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• Direct Action: An Historical Novel (originally published 2003; new edition San Francisco et al.: GroundWork, c2025), by Luke Hauser, contrib. by Starhawk (PDF with commentary at directaction.org)

• Direct Action: An Historical Novel (originally published 2003; new edition San Francisco et al.: GroundWork, c2025), by Luke Hauser, contrib. by Starhawk (PDF with commentary at directaction.org)

• Strike! (New York : H. Liveright, c1930), by Mary Heaton Vorse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Siege (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Snow on the Headlight: A Story of the Great Burlington Strike (New York: D. Appleton and Co., c1899), by Cy Warman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• In Dubious Battle (c1936), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Germinal, by Émile Zola, trans. by Havelock Ellis (HTML with commentary at ibiblio.org)
• A Tame Surrender: A Story of the Chicago Strike (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1896), by Charles King (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Valley of the Moon, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• The man of the hour (Grosset and Dunlap, 1905), by Octave Thanet, Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock, and Grosset & Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the long strike at Coverdale (Abbey, 1901), by William V. Lawrance (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The unhallowed harvest, by Homer Greene (Gutenberg ebook)
• On Strike, or, Where do the Girls come in?, by Edric Glenfield (Gutenberg ebook)
• Germinal, by Émile Zola, trans. by Havelock Ellis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mutable Many: A Novel, by Robert Barr (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kivihiilenkaivajat (in Finnish), by Émile Zola, trans. by Maria Palm (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Walking Delegate, by Leroy Scott, illust. by Margaret West Kinney and Troy Kinney (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Blue Goose, by Frank Lewis Nason (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mary Minds Her Business, by George Weston (Gutenberg ebook)

• The dream of Debs : a story of industrial revolt (Charles H. Kerr & Company Co-operative, 1909), by Jack London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dream of Debs (Charles H. Kerr & Company Co-operative, 1909), by Jack London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robots of the World! Arise!, by Mari Wolf (Gutenberg ebook)

• The valley of the moon (The Macmillan Company, 1913), by Jack London and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The valley of the moon (Mills & Boon, Limited, 1914), by Jack London, Watson & Viney Hazell, and Mills & Boon (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The diary of a shirtwaist striker : a story of the shirtwaist makers' strike in New York (The Co-operative Press, 1910), by Theresa Serber Malkiel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black Earth (New York: Hillman-Curl, 1935), by Thomas Rowan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Living; a novel. (Hogarth, 1929), by Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A life's secret (C.W. Wood, 1867), by Mrs. Henry Wood and Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture (page images at HathiTrust)

• The boy next door (American Tract Society, 1910), by Jean K. Baird and American Tract Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Riot (Chicago Labor Printing Co., 1922), by W. E. Trautmann and Peter Hagboldt (page images at HathiTrust)

• The dwelling-place of light (Grosset & Dunlap, 1917), by Winston Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Troubled waters : a problem of to-day (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1885), by Beverley E. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Riot (Chicago: Chicago Labor Printing Co., ca. 1922), by W. E. Trautmann and Peter Hagboldt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Little Brother (2008), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
• A time of terror : the story of a great revenge (A.D., 1910), by Douglas Morey Ford (Gutenberg ebook)
• The mating impulse, by Edwin Balmer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The 3rd Party, by Lee B. Holum, illust. by Kelly Freas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Bomb (London: J. Long, c1908), by Frank Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bomb (first American edition; New York: M. Kennerley, 1909), by Frank Harris
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Bomb (illustrated and definitive edition, with a new afterword; New York: The author, 1920), by Frank Harris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Bomb (with a 1963 introduction by Dos Passos), by Frank Harris, contrib. by John Dos Passos (HTML at theanarchistlibrary.org)
• Nothing, by Donald A. Wollheim, illust. by John B. Musacchia (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Heretic, by Jason K. Chapman (HTML at jasonkchapman.com)

• Rainbow Gliding Hawk and the Last Stand of the Patriarch (c2007), by Doug Lambeth (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Space Tug (New York: Pocket Books, c1953), by Murray Leinster
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• Space Platform (New York: Pocket Books, c1953), by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Horsesense Hank does his bit, by Nelson S. Bond, illust. by Robert Fuqua (Gutenberg ebook)
• Marston and me, by Thomson Burtis (Gutenberg ebook)
• Crash Beam, by John Barrett, illust. by Herman B. Vestal (Gutenberg ebook)
• Signal Red, by Henry Guth, illust. by Herman B. Vestal (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mary Anonymous, by Bryce Walton, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg ebook)
• Assassin, by Bascom Jones (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Earthman, by Irving E. Cox (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slow Burn, by Henry Still, illust. by Kelly Freas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Farmer, by Mack Reynolds, illust. by Bob Ritter (Gutenberg ebook)

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