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African Americans
Agricultural Labor
Alternative Unionism
American Federation of Labor
American Labor College
American Newspaper Guild
American Rubber Workers
Autobiographies
Automobile Industry
Bibilographies
Biographies
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
California
Cannery Workers
Carpenters Union
Catholic Workers Movement
Chicago, Illinois
Civil Rights, and Labor
Communist Party
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Consumers
Contemporary Accounts
Craft Unionism
Democratic Party
Department Stores
Detroit, Michigan
Ethnicity, Labor and
Farmer-Labor Party
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Fiction
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
Foster, William Z.
Gastonia, NC
General Labor History
Green, William
Harlan County, KY
Hillman, Sidney
Immigrants
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
International Woodworkers of America
Labor Demographics
Labor Documents
Labor Law
LaFollette Committee
Lewis, John L.
Longshoremen
Lowell, Massachusetts
Maritime Unions
Meatpackers Union
Mexican-Americans
Miners
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minnesota
Missouri
National Labor Relations Board
National Maritime Union
New Deal, The
New York City
Office Work
Packing House Workers
Pennsylvania
Perkins, Frances
Photography, Labor in
Political Science, Labor and
Politics
Post WWII Labor History
Postal Workers
Press
Pulp and Paper Workers' Union
Race and Ethnicity
Randolph, A. Philip
Republican Party, Labor and
Retail Clerks
Reuther, Walter
Right-to-Work Laws
San Francisco General Strike
Screen Actors Guild
Shipbuilders
Socialism
South, The
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
State, Labor and the
Steel Industry
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Strikes
Sugar, Maurice
Teachers Unions
Teamsters Union
Technology
Telephone Unions
Textile Industry
Textile Workers Strike
Timber Industry
Tobacco Workers International Union
Toledo Auto-Lite Strike
Trade Union Unity League
Transport Workers Union
UCAPAWA
Unemployed
Union Busting
Union Histories
United Automobile Workers
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
United Electrical Workers
United Furniture Workers of American
United Mine Workers
Volunteerism
Warehouse Workers
Welfare
Wisconsin
Women
Work Relief
Workers Education
Working Class Culture
World War II

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African Americans

• Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW.
  
• Black Workers and the New Unions.
  
• Black Workers' Struggles in Detroit's Auto Industry, 1933-1975.
  
• Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932.
  
• Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era.
  
• Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-1954.
  
• Hammer and Hoe : Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
  
• Keeping the Faith: A. Philip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925-1937.
  
• Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960.
  
• Negro and White, Unite and Fight! A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-1990.
  
• Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
  
• The Harder We Run: Black Workers since the Civil War.
  

Agricultural Labor

• A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor In Twentieth-Century Arkansas.
  
• Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region, 1917-1970.
  
• Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941.
  
• Farmers and Farm Workers' Movements.
  
• Ill Fares the Land: Migrants and Migratory Labor in the United States.
  
• The American Peasantry, Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850-1995.
  
• The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945.
  
• The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas.
  

Alternative Unionism

• Stalin Over Wisconsin: The Making and the Unmaking of Militant Unionism, 1900-1950.
  
• We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s.
  

American Federation of Labor

• The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement.
  
• William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader.
  

American Labor College

• Education for Struggle: The American Labor College of the 1920s and the 1930s.
  

American Newspaper Guild

• A Union of Individuals: The Formation of the American Newspaper Guild.
  

American Rubber Workers

• American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor, 1900-1941.
  
• Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990.
  
• Industrial Valley.
  

Autobiographies

• Agitprop: The Life of an American Working-Class Radical, the Autobiography of Eugene V. Dennett.
  
• Bread upon the Waters.
  
• David Dubinsky: A Life with Labor
  
• Fighter with a Courageous Heart.
  
• On the Battle Line.
  
• Restless: The Memoirs of Labor and Consumer Activist Esther Peterson.
  
• Reuther: A Daughter Strikes.
  
• The Brothers Reuther.
  
• The Education of a Reluctant Radical. 4 vols.
  
• To Win These Rights: A Personal Story of the CIO in the South.
  
• Working-Class Giant: The Life of William Z. Foster.
  

Automobile Industry

• Auto Slavery: The Labor Process in the American Auto Indusry, 1897-1950.
  
• Black Workers' Struggles in Detroit's Auto Industry, 1933-1975.
  
• Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937.
  
• Talking Union.
  
• The Automobile under the Blue Eagle: Labor, Management, and the Automobile Code.
  
• The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Union.
  
• The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America.
  
• The UAW and Walter Reuther.
  

Bibilographies

• Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, from The 1820s to the Present.
  
• Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Organized Guide to Films about Labor.
  

Biographies

• A. Philip Randolph: Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement.
  
• John L. Lewis, Labor Leader.
  
• John L. Lewis.
  
• Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor.
  
• Madam Secretary: Frances Perkins.
  
• Maurice Sugar: The Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1980.
  
• Miss Lucy of the CIO: The Life and Times of Lucy Randolf Mason.
  
• Pursuing Justice; Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO.
  
• Second String Red: The Life of Al Lannon, American Communist.
  
• Sit Down with John L. Lewis.
  
• Two Who Were There: A Biography of Stanley Nowak, Polish UAW Pioneer.
  
• William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader.
  

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

• Keeping the Faith: A. Philip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925-1937.
  
• Tearing Down the Color Bar: A Documentary History and Analysis of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
  

California

• Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941.
  
• Cannery Women, Cannery Lives : Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
  
• Insurgent Workers: Studies in the Origins of Industrial Unionism on the East and West Coast Docks and in the South During the 1930s.
  
• International Ladies Garment Workers in Los Angelas, 1910-1988.
  

Cannery Workers

• Cannery Women, Cannery Lives : Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
  

Carpenters Union

• Union Brotherhood, Union Town: The History of the Carpenters Union in Chicago, 1863-1987.
  

Catholic Workers Movement

• A Revolution of the Heart: Essays on the Catholic Workers.
  
• Breaking Bread: The Catholic Worker and the Origin of Catholic Radicalism in America.
  
• Fighter with a Courageous Heart.
  
• Loaves and Fishes: The Story of the Catholic Workers Movement.
  

Chicago, Illinois

• Chicago & the Metropolitan Labor Movement: Metropolitan Unionism in the 1930s
  
• Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1936.
  
• Union Brotherhood, Union Town: The History of the Carpenters Union in Chicago, 1863-1987.
  

Civil Rights, and Labor

• Seedtime for the Modern Civil Rights Movement: The President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices, 1941-1946.
  
• Tearing Down the Color Bar: A Documentary History and Analysis of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
  

Communist Party

• Communism in American Unions.
  
• Hammer and Hoe : Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
  
• Labor and Communism: The Conflict That Shaped American Labor.
  
• One Union in Wood: A Political History of the International Woodworkers of America.
  
• Second String Red: The Life of Al Lannon, American Communist.
  
• The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Union.
  
• The Communist Party vs the CIO.
  

Congress of Industrial Organizations

• Labor's Giant Step: Twenty Years of the CIO.
  
• Labor's New Millions.
  
• Pursuing Justice; Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO.
  
• The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement.
  
• The CIO in World War II.
  
• The CIO's Left-Led Unions.
  
• The CIO: 1935-1955.
  
• The Communist Party vs the CIO.
  
• The Crisis of American Labor: Operation Dixie and the Defeat of the CIO.
  
• The Story of the CIO.
  
• The Union Politic: The CIO Political Action Committee.
  
• To Win These Rights: A Personal Story of the CIO in the South.
  

Consumers

• Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940.
  
• Restless: The Memoirs of Labor and Consumer Activist Esther Peterson.
  

Contemporary Accounts

• Harlan Miners Speak.
  
• Industrial Valley.
  
• Labor on the March.
  
• Labor's New Millions.
  
• Spy Overhead.
  
• The Many and the Few: A Chronicle of the Dynamic Auto Workers. 2nd ed.
  
• When Labor Organizes
  

Craft Unionism

• The United Association, 1924-1989: A Study in the History of North American Craft Unionism.
  

Democratic Party

• Union Power and Union Democracy: The UAW and the Democratic Party, I.
  

Department Stores

• Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940.
  

Detroit, Michigan

• Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW.
  
• Black Workers' Struggles in Detroit's Auto Industry, 1933-1975.
  
• Maurice Sugar: The Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1980.
  
• The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936-1939: A Study in Class and Culture.
  
• Working Detroit: UAW, Teamsters, Retail Clerks
  

Ethnicity, Labor and

• David Dubinsky: A Life with Labor
  
• In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1965.
  
• Jewish Labor in the U.S.A.: 1882-1952.
  
• Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor.
  
• Militants and Migrants: Rural Sicilians Become American Workers.
  
• The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas.
  

Farmer-Labor Party

• Radicalism in the States: The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the American Political Economy.
  

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

• In the Eye of the Great Depression: New Deal Reporters and the Agony of the American People.
  

Fiction

• Industrial Valley.
  
• Labor and Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America.
  
• Out of This Furnace.
  
• Strike!
  

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley

• Words of Fire: The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
  

Foster, William Z.

• Working-Class Giant: The Life of William Z. Foster.
  

Gastonia, NC

• Gastonia, 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike.
  
• Millhands and Preachers: A Study of Gastonia.
  
• Strike!
  

General Labor History

• A Theory of the Labor Movement.
  
• A Vision of Unity: The History of the BCT International Union.
  
• American Labor Struggles.
  
• American Labour and Consensus Capitalism, 1935-1990.
  
• American Workers, American Unions. 2nd ed.
  
• Images of Labor.
  
• Labor and the New Deal.
  
• Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia.
  
• Labor History Documents.
  
• Labor in the U.S.A.: A History.
  
• Labor Leaders in America.
  
• Labor's Struggles, 1945-1950.
  
• Labor's Untold Story.4th ed.
  
• Labor: Selected Articles on Workers and Unions during the Great Depression.
  
• Review and Reflections: A Half-Century of Labor Relations.
  
• Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, from The 1820s to the Present.
  
• Strike!
  
• The Abc-Clio Companion to the American Labor Movement.
  
• The American Labor Movement.
  
• The Creation of a Democratic Majority, 1928-1936
  
• The Harder We Run: Black Workers since the Civil War.
  
• The Labor Movement in the United States.
  
• The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933.
  
• The New Labor History: An Annotated Bibliography.
  
• The State and Labor in Modern America.
  
• The T.U.E.L., 1920-1925.
  
• The T.U.E.L., 1925-1929.
  
• The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941.
  
• The War on Labor: Power, Repression, and American Conservatism.
  
• The World of the Worker.
  
• Wages and Hours: Labor and Reform in 20th Century America.
  
• When Labor Organizes
  
• Which Side Are You On?
  
• Who Built America?, II. 2 vols.
  
• Women and the American Labor Movement: From the First Trade Unions to the Present.
  
• Workers in America: Essays on the 20th Century Struggle
  
• Workers, Bosses, and Bureaucrats: A Socialist View of the Labor Struggles since the 1930s.
  
• Working for Democracy: American Workers from the Revolution to the Present.
  

Green, William

• William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader.
  

Harlan County, KY

• Harlan Miners Speak.
  
• The United Mine Workers of America in Harlan County, Kentucky, 1931-1941.
  

Hillman, Sidney

• Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor.
  

Immigrants

• Building the Union: Skilled Workers and Anglo-Gaelic Immigrants in the Rise of the UAW
  
• Militants and Migrants: Rural Sicilians Become American Workers.
  
• Out of This Furnace.
  
• Steelton: Immigration and Industrialization, 1870-1940.
  

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

• Dreams of Dignity: A History of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
  

International Ladies Garment Workers Union

• Bread upon the Waters.
  
• Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States.
  
• International Ladies Garment Workers in Los Angelas, 1910-1988.
  
• Look for the Union Label: A History of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
  

International Woodworkers of America

• One Union in Wood: A Political History of the International Woodworkers of America.
  

Labor Demographics

• Distribution of Union Membership among the States, 1939 and 1953.
  

Labor Documents

• Black Workers and the New Unions.
  
• Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression: The Report on the Economic Conditions of the South with Related Documents.
  
• Labor History Documents.
  
• Spy Overhead.
  
• Tearing Down the Color Bar: A Documentary History and Analysis of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
  

Labor Law

• A Living Wage for the Forgotten Man: The Quest for Fair Labor Standards, 1933-1941.
  
• Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States.
  
• From the Wagner Act to Taft-Hartley: A Study of National Labor Policy and Labor Relations.
  
• Maurice Sugar: The Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1980.
  
• New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy.
  
• The Labor Injunction.
  
• The Making of the National Labor Relations Board: A Study in Economics, Politics, and the Law.
  
• The Politics of Right to Work: The Labor Federations as Special Interests, 1943-1979.
  
• The Quest for a Living Wage: The History of the Federal Minimum Wage Program.
  
• The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: National Labor Policy in Transition, 1937-1947.
  
• The State and the Unions.
  
• The Wagner Act: After Ten Years.
  
• Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law
  
• Worker Insurgency: Radical Organization and New Deal Labor Legislation
  

LaFollette Committee

• Labor and Liberty: The LaFollette Committee and the New Deal
  
• Spy Overhead.
  

Lewis, John L.

• John L. Lewis, Labor Leader.
  
• John L. Lewis.
  
• Sit Down with John L. Lewis.
  

Longshoremen

• Insurgent Workers: Studies in the Origins of Industrial Unionism on the East and West Coast Docks and in the South During the 1930s.
  
• Longshoremen: Community and Resistance on the Brooklyn Waterfront.
  
• Reds or Rackets?: The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront.
  
• The Big Strike.
  
• Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen and Unionism in the 1930s.
  

Lowell, Massachusetts

• The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960.
  

Maritime Unions

• Second String Red: The Life of Al Lannon, American Communist.
  

Meatpackers Union

• Negro and White, Unite and Fight! A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-1990.
  
• Unionizing the Jungles: Labor And Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry.
  

Mexican-Americans

• Cannery Women, Cannery Lives : Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
  

Miners

• Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932.
  
• Harlan Miners Speak.
  
• Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-1941.
  
• The Next Time We Strike: Labor in Utah's Coal Fields, 1900-1933.
  

Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945.
  
• Teamster Rebellion.
  

Minnesota

• Radicalism in the States: The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the American Political Economy.
  

Missouri

• The Funsten Nut Strike.
  

National Labor Relations Board

• The Making of the National Labor Relations Board: A Study in Economics, Politics, and the Law.
  
• The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: National Labor Policy in Transition, 1937-1947.
  
• Wartime Experiences of the National Labor Relations Board, 1941-1945.
  

National Maritime Union

• Merchant Seamen: A Short History of Their Struggles.
  

New Deal, The

• A Living Wage for the Forgotten Man: The Quest for Fair Labor Standards, 1933-1941.
  
• A New Deal for Workers' Education: The Workers' Service Program, 1933-1942.
  
• After the New Deal, What?
  
• Class Struggle and the New Deal: Industrial Labor, Industrial Capital
  
• New Deal Collective Bargaining Policy.
  
• New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy.
  
• New Deal Labor Policy and the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1933-1941.
  
• Pursuing Justice; Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO.
  
• The Automobile under the Blue Eagle: Labor, Management, and the Automobile Code.
  
• The Depression Years as Photographed by Arthur Rothstein.
  
• The New Deal Coalition and the Election of 1946.
  
• The Roosevelt I Knew.
  
• Worker Insurgency: Radical Organization and New Deal Labor Legislation
  

New York City

• Longshoremen: Community and Resistance on the Brooklyn Waterfront.
  
• Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942.
  
• Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women and New York City, 1900-1950.
  

Office Work

• A Woman's Place is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers.
  
• The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930.
  
• Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women and New York City, 1900-1950.
  

Packing House Workers

• Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-1954.
  

Pennsylvania

• Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets, and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1885-1941.
  
• Less Than Forever: The Rise and Decline of Union Solidarity In Western Pennsylvania, 1914-1948.
  
• Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960.
  
• Out of This Furnace.
  
• Steelton: Immigration and Industrialization, 1870-1940.
  

Perkins, Frances

• Madam Secretary: Frances Perkins.
  
• The Roosevelt I Knew.
  

Photography, Labor in

• Images of Labor.
  
• The Depression Years as Photographed by Arthur Rothstein.
  

Political Science, Labor and

• Activist Unionism: The Institutional Economics of Solomon Barkin.
  
• The Creation of a Democratic Majority, 1928-1936
  
• The Politics of Right to Work: The Labor Federations as Special Interests, 1943-1979.
  

Politics

• Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression: The Report on the Economic Conditions of the South with Related Documents.
  
• The Union Politic: The CIO Political Action Committee.
  
• Union Power and Union Democracy: The UAW and the Democratic Party, I.
  

Post WWII Labor History

• Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948.
  
• Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty, ed. Andrew Lohrey.
  
• The Communist Party vs the CIO.
  
• The New Deal Coalition and the Election of 1946.
  
• The Truman Administration and the Problems of Postwar Labor 1945-1948.
  
• The U. S. Labor Movement: References and Resources.
  

Postal Workers

• Labor Struggles in the Post Office: From Selective Lobbying to Collective Bargaining.
  

Press

• In the Eye of the Great Depression: New Deal Reporters and the Agony of the American People.
  

Pulp and Paper Workers' Union

• Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933-1941.
  
• Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933-1941.
  

Race and Ethnicity

• Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-1954.
  
• Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960.
  
• Negro and White, Unite and Fight! A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-1990.
  

Randolph, A. Philip

• Keeping the Faith: A. Philip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925-1937.
  

Republican Party, Labor and

• Administering Labor: Responsible Unionism and Republicans' Contribution to American Labor Policy, 1886-1935.
  
• Republicans and Labor, 1919-1929.
  
• The Poverty of Abundance: Hoover, the Nation, and the Depression.
  
• Workers' Paradox, the Republican Origins of the New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935
  

Retail Clerks

• Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940.
  
• Working Detroit: UAW, Teamsters, Retail Clerks
  

Reuther, Walter

• The Brothers Reuther.
  
• The UAW and Walter Reuther.
  
• Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit.
  

Right-to-Work Laws

• The Politics of Right to Work: The Labor Federations as Special Interests, 1943-1979.
  
• Work without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work.
  

San Francisco General Strike

• The Big Strike.
  

Screen Actors Guild

• Stars and Strikes: Unionization of Hollywood.
  
• The Politics of Glamour: Ideology and Democracy in the Screen Actors Guild.
  

Shipbuilders

• Organizing the Shipyards: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Port, 1933-1945
  

Socialism

• America's Way Out: A Program for Democracy.
  
• As I See It.
  
• Human Exploitation in the United States.
  
• Socialism on the Defensive.
  
• Socialist's Faith.
  
• The Choice Before Us: Mankind at the Crossroads.
  
• War: No Glory, No Profit, No Need.
  

South, The

• A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948.
  
• A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor In Twentieth-Century Arkansas.
  
• Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression: The Report on the Economic Conditions of the South with Related Documents.
  
• Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era.
  
• Hammer and Hoe : Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
  
• Insurgent Workers: Studies in the Origins of Industrial Unionism on the East and West Coast Docks and in the South During the 1930s.
  
• Miss Lucy of the CIO: The Life and Times of Lucy Randolf Mason.
  
• New Deal Labor Policy and the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1933-1941.
  
• Organized Labor in the Twentieth Century South.
  
• Organizing Dixie.
  
• Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
  
• Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995.
  
• The American Peasantry, Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850-1995.
  
• The Crisis of American Labor: Operation Dixie and the Defeat of the CIO.
  
• To Win These Rights: A Personal Story of the CIO in the South.
  

Southern Tenant Farmers Union

• The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945.
  

State, Labor and the

• New Deal Collective Bargaining Policy.
  
• Power and Politics in Labor Legislation.
  
• Seedtime for the Modern Civil Rights Movement: The President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices, 1941-1946.
  
• The Automobile under the Blue Eagle: Labor, Management, and the Automobile Code.
  
• The Labor Injunction.
  
• The Making of the National Labor Relations Board: A Study in Economics, Politics, and the Law.
  
• The New Deal Coalition and the Election of 1946.
  
• The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders.
  
• The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: National Labor Policy in Transition, 1937-1947.
  
• The State and Labor in Modern America.
  
• The State and the Unions.
  
• The Union Inspiration in American Politics: The Autoworkers and the Making of A Liberal Industrial Order.
  

Steel Industry

• Agitprop: The Life of an American Working-Class Radical, the Autobiography of Eugene V. Dennett.
  
• As Steel Goes: Unionism in a Basic Industry.
  
• Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steel Workers.
  
• Out of This Furnace.
  
• Steelton: Immigration and Industrialization, 1870-1940.
  

Steel Workers Organizing Committee

• Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steel Workers.
  

Strikes

• Gastonia, 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike.
  
• I Remember Like Today: The Auto-Lite Strike of 1934.
  
• Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937.
  
• Strike!
  
• The Big Strike.
  
• The Funsten Nut Strike.
  
• The New Deal Coalition and the Election of 1946.
  

Sugar, Maurice

• Maurice Sugar: The Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1980.
  

Teachers Unions

• Blackboard Unions: The AFT and the NEA, 1900-1980.
  

Teamsters Union

• Teamster Rebellion.
  
• The Rise of Teamster Power in the West.
  
• Working Detroit: UAW, Teamsters, Retail Clerks
  

Technology

• Workers' Control in America.
  

Telephone Unions

• The Making of Telephone Unionism, 1920-1947.
  

Textile Industry

• A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948.
  
• Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets, and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1885-1941.
  
• Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor.
  
• Millhands and Preachers: A Study of Gastonia.
  
• New Deal Labor Policy and the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1933-1941.
  
• The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960.
  

Textile Workers Strike

• The Big Strike.
  

Timber Industry

• Workers and Dissent in the Redwood Empire.
  

Tobacco Workers International Union

• Challenge and Change: The History of the Tobacco Workers International Union.
  

Toledo Auto-Lite Strike

• I Remember Like Today: The Auto-Lite Strike of 1934.
  
• The Big Strike.
  

Trade Union Unity League

• The Funsten Nut Strike.
  

Transport Workers Union

• In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1965.
  

UCAPAWA

• Cannery Women, Cannery Lives : Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
  

Unemployed

• Impatient Armies of the Poor: The Story of Collective Action of the Unemployed, 1808-1942.
  
• Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland.
  
• Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America.
  

Union Busting

• Spy Overhead.
  
• Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty, ed. Andrew Lohrey.
  
• The Labor Spy Racket.
  

Union Histories

• 100 Years as a Chartered Union.
  
• Look for the Union Label: A History of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
  
• The United Association, 1924-1989: A Study in the History of North American Craft Unionism.
  

United Automobile Workers

• Auto Slavery: The Labor Process in the American Auto Indusry, 1897-1950.
  
• Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW.
  
• Building the Union: Skilled Workers and Anglo-Gaelic Immigrants in the Rise of the UAW
  
• Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935-1975.
  
• Heroes of Unwritten Story: The UAW, 1934-39.
  
• Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937.
  
• Talking Union.
  
• The Automobile under the Blue Eagle: Labor, Management, and the Automobile Code.
  
• The Brothers Reuther.
  
• The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Union.
  
• The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936-1939: A Study in Class and Culture.
  
• The Many and the Few: A Chronicle of the Dynamic Auto Workers. 2nd ed.
  
• The UAW and Walter Reuther.
  
• The Union Inspiration in American Politics: The Autoworkers and the Making of A Liberal Industrial Order.
  
• Union Power and Union Democracy: The UAW and the Democratic Party, I.
  
• Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit.
  
• Working Detroit: UAW, Teamsters, Retail Clerks
  

United Brotherhood of Carpenters

• United Brotherhood of Carpenters: The First Hundred Years.
  

United Electrical Workers

• Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers.
  
• The Electrical Workers: A History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923-1960.
  

United Furniture Workers of American

• Becoming a Mighty Voice: Conflict and Change in the United Furniture Workers of America.
  

United Mine Workers

• The United Mine Workers of America in Harlan County, Kentucky, 1931-1941.
  
• The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?
  

Volunteerism

• Volunteerism in Organized Labor in the United States, 1930- 1940.
  

Warehouse Workers

• The March Inland: Origins of the ILWU Warehouse Division, 1934-1938.
  

Welfare

• Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890- 1930.
  
• The American Fund for Public Service: Charles Garland and Radical Philanthropy, 1922-1941.
  
• Welfare to Work: Women, Welfare, and Government Work Programs.
  

Wisconsin

• Madison's Battery Workers, 1934-1952: A History of Federal Labor Union 19587.
  
• Stalin Over Wisconsin: The Making and the Unmaking of Militant Unionism, 1900-1950.
  
• The Labor Movement in Wisconsin.
  

Women

• A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II.
  
• A Woman's Place is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers.
  
• American Women and the Labor Movement, 1825-1974: An Annotated Bibliography.
  
• As Minority Becomes Majority: Federal Reaction to the Phenomenon of Women in the Work Force, 1920-1963.
  
• Cannery Women, Cannery Lives : Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
  
• Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) of World War II.
  
• Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965.
  
• Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945.
  
• Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940.
  
• Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century.
  
• Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935-1975.
  
• Gender at work: The Dynamics of Job Segmentation by Sex during World War II.
  
• Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States.
  
• If All We Did Was Weep at Home: A History of White Working Class Women in America.
  
• Labor and Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America.
  
• Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890- 1930.
  
• Sisterhood and Solidarity: Workers' Education for Women, 1914-1984.
  
• Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942.
  
• The Abc-Clio Companion to Women in the Workforce.
  
• The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1886-1935.
  
• The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930.
  
• To Toil the Livelong Day: American Women at Work, 1780-1980.
  
• Union Maids Not Wanted: Organizing Domestic Workers, 1870-1940.
  
• Welfare to Work: Women, Welfare, and Government Work Programs.
  
• What a Woman Ought to Be and Do: Black Professional Women During the Jim Crow Era.
  
• Women and the American Labor Movement: From the First Trade Unions to the Present.
  
• Women in Defense Work During World War II; An Analysis of the Labor Problem and Women's Rights
  
• Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict.
  
• Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women and New York City, 1900-1950.
  

Work Relief

• Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942.
  
• Welfare to Work: Women, Welfare, and Government Work Programs.
  

Workers Education

• A New Deal for Workers' Education: The Workers' Service Program, 1933-1942.
  
• Education for Struggle: The American Labor College of the 1920s and the 1930s.
  
• Sisterhood and Solidarity: Workers' Education for Women, 1914-1984.
  

Working Class Culture

• Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945.
  
• Harlan Miners Speak.
  
• If All We Did Was Weep at Home: A History of White Working Class Women in America.
  
• Labor: Selected Articles on Workers and Unions during the Great Depression.
  
• Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1936.
  
• Militants and Migrants: Rural Sicilians Become American Workers.
  
• Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-1941.
  
• Perspectives in American Labor History: The Problems of Synthesis.
  
• Slaves of the Depression: Workers' Letters about Life on the Job.
  
• The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1886-1935.
  
• The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936-1939: A Study in Class and Culture.
  
• The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960.
  
• To Toil the Livelong Day: American Women at Work, 1780-1980.
  
• Workers' World: Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900- .
  

World War II

• A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II.
  
• American Labor from Defense to Reconversion.
  
• Arsenal of Democracy: The Story of American War Production.
  
• Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) of World War II.
  
• Labor Relations, World War II: Before, During and After.
  
• Organizing the Shipyards: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Port, 1933-1945
  
• The CIO in World War II.
  
• Wartime Experiences of the National Labor Relations Board, 1941-1945.
  
• Wartime strikes: The Struggle Against the No-Strike Pledge in the UAW During World War II
  
• Women in Defense Work During World War II; An Analysis of the Labor Problem and Women's Rights
  
• Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict.
  

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