Project Lead: Jess Pauszek - Assistant professor of English at Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts. Growing up in a predominantly Polish, working-class, community in Dunkirk, New York shaped her interest in writing about labor, deindustrialization, and class. Since 2012, she has been working with FWWCP/FED members to develop the print and digital collections of the *Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers*. The current print collection is housed at the Trades Union Congress Library in London, England, with over 88 boxes of material including publications, minutes, newsletters, annual reports and more from 1976-present. Pauszek has led the work to sort, box, index, create metadata, and develop finding aids or reading guides for these publications. Her work has appeared in Across the Disciplines, College Composition and Communication, Community Literacy Journal, Literacy in Composition Studies, Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, and as part of the *Labor History Today* Podcast.
Jess Pauszek
Steve Parks - Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia
Jeff Howarth - Special Collections Librarian, TUC Library Collections at London Metropolitan University
Nick Pollard - FWWCP/FED member and Senior Lecturer, Sheffield-Hallam University. Pollard is responsible for the largest donation of FWWCP materials which began the FWWCP Collection at the Trades Union Congress Library.
Vincent Portillo - Assistant Teaching Professor of English, Boston College. Portillo co-taught the 2018 study abroad class with Pauszek and together with students they produced the first round of the FWWCP Reading Guides.
Vincent Portillo

FED Executive Board Members (at the time of the Collection’s creation)

We would also like to give a special thank you to people who have helped shape these archival efforts in discussions, collecting documents, sorting, or other tasks:

And for the donation of materials by:

Summer 2023 Website Update Project:

Summer 2025 Website Upgrade Project:

Student Research Assistants:

2022-2025

2019-2021

The following students took part in this work through a Study Abroad summer course in London England which was designed by Steve Parks and Jess Pauszek. The course was taught by Jess Pauszek in 2015, Steve Parks and Jess Pauszek in 2016, and Vincent Portillo and Jess Pauszek in 2018.

Summer 2018

Summer 2016

Summer 2015