LARC 37th Anniversary Annual Program 2023

37th Anniversary Annual Program of the Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University on Friday, February 24, 2023.

0:00:23 - Welcome from Sean Farley, ILWU Local 34
0:08:02 - Robin Walker, ILWU Archives
0:18:44 - Marie Shell performs "The Ballad of Harry Bridges"
0:27:28 - Bob Cherny lecture on "Harry Bridges and the ILWU"
0:55:55 - Audience Q&A with Bob Cherny


Keynote Speaker Dr. Robert W. Cherny helped found the Labor Archives and Research Center and has served on the Advisory Board from its inception. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University, joined the history faculty at San Francisco State University in 1971, and became emeritus in 2012. He served at various times as chair of the history department, director of the labor studies program, chair of the academic senate, chair of the CSU academic senate, acting dean for behavioral and social sciences, and interim dean of undergraduate studies. He is the author or co-author of forty-some published essays and seven monographs, co-editor of two anthologies, and co-author of college textbooks on US and California history. He began working on a biography of Harry Bridges in 1985 at the invitation of Harry and Nikki Bridges and spent the next fifteen years doing archival research at more than 25 archives, but university and other responsibilities delayed him from completing the book until after he retired. "Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend" is available now from University of Illinois Press.