Charles Orr (socialist)

Orr was born in North Branch, Michigan, on November 15, 1906. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. Between 1929 and 1930 he was a statistical clerk for the League of Nations in 1929–1930.

He and his wife, Lois Orr, lived in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, where they supported the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM).Lois Orr, Letters from Barcelona: An American Woman in Revolution and Civil War, edited by Gerd-Rainer Horn, {{ISBN|978-0-230-52739-3}}, 2009Jeremy Harding, Paralysed by the Absence of Danger, London Review of Books, 31(18), 2009 They survived the Stalinist attack on the POUM in June 1937, after the fighting of the Barcelona May Days. They were arrested on 17 June, the day after Andrés Nin and the POUM executive were arrested, but were released on 1 July and placed by the US consul, Mahlon Perkins, on a ship bound for Marseilles on 3 July.Víctor Alba and Stephen Schwartz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Slfv9njKMpAC Spanish Marxism versus Soviet communism: a history of the P.O.U.M.], {{ISBN|0-88738-198-7}}, 1988

They were in Mexico in 1940 when Leon Trotsky was murdered.

As an economist, he was focused on the study of labor. He worked at UNESCO while in Paris. He was a lecturer at several American universities and University of Cardiff in Wales. {{Cite web |url=http://reuther.wayne.edu/files/LP000246.pdf |title=Charles Orr Collection}}

Collections of his papers are held at the [http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/1216 Walter Reuther Library, Wayne State University] and [http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4090490 Stanford University.] Some elements of Orr's writings are also held within the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan.

• Stalin's slave camps: an indictment of modern slavery (1951)

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| first = Charles Andrew

| author-link = Charles Orr (socialist)

| title = Stalin's slave camps: an indictment of modern slavery

| publisher = International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

| url = https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/show/2362

| pages = 104

| date = 1951

| access-date = 14 June 2021}}

• Jobs versus people: workers' education guide to population problems (1974)

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| last1 = Orr

| first1 = Charles A.

| author-link1 = Charles Orr (socialist)

| last2 = Joyce

| first2 = James Avery

| title = Jobs versus people: workers' education guide to population problems

| publisher = International Labour Office

| url = https://lccn.loc.gov/75327117

| pages = 104

| date = 1974

| lccn = 75327117

| access-date = 14 June 2021}}

• Lois Orr
• Spanish Civil War
• POUM

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• [http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt1n39r4g4/ Charles A. Orr papers] at the [http://www.hoover.org/hila Hoover Institution Archives]
• [http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000803218 Lois and Charles Orr papers] at the [http://www.lib.umich.edu/special-collections-library University of Michigan Special Collections]
• [http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/charles-andrew-orr Biography of Charles Orr]

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