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• The Workers in American History (second edition; Terre Haute, IN: J. Oneal, 1910), by James Oneal (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Joe Worker and the Story of Labor (New York: National Labor Service, ca. 1948), by Nathan Schachner and Jack Alderman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life of Albert R. Parsons; With Brief History of the Labor Movement in America (Chicago: L. E. Parsons, 1889), by Lucy E. Parsons, contrib. by Albert Richard Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Working People of California (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), ed. by Daniel A. Cornford (HTML at UC Press)

• The Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992), by Paul Krause (page images at Pitt)

• Work, Community, and Power: The Experience of Labor in Europe and America, 1900-1925 (originally published 1983; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), ed. by James E. Cronin and Carmen Sirianni, contrib. by Mary Nolan (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)
• They Shall Not Die! The Story of Scottsboro in Pictures; Stop the Legal Lynching!, by League of Struggle for Negro Rights (U.S.) (PDF page images at MSU)

• Working People of California (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), ed. by Daniel A. Cornford (HTML at UC Press)

• Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Julie Novkov (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Can Unions Survive? The Rejuvenation of the American Labor Movement (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Charles B. Craver (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• 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)
• 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)

• Important Events in American Labor History, 1778-1978 (Washington: GPO, ca. 1978), by United States Department of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)

• International May Day and American Labor Day: A Holiday Expressing Working Class Emancipation Versus a Holiday Exalting Labor's Chains (New York: Socialist Labor Party, ca. 1910), by Boris Reinstein
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Between Craft and Class: Skilled Workers and Factory Politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Jeffrey Haydu (HTML at UC Press)

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

• The American Perception of Class (originally published 1987; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Reeve Vanneman and Lynn Weber Cannon, contrib. by Matt Wray (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)
• The Working Class and Social Change: Four Essays on the Working Class (1975), by Martin Glaberman (HTML at marxists.org)
• "Be His Payment High or Low": The American Working Class in the Sixties (1965), by Martin Glaberman (HTML at marxists.org)
• America's Decisive Battle (New York: New Century Publishers, 1945), by Earl Browder (PDF at flvc.org)
• For a Trotskyist Organization in the Working Class (1971), by Spark (Organization : United States) (HTML at the-spark.net)
• Not Labor's War (New York: American Peace Mobilization, 1941), by American People's Meeting (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Proletarian Journey: New England, Gastonia, Moscow (New York: Hillman-Curl, c1937), by Fred Erwin Beal (page images at HathiTrust)
• How Class Collaboration Works (Little Red Library #9, ca. 1926), by Bertram D. Wolfe
  • PDF at marxists.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Appeal to the Wealthy of the Land, Ladies as Well as Gentlemen, on the Character, Conduct, Situation, and Prospects of Those Whose Sole Dependence for Subsistence Is on the Labour of Their Hands (third edition, 1833), by Mathew Carey (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• Fair Play for the Workers: Some Sides of Their Maladjustment and the Causes (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., c1918), by Percy Stickney Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Industry in Relation to the Family, Health, Education, Morality (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914), by Florence Kelley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nature's Aristocracy: or, Battles and Wounds in Time of Peace, by Jennie Collins (page images at MOA)
• The Working-Class Movement in America (London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, and Co., 1888), by Edward B. Aveling and Eleanor Marx Aveling (multiple formats at HathiTrust)
• The Working-Class Movement in America (second edition; London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1891), by Edward B. Aveling and Eleanor Marx Aveling (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reindustrialization: The Menace Behind the Promise (1981), by Sam Marcy (HTML at workers.org)
• The Chicano Struggle and the Struggle for Socialism (second printing, 1979), by Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• In the Great Tradition: 11th Convention, UAW-CIO (1947), by International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Introduction to Housing: Facts and Principles (Washington: United States Housing Authority, 1940), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor's Answer to Conscription (New York: Pioneer Publishers, ca. 1940), by Felix Morrow (HTML at marxists.org)
• Negro Liberation (revised enlarged edition; New York: International Pamphlets, ca. 1938), by James S. Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Communists in the People's Front: Report Delivered to the Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A. held June 17-20, 1937 (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by Earl Browder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Negro Liberation (International Pamphlets #29, third edition; New York: International Pamphlets, 1935), by James S. Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prospects of American Capitalism (New York: Organization Pub. Co., ca. 1935), by B. J. Field
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Marx and America (John Day pamphlets #38; New York: The John Day Co., c1934), by Bertram D. Wolfe
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• People at Work (New York: The John Day Co., c1934), by Frances Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Every Worker Should Know About the N.R.A. (second edition; New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1933), by Earl Browder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Negro Liberation (International Pamphlets #29; New York: International Pamphlets, 1932), by James S. Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Misleaders of Labor (Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, c1927), by William Z. Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prosperity? Symposium (New York: Vanguard Press; League for Industrial Democracy, 1927), ed. by Harry W. Laidler and Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners, by Samuel Peter Orth (Gutenberg text)
• The Bolsheviki and the American Workers (New York: American Bolshevist Bureau of Information, ca. 1918) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Class Struggle vs. Class Collaboration: A Study of Labor Banks, the B. and O. Plan, Insurance Schemes, and "Workers' Education" (Little Red Library #2; ca. 1924), by Earl Browder
  • PDF at marxists.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• College Made Utopias and Labor Unrest (1919), by D. E. Felt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Growth of Socialism (Chicago: C.H. Kerr, 1902), by Eugene V. Debs (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Hireling and the Slave, Chicora, and Other Poems (Charleston, SC: McCarter and Co., 1856), by William J. Grayson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial Unionism the Road to Freedom, by Joseph Ettor (HTML at Arizona)
• The New Right: A Plea for Fair Play Through a More Just Social Order (reprint; originally published New York: Eastern Book Concern, 1899), by Samuel Milton Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Florence Kelley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Tramp at Home (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1889), by Lee Meriwether (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The True History of the Famous McNamara Case: Speeches of Anton Johannsen , Clarence Darrow, and Mother Jones (Kansas City, MO: Carpenters Local no. 61, ca. 1915), contrib. by Anton Johannsen, Clarence Darrow, and Mother Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Next for the American Workers?, by United Workers Party of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Worker Correspondents: What? When? Where? Why? How? (Little Red Library #4; ca. 1925), by William F. Dunne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at marxists.org
• Incentive Pay: The Speed-Up New Style (New York: Workers Party, ca. 1943), by Albert Glotzer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Thirty-Five Years of Educational Pioneering: L.I.D. Celebrates Past Achievements and Asks "Where Do We Go From Here?" (1941), by League for Industrial Democracy, contrib. by John Dewey, Jonathan Daniels, Norman Thomas, and Harry W. Laidler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Debate: Which Road for American Workers, Socialist of Communist? Norman Thomas vs. Earl Browder, Madison Square Garden, New York, November 27, 1935 (New York: Socialist Call, 1936), by Norman Thomas and Earl Browder (PDF at flvc.org)
• An Appeal to the Membership of the Socialist Party (1934), by Revolutionary Policy Committee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Better Times! (second edition; New York: Samisch and Goldmann, 1884), by Adolf Douai (page images at Columbia)
• A Documentary History of American Industrial Society (10 volumes plus 1 supplementary volume; Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1910-1911), ed. by John R. Commons, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Eugene Allen Gilmore, Helen L. Sumner, and John B. Andrews
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV supplement: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Government, Strikebreaker: A Study of the Role of the Government in the Recent Industrial Crisis (Workers Party Library #2; New York: Workers Party of America, 1923), by Jay Lovestone
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Housing of the Unskilled Wage Earner: America's Next Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor and Capital Are One (10th edition; New York: American Bank Note Co., 1886), by Elliott F. Shepard
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Newer Ideals of Peace, by Jane Addams (HTML at Brock)
• War of the Classes (New York: Regent Press, c1905), by Jack London
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experience of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experience of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls (London: Grant Richards, 1903), by Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls (Toronto: G. N. Morang Co., 1903), by Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Contribution to America's Victory and to Italy's Freedom (first annual report of the council, in English and Italian; ca. 1942), by Italian-American Labor Council (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor's Civil War (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1940), by Herbert Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Don't Tread on Me: A Study of Aggressive Legal Tactics for Labor (New York: Vanguard Press, c1928), by Clement Wood and McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Arthur Garfield Hays (page images at HathiTrust)
• Labor and Farmer Parties in the United States, 1828-1928 (New York: Rand School of Social Science, c1928), by Nathan Fine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British Revolution and the American Democracy: An Interpretation of British Labour Programmes (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor and the Next War: A Study of American Imperialism and its Effect Upon the Workers (Chicago: Socialist Party of the United States, ca. 1922), by James Oneal (multiple formats at archive.org)

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