The Oregon Encyclopedia

Caroline Gleason (1886-1962)

Caroline Gleason (1886-1962)

Caroline J. Gleason—Roman Catholic nun, social reformer, and educator—helped shape Oregon labor law and the state's social conditions through the numerous social workers she trained.

Born in 1886 to politically active Roman …

The Portland Reporter

The Portland Reporter

A product of the third longest newspaper strike in the United States, the Portland Reporter launched in 1960 as an alternative to the Oregonian and Oregon Journal. Echoing unrest in newsrooms from …

Hop Industry

Hop Industry

Hops are perennial, cone-producing, climbing plants native to Europe, Asia, and North America. While originally cultivated for ornamental or medicinal purposes over a thousand years ago, brewers across Europe began to use …

Labor

Eleanor Baldwin (1854-1928)

Shinzaburo Ban (1854-1926)

Thomas Joseph Burns (1876-1957)

Will Daly (1869-1924)

Marie Equi (1872-1952)

Irvin Henry Fletcher (1932-)

Caroline Gleason (1886-1962)

Edith Starrett Green (1910-1987)

Andrew B. Hammond (1848-1934)

William McClendon (1915-1996)

George Putnam (1872-1961)

Julia Ruuttila (1907-1991)

Millie R. Trumbull (1866-1940)

Oswald D. West (1873-1960)

Expulsion of Chinese from Oregon City, 1886

McCarthy Era (late 1940s-late 1950s)

McClellan Committee

Muller v. Oregon (1908)

Toledo Incident of 1925

Associated Oregon Industries

Chinese mining in Oregon (essay)

Coin Machine Men

Gyppo Logging in Oregon

Latinos in Oregon (essay)

Native American Agricultural Labor

Oregon Commonwealth Federation

Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN)

Populism in Oregon (essay)

Bracero Program

Centro Cultural de Washington County

Columbia River Fisherman's Protective Union

Cranberry Industry

Flax and Linen Industry of Oregon

Four Rivers Cultural Center and Museum

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Kaiser Shipyards

Oregon Industrial Welfare Commission

The Portland Reporter

Seufert Brothers Cannery

Socialist Party of Oregon

Thomas Kay Woolen Mill

Valley Migrant League

Women's Land Army