This collecting area honors Professor Emeritus Scott Molloy’s commitment to the documentation of the region’s labor, industrial, and transit history.  It encompasses collections of primary source material produced or collected by organizers and researchers as well as the records of unions.  Molloy has been helping UASC build our collections in this area since 2009.

• Amalgamated Transit Union, Division 618 (Providence, R.I.) Records
  Gr.233; 1913-1996; 3.5 linear feet
  Collection guide: https://webarchives.apps.uri.edu/xml/msg233.xml
• Brown and Sharpe Labor Strikes Collection
  Gr.219; 1853-1997; 2.25 linear feet
  Collection guide: https://webarchives.apps.uri.edu/xml/msg219.xml
• Edwin C. Brown Labor Union Collection
  Gr.230; 1953-1984; 5 linear feet
  Collection guide: https://webarchives.apps.uri.edu/xml/msg230.xml
• Paul Buhle Rhode Island Labor Collection
  Gr.231; 1904-2000; 2 linear feet
  Collection guide: https://webarchives.apps.uri.edu/xml/msg231.xml
• Duane Clinker Labor and Community Organizing Papers
  Unprocessed; approximately 28 linear feet
  Collection guide should be available in 2025
• Thomas Kane Collection of Rhode Island Transit Historical Records
  Unprocessed; approximately 7 linear feet
• MacAloon Labor Collection
  Unprocessed; approximately 13 linear feet
• Scott Molloy Papers
  Gr.232.1; 1773-2024; 26.5 linear feet
  Collection guide: https://webarchives.apps.uri.edu/xml/msg232.1.xml
• Scott Molloy Research Collection
  Gr.232; 1864-2009; 15 linear feet
  Collection guide: https://webarchives.apps.uri.edu/xml/msg232.xml
• Peter Ritchie Rhode Island Public Transit Authority Papers
  Unprocessed; approximately 3 linear feet
• Rhode Island Public Transit Authority Collection
  Gr.234; 1891-2000; 3.75 linear feet
  Collection guide: https://webarchives.apps.uri.edu/xml/msg234.xml
• Arthur H. Riani and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Lodge 66 Papers
  Gr.229; 1923-1989; 1.5 linear feet
  Collection guide: https://webarchives.apps.uri.edu/xml/msg229.xml

Related materials:  UASC also holds the records of the University’s faculty union, a local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and is the repository of a number of oral history projects documenting the lives of Rhode Island workers.

UASC is actively acquiring materials in this collecting area as resources allow.  It seeks organizational records, personal papers, and other primary source material related to labor and the labor movement in the State of Rhode Island and to local industries.  It also seeks similar collections that enhance its current holdings related to transit and transportation in the region with a particular interest in the intersection of labor and transit.  Please see UASC Collecting Policy (forthcoming) for more information about what UASC does and does not collect.

UASC also seeks funding to support the arrangement and description of unprocessed collections.  Please contact Director Karen Walton Morse <kwmorse@uri.edu> if you would like to make a donation.