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• Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States (2004), by Free the Slaves (Organization) and University of California Berkeley Human Rights Center (PDF at Cornell)
• Forced Labor in the United States (New York: International Publishers, c1933), by Walter Wilson, contrib. by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Our Penal Machinery and its Victims (new and revised edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1886), by John Peter Altgeld (page images at HathiTrust)

• Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) for a Quarter of a Century: Life of William Walker (Saginaw, MI: Friedman and Hynan, 1892), by William Walker, ed. by Thomas S. Gaines (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

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

• Soviet "Dumping" and "Forced Labor" (New York: Friends of the Soviet Union, ca. 1931), by John J. Ballam (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China (2022), by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (PDF at ohchr.org)

• Bokwala: The Story of a Congo Victim (London: Religious Tract Society, 1910), by A Congo Resident, contrib. by H. Grattan Guinness (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo (second edition; London: H. Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908), by Herbert Strang, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag, ed. by Paul R. Gregory and V. V. Lazarev (PDF files at Hoover Institution)

• The Hidden Gulag: Putting Human Rights on the North Korea Policy Agenda: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First session, November 4, 2003 (Washington: GPO, 2003), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF and text at govinfo.gov

• The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps: Prisoners' Testimonies and Satellite Photographs (second edition; Washington, DC: U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, c2012), by David R. Hawk (PDF at hrnk.org)

• Forced Labor in the Production of Electronic Goods in Malaysia: A Comprehensive Study of Scope and Characteristics, by Verité (PDF with commentary at verite.org)

• Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Pakistan (New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, c1995), by Farhad Karim (PDF at hrw.org)

• Trafficking in Persons Report, by United States Department of State (full serial archives)

• The Origin of Forced Labor in the Soviet State, 1917-1921: Documents and Materials (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Bunyan (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Forced Labor in the United States (New York: International Publishers, c1933), by Walter Wilson, contrib. by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Soviet "Dumping" and "Forced Labor" (New York: Friends of the Soviet Union, ca. 1931), by John J. Ballam (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Accused (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951), by Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, trans. by Edward Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)

• Slave Labor in Russia: The Case Presented by the American Federation of Labor to the United Nations (c1949), by American Federation of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Scars of Death: Children Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• The Scars of Death: Children Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada (c2012), by Ted McCoy (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Penal Servitude in Early Modern Spain (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983), by Ruth Pike (PDF files at Libro)

• Twenty Reasons for Total Abstinence from Slave-Labour Produce, by Elihu Burritt (multiple formats with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor As Determined by the Plantation Regime, by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (Gutenberg text)
• American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Planation Regime (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1918), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters (Richmond, VA: A. Morris, 1857), by George Fitzhugh
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Sociology and the Unrecognized Worker (ca. 1977), by National Labor Federation (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Jewish Unions in America: Pages of History and Memories (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by B. Ṿaynshṭeyn, ed. by Maurice Wolfthal (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Supplemental Unemployment Benefit and Retirement Plan Between International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW CIO) and Ford Motor Company (1955), by International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rights of Labor: Democracy vs. Totalitarianism (New York: Free Trade Union Committee, American Federation of Labor, 1947), by American Federation of Labor International Labor Relations Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Medical Monitoring and Screening in the Workplace: Results of a Survey (Washington: GPO, 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton
  • PDF at unt.edu

• The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration (1997), ed. by James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States (2004), by Free the Slaves (Organization) and University of California Berkeley Human Rights Center (PDF at Cornell)
• Legal Immigration: Setting Priorities (report to Congress; 1995), by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, contrib. by Barbara Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Immigration Policy: Restoring Credibility (Jordan commission interim report to Congress; 1994), by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, contrib. by Barbara Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shame of a Nation: A Documented Story of Police-State Terror Against Mexican-Americans in the U.S.A. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1954), by Patricia Morgan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Work-Accidents and the Law (New York: Charities Publication Committee, c1910), by Crystal Eastman
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Liberalism at Work: The Rise and Fall of OSHA (originally published 1986; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019), by Charles Noble, contrib. by Bryant Simon (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)
• Preventing Illness and Injury in the Workplace (OTA-H-256; 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Law in the Age of Hypercapitalism: The Worker, the Family, and the State (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Ruth Colker (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Labor Looks at the 90th Congress: An AFL-CIO Legislative Report (1968), by AFL-CIO Department of Legislation (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Right to Work" Laws: A Trap for America's Minorities (English and Spanish versions; ca. 1968), by Cesar Chavez and Bayard Rustin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Shannon Gleeson
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Labor's Charter of Rights (Washington: American Federation of Labor, ca. 1935), by William Green, Robert F. Wagner, Lloyd K. Garrison, Francis Biddle, Edwin S. Smith, Harry A. Millis, and Charlton Ogburn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor Looks At Congress 1973, by AFL-CIO Department of Legislation (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labour Laws for Women in the United States (London: Women's Industrial Council, 1907), by Josephine Goldmark
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
• Shall Strikes be Outlawed? (with an afterword on arbitration and the ILGWU; New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1938), by Joel Seidman, contrib. by Lazare Teper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Should Unions Be Incorporated? Responsibility of Unions Under the Law (Washington: Social Democratic Federation, USA, 1937), by Louis Waldman (multiple formats at archive.org)

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