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• The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists, and Plug-Drawers (third edition; Brighouse, UK: J. Hartley, 1895), by Frank Peel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists and Plugdrawers (second edition; Heckmondwike, UK: Senior and Co., 1888), by Frank Peel
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Wych Hazel (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1876), by Susan Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner (page images at Harvard)
• Wych Hazel (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1888), by Susan Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner (Gutenberg text)

• Lancashire and the Far East (London: Allen and Unwin, c1931), by Freda Utley (PDF at fredautley.com)

• Report of the Executive Board of District Assembly 126, K. of L., Upon the Trouble of L.A.'s 2985, 4235, and 4717, K. of L. (1887), by Knights of Labor District Assembly 126 (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gastonia: A Class Case and a Class Verdict (1929), by International Labor Defense, contrib. by John Louis Engdahl (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Weaving the Future (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by Evelyn B. Gordon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Loom and Spindle: or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls, with a Sketch of The Lowell Offering and Some of its Contributors (New York and Boston: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1898), by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, contrib. by Carroll Davidson Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lowell Offering (full serial archives)

• Proletarian Journey: New England, Gastonia, Moscow (New York: Hillman-Curl, c1937), by Fred Erwin Beal (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender, and Class in a New South Community (originally published 1985; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019), by Dolores E. Janiewski, contrib. by LaGuana Gray (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Southern Cotton Mills and Labor (New York: Workers Library Publishers, c1929), by Myra Page (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Southern Labor in Revolt (New York and Philadelphia: Intercollegiate Student Council of the League for Industrial Democracy, 1930), by Kenneth Meiklejohn and Peter Raymond Nehemkis
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Weaving the Future (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by Evelyn B. Gordon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Passaic: The Story of a Struggle Against Starvation Wages and for the Right to Organize (Chicago: Pub. for the Workers (Communist) Party by the Daily Worker Pub. Co., 1926), by Albert Weisbord
  • HTML at weisbord.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at Rutgers
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• European Women and Preindustrial Craft (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1995), ed. by Daryl M. Hafter (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike: Women Needleworkers in America (originally published 1984; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), ed. by Joan M. Jensen and Sue Davidson, contrib. by Michelle Haberland (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Worker Voice: Employee Representation in the Workplace in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US, 1914-1939 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2016), by Greg Patmore
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Toilers of the Field (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898), by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• A History of the English Agricultural Labourer (ca.1908), by Wilhelm Hasbach, trans. by Ruth Kenyon, contrib. by Sidney Webb (PDF at McMaster)

• The Village Labourer, 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill (1920 edition), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond (HTML at McMaster)

• The Village Labourer, 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill (1920 edition), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond (HTML at McMaster)

• The Case of Labourers in Husbandry Stated and Considered, in Three Parts (London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795), by David Davies (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hodge and His Masters, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)

• Life and Remains of John Clare, the "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet", by John Clare, ed. by J. L. Cherry (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of John Clare, by Frederick Martin (Gutenberg text)

• Life and Remains of John Clare, the "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet", by John Clare, ed. by J. L. Cherry (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of John Clare, by Frederick Martin (Gutenberg text)

• Two Girls on the Land: War-Time on a Dartmoor Farm (London: E. Arnold, 1918), by Olive Hockin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres (London: Pluto Press, c2017), by Jamie Woodcock (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Do We Need Mass Immigration? The Economic, Demographic, Environmental, Social and Developmental Arguments Against Large-Scale Net Immigration to Britain (c2002), by Anthony Browne (PDF at Civitas)

• Lives of Good Servants (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., 1857), by Anne Manning (multiple formats at Google)

• Mistress and Maid: A Household Story (Richmond: West and Johnson, 1864), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (Gutenberg text)

• The Inimitable Jeeves (London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1923), by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business, by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business, by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• Essentials of Health and Safety at Work (fourth edition, 2006), by Great Britain Health and Safety Executive (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• Essentials of Health and Safety at Work (fourth edition, 2006), by Great Britain Health and Safety Executive (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• Kahn-Freund's Labour and the Law (third edition; revised from Hamlyn lecture #24; London: Stevens and Sons, 1983), by Otto Kahn-Freund, P. L. Davies, and M. R. Freedland (PDF in the UK)
• Rights at Work: Global, European and British Perspectives (Hamlyn Lectures, #56; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2005), by B. A. Hepple (PDF in the UK)
• Labour in War Time (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1915), by G. D. H. Cole (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Town Labourer, 1760-1832: The New Civilisation (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1917), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Employment Relationship in Anglo-American Law: A Historical Perspective (New York et al.: Greenwood Press, c1989), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• Kahn-Freund's Labour and the Law (third edition; revised from Hamlyn lecture #24; London: Stevens and Sons, 1983), by Otto Kahn-Freund, P. L. Davies, and M. R. Freedland (PDF in the UK)

• History of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act (Cardiff: D. Owen and Co., 1885), by E. Beavan
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Problem of the Unemployed: A Paper By Helen R.Y. Reid, B.A. Read Before the Montreal Local Council, Received By the National Executive, and Ordered to be Printed, by Helen R. Y. Reid (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Unemployment and Education: A Lesson From Switzerland (reprinted from the Dublin Review, 1910), by Virginia M. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Socialism Made Plain: Being the Social and Political Manifesto of the Social-Democratic Federation (with "State Organisation of Unemployed Labour"; both originally published 1883; this edition ca. 1884), by Social Democratic Federation (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In Darkest England, and The Way Out (London: International Headquarters of the Salvation Army, ca. 1890), by William Booth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In Darkest England, and The Way Out, by William Booth (Gutenberg text)

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