Economics & Labor Web Links
• General Economics and Labor Web Sites
• 19th Century
• 20th Century
• Child Labor
General Economics and Labor Web Sites
Outline of the U.S. Economy
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oecon
---provides an extensive overview of the U.S. economy from the U.S. Department of State.
The Dramas of Haymarket
http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/overview/over.htm
---examines the events surrounding the Haymarket Affair, the violent confrontation between Chicago police and labor protestors in 1886, and includes artifacts, trial testimonies, autobiographies, photographs, engravings, books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and other publications.
Haymarket Affair (American Memory, Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ichihtml/hayhome.html
---features a comprehensive collection of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints, and artifacts relating to the Haymarket Affair.
Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_roaring13.html
---examines mass production, mass consumption, and income polarization during the 1920s and includes charts and graphs.
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
---contains personal papers, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, legislative documents, consumer and trade journals, photographs, speeches, and media clips that document the prosperity of the Coolidge years and the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy.
American Experience | The Crash of 1929
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/crash
The History Place - Child Labor in America
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
---presents Lewis W. Hine’s photographs of children in the workplace before child labor reforms were enacted.