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Brooklyn Navy Yard Labor History
An Introduction to the Labor History of Navy Yards

A Labor History Time Line of the BNY

Unions and Labor Relations in the Brooklyn Navy Yard: Some Case Histories From the Inter-War Period

The Use of Non-Civil Service Workers in the Brooklyn Navy Yard: The Renovation and Expansion of the Navy Yard With Public Assistance- and Contract-Labor

General Aspects of Labor-Management Relations
Pay Rates
Efficiency Ratings and the Fight over Job Classifications, 1912-1942
Shop Committees and the Right to Formal Union Representation, 1900-1942
Health & Safety  

A Worker's History of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1925-1945  
Background
The Brooklyn Navy Yard during the Hoover Administration, 1929 - 1933
The New Deal Yard, 1933 - 1937, Part 1  [Wages and Hours]
The New Deal Yard, 1933 - 1937, Part 2  [NIRA]
The New Deal Yard, 1933 - 1937, Part 3  [Vinson-Trammell]
Preparing For War, 1937-1941, Part 1     [Production]
Preparing For War, 1937-1941, Part 2     [Wages and Hours]
Preparing For War, 1937-1941, Part 3    
[Finding New Sources of labor]

Preparing For War, 1937-1941, Part 4    
[Women; minorities; surveillance]

The Brooklyn Navy Yard on the Eve of War, 1941

[A Postcript: The Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1942-1966]