Business and labour history group

Since 1927, Harvard Business School has been a pioneer in teaching business history.
The Business History Initiative continues this tradition and seeks to facilitate and promote course development in business history globally.

Labor History is the pre-eminent journal for historical scholarship on labor.
It is thoroughly ecumenical in its approach and showcases the work of labor historians, industrial relations scholars, labor economists, political scientists, sociologists, social movement theorists, business scholars and all others who write about labor issues.

The Business History Initiative encourages transformational research and course development on the history of capitalism that is impactful and relevant to scholars, educators, and practitioners worldwide.
History provides rich and nuanced evidence on many key debates in the world today.

History of Labor Interest Groups.
Some of the earliest unions in the US were formed by women in the textile industry in cities such as:

General Labour History of Africa: Workers, employers and governments, 20th-21st

This volume brings, for the first time, an African perspective within a global context to the study of labour and labour relations

Co-published by the ILO and James Currey, the General Labour History of Africa is a landmark in the study of labour history

Some of the earliest unions in the US were formed by women in the textile industry in cities such as Lowell, Massachusetts

The National Labor Union (NLU) was the first American federation of unions formed in 1866

This was upgraded to Labour Directorate in 1965 under the control of Chief Labour Officer

The Labour Commissioner started functioning as Head of Department since 1978

Subsequently, in 1982 the Organization of Factories and Boilers was separated from the Labour Directorate