Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Files

The Tamiment Library is a library of research of the Université of New York which is specialized in the political history of the left and of the Extreme left (in particular on the Communisme, the Socialisme, the Anarchisme, the new left, the Mouvement of the civic rights and the movements utopians).

The Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives , which are also located at the Bobst Library of the University of New York, gather the documents related to the history of the Labor movement American.

Together, the two units form an important research center on the labor movement and the left.

Data bases

Tamiment Library has a collection of approximately of: 50000 works, treating mainly Political , of political theory, radical work and artistic movements. One also finds there close to: 15000 periodicals, with in particular conventions of working trade unions, of the newspapers protestors, the internal bulletins of radical organizations. In addition, the library has a collection of approximately a million Pamphlet S, of Tract S, Manifeste S, reports/ratios…

History

In the beginning, the Tamiment Library was founded, in 1906, within the Rand School for Social Science , a school of social sciences for the workers which was financed by the American Socialist Society (the association of the American Socialists). The School Rand declined after the vote of the called law " G.I. Bill " , after the Second world war. This law envisaged in particular the financing of the studies of the veterans of return of the war. In 1956, the Camp Tamiment , a socialist camp of summer, repurchased the library, then in 1963, the University of New York acquired of it. In 1977, the Robert F. Wagner Archives were created to preserve the writings of the local labor movements. They became thus the agents of all the documents of the New York City Central Labor Council (the Council of the New Yorkean workers), the associated trade unions like all the affiliated organizations.

In March 2007, the American Communist party made gift of its files to the library. This important donation was composed of: 20000 pounds and lampoons (some of which dated from the foundation of the party), as well as a million photographs coming from the files of the " Daily Worker ". The library also has a copy of the microfilms of the Soviet files of the political and social history, held by the Bibliothèque of the Congress.

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