Key Workplace Documents are selected by Stuart Basefsky an Information Specialist and Instructor at Catherwood Library and Director of the IWS News Bureau for the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in the New York City Office of the ILR School.
Manuscripts from 2010
Young Workers: A Lost Decade (One Year Later), AFL-CIO
Sending Jobs Overseas: The Cost to America’s Economy and Working Families, Working America and AFL-CIO
Manuscripts from 2009
2009 Health Care for America Survey, AFL-CIO
Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect (2009), AFL-CIO
Healthcare Workers in Peril: Preparing to Protect Worker Health and Safety During Pandemic Influenza, AFL-CIO
Young Workers: A Lost Decade, AFL-CIO
Iced Out: How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers’ Rights, Rebecca Smith, Ana Ana Avendaño, and Julie Martínez Ortega
Manuscripts from 2008
AFL-CIO Comparison of 2008 Presidential Candidate Health Care Proposals, AFL-CIO
Workers’ Rights, Violence and Impunity in Colombia, AFL-CIO
Manuscripts from 2007
Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, AFL-CIO
Manuscripts from 2006
America’s Working Families, AFL-CIO
Global Fairness 2006: Oman’s Labor Laws Fall Far Short of International Standards, AFL-CIO
The Wal-Mart Tax: Shifting Health Care Costs to Taxpayers, AFL-CIO
Unchecked: How Wal-Mart Uses its Might to Block Port Security, AFL-CIO
Enablers of Excess: Mutual Funds & the Overpaid American CEO, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, and The Corporate Library
Manuscripts from 2005
Overcoming Barriers to People of Color in Union Leadership, AFL-CIO
Review of Judge Samuel Alito’s Record in Worker Rights Cases, AFL-CIO
Wal-Mart Imports From China, Exports Ohio Jobs, AFL-CIO Wal-Mart Campaign
Manuscripts from 2004
The Bush Record on Shipping Jobs Overseas, AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO Key Votes Survey: How Investment Managers Voted in the 2004 Proxy Season, AFL-CIO Office of Investment
Behind the Curtain, AFL-CIO Office of Investment
Manuscripts from 2003
Exercising Authority, Restoring Accountability: AFL-CIO Proxy Voting Guidelines, AFL-CIO
Wal-Mart: An Example of Why Workers Remain Uninsured and Underinsured, AFL-CIO
Central America: Labor Reports and Child Labor Reports Pursuant to the Trade Act of 2002, Section 2102(c)(8)-(9), AFL-CIO and UNITE!
Manuscripts from 2002
Ask a Working Woman Survey 2002, AFL-CIO
Manuscripts from 2001
Control Over Work Hours and Alternative Work Schedules, AFL-CIO Working Women’s Department and Labor Project for Working Families
Manuscripts from 2000
Living Wage Laws: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, AFL-CIO Department of Public Policy
Manuscripts from 1996
America Needs a Raise, AFL-CIO Department of Economic Research
Productivity Grows, But Workers Don’t Share, Bill Cunningham
Manuscripts from 1995
Restore the Floor: It’s Time to Raise the Minimum Wage, Iain Gold
Housing and the American Dream: Unions Have a Role; So Does Government, Frank Parente
Working But Poor in America, Frank Parente
Manuscripts from 1994
Assault on Workers’ Rights, Richard W. Hurd