December 2004 Vol. 34, No.4

34. Provost’s Mini-Symposium: What needs to be done? Spring 1990

35. United Electrical News (EU) Radio and Machine Workers of America News,

September 2003

36. UE News, November 2003 TEMCO Workers Gain First Contract

37. UE News, August 2003 Women in Leadership: Present Future


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38. UE News, May 2005

39. Windber Marker Campaign- Issue Windber Strike for Union Historical Marker


Box 2

1. American Federations 1894-1895

2. Anarchist Works, Biography of – focus Hastings/1890s

3. Biographic Sketch “William W. Winpisinger”

4. Blacklick/Blairsville-Socialism/LaborActivism/Mobilization Unemployed

5. The Blairsville Area: A Socialist Enclave in Indiana County 1930-1936

6. Carl Haessler and the Federated Press: Essays on the History of American Labor

Journalism

7. Catholic Worker, December 1974, March-April 1977, August- September 2005

8. Central Pennsylvania Coal strike 1894 research notes

9. Child Cove for Working Families AFL-CIO Review the Issues

10. Coming to terms with Northern Appalachia

11. Conference on Labor’s Voice: Labor Journalism, communication and media- NY

12. De-industrialization, 1990s

13. “Diverse City”

14. Dublin Thomas and Walter Linct- Collective Responses to Economic Collapse in

the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania, 1920-1980

15. Dubois Express, 1893-1894

16. Economy Watch Pittsburgh

17. Ellenbogen, Henry- Paper and Research of the Congressmen

18. F Theodore Miner Study, Thesis of - Research Notes

19. F. Theodore Miner articles, Review and notes

20. Falling Scheduling History Dept. Newsletter

21. Grassroots Report

22. The Great Storm: That Swept through the effects of Globalization on Indiana

County

23. Grievance Arbitration- Stout

24. Guide to the Military Budget

25. Hastings Tribune, 1894

26. History Society of Western Pennsylvania: Research

27. Homestead

28. Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1940-1990: The Story of the Steel town from Expansion

to Exhaustion-Marcus

29. Homestead 1892- Teachers Guide

30. Homestead: Bibliographical and Outliner Material

31. Homestead during the 1930s research

32. Homestead: PSU Oral History Collection Research

33. Homestead Steel Strike

34. In These Times, June 2-15, 1982

35. Indiana County Farmer Project, notes late 1974- Penn coll. IUP notes

36. Indiana County: History of Industrialism, Material from Stewart

37. Indiana County Progress Research Notes


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38. Indiana County- Unemployment and Activism 1930s

39. “Indiana Viewpoint” Tribune-Review, June 13, 1982

40. Inside the Teamster’s Empire of corruption/ Political Science

41. James Hudson Maurer: Socialist Labor Leader

42. Johnstown Steel and Coal Strike- from The Tribune, November 1919 research

43. L’ Union Des Travailleurs, 1901 research notes

44. Labor and Mining- Research notes

45. Labor History Announcements, IUP, 1973, 1985

46. Leader- Courier (Osecola Mills), 1889-1890

47. League of Women Shoppers, Penn State- Harold Ruttenburg Paper research

48. The Legacy of Historic Homestead: Guidepost for the future” Pittsburgh City Paper

49. Les Reveil des Masses- Indiana Mining

50. Les Reveil Des Masses, 1889-1893

51. Local 1332- Union News

52. Louis Gozion and the Pursuit of a Democratic Society, 1894-1904

53. “Martin and Malcolm”

54. Maurer, James Hudson

55. McNutt, Florence- Interviews- Blacklick Socialist

56. Methodist Federation for Social Service- Information Service

57. Mills, Osceola – Notes for Research and peace/protest at IUP

58. Mother Jones- Labor Day in Pennsylvania 1912, articles and note

59. National Labor Tribune

60. National Labor Tribune, 1894, Coal Strike 1894, Ridgway focus

61. National Labor Tribune, articles and notes

62. New York Times, c. 1890

63. Nights of Labor, 1890-1906

64. Notes and research from the Monthly Labor Review, 1919


Box 3

1. PA Historical Markers: A Proposal for a Digital Resource

2. Paul Krause “Labor Republicanism and ‘Za Chlebon’: Anglo-American and the

Slovic Society of America”

3. Pechan Loyalty Oath (Albert Pechan)

4. “The People,” May 1981, April 1981, February 1982

5. People’s Park Press

6. Pittsburgh/Allegheny Economic Development Strategy to begin the 21st century

7. Perspective, September 1984

8. The Pittsburgh Press

9. The Progress

10. Progressive Activism Indiana County including Blairsville Dispatch

11. Punxsutawney Coal Strike. 1894

12. Punxsutawney Area Coal Strike 1894, militia focus

13. Punxsutawney Striker, 1886-1897 research notes

14. Radical Historians Newsletter

15. Radical History Review, Winter 1979-1980


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16. Radical Working Class information from Hastings and North America

17. Reindustrialization

18. Reporter July/ August 2005

19. Revitalization of the American Labor Movement 1933-1935

20. Research Notes- Nights of Labor, 1890-1906

21. Ridgway Advocate, 1894-1895 research

22. Road to the Entry- Memorial Day Massacre- research notes

23. The road to the Homestead Lockout: The Role of Development in Duquesne

24. Sahli, Nancy- lecture and research

25. Shield, Art: Paper Proposal and corresponding note

26. Smull, Nash and Indiana Co. Populist Party notes for research

27. Social Service Bulletin

28. Socialism USA

29. Solidarity, March 1982

30. Southern Appalachian Labor School Foundation letter 1983-Joh David material

31. Southern Appalachian Labor School-Road Report Jan.1982 & April 1982

32. Steel Strike of 1919- research notes

33. Sylvis, William

34. Teachers Record Book

35. Teaching Tolerance

36. The Tribune, November 10, 1919

37. Tribune Democrat

38. The Underground

39. UE News, December 2004

40. UMWJ, 1901 Guide and Bio Profile/ research

41. UMWJ, 1893-1895

42. Unemployment and Activism: Indiana County, 1923-1935

43. “Vote of Thanks”

44. United Mine Workers Journal, 1894

45. The Washington Post, April 25, 1982

46. Webber, Charles C.- Methodists Turn Socialistic, article and notes

47. Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Winter 1986, Book Reviews

48. “Which Side Are You On?” New York Times, August 1992

49. “Who Owns the Past?” Winber, Pennsylvania

50. William Martin

51. Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 1894 Strike notes

52. Willison B. Wilson Papers notes, esp. from Blossburg Advertiser


Box 4 Wal-Mart (19 folders)

1. Wal-Mart and Dollar General Advertisements

2. Wal-Mart in Publications, 1985 and 1998

3. Wal-Mart in the Publications, 2000, 2003, 2004

4. Wal-Mart in Publication, 2005

5. Wal-Mart in Publication, 2006

6. Wal-Mart in Publication No Dates


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7. Wal-Mart in British Publications

8. Correspondence

9. Wal-Mart Notes, 1994-2004

10. Wal-Mart Notes, 2005-2006

11. Misc. Wal-Mart Notes

12. Flyers

13. Wal-Mart Labor Policy Hand Books

14. “Once Upon a Town”

15. Shipler, David K. The Working Poor: Invisible in America

16. Featherstone, Lisa. Selling Women Short

17. Klein, Naomi. No Logo

18. Dicker, John. The United States of Wal-Mart

19. Quinn, Bill. How Wal-Mart is Destroying America (and the world)


Box 5 (folders)

1. History Day Teacher Workshop Notes, November 2007

2. Articles on the American Middle Class, Economic Inequality, U.S Prison system,

and Global Capitalism

3. Articles and notes on Wal-Mart’s growth, advertising, and job cuts.

4. Notes and invitation for “The Darkest Month December 1907,” symposium at the

Heinz History Center, December 2007

5. Notes for “The Darkest Month December 1907,” symposium at the Heinz History

Center, December 2007





8. Outline for Dr. Marcus’s talk at “The Industrial North” conference, November

15th 2007.

9. Irwin Marcus commentary and notes for ‘The Duquesne History Forum”, Oct 20th

1994.

10. Travel Allocations for 1994-1995, and Irwin Marcus’s receipt for the Marriot

Hotel in Philadelphia April, 13th 1995- April 15th 1995

11. Judith McDonough, The West Moreland County Strike 1910-1911: Worker

Solidary.

12. Steven Keith Welborn, “Come All You Coal Miners”: Music as a Form of

Cultural Resistance in Appalachia

chia, 1927-1933. April 15th 1995.

13. “Has the Movement had it?” Flyer for Change Magazine

14. Rene Bianco, Ronald Creagh, and Nicole Riffaut-Perrot, “When The Red Cock

Crows: French and Italian Anarchist in the United States”

15. Irwin Marcus, “The Quest: A Personal and Professional Exploration, 1902-2002”

A brief personal biography beginning with his mother, born in Poland 1902, and

immigrating to the United States in 1912. Ending with his accounts of his time as

an ungraduated student at Pen State and late of his graduate education.


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16. Irwin Marcus, Building a Union: Paul W. Fuller and The Federation of Flant

Glass Workers, 1937-1939

17. Flyer for Public Conference and Teachers’ Workshop “Life and Labor in this

Industrial Valley: A century of history” California University of Pennsylvania

18. Dr. Irwin Marcus, James P. Daugherty and Eileen M. Cooper, “Confrontation at

Rossiter: The Coal Strike of 1927-1928 and its aftermath” in Pennsylvania

History vol.5 No.4, Oct 1992

19. Dr. Irwin Marcus, “Law and Order Today with a Glance Backwards” in

Perspective, a publication of the Lutheran Community at IUP- 1970

20. “The Deindustrialization of America: Homestead, A Case Study” Dr. Marcus’s

Article cited in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (vol.75

no.3) pp. 336-338

21. Indiana County Heritage- Winter 1978-1979- Including Article by Eileen Cooper

(Dr. Marcus was her thesis advisor)

22. Newspaper Announcement for Dr. Marcus’s Address at Frostburg State College-

February 1968

23. The Pittsburgh Press- October 28th 1984 Article about Dr. Marcus in Global

Economy Conference

24. Johnston Tribune, Article by Dr. Marcus “Evolution of the University”

25. Program for Abandoned Mine Relocation and Coal Mining Heritage, Penn State

2008. Dr. Irwin Marcus, organizer and presenter delivered, “An American

Tragedy: The Response of the Federal Government to the Coal Mining Disaster of

December 1907” (p.12)

26. “Art Shields, The Federated Press, and The Search for Labor Solidarity in the

Interwar Era,” By Irwin Marcus

27. Reprint from Labor History, Vol. 44 No. 1, 2003 “The Western Pennsylvania

Coal Strike of 1933, Part I: Lawmaking From Below and the Revival of the

United Mine Workers”

28. Rochester Labor History Map/Guide, May 2000. Linda H. Donahue and Jonathan

Garlock

29. Reprint from Labor History, Summer 1976 “Labor Discontent in Tioga County,

PA, 1865-1905: The Gutman Thesis, A Test Case,” By Irwin Marcus

30. Photo Printouts: Windber (PA) Historical Marker Dedication (undated)

31. Advanced Draft for Dr. Marcus’s Paper “Clara Johnson-District a story”

32. “Homestead (PA) 1940-1990 The Story of a Steel Town from Expansion to

Exhaustion” by Irwin Marcus

33. Introduction of Irwin Marcus by Wang XI at the March 17, 2005 IUP History

Department Conference

34. Notes for Chris Magoc’s Visit to IUP

35. Article by Irwin Marcus “The Search for Common Ground: Paul Fuller and The

Textile Workers of the Passiac Area, New Jersey, 1927-29” In the Mid Atlantic

Almanac, Vol. 8 1999 p. 57-67

36. Labor Age Reprint “The Sand Hogs Battle the Bends” by Art Shields- February

2nd, 1925

37. Labor Age Reprint “Organizing The Unorganized: The Union Labor on Ford and

Chev” by Art Shields- February 11th, 1926


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38. Labor Age Reprint “The Truckman Show How” by Ether Lowell- October, 1927

39. Labor Age Reprint “Bulls and Camels: A Tale of Two Towns” by Art Shields-

November, 1927

40. Labor Age Reprint “Pittsburgh Sees Action: Re-Enforcements for Entrenched

Miners” by Art Shields- December 12, 1927

41. Labor Age Reprint “A.F.L vs. I.R.T: Labor Rises to the Challenge” by Esther

Lowell- December, 1927

42. Labor Age Reprint “Research…For What? Technicians Aid to Labor” by Esther

Lowell- March, 1928

43. Labor Age Reprint “Organizing the South: How Labor Movement Can do this

Job” by Art Shields- November, 1928

44. Labor Age Reprint “Cofton Mill Towns: What The New Technique Means to The

South” by Esther Lowell- June, 1929

45. Labor Age Reprint “In The Silk” by Esther Lowell- July, 1929

46. Labor Age Reprint “Meet Ed Crouch Inventor and Organizer” by Art Shields-

February, 1929

47. Labor Age Reprint “In the Southern Sticks Where Misery Stalks Unchecked” by

Art Shields- September, 1929

48. Reprint- WCFL: Chicago’s Voice of Labor, 1926-1978 by Nathan Godfried (A

Review)

49. Notes for a Lecture Series (1987) History

50. Center for Working- Class Studies Newsletter: Fall 1997 and Spring 1998

51. Women’s Studies Newsletter (Feminist Press) Fall 1972

52. Labor Research Review “The Crisis in Steel” Jobs, Profits, Communities” Winter

1983 Vol. 1 No. 2

53. Flyers and Ex Libris Article on “Dorthy Day: A Pilgrimage from the Secular to

The Sacred” Talk Given by Dr. Marcus, November 29th 2007, IUP

54. “The Johnstown Steel Strike of 1919: The Struggle for Unionism and Civil

Liberties” by Irwin M. Marcus

55. BCC Communique September 1981 Vol. 1 No. 2

56. “From Industrialization to Deindustrialization: A National and a Regional

Perspective” by Irwin Marcus

57. The Dispatch-Section C September 16th, 2005 “Mine Explosion,” “44 Tornado

Rocked Clymer Community”

58. IUP Department of History Commencement Program- May 13 2006

59. Reprint From June 7th 1990 The Dispatch (Blairsville): “Sylvis Among The First

To Call”

60. “Fighting for Pennsylvania Workers: The Political Career of Cornelia Bryce

Pinchot” by Lynn Vacca- Paper Presentation Nov. 5th, 1996 Pennsylvania

Historical Association

61. Just Harvest News, July-August 2005 Vol. 19 No.4

62. Pamphlet: World Peacemakers “Our Choice is Life” by Richard J. Barnet

63. “The Duquesne Lockout of 1889: Prelude To Homestead in 1892” by Irwin

Marcus

64. “The Battle Over Americanism in Indiana County, 1918-1928 by Irwin Marcus


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65. “Probing The Past and Interrogating The Future: The Industrialization of

Homestead” by Irwin Marcus

66. Notes for Spring Semester Mini-Symposium Notes- 1995

67. “Ferment in The Coal Fields 1933-1943: Nanty Glo, PA a case study” by Irwin

Marcus

68. Partners: Southern Poverty Law Center’s Gift Planning Newsletter, Fall 2006

69. “Socialism in Central Pennsylvania Cambria, Indian, and Jefferson Counties

1912-1934” by Irwin Marcus

70. “Jewish Merchant’s Project: Abridged History, Possible Themes” Jewish

Business Community Project of Downtown Indiana, Sony Barclay

71. Herb Gutman Come Back: We Need You Now- AKA A Tirade in Five Pages

(Gutman and Protest Against The Vietnam War Vis a Vis 9/10/07-9/11/07

Congressional Hearings)

72. The Forward: Explanatory Paragraph of Yiddish Newspaper; Aug 24th 2007

Issue- Vol. Cx1 No.31,668 (Undated); “Amazing Grace”- Tribute to Grace Paley

Aug 31st 2007; “Time to Bring the Forward Back Home” (Undated) by Tony

Michels

73. Proceedings for The First Annual Provosts Mini Symposium- “Perspectives on

our National Experience: Race, Class and Gender” April 18, 1989

74. “The Global Economy”- IUP Third Annual Conference on Industry and Society

October 24-26, 1984

75. Labor Notes April 22nd, 1982

76. Obituary and Various Notes and Articles about The Life and Work of Rev.

Theodore M. Miner

77. Course and Lectures Notes and Outlines

78. Program- A Conference in Honor of Dr. Irwin Marcus, March 17th 2005 “Power,

Politics, and People: Rethinking History From The Age of Globalization”

79. “Plant Closing Raises Issues” Reader’s Forums- Undated Newspaper

80. “The Tragedy at Gauly Bridge” Negro History Bulletin April 1976

81. “Protest Movements in Indiana County (PA) 1870-1920: Some Major Episodes”

82. “Working Class Historiography and the Small Industrial Town: Homestead 1880-

1900” Duquesne History Forum October, 1983

83. “A Framework For an Alternative Economic Policy For The 1980’s”

84. “Reuben Einstein: Socialist and Civil Leader” by Irwin Marcus, Marlene Joyce,

and Beth O’Leary

85. “IUP and the Northern Appalachian Region” A proposal for the creation of an

IUP center for Northern Appalachian Studies and Associated Programs 1999 by

Irwin Marcus and Dr. James Dougherty

86. “The Successful Campaign Opposing the Sale of Nanty-Glo Water Works,1929-

1931” by Irwin Marcus

87. “The Blairsville Area: A Socialist Enclave in Indiana County , 1930-1936” by

Irwin Marcus and James Dougherty

88. “ A Museum Review- The Heritage Discovery Center (Johnstown) and the

Winber Coal Heritage Center” by Irwin Marcus

89. “The Palmer Raids Come to Johnstown: The Struggle for Unionism and Civil

Liberties” by Irwin Marcus


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90. “Hennery Clay Frick”- Essay by Irwin M. Marcus

91. Provost Lecture Series: Proposals for and Flyers, Invitations, Articles,

Correspondence and Recipients for the Programs of Susan George, Theodore

Rosengarten, and Arkram Midani

92. The Endnote- May 2005 Vol.2 No.1 IUP Department of History

93. Conference Paper Proposal “The History of Labor and Management Relations”

Irwin Marcus California University 24th 2002

94. Structural Outline and Notes for American Dreams: The National Debate about

the Future of America (Marcus, Dougherty, and Peduzzle)

95. Notes and Paper on Socialism in Indiana Co. 1912-1936 by Irwin Marcus

96. Albert Pechan: Loyalty Oath and Albert Pechan Papers

97. Ex Libris: The Newsletter of the Friends of the IUP Libraries IUP Vol.3 No.15-

Dr. Marcus’s Program about Dorothy Day Announced November 29 2007

98. Biographies and Professional Summaries: Roger S. Ahlbrandt jr, Richard J.

Barnet, Peter G, Bohmer, William H. Branson, David W. Dyson

99. Biographies and Professional Summaries: Barbara Ehrenreich, Bennett Harrison,

Donald V. Kimball, David S. Landes, John Logue, Peter B. Mulloney

100. Biographies and Professional Summaries: June Nash, Ellen I. Rossen, Jack

Sheehan, Howard Stanback, Immanuel Wallerstein, Michael Daniel Yales

101. Notes, Memo, E-Mails, Tentative Agendas for “A Mini-Symposium: The

Industrial North Silver Anniversary” November 15 2007

102. December 2 2007 Tribune Review Article “Mining Expert Press Health, Safety

Environment” Recounts Talks at the Darkest Month Coal Mining Symposium at

Heinz History Center

103. The Catholic Worker March-April, 2006 and June-July-October-November and

December 2007

104. Highland Reports December 2007

105. American History- February 2008

106. American Legacy- Winter 2008

107. The Coal Mine and The Union Man Commemorating 1907’s Coal Mine Disasters

with Dr. Irwin Marcus and Dr. Elizabeth Ricketts- December 12 2007- Indiana

Free Library

108. Reprint from the Nation 12 1990 “Experiences in Democracy”

109. Quaker, Action Fall 2006 Vol. 87, No. 3 Fall 2007 Vol. 88, No.3

110. Just Harvest News Nov-Dec, 2006 Vol.20 No.6

111. Indiana Country Heritage 1993: “Socialist Women in Blacklick and Socialville

1930-1936 by Irwin Marcus and James Dougherty

112. “Change and Continuity: Steel Workers in Homestead, PA 1889-1895” Article by

Irwin Marcus, Jennie Bullard, and Rob Moore

113. The Deindustrialization of America: Homestead a Case Study, 1959-1984 by

Irwin Marcus- Reprint from Pennsylvania History July 1985 Vol.52 No.3

114. Catalogue, The Pittsburgh Peach Institute- Winter 1991

115. The Global Economy Handbook/ A Preliminary Framework 10/24/88

116. Intelligence Report (The Southern Poverty Law Center) Fall 2006, Fall and

Winter

117. The Nation: Various Issues October 15 2007- Dec. 19 2007


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118. League of Women Shoppers (Penn State-Harold Ruttenburg Papers Research)

Minutes of Executive Committee Meeting- 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941

119. Paper Presented at the Italian Americans in Western Pennsylvania Conference-

April 29 2000- Pittsburgh, PA Dominick Gelotte: Labor and Community Activist,

Nanty-Glo PA 1919-1933

120. The Nation-Various Issues: December 3, 2007- March 10, 2008

121. The Insurgent Sociologist: Essays on the Social Relations of Work and Labor Fall

1978 Vo.13 No. 2 and 3

122. Article by Irwin Marcus “The Works of Richard Hofstadler: A Course becomes a

community in historical musing” Vol. 1, No. 2 Fall 1971 p. 24-25

123. Abstract for Paper “Probing The Past and Interrogating The Future” Working-

Class Lives/ Working- Class Studies Conference Youngstown State University

June 9, 1995


Box 6 (folders)

1. Dr. Marcus sited in “Pennsylvania Labor History Journal” December 2006, p. 11

2. Review of “Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-

Century Pittsburgh” by, John Hinshaw published in “Western Pennsylvania

History”- Winter 2002-2008, p. 51-52 by Irwin Marcus

3. Class Presentation: “Women in the Labor Force” April 2006

4. Non-IUP Conderence and Symposuium Pamphlet and Programs 1988-1989,

1994-1999, 2000, 2003

5. Conference Notes Drafts and Outlines

6. Misc. Conference Planning

7. Notes Drafts and Outlines

8. Indiana Free Library Pamphlets 2002-2004

9. Misc. Flyers 1978, 1980, 1984, 1987, 1990-1992, 1999, 2002-2005

Series IX: Recordings

Box 1 Audio Cassette Tapes (14 tapes)

1. September 7th 2000


3. Septeber 7th 2000


5. September 21st 2000


7. Blank Tape

8. November 3rd 2000

9. September 21st 2000

10. February 6th 2001

11. February 6th 2001

12. November 3rd 2000

13. January 30th 2001

14. January 30th 2001

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