Inventories of International Trade Secretariats and European Trade Union Organisations

Since its creation, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Library has collected publications by the International Labour Movement, especially by trade unions, systematically and on a large scale. The Library was able to expand its collection of publications by international trade union organisations especially by taking over entire library inventories from international trade secretariats.
As early as the 1980s, the Library took over comprehensive inventories from the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF), followed by - partially complete - stocks from the

• International Graphical Federation (IGF)
• International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees (FIET)
• International Federation of Building and Wood Workers (IFBWW)
• International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Association (IUF)
• Public Services International (PSI)

as well as major collections of publications by the

• Education International (EI)
• International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF).

These collections contain a large number of unique specimens and treasures, such as highly valuable periodicals and newspapers, reports on international trade union conferences as well as minutes and official organs from international trade union organisations since the previous turn of the century, to name but a few. The articles of association and statues offer a valuable insight into the organisations' workings.
These stocks of publications from international trade union organisations are complemented by collections from European trade union federations. Thus, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Library offers publications by, among others, the following organisations and institutions:

• European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
• European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)
• European Trade Union College (ETUCO)

as well as numerous trade union federations from individual European countries.

The Library has published several stock records and stock descriptions which are accessible as digital full text publications - e.g.:

• "Internationale Gewerkschaftsorganisationen - Bestände im Archiv der sozialen Demokratie und in der Bibliothek der Friedrichh-Ebert-Stiftung"
• "International Trade Union Organisations - Inventory of the Archive of Social Democracy and the Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung"
• "Europäische Gewerkschaftsorganisationen - Bestände im Archiv der sozialen Demokratie und in der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung"
• "European Trade Union Organisations - Inventory of the Archive of Social Democracy and the Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung"
• "IUL und IBV - Protokolle und Bericht"
• "On the History and Policy of the IUF

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