This collection consists of taped interviews, some with transcripts, of interviews done by Alan O'Connor notes, correspondence, and draft copy of his report "Real Live Type", 1985.

The collection consists of interviews conducted by Adams with trade union Field Officers representing a number of different unions and lead to the writing of “The Work of the Trade Union Field Officer” which appeared in Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, vol. 32, no. 4, 1977. A copy of the article is included with the collection.

The following unions are represented in these interviews:
American Federation of Musicians of the United States, and Canada
American Newspaper Guild
Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists
Bricklayers' Masons and Plasterers' International Union of America
Canadian Union of Public Employees
Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America
International Longshoremen's Association
International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
Labourers' International Union of North America
Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association; Ontario Public Service Employees Union
Seafarers' International Union
Service Employees International Union
United Steelworkers of America
United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America
United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada

Union générale des étudiants du Québec fonds consists of correspondence and printed materials, including bulletins, working papers and reports, constitution and bylaws, press releases, as well as some materials of an affiliated organization: l'association générale des étudiants de l'université de Montréal (AGEUM). The correspondence includes letters from Jean Lesage, Daniel Johnson, René Lévesque, Bernard Landry, then president of AGUEM, and others.

Contains a charter granted by the Grand Lodge on 17 April 1919, signed by two officers of that Lodge - the Grand Secretary-Treasurer and the Grand President.

There have been two accruals. The first accrual consists of correspondence, briefs and agreements, contract negotiation notes, grievance records and correspondence, minutes of the executive board and other committees, job classification files, photographs, financial records and publications, 1937-1972. The second accrual consists of correspondence, grievances, minutes, press releases, newsletters and other printed materials. It has been arranged into the following series: correspondence, Executive Board and committiees, greivances and printed materials.

The fonds contains correspondence between District Six Headquarters in Hamilton, which moved to Toronto in 1966, and the various Canadian location unions, general correspondence, photographs, and material from conventions, conferences, referenda, elections, and seminars.

The fonds consists of certification documents, memoranda of agreement, submissions to a Board of Conciliation by both union and company, an arbitration file, and contract negotiations and correspondence. There is one issue of a newsletter, Acid Drips, from 1945.

The scrapbook contains news clippings concerning the activities of the union.

The fonds consists of two charters: one, dated 1 January 1943, issued by the United Rubber Workers of America to Local 113; the second, dated 27 June 1960, issued by the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America to Local 113.

The fonds arrived in complete disarray. His domestic correspondence, bills, bank accounts with many overdraft notices, and numerous requests for payment from local merchants were mixed together with his union papers which, in themselves, had no order either. With the exception of correspondence he received from his friends serving with the Canadian forces during World War II, none of this domestic material has been retained. What remains has been arranged as follows: correspondence; appointment calendars and diaries; labour negotiations; committees; Steelworkers Social Club; finances; conferences; photographs, job descriptions, personal documents, articles and notes, printed materials and realia.

The fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, circulars, photographs, news clippings, and labour negotiations, agreements, and contracts.

The sous-fonds contains correspondence, contract negotiations and agreements, text of speeches and notes by McClure, U.S.W.A. publications, materials relating to the 1946 strike, and photographs.

The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, grievance committee materials, benefits, negotiation committee materials, agreements, and job descriptions.

Fonds consists of a Minute Book, 16 September 1983-18 June, 1991.

The fonds consists of four slip-cased, bound minute books: 7 March 1943-22 February 1955; 8 January 1955-24 March 1975; 38 April 1975-22 June 1987 (includes financial statements; Executive and Stewards minutes, 6 September 1944-15 March 1955).

There have been two accruals. The first accrual consists of minutes, pension agreements, correspondence, and USWA publications. The second accrual (11-1999) has been arranged into the following series: minutes, correspondence and financial records; labour negotiations; committees, lists, elections, pension.

The fonds consists of minute books.

Fonds consists of correspondence, collective agreements and negotiations, leaflets, notices and brochures.

The fonds consists of a minute book, 1970-1977, followed by lists of signatures from 1977 along with listings of local executives and roll calls.