Who We Are

• Founded in 1988 as a non-profit (501-C3)
• Formed by teachers, students and both active/retired trade unionists
• The only labor history organization in CT.
• A membership-based organization comprised of individuals and organizations committed to advancing the cause of Labor.
• A forum for discussing the lessons of labor history and applying them to today's labor movement.
• An educational resource and a historical archive center for records pertaining to our local labor history

What We Do

• Research and publicize the lessons of labor history for the benefit of unions and workers interested on organizing.
• Join organizing and union workers on the picket lines.
• Serve as a resource for past strike information.
• Create traveling exhibits and install them in community venues.
• Organize public events such as workshops, walking tours, book signings, film festivals, talks by labor leaders and historians, and the LHA annual meeting.
• Conduct projects such as interviewing retired workers and researching Connecticut Labor History.
• Present the August Lewis Troup Award annually to individuals for meritorious contributions to the labor movement.

Past Projects

Award winning Labor History Bus Tours

• Published three books
• Conducted 26 inventories of local union records
• Held a labor history walking tour of River Street in New Haven (script available)
• Researched, produced and curated two traveling exhibits on New Haven garment worker and the Winchester Repeating Arms Factory
• Helped create and facilitate production of a labor history mural for the renovated Troup School lobby
• Produced a newsletter mailed three times a year to dues paying members. Created and maintained our website, www.laborhistory.org
• Held an annual conference and meeting with speakers, panels and presentation of the Augusta Lewis Troup Awards
• Created a Family Work History Pilot Project in several New
  Haven Public Schools
  
• Facilitated the induction of Augusta Lewis Troup into the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame and held an assembly at Troup Middle School about her life and work
• Wrote articles and spoke about the need for a labor history curriculum in Connecticut’s public schools
• Initiated and helped organize members & community groups to support a Labor History bill(2010) in the CT state legislature
• Helped organize a CT state department of education, social studies division, website on Teaching Labor History in the Connecticut public schools