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• Labor leaders -- United States
• Labor unions -- Officials and employees
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• Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924
• Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969
• McKinney, Ernest Rice, 1886-1984
• Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967
• Nagler, Isidore, 1895-1959
• Petrillo, James C. (James Caesar), 1892-1984
• Springer, Maida

• Labor movement leaders
• Leaders, Labor

• Marching Men, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)
• The Bread-Winners: A Social Study (New York: Harper and Bros., 1884), by John Hay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Bread-Winners: A Social Study (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1901), by John Hay (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• On a Labor Faker's Trail: The Shady Record of Frank Farrington (Chicago: Workers Party of America, ca. 1924), by T. J. O'Flaherty (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood (New York: International Publishers, 1969), by Big Bill Haywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945), by Arnold Petersen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood (New York: International Publishers, 1958), by Big Bill Haywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1932), by Arnold Petersen (PDF at flvc.org)
• The Autobiography of Mother Jones (Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., 1925), by Mother Jones, ed. by Mary Field Parton, contrib. by Clarence Darrow
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Yevette Richards (page images at Pitt)

• Mary Heaton Vorse: The Life of an American Insurgent (originally published 1989; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Dee Garrison, contrib. by Katherine Turk (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Yevette Richards (page images at Pitt)

• More Pages From a Worker's Life (Occasional paper - American Institute for Marxist Studies #32; 1979), by William Z. Foster, ed. by Arthur Zipser (multiple formats at archive.org)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945), by Arnold Petersen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Foster-Ford: The Candidates of the Working Youth (New York: Youth Publishers, 1932) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1932), by Arnold Petersen (PDF at flvc.org)
• Futility of Fosterism (Winnipeg: One Big Union Bulletin, ca. 1923), by Ben Legere (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Keynes, Foster and Marx (2 volumes; Yonkers, NY: The author, c1950), by Earl Browder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rebels and Renegades (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Max Nomad (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood (New York: International Publishers, 1958), by Big Bill Haywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood (New York: International Publishers, 1969), by Big Bill Haywood (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Autobiography of Mother Jones (Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., 1925), by Mother Jones, ed. by Mary Field Parton, contrib. by Clarence Darrow
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Charges Against Richard Frankensteen, Ed Hall, Wyndham Mortimer, Walter N. Wells, Geo. F. Addes; and Affidavits and Exhibits in Support Thereof (1938), by International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (A.F. of L.) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Labor Education for Women Workers (originally published 1981; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), ed. by Barbara M. Wertheimer, contrib. by Sheri Davis-Faulkner (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Labor Education for Women Workers (originally published 1981; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), ed. by Barbara M. Wertheimer, contrib. by Sheri Davis-Faulkner (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Steward Training in C.I.O. Unions (two back matter pages missing; New York: Student League for Industrial Democracy, c1954), by Mildred Bersh (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Shopsteward (partial serial archives)

• How to Win for the Union: A Handbook for UAW-CIO Stewards and Committeemen (6th edition, 1943), by International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Birth of the Japanese Labor Movement: Takano Fusatarō and the Rōdō Kumiai Kiseikai (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1989), by Stephen E. Marsland (PDF and EPub with commentary at Hawaii)

• Bureaucracy and Democracy in Labor Unions (New York: Reprinted for Great Island Conference, 1947), by Will Herberg (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Seventy Years of Life And Labor: An Autobiography (1 volume edition, with new introduction by Woll and appendix by Thorne; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1948), by Samuel Gompers, contrib. by Matthew Woll and Florence Calvert Thorne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood (New York: International Publishers, 1969), by Big Bill Haywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• It Can Be Done: The Autobiography of James Hudson Maurer (New York: Rand School Press, 1938), by James H. Maurer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood (New York: International Publishers, 1958), by Big Bill Haywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventy Years of Life And Labor: An Autobiography (2 volumes, with an appendix by Thorne on Gompers's last year; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1925), by Samuel Gompers, contrib. by Florence Calvert Thorne
  • Volume One: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume Two: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The American Labor Who's Who (New York: Hanford Press, c1925), ed. by Solon De Leon, Irma C. Hayssen, and Grace Poole (page images at HathiTrust)

• Strikes and the Communists Behind Them (New York: Constitutional Educational League, c1947), by Joseph P. Kamp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two Pages From Roman History, by Daniel De Leon
  • PDF at slp.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Seventy Years of Life And Labor: An Autobiography (2 volumes, with an appendix by Thorne on Gompers's last year; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1925), by Samuel Gompers, contrib. by Florence Calvert Thorne
  • Volume One: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume Two: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Seventy Years of Life And Labor: An Autobiography (1 volume edition, with new introduction by Woll and appendix by Thorne; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1948), by Samuel Gompers, contrib. by Matthew Woll and Florence Calvert Thorne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• It Can Be Done: The Autobiography of James Hudson Maurer (New York: Rand School Press, 1938), by James H. Maurer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Leninism-Lewisism: Lenin Organized the Workers of Russia in 1905; Lewis Organized the Workers of America in 1937 (Washington: National Republic Magazine, ca. 1937), by National Republic Magazine
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Smash the Profiteers: Vote for Security and a Living Wage (ca. 1946), by Irving Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Little Brothers of the Big Labor Fakers: Report of a Speech Against the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, Made in New Star Casino, New York City on May 10, 1931 (New York: Trade Union Unity League, ca. 1931), by William Z. Foster
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A Leader of the Garment Workers: The Biography of Isidore Nagle (1950), by Harry Haskel, contrib. by David Dubinsky (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Musicians and Petrillo (New York: Bookman Associates, c1953), by Robert D. Leiter (multiple formats at archive.org)

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