Part social history, part public documentary, Peter Higginbotham has created a Web site devoted to the workhouse, a feature of the English landscape for over two hundred years that provided employment for the destitute in return for board and lodging. Through a series of primary documents, including the Poor Laws of the 19th century, Mr. Higginbotham offers a descriptive and nuanced perspective on...

Labor history is rather fascinating, and this site offers up a serving of just this subject in the form of profiles and interviews with the men and women who worked in the Imperial Cannery factory in British Columbia during the twentieth century. The site opens up with a dynamic map that zooms in on the cannery's original location in southwestern British Columbia. After the introductory animation,...

The International Institute of Social History (IISH) is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions for social history in general and for the history of the labor movement in particular. Its homepage contains a formidable online catalog of the IISH's 2,000 archival collections which hold over one million printed volumes and about as many audio-visual items. Also included are a...

An online photo gallery from the Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles at Work is a collection of captioned photographs documenting different jobs held by the men and women of LA from 1920 to 1939. The photographs were chosen from an archive of thousands of pictures taken by the staff of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. The pithy captions describe the circumstances of the photos, highlight...