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| Name | Street Address | City | State | Historical Notes | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Worker Sculpture | Harlem-Macombs Housing Project | New York City | NY | Done under the Treasury Relief Art Project. | |
| Connolly, James, Memorial | Riverfront Park, downtown | Troy | NY | James Connolly, a trade union and socialist organizer in Ireland, Scotland, and the U.S., lived in Troy from 1903-1905. He was an early member of the Industrial Workers of the World. | Connolly was executed in Ireland in 1916 after leading an unsuccessful rebellion against British rule. |
| Garment Worker Statue | 7th Ave. & 39th St. in Manhattan | New York | NY | A garment worker sits at his sewing machine portraying generations of immigrant needle-trades workers. | The statue is in the area of New York where the garment industry has been in existence since New York became an industrial town. The statue was sponsored by the garment district, designers, manufacturers, unions and bankers. |
| Harmony Mills | Mohawk St. | Cohoes | NY | Formed in 1836, the Harmony Manufacturing Company essentially created a company town in Cohoes, NY. The mill workers were never able to organize, despite a strike in 1880 when 5,000 weavers walked off the job. | By 1900, the complex of mills produced 1.6 million yards of cotton cloth per week. Harmony Mills is a good example of a textile mill with company-provided housing. |
| Make-Up Man | New York Typographical Union, CWA Local 14156; 352 Seventh Ave., Suite 601 | New York | NY | A statue symbolizing the newspaper printing craft, the bronze was commissioned by the "New York Post." Two compositors posed for the sculptor, Max Kalish. New York's Typographical Union #6 secured the statue as a result of contract negotiations. | Kalish created another version of the Make-Up Man in 1926 for the "Camden Courier-Post," a replica of which was donated to the Union Printers Home in Colorado. |
| Mullaney, Kate, House | 350 8th St. | Troy | NY | Kate Mullaney, founder of the first female labor union in the U.S., the Collar Laundry Union, lived in this house from 1869-1875. As assistant secretary of the National Labor Union, Mullaney was the first female appointee to a national labor office. | Then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke at the dedication making the house a National Historic Landmark. |
| Mullaney, Kate, Memorial | St. Peter's Cemetery, NY Route 40 (Oakwood Avenue) northeast of Troy | Troy | NY | In February, 1864, Irish immigrant Kate Mullaney organized approximately 300 women into the first female labor union in the U.S., the Collar Laundry Union. In 1868, Mullaney became the first woman to hold a leadership position in the National Labor Union. | More than 3,000 women, almost half of Troy's female industrial workers were employed in the collar industry. William Sylvis' Iron Molders' Union assisted Mullaney in her organizing efforts. |
| Players Club | Gramercy Park | New York | NY | Mansion was once owned by actor Edwin Booth who left his home to the Players Club--used as group meeting place for theatrical people (club members). In 1913, library was used to form the Actors' Equity Association. | |
| Triangle Fire Ladder Plaque | Ladder Company 20 | New York | NY | Dedicated to the firemen of Company 20 that responded to the Fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Company on March 25, 1911. 146 workers were killed in the fire. | see: Triangle Fire Plaque (factory site)- New York, NY see: Triangle Fire Plaque (cemetery)- New York, NY |
| Triangle Fire Plaque (cemetery) | Workmen's Circle section of Mt. Zion Cemetery | New York | NY | Commemorates the 146 workers (mostly female) that died when their factory caught on fire. Most died because the fire doors were locked. There was no fire alarm system, no sprinklers, an inoperative fire hose & the only fire escape didn't reach the ground. | Fire was on March 25, 1911 and spurred safety movements by unions. See: Triangle Fire Plaque (factory site)--New York, NY See: Triangle Fire Ladder Plaque--New York, NY |
| Triangle Fire Plaque (factory site) | Washington Pl. & Green St. | New York | NY | Garment workers mark the site, near Washington Square, of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of March 25, 1911 where 146 mostly female workers lost their lives. The fire spurred safety movements by unions. | The fire doors were locked, there was no fire alarm system, no sprinkler system, an inoperative fire hose and only one fire escape that didn't reach the ground. See also: Triangle Fire Plaque (cemetery) and Triangle Fire Ladder Plaque, New York, NY |
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