The Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs was established in 1960 to collect and preserve records of the American labor movement, with special emphasis upon industrial unionism and related social, economic and political organizations in the United States. It also collects historical records related to urban affairs, with particular focus upon metropolitan Detroit. The archives of Wayne State University and its predecessor institutions are also held at the Reuther Library. Currently, the library holdings comprise 75,000 linear feet of records, found within 1,600 individual collections and an Audiovisual collection of over 2 million items.