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The article lists the labor archives' holdings of the Society of American Archivists, related to the history of the trade union movement in the U.S. Information about the availability of a particular archives' holdings through national data bases is included where repositories have reported processed collections to the Research Libraries Information Network, the On-Line Computer Library Center Inc. or the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections. Anne Rand Memorial Library of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union in San Francisco, California contains a modest book collection of 4,000 volumes. The California Northcoast Labor/Community Archives Project has documents of terminated labor organizations in Northwestern California, the Redwood District Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. The non-print holdings at Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research include 25 documentary films on labor.

The Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, was the second labor archive established as a result of the activities of the Association of Southern Labor Historians. This group of historians concerned about the lack of attention paid to the southern working class on the part of labor historians, developed during the 1966 meeting of the Southern Historical Association with the purpose of stimulating study of the southern trade union movement by collecting union records and presenting papers on labor history at meetings concurrent with those of the Southern Historical Association. Dr. George Green of the University of Texas (UT) at Arlington, Texas, returned home from this meeting and began a series of conversations with UT faculty and administrators, as well as Texas labor leaders. These discussions led to the creation in 1967 of the Texas Labor Archives at UT. The Southern Labor Archives is a very young repository. The Archives seeks, however, to become a major regional and national research resource by concentrating its efforts on documenting the development of the labor movement in the South.