Archive

From the Daily Bruin: UCLA historians launched a revamped digital labor history archive in April, preserving materials from movements led by Southern California unions. The Memory Work Research Initiative at UCLA – which the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment oversees – digitized documents, images and flyers on an online archive called Power from the Past.

UCLA historians started the initiative in the basement of the Service Employees International Union Hall more than 10 years ago, said Toby Higbie, a history professor. SEIU represents about 2 million public sector and property service workers across the United States, according to its website... The IRLE also created a social media series to highlight different labor history stories weekly...

As the IRLE prepares for its 80-year anniversary, Higbie said its archival work is evolving – and is nowhere close to finished...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2026/05/22/ucla-historians-preserve-documents-photos-in-power-from-the-past-online-archive.