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• American Labor in Midpassage (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1959), ed. by Bert Cochran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sociology and the Unrecognized Worker (ca. 1977), by National Labor Federation (multiple formats at archive.org)
• People at Work (New York: The John Day Co., c1934), by Frances Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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
• Should a Political Labor Party be Formed? (1918), by Samuel Gompers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor's Stake in Bretton Woods (New York: American Labor Conference on International Affairs, c1945), by Broadus Mitchell and Francis L. Hauser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• 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)
• Labor and Steel (New York: International Publishers, c1933), by Horace B. Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The NRA and American Labor (New York: Workers Age, 1933), by Will Herberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor and Silk (New York: International Publishers, c1929), by Grace Hutchins, illust. by Esther Shemitz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters to Judd, an American Workingman (Pasadena, CA: The author, ca. 1926), by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Labor and Textiles: A Study of Cotton and Wool Manufacturing (New York: International Publishers, c1931), by Robert W. Dunn and Jack Hardy (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
• 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)
• 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)
• The Negro Under Capitalism: Resolution Adopted by the Fourth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Workers League of the United States, September 3-4, 1938, Chicago (Detroit: Demos Press, ca. 1938), by Revolutionary Workers League of the U.S. (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• The Tramp at Home (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1889), by Lee Meriwether (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Black Labor on a White Canal: Panama, 1904-1981 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985), by Michael L. Conniff (page images at Pitt)

• Radical America (selected issues online from 1967-1987) (partial serial archives)
• Workers World (partial serial archives)
• Labor Defender, by International Labor Defense (HTML at marxists.org)
• The Square Deal (partial serial archives)
• The Voice of the People (labor newspaper published in Louisiana and Oregon, 1913-1914) (partial serial archives)
• Journal of United Labor, by Knights of Labor (partial serial archives)
• The Lumberjack (Louisiana timber workers' weekly newspaper, published in 1913) (full serial archives)

• The American Child (partial serial archives)
• The Child Labor Bulletin (full serial archives)

• Annual Report, by Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics, Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics and Inspection, Missouri Labor and Industrial Inspection Department, and Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (partial serial archives)

• Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor and Industries of New Jersey, by New Jersey Department of Labor (partial serial archives)

• Child Workers in America (New York: International Publishers, c1937), by Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and Dorothy W. Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Youth in Industry (International Pamphlets #13, second edition; New York: International Pamphlets, 1932), by Grace Hutchins (PDF at flvc.org)
• Children in Bondage: A Complete and Careful Presentation of the Anxious Problem of Child Labor, its Causes, its Crimes, and its Cure (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., 1914), by Edwin Markham, Ben B. Lindsey, and George Creel, contrib. by Owen R. Lovejoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)

• Children and Youth at the Midcentury: Fact-Finding Report, Additional Digest Material (c1950), by Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Child Labor Question in Alabama: A Plea for Immediate Action (pamphlet #59; New York: National Child Labor Committee, ca. 1907), by Edgar Gardner Murphy (page images at Harvard)
• Rural School Attendance in Alabama (pamphlet #287; New York: National Child Labor Committee, 1918), by Eva Joffe (page images at Harvard)

• Child Labor and the Work of Mothers in the Beet Fields of Colorado and Michigan (publication #115; Washington: GPO, 1923), by United States Children's Bureau, contrib. by Ellen Nathalie Matthews and Gertrude Underhill Light (page images at Harvard)

• The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu: A Social Study (1912), by Frances Blascoer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Harvard

• Child Toilers of Boston Streets (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1879), by E. E. Brown
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Child Labor and the Work of Mothers in the Beet Fields of Colorado and Michigan (publication #115; Washington: GPO, 1923), by United States Children's Bureau, contrib. by Ellen Nathalie Matthews and Gertrude Underhill Light (page images at Harvard)

• Labor and The War: President Wilson's Address to the American Federation of Labor, Delivered at Buffalo, N.Y., November 12, 1917 (Loyalty Leaflet #3; Washington: Committee on Public Information, 1918), by Woodrow Wilson (page images here at Penn)

• Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity (New York: Roosevelt Institute, c2015), by Joseph E. Stiglitz, contrib. by Nell Abernathy, Adam Hersh, Susan Holmberg, and Mike Konczal (PDF with commentary at rooseveltinstitute.org)

• The Road to Full Employment (Portland, OR: North Pacific Publishers, 1976), by Dewey B. Larson (HTML at reciprocalsystem.com)
• Unemployment: Why it Occurs and How to Fight it (Chicago: Workers Party of America, ca. 1924), by Earl Browder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Out of Work: A Study of Employment Agencies, Their Treatment of the Unemployed, and Their Influence Upon Homes and Businesses (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1905), by Frances Kellor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Decline of American Capitalism (New York: Covici Friede, c1934), by Lewis Corey (multiple formats at archive.org)

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