Labor History Resources in Archives and Special Collections

• Working in Middletown: Getting a Living in Muncie, Indiana transcripts - Includes transcripts of interviews conducted in 1975 about people's attitudes toward work and their jobs in Muncie, Indiana.  The project was funded by the Indiana Committee for the Humanities. Transcripts and other documents on the project are available.
   
• Middletown III Records - Middletown III was a research project funded by the National Science Foundation from 1976 to 1981.  The research team conducted surveys with Muncie residents examining the six Middletown areas, including "Getting a Living." 
   
• Hundreds of articles have been written about Muncie as Middletown, a representative American community as defined by sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd in their landmark study in the 1920s. Archives and Special Collections has photocopies of many of these articles. The following are ones in the collection that relate to labor history:

Hoover, Dwight W. “Re-Industrialization of Muncie: General Motors Comes to Town.”
Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Proceedings, Vol. 22, 1982.