The Texas Labor Archives, which serves as the official depository of the Texas AFL-CIO and its affiliates, contains extensive primary records and publications relating to the history of organized labor in Texas and the Southwest. The Labor Archives houses more than 200 collections of individuals and labor organizations, and conducts oral history interviews with men and women who have made significant contributions to the growth of the labor movement in Texas.

List of Collections

Finding aids, inventories, and descriptions are available for many of the archival collections. All collections, both processed and unprocessed, are listed and described, in the 2000 edition of A Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the Special Collections Division at The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. An electronic version is available online, and a loose-leaf addendum to the Guide is available at the Special Collections reference desk. Most of the collections are also cataloged and appear in OCLC and the UT Arlington Library Catalog.

See online Finding aids

If you have questions about the Texas Labor Archives, please contact Gary Spurr at spurr@uta.edu or (817) 272-7511