Scott Molloy earned a bachelor's degree from Rhode Island College and a master's degree from the University of New Hampshire. He worked as a bus driver while pursuing his Ph.D. at Providence College. Molloy is a Professor of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Rhode Island, as well as the president and founder of the R.I. Labor History Society. His books include "Irish Titan, Irish Toilers: Joseph Banigan and 19th Century New England Labor" and "Trolley Wars: Streetcarworkers on the Line".
From: University of Rhode Island. (n.d.) Scott Molloy. Retrieved from https://www.uri.edu/features/scott-molloy
The collection includes photographs, correspondence, promotional materials, and periodicals created by various social and political groups during the mid-twentieth century. The collection features materials related to labor unions, communist and socialist organizations, and humanitarian groups, as well as materials related to individual politicians and activists. The materials were collected and compiled by Rhode Island College alumnus Scott Molloy, who is now Professor of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Rhode Island.
Researchers are advised to contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for questions regarding permissions to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise publish material from this collection. Although Rhode Island College has physical ownership of the collection, it does not necessarily hold literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.
The collection is open for research by appointment.
Scott Molloy Social and Political Materials Collection, MSS.24, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College
The collection is arranged into 3 series:
The collection is a gift of Scott Molloy.
The collection was processed in 2019.
Black and white photographs of Walter Mondale at various political events.
"Proceedings of the Eleventh General Convention of the International Jewelry Workers Union"
"Proceedings of the 15th Triennial Convention International Jewelry Workers' Union, AFL-CIO"
"Proceedings of the Sixteenth Triennial Convention of the International Jewelry Workers Union, AFL-CIO"
Incomplete
"Concentration Camps U.S.A."
"Tax Policy Guide"
"Behind the Bars for the First Amendment"
"Comparison of State Unemployment Insurance Laws as of January 1m 1960" BES No. U-141; "Questions and Answers on the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act" 1962 O-645070
Oversize calendar rests flat on top of folders
"Industry Education Labor"
Materials from various May Day celebrations during the 1970s-1980s
"Insurance Fund and Retirement Fund" pamphlet
List of legislative contacts, prepared for the National Anti-Hunger Coalition
"Tax Justice Act of 1975: A Summary"
"A Program for Labor in support of U.S. Savings Bonds and the Payroll Savings Plan"
"No. 19679 In the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Town & Country Manufacturing Company, Inc., and Town & Country Sales Co., Inc., Petitioners v. National Labor Relations Board, respondent, on petition to review and on cross-petition for enforcement of an order of the National Labor Relations Board. Brief for the National Labor Relations Board."
"Cotton Dust: Worker Health Alert"
"Israel and Torture: An insight inquiry"
Includes letter addressed to Scott Molloy regarding labor events in the Boston area.
"Disarmament: A Positive Alternative" printed by the Fund in memory of Sophia H. Dulles
"ERA Yes"; "Support the Copper Strikers"; "Don't Blame Me! I'm From Massachusetts"
Notes, outlines, and other materials from unidentified class(es) on communism.
Notes, outlines, and other materials from unidentified class(es) on communism.
Clippings about Ku Klux Klan rally, various strikes, and housing prices.
Advertising material for documentary films, plays, and board games related to the labor, as well as other social and political movements
Fliers for unidentified social and political demonstrations
Business letter regarding Rhode Island Inc. "RICH seminar" and flier promoting talk on "U.S. Corporate Involvement in South Africa"
vol. 1, no. 1-3
vol. 22, no. 47; vol. 24, no. 9; vol. 26, no. 47
Reprinted articles from 'The American Federationist"
vol. 4, no. 11
vol. 5, no. 1
vol. 4, no. 2
no. 2-4
no. 45
vol. 2, no. 8, 10; vol. 3, no. 1
vol. 1, no. 1, 3-4
vol. 10, no. 2
vol. 6, no. 3
vol. 5, no. 3
no. 23: "The Vanishing Dollar: A New Look at Inflation" and no. 25: "Lynching and Rape: An Exchange of Views"
vol. 2, no. 1
no. 5-6
no. 8
vol. 14, no. 1
vol. 3, no. 1, 3, 5-6
"The Sunday Magazine of the Akron Beacon Journal, May 21, 1978"
"By and for Cornell Employees", no. 41
"The Official Publication of the Beaver Valley Labor History Society"
vol. 3
vol. 8, no. 59
vol. 1, no. 1-2, 6
vol. 4, no. 9
vol. 9, no. 6, 11-14
Excerpted article: "Industrial Policy: Can it capture workers' votes and bosses' hearts in 1984?"
Photocopy of article: "Conversation with an Atheist: Michael Harrington on Religion and Socialism"
vol. 47, no. 1
"Let's Fight the System, not Each Other"
"Newsletter of the Biltmore Plaza Union Organizing Committee"
Incomplete; no. 31, 34
vol. 5, no. 157, 175, 240, 251; vol. 9, no. 25
vol. 1, no. 6, 8; 1974 issue incomplete
no. 72
"A Monthly Bulletin of Economic Affairs" no. 68
vol. 48, no. 6
vol. 2, no. 2
vol. 1, no. 2
vol. 1, no. 4
vol. 1, no. 1-4, 6
vol. 3, no. 6
vol. 3, no. 9, 13, 14-15,16-17, 21
no. 2-4
1977, June 9, August 2
vol. 2, no. 10
vol. 2, no. 7
vol. 1, no. 1
no. 209
no. 221, 223
no. 237, 241
vol. 1, no. 12
vol. 2, no. 6, 8
vol. 2, no. 3-4
"Union Decertification: An Exploratory Analysis" vol. 18, no. 1, p. 59-69
vol. 27, no. 6
vol. 1, no. 36
vol. 1, no. 4
vol. 30, no. 43
vol. 1, no. 4
no. 10
vol. 4, no. 6; vol. 5, no. 1-7; vol. 6, no. 1, 4
"Introducing: Line of March, a Marxist-Leninist Journal of Rectification"
vol. 61, no. 11
vol. 5, no. 10; vol. 6, no. 5
vol. 1, no. 1
vol. 1, no. 10-11, 13-14, 17, 19-20, 22-23
vol. 36 no. 17, 27, and "Special Militant Feature" (1971)
no. 12
vol. 2, no. 10
vol. 12, no. 2
vol. 3, no. 1
vol. 6, no. 4; vol. 8, no. 6
vol. 228, no. 15, 22
vol. 29, no. 3-6; vol. 30, no. 2; Hobbs supplement
vol. 62, no. 31
vol. 1, no. 1-2
Clipped articles: "Owing Your Soul to the Company Store" by Ralph Nader and Mark Green (1973 November 29); "What Rules America?" by Andrew Hacker (1975 May 1)
"Rock: Language of the young"
vol. 5, no. 9 "Special issue for Democratic Agenda"
round 5, no. 5; round 6, no. 3
1973 June 4, June 20-27, July 9
vol. 1, no. 1; Fall 1983 "Special Supplement"
vol. 4, no. 2; "Special Supplement"
vol. 2, no. 4, 8
no. 10, 13, 18-20
no. 21-23; vol. 3, no. 4, 9; vol. 4, no. 2, 5, 10
no. 1
Photocopied article: "Fifty years of progress: First decade 1896-1906"
vol. 1, no. 2
Includes newsletters for "Organizing Committee for a National Workers Organization" and "The National United Workers Organization"
vol. 4, no. 20, 23; vol. 5, no. 3-4
vol. 11, no. 4
no. 1
no. 119
no. 19, 26-27, 30, 33, 35-36, 41-45, 52
no. 1-3, 6-7, 9, 13, 15-16, 22, 24, 37, 47-48
no. 3, 18, 58-60
no. 2, 4
vol. 3, no. 417
vol. 2, no. 7
vol. 3, no. 3-5; vol. 4, no. 1
vol. 2, no. 3-7
vol. 6, no. 7-8, 10
vol. 68, no .5
vol. 1, no. 2, 4
vol. 3, no. 4; vol. 4, no. 1, 3-4, 7, 10, 12
vol. 5, no. 2-3, 6
vol. 1, no. 11
vol. 2, no. 6
vol. 4, no. 50
vol. 1, no. 2-3; vol. 2, no. 1-2, 6-7
vol. 2, no. 9-11; vol. 3, no. 3
vol. 2, no. 12
vol. 1, no. 3
no. 12
vol. 1, no. 7; unnumbered issue, December 1966
no. 3-4
"Voice of the Rank and File of Local 998"; no date, no issue number
vol. 21, no. 2
vol. 44, no. 2-4; vol. 45, no. 1-3
vol. 46, no. 1
vol. 4, no. 6; vol. 5, no. 2; vol. 15, no. 1
vol. 38, no. 6
"Political action report for April"
no. 71 (vol. 13, no. 5)
no. 9 (vol. 2, no. 3)
vol. 2, no. 8
vol. 9, no. 1, 3
vol. 2, no. 16
vol. 2, no. 6-7, 11
no. 1; vol. 1 no. 4
no. 25
vol. 1, no. 2
no. 4
vol. 2, no. 1
no. 6
p. 126-127
vol. 2, no. 3
no. 1
July 15 and August 15 issues
"After Mao" issue
vol. 1, no. 1-6, 8; vol. 2, no. 1-2
p. 3-14
vol. 1, no. 1; vol. 2, no. 2
vol. 33, no. 3
vol. 2, no. 14
no. 20
p. 8
vol. 34, no. 11
vol. 11, no. 1, 3
vol. 1, no. 5-6
vol. 2, no. 2
vol. 1, no. 2
"Mao's Red Shadows in America", p. 10-13
vol. 2, no. 1
no. 3-4
vol. 4, no. 9
no. 9-10, 12-14
vol. 2, no. 6, 8
vol. 1, no. 4
vol. 1, no. 2
vol. 2, no. 8
vol. 1, no. 10, 12; vol. 2, no. 1
vol. 2, no. 5-8, 10; vol. 3, no. 2
November 1973, October 1974
vol. 2, no. 5
vol. 1, no. 3-5; vol. 2, no. 2
vol. 4, no. 1; vol. 5, no. 1
vol. 1, no. 1, 6
no. 70, 81, 167
vol. 14, no. 18
vol. 10, no. 3
vol. 2, no. 15-17
no date, no issue number
no. 5; includes Food Conspiracy Newsletter vol. 4 no. 5