Primary Sources

Documents, speeches, manifestos, archives, and oral histories that let the room encounter a period, a movement, or a thinker directly rather than through secondary description.

This table is generated automatically from the resources: frontmatter on each theme’s lens files. Do not edit it by hand — add or change a resource in the relevant lens file and run npm run resources.

13 primary sources. Generated from theme lens frontmatter.

Source	Author / holder	Year	Type	Access	Used in
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)	U.S. Congress	1935	document	Free	Labor, Work, and Organizing · Historical
William D. Haywood: selected writings, including The General Strike	William D. Haywood	1911	collection	Free	Labor, Work, and Organizing · Historical
So-Called Primitive Accumulation (Capital, Vol. I, Part VIII, Chs. 26–33)	Karl Marx	1867	excerpt	Free	How Capitalism Works · Historical
The Manifesto of the Communist Party	Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels	1848	manifesto	Free	How Capitalism Works · Liberatory
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936–1938	Federal Writers’ Project, Library of Congress	—	archive	Free	How Capitalism Works · Experiential
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives	Cornell ILR School	—	archive	Free	How Capitalism Works · Experiential How Capitalism Works · Practical Labor, Work, and Organizing · Experiential
The Triangle Factory Fire online collection	Cornell ILR School, Kheel Center	—	archive	Free	Labor, Work, and Organizing · Experiential
StoryCorps	StoryCorps	—	archive	Free	How Capitalism Works · Experiential
StoryCorps: Work theme collection	StoryCorps	—	archive	Free	Labor, Work, and Organizing · Experiential
The WFMT Studs Terkel Radio Archive	Studs Terkel	—	archive	Free	How Capitalism Works · Experiential Labor, Work, and Organizing · Experiential
The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel	Studs Terkel, Radio Diaries	—	audio	Free	How Capitalism Works · Experiential
The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel	Studs Terkel, Radio Diaries	—	audio	Free	Labor, Work, and Organizing · Experiential
Voices of a People’s History of the United States	Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove	2004	collection	Free	How Capitalism Works · Experiential

A note on reading primary sources

Primary sources can be harder to read than secondary scholarship. The language is from another time; the references assume context the reader does not have; the author is making a case rather than explaining themselves to outsiders. That difficulty is part of the work. Take time, read aloud when it helps, and look up references together.

Status

This index is generated from theme content. To add a primary source, add it to the relevant theme lens and re-run the generator. Contributions welcome via pull request.