Schenectady County, New York Labor History

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American Locomotive Co.
- Agreement (1953) Between American Locomotive Company and United Steelworkers of America (CIO) Local 2054
General Electric Co. (see also Print Resources below)
- 1926 Manual for Employees — General Electric Schenectady Works
- American Counterrevolutionary: Lemuel Ricketts Boulware and General Electric, 1950-1960 by Kimberly Phillips-Fein (Chapter 12, pp. 249-270 in Nelson Lichtenstein, American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century)
- Labor experiences of Polish and Italian immigrants at General Electric (Electric City Immigrants)
- Schenectady General Electric in the Twentieth Century (University at Albany)
  - Ruth Young Jandreau (autobiographical writings)
  - Helen Quirini and General Electric: A Personal Memoir of the World War II Years (an excerpt)
Schenectady Schools
- Schenectady Teacher Contracts 1923-1925
Print Resources
- Finding Aid for the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers (IUE), Local 301 Records, 1941-2001 (University at Albany)
- Finding Aid for the Helen Quirini Papers, 1941-2001 (University at Albany)
- Finding Aid for the Schenectady Area Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO Records, 1921-1959, 1970-1988 (University at Albany)
- Finding Aid for the Schenectady Building and Construction Trades Council Records, 1960-1961, 1966-1978 (University at Albany)
- Finding Aid for the Schenectady Federation of Teachers, Local 803, American Federation of Teachers Records, 1918-1934, 1937-1989 (University at Albany)
- Finding Aid for the Schenectady Labor Temple Association records, 1912-1977 (University at Albany)
- Goodall, David. "Workers, Industrial Unionists and Socialists: The IWW in Schenectady, New York." Unpublished seminar paper, SUNY at Albany, 1975.
- Kannenberg, Lisa Ann. The Product of GE's Progress: Labor, Management and Community Relations in Schenectady, New York, 1930-1960. Ph.D. dissertation at Rutgers University, 1999, book based on it in progress.
- Zahavi, Gerald. "Passionate Commitments: Race, Sex, and Communism at Schenectady General Electric, 1932-1954." The Journal of American History vol. 83 no. 2 (Sept. 1996) pp. 514-548. [JSTOR subscribers may read this online. [JSTOR is also available at Union College's Schaffer Library and the New York State Library in Albany.]