THE IMMIGRATION HISTORY RESEARCH CENTER AS A SOURCE FOR LABOR HISTORY RESEARCH.

The article provides information on materials related to labor migration acquired by the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The IHRC is approaching its 26th year of work in the acquisition, preservation, and provision of archival and library resources on the experiences of some 24 European and Near Eastern ethno-linguistic groups in the U.S. The Center also serves as an active agent in stimulating research and activity in immigration and ethnic studies. The 1986 Center-sponsored symposium, "A Century of European Migrations, 1830-1930: Comparative Perspectives," emerged as a milepost for research on migration history, drawing together leading scholars from 10 countries whose work sounded a number of themes, including labor issues. The Center's holdings document those immigrant groups most commonly associated with the great trans-Atlantic migration to the U.S. from roughly the 1880s to the 1920s. IHRC holds over 45,000 monographs and bound periodicals, nearly 900 newspaper files and 3000 serial titles, and over 800 manuscript collections amounting to some 4000 linear feet.