DescriptionThis article from the Workers Defense League newsletter describes organizing among Puerto Rican farm workers over wages and working conditions. The Workers Defense League, founded in 1936 by Norman...
DescriptionThis November 1949, report from the recently formed Displaced Persons Committee recounts the Committee's process and ultimate success in lobbying the Governor to appoint a State Commission on...
DescriptionFritz Schade, a German immigrant and a member of the Free Acres community in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, is interviewed about his memories at Free Acres. He recalls that many of his fellow Germans...
DescriptionThis book provides a socialist/communist viewpoint of labor unions and strikes in various manufacturing industries throughout northeastern New Jersey. Weisbord describes the poor living and working...
DescriptionThis interview was conducted as part of the New Jersey Historical Commission Grant-funded Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project. The interviewee is Mr. Upendra Chivukula who is from southern India. He...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970), Contemporary America (1968-present)
DescriptionThis interview was conducted as part of the New Jersey Historical Commission Grant-funded Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project. The interviewee is Mr. Ved Chaudhary who is from northern India. He came to...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970), Contemporary America (1968-present)
DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had...