Research Theme

Labor History

Labor History keeps the worker side of the built environment visible through union halls, shop floors, industrial districts, strike sites, and working-class neighborhoods.

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Research In Labor History

176 published articles

Eastern Market, Detroit

Research Record

Updated 2026

Eastern Market: Preserving the Work Behind Detroit’s Market Day

Detroit Commercial Building Active

Detroit’s market sheds belong to a larger food district whose preservation depends on room for trade, delivery, and small businesses as well as public...

Place
Eastern Market, Detroit
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Approximate
Sources
4
Updated
2026
Pewabic Pottery, Detroit

Research Record

Updated 2026

Pewabic Pottery: Detroit’s Architectural History at the Workbench

Detroit Commercial Building Active

Pewabic links the city’s decorated buildings to a surviving place of production, where craft knowledge is part of the heritage being kept alive.

Place
Pewabic Pottery, Detroit
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Sources
3
Updated
2026
Stone Medical Center

Research Record

Updated 2026

Stone Medical Center, Chicago

Chicago Campus / Institutional Endangered

A 28-story apartment tower will replace a labor and health-care building whose atrium and paired Brotherhood Monument sculptures gave the corner a distinctive public...

Place
Stone Medical Center
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Exact
Sources
3
Updated
2026
Froebel School Site

Research Record

Updated 2026

Froebel School Site, Gary

Gary Campus / Institutional Demolished / Lost

An Indiana historical marker at Fifteenth and Madison keeps a demolished school in public view as a place where educational innovation, immigration, Black migration,...

Place
Froebel School Site
Sources
3
Updated
2026
South Bend Range Factory

Research Record

Updated 2026

South Bend Range Factory, South Bend

Indiana Industrial Site Industrial History

Demolition removed a long-vacant and contaminated factory, but the cleared site still needs a public record of the industries, workers, and environmental burdens that...

Place
South Bend Range Factory
Coverage
Exact
Sources
2
Updated
2026
Tilden and Empire Mine Landscape

Research Record

Updated 2026

Tilden and Empire Mine Landscape, South of Ishpeming

Michigan Industrial Site Active

South of Ishpeming, Tilden and Empire show the modern range at full scale: open pits, concentrators, pellet plants, rail-to-port logistics, idled assets, and regulated...

Place
Tilden and Empire Mine Landscape
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3
Updated
2026
Republic Mine Industrial Landscape

Research Record

Updated 2026

Republic Mine Industrial Landscape, Republic

Michigan Industrial Site Ruin / Partial Remains

Near downtown Republic, the former mine landscape records the western reach of the Marquette Iron Range, where underground workings, open-pit expansion, rail loadouts, and...

Place
Republic Mine Industrial Landscape
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Sources
3
Updated
2026
Pioneer Furnace Site

Research Record

Updated 2026

Pioneer Furnace Site, Negaunee

Michigan Industrial Site Demolished / Lost

East of Negaunee's early mine landscape, Pioneer Furnace marks the charcoal-furnace phase of the Marquette Iron Range, where ore, wood, rail, and settlement converged.

Place
Pioneer Furnace Site
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Sources
3
Updated
2026
Cliffs Shaft Mine Headframes

Research Record

Updated 2026

Cliffs Shaft Mine Headframes, Ishpeming

Michigan Campus / Institutional Adaptive Reuse

At Lake Bancroft, the Cliffs Shaft headframes turn mine-hoisting machinery into monumental architecture, preserving the vertical industrial profile of the Marquette Iron Range.

Place
Cliffs Shaft Mine Headframes
Coverage
Exact
Sources
3
Updated
2026
Old Town Negaunee Caving Grounds

Research Record

Updated 2026

Old Town Negaunee Caving Grounds

Michigan Industrial Site Preserved

The caving grounds make industrial history visible as absence: an abandoned urban core where sidewalks, stairs, vegetation, and trail interpretation reveal how mining reshaped...

Place
Old Town Negaunee Caving Grounds
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Approximate
Sources
2
Updated
2026
Jackson Mine Pit

Research Record

Updated 2026

Jackson Mine Pit, Negaunee

Michigan Industrial Site Preserved

West of downtown Negaunee, the Jackson Mine turns the first Lake Superior iron mine into a readable landscape of pits, trail interpretation, public memory,...

Place
Jackson Mine Pit
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Sources
3
Updated
2026
Upper Peninsula Brewing Company Building

Research Record

Updated 2026

Upper Peninsula Brewing Company Building, Marquette

Michigan Commercial Building Adaptive Reuse

At Meeske Street and US 41, the old brewery building places food and beverage production alongside ore, rail, and power in Marquette's industrial past.

Place
Upper Peninsula Brewing Company Building
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Approximate
Sources
2
Updated
2026

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