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About half of this box is research material on City Pride Bakery in Pittsburgh, the organization that served as the Taystee Bakery workers' inspiration. The materials include copies of City Pride Bakery's business plan and other reports; notes; correspondence; and its collective bargaining agreement, offering memoranda, and other legal documents. Also included are news articles on the bakery and City Pride Bakery's own research materials on employee ownership.

This box also contains contact information of government officials, labor organizers, members of the press, Taystee Bakery employees, and other groups and individuals collected by the Community/Labor Campaign to Save Taystee Jobs from form mailings, correspondence, government documents, press releases, notes, signup sheets, Taystee Bakery company documents, conference materials, and other sources. Other correspondence, reports, fliers, and notes document Taystee Bakery's work with and/or support of organizations such as the Steel Valley Authority; the Brooklyn and New York Committees for Jobs and Economic Justice; the Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union, Local 3; and various others.

Also included are press releases and newspaper clippings on corporations, labor issues, and/or development and construction in New York City, as well as a folder labeled "Pro-Media," which contains media coverage of the Taystee Bakery workers and a report on the group's publicity efforts. A small folder contains news clippings and fliers related to Reverend Timothy Mitchell of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Flushing, who served on the board of the Taystee Bakery workers' not-for-profit group.

Most of this box is comprised of planning materials pertaining to the New York Bakery Project. Many of the documents are reports, presentation materials, and correspondence related to the project's marketing strategies, particularly its attempt to create a partnership with the Pathmark supermarket chain and various divisions of the New York City government. There are also many planning and research materials that pertain to the project's search for a site for the new bakery and the necessary equipment for the facility. Other materials include the project's agendas and minutes; budgets; and interview questions, resumes, and other documents related to the search for a general manager and a sales and marketing consultant for the project. There is also a small amount of material related to the various proposed names for the new bakery.

This box also contains correspondence with various foundations, government officials (including New York City mayor David Dinkins), and other groups and individuals, indicating their support of the Taystee Bakery workers' project, particularly the Taystee Bakery workers' federal grant application submitted with LEAP, Inc. Some of the Community/Labor Campaign to Save Taystee Job's newsletters and membership lists are also present.

To a much lesser extent, the box contains correspondence, fliers, and programs from and pertaining to labor and community events attended by Lynn Bell. There is also a small amount of material on the Taystee workers' support of the Bakery and Confectionary Workers, Local 3 in their contract negotiations with Pechter-Fields.

This box is mainly comprised of planning materials pertaining to the New York Bakery Project. Much of the documentation is drafts of the project's business plan or correspondence with the New York City Industrial Development Agency regarding the business plan. There is also significant documentation of of the project's fundraising efforts, including grant proposals, correspondence and memoranda, agendas of the project's Capital Raising Subcommittee, and research on private and government funders. To a lesser extent, there is material related to the project's search for a site for the new bakery.

There is also a folder of programs, correspondence, fliers, and other materials from labor and community events attended by Lynn Bell.

This box pertains to the Taystee Bakery workers' fundraising efforts. Materials include grant applications to foundations and government funders, research on foundations, and the New York Bakery Project's internal notes, reports, and other documentation on its fundraising goals and ideas.

This box mostly contains news articles on the Taystee Bakery shutdown and the worker's efforts to create an employee-owned bakery.

There are also two binders that contain an assortment of news articles and correspondence to Lynn Bell.

This box is mostly comprised of early organizing materials from the Taystee Bakery workers' attempts to prevent the factory's closure, as well as some documents from the early aftermath of the shutdown. Materials include agendas and signup sheets from worker's meetings prior to the shutdown; supportive correspondence from government officials, unions, and other groups and individuals; work plans and other planning documents on the structure and tasks of the New York Bakery Project; and a study written in October 1992 by the consulting firm ICA Group regarding the feasibility of creating an employee or community-owned bakery, as well as materials from a presentation given on the study.

This box also contains a chronology of events leading up to and following the Taystee Bakery's closure; news articles and other research material on job creation and other employment issues; materials related to a screening of the Michael Moore film "Roger and Me" for Taystee workers; and a study on the social impact of shutting down the Taystee plant conducted by the Midwest Center for Labor Research.

This box contains foundation research and fundraising materials, as well as fliers, newsletters, and other organizing materials created prior to the shutdown and in the immediate aftermath.

Notebooks

This box contains photographs of workers' demonstrations, parties, and other events. It also includes several protest signs.