Oral Histories

• Knud Andresen, Triumpherzaehlungen. Wie Gewerkschafter ueber ihre Erinnerungen sprechen, Bochum 2014: Historians today consider the 1970s to be a period of "social change of revolutionary quality". This represents a socio-historical caesura within the otherwise comparatively uninterrupted history of the Federal Republic. This book traces the echoes of this "structural break" in the experiences of works councils and trade unionists. On the basis of life history interviews with members of the grassroots elite who not only witnessed the change but also helped to shape it on the ground, the author analyzes their narrative patterns to trace the retrospective constitution of the era with a striking finding: despite crisis-ridden experiences, triumphs form an important narrative pattern of the actors.
• Old Tales and New Stories: Working with Oral History at LWL Industrial Museum Henrichshuette Hattingen: an oral history archive with many interviews with workers in the steel industry and other industries, mainly from the Ruhr region of Germany
• People in Mining (Menschen im Bergbau): an oral history of mining in the Ruhr region of Germany

• Archive of Oral Testimonies (Centre of Technical Culture-Hermoupolis Industrial Museum): located in the island of Syros, the most significant industrial and maritime centre of the Greek nineteenth century. The archive consists of more than 35 recorded testimonies of industrial workers, craftsmen and businessmen of the city of Hermoupolis in audiovisual form. (Only in Greek)
• Archive of Oral Testimonies, Society for the Study of the History of the Left Youth (EMIAN): comprises of recorded discussions and interviews with political activists, who starred or participated in different organizations and in various phases of the youth and student movement during the period 1950-1974. (Only in Greek)
• Audiovisual Archive of Testimonies (Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly): developed in 2001 as part of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology, it consists of 27 thematic sections of interviews and it is located in the city of Volos. Among others, the Archive contains a section with oral testimonies of the tobacco workers, trade unionists and employees of the Matsangos Tobacco Factory in Volos, a section with interviews on the World of Labour in Volos and a section on the deindustrialization of the same city at the turn of the 20^th century.
• Oral History Collections, Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI): Since their establishment, ASKI have collected a significant body of audio collections regarding the Greek political history in the postwar period. The oral history and audio collections of ASKI include party meetings of the leading bodies of several parties of the Greek Left, oral testimonies of activists and political figures of the various parties of the Greek Left during the Postwar period, oral testimonies of the inhabitants of the village of Ziakas regarding their experiences of war, occupation, national resistance and civil war during the 1940s and of Cypriot citizens regarding the Cypriot crisis of 1974.
• Oral History Groups (OPI): bottom-up initiatives on a local level which gather oral testimonies and organize actions regarding oral history in general, such as meetings, seminars and workshops. Although the testimonies cover a great variety of subjects, significant information could be found regarding labour history and the history of the trade union movement. (Only in Greek)
• Oral Testimonies Collection, Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (ELIA): consists of 270 recorded testimonies, which mainly cover the experiences of war, occupation, national resistance and civil war during the 1940s in the regions of Macedonia and Thrace. (Only in Greek)

• Oral History of Labour Movement in India: This is one of the largest collections of oral materials on India’s labour movement. Recordings are available but still require to be digitized. The biographical profiles of the people interviewed, and a summary of the transcripts are uploaded in the archives however. For a  description of this collection, please have a look at the following detailed report published in the archives: An Archaeology of Labour Movement: Tapping the Oral Sources (A Study of the Origins and Evolution of the Movement in South India).
• Oral History of Industrial Closure in Delhi: Collection details are available in an online report.
• Oral History of Coal Workers with Special Emphasis on the Impact of Outsourcing

• Biografías Obreras y militancia sindical en CCOO. Similares proyectos en la Red de Archivos de CCOO.
  • https://archivo.1mayo.ccoo.es/index.php/coleccion-biografias-obreras-y-militancia-sindical-en-comisiones-obreras

Fundaciones de CCOO

Fundación Memoria y futuro del trabajo

• Fundación sindicalismo y cultura
• Fundación Juan Muñiz Zapico
• Fundació Ateneu
• Fundación Jesús Pereda
• Fundació Cipriano García
• Fundación José Unanue
• Fundación 10 de marzo
• Fundació d´Estudis i Iniciatives Sociolaborals

• Culture of Rememberance - How workers and the Novamed strike are remembered: Through the platform labournet.tv, which publishes films about global working conditions, the documentary Women on Strike was made accessible to the whole world. The importance of the documentary was emphasized once again when it was presented at the global 11 film festival in Berlin in 2011. The production of the documentary underscores the international attention paid to the issue of women's rights in the world of work. The case of the Turkish trade unionist Emine Arslan, who became known for her strike in front of the DESA factory in Turkey, is also represented on the website with her own documentary film entitled Like a bird in a cage (original german title “Wie ein Vogel im Käfig”).
• In addition to these documentary films, there is also a literary work by Feryal Saygiligil entitled “A Women's Strike: Being a Woman in a Free Trade Zone”. This documents the strike in writing and goes down in literary history.