VII. Labor,, 1921-1989 (1975-1989)

Summary: This series documents student activist Sue Kozel's interest in and dedication to labor issues relating in particular to the rights of women and minority workers from both an academic and an activist perspective. The subseries "Conferences and Seminars", 1980-1987, includes announcements and programs of labor conferences and seminars, including the Summer Institute for Union Women, which took place at Rutgers and elsewhere, and newsletters generated by the Rutgers Institute for Research on Women (IRW). The subseries "Courses", 1984-1985, includes correspondence and course syllabi for the 1994-1995 courses Kozel taught at Rutgers.

The subseries "Organizations", 1921-1987 (1980-1987), includes broadsides, charts, contracts, correspondence, fact sheets, meeting minutes, notes, pamphlets, press releases, questionnaires and reports about the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) 1977 and 1981 strike actions at Rutgers, the Center for the American Woman and Politics (CAWP), the Douglass College Public Leadership Education Network (DC PLEN), the 1979-1981 Eagleton Institute telephone polls, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and Public Service Electric & Gas Company (PSE & G), the International Chemical Workers Union, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), International Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers, (IUE), and the Groove Pin plant strike of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE).

The Committee to Organize Student Workers (COSW), a Rutgers student-based organization committed to improving the working conditions and protecting the rights of student workers is also documented in this subseries. 1978-1980 COSW materials include a calendar of events for a minimum wage project, an outline for the student handbook project, clippings from University newspapers: the Daily Targum; Greenprint; Livingston Medium; Livingston Labor Newsletter; and the Douglass Caellian; newsclippings from the Newark Star Ledger newspaper and the journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education, correspondence of University organizations and outside agencies, opinion pieces written by Kozel, a minimum wage proposal, a student worker bill of rights, the Student Employment Handbook, chapters from Kozel's independent study project, press releases, Rutgers University and New Jersey state student employment regulations, items on the "Buckley Amendment" and student privacy rights, and University Senate meeting minutes.

Kozel's Ph.D. (not completed) research materials appear in the subseries "Kozel's Research", 1950-1989 (1980-1985), which also includes an unpublished manuscript by labor historian Alice Cook. This subseries also includes articles, broadsides, nuclear energy brochures, correspondence, index card files, newspaper clippings, Kozel's notes, pamphlets, and reports dealing with aspects of organized labor, including minority and Jewish women workers and workers' rights and safety, and an unfinished project to document the ethnic and labor history of the East Village in New York City.