This page provides a basic guide to collections and resources related to the historical and contemporary study of Hollywood labor in the motion picture and television industry. It is intended as a starting point for research and not a comprehensive list of resources. Many of the other databases and tools listed on other pages of the Film and Television research guide can also inform further study of this topic.
EIMA is an historical archive of major trade and consumer magazines in film, television, music, radio, and theater, from their inception to 2000. Includes weekly Variety, Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, Back Stage, Billboard, Broadcasting, Picturegoer, Screen International, Spin, and more. UCLA has access to parts I, II and III of this database.
Full text of more than 1000 open access alternative publications from the 1960s-1980s covering feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Latinos, LGBTQ+ activists, and more.
Searches all ProQuest newspapers to which UCLA subscribes, both current and historical newspapers from major U.S. cities (Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal), international news sources, and alternative press.
Selected articles as examples of writing on Hollywood labor history. Search for more titles in Library article databases.
Selected online publications that cover contemporary Hollywood labor news.
Selected articles on the current and emerging topic of how artificial intelligence (A.I.) impacts labor in the Hollywood film and television industry.