The Online Books Page

Labor movement -- Europe -- History

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Labor movement -- Europe
• Labor movement -- History
• Europe -- History

• Labor movement -- France -- History
• Labor movement -- Germany -- History
• Labor movement -- Great Britain -- History

• Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Michael Seidman (HTML at UC Press)

• The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), by Richard Biernacki (HTML at UC Press)

• The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), by Richard Biernacki (HTML at UC Press)
• A Worker Looks at History: Being Outlines of Industrial History Specially Written for Labour College Plebs classes (London: Plebs League, 1919), by Mark Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• The Message of Internationalism (Amalgamated Education Pamphlet #8; New York: Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 1923), by Joseph Schlossberg (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Labour Unrest (reprinted from the Daily Mail; London: Associated Newspapers, 1912), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Responsibility and Solidarity in the Labor Struggle; Also a Review of the Policy Lately Discussed by the German Social Democracy and Edward Bernstein (Freedom pamphlets #12; London: "Freedom" Office, 1900), by Max Nettlau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Lectures on the Rate of Wages, by Nassau William Senior (HTML at McMaster)
• Trades' Unions and Strikes: Their Philosophy and Intention (London: The author, 1860), by T. J. Dunning
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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)
• Six Centuries of Work and Wages: The History of English Labour, by James E. Thorold Rogers (PDF at McMaster)

• Report of the Annual Conference of the Independent Labour Party, by Independent Labour Party (Great Britain) (partial serial archives)

• Workers Power, by Workers Power Group (London, England) (partial serial archives)

• The Chartist Circular (full serial archives)

• The Chartist Imaginary: Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Margaret A. Loose (PDF at Ohio State)
• Gerald Massey: Chartist, Poet, Radical, and Freethinker (revised electronic edition, 2009), by David Shaw (HTML in the UK)
• Chartism: A New Organization of the People, Embracing a Plan for the Education and Improvement of the People, Politically and Socially (London: J. Watson et al., 1840), by William Lovett and John Collins (multiple formats at Google)
• The Chartist Movement (second posthumous edition, 1925), by Mark Hovell, ed. by T. F. Tout (HTML in the UK)
• A History of the Chartist Movement (London: Constable and Co., c1920), by Julius West (HTML in the UK)
• The Socialism and Unsocialism of Thomas Carlyle: A Collection of Carlyle's Social Writings, Together With Joseph Mazzini's Famous Essay Protesting Against Carlyle's Views (2 volumes; New York: Humboldt Pub. Co., c1891), by Thomas Carlyle, ed. by William Dwight Porter Bliss, contrib. by Giuseppe Mazzini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Struggles of William Lovett, in His Pursuit of Bread, Knowledge, and Freedom (2 volumes in different editions; 1920), by William Lovett, contrib. by R. H. Tawney
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Forty Years' Recollections, Literary and Political (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Northern Star (Leeds-based chartist newspaper, 1837-1852) (full serial archives)

• The Battle-Day, and Other Poems (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., 1855), by Ernest Charles Jones (HTML in the UK)

• Labour in Ireland: Labour in Irish History; The Reconquest of Ireland (Dublin and London: Maunsel and Roberts, 1922), by James Connolly, contrib. by Robert Lynd (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Michael Seidman (HTML at UC Press)

• Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, c2016), by Verity Burgmann
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Early Colombian Labor Movement: Artisans and Politics in Bogotá, 1832-1919 (originally published 1992; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by David Sowell, contrib. by Pamela S. Murray (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Bread, or Bullets! Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), by Joan Casanovas (page images at Pitt)

• Urban Revolt: Ethnic Politics in the Nineteenth-Century Chicago Labor Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Eric L. Hirsch (HTML at UC Press)

• All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1998), by Carlotta R. Anderson (multiple formats at Wayne State)

• Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1984), by Steve Babson, contrib. by Ron Alpern, Dave Elsila, and John Revitte (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Advocating the Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), by Joshua R. Greenberg (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, by Zachary Lockman (HTML at UC Press)

• The Radical and Labor Periodical Press in Chicago: Its Origin and Development to 1890 (Urbana: Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois, 1949), by E. L. Sheppard (page images at HathiTrust)

• S. P. Bunting: A Political Biography, by Edward Roux (HTML in South Africa)

• Chapters in the History of Organized Labor in Texas (University of Texas Publication #4143; 1941), by Ruth Alice Allen (multiple formats at archive.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)
• 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
• Jewish Labor in U.S.A.: An Industrial, Political and Cultural History of the Jewish Labor Movement (2 volumes, respectively covering 1882-1914 and 1914-1952; New York: Trade Union Sponsoring Committee, c1950-1953), by Melech Epstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Workers in American History (second edition; Terre Haute, IN: J. Oneal, 1910), by James Oneal (multiple formats at Indiana)
• 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)
• Revolutionary Radicalism: Its History, Purpose and Tactics; With an Exposition and Discussion of the Steps Being Taken and Required to Curb It (4 volumes; Albany: J. B. Lyon and Co., 1920), by New York (State) Legislature Joint Committee Investigating Seditious Activities
  • 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

• American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Détente, 1945-1970 (Edmonton; AU Press, c2018), by Anthony Carew (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Between a River and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Edmund F. Wehrle (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)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1932), by Arnold Petersen (PDF at flvc.org)

• Women and the Labor Movement (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Alice Henry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eight Men Buried Alive: The Centralia Case Calls to Every Decent Man and Woman in the State of Washington to Act Quickly, by Industrial Workers of the World
  • HTML at MSU
  • PDF page images at MSU

• People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2017), ed. by David Bates, Edoardo D'Angelo, and Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)
• After the Flood: The Early Post-Flood History of Europe (Chichester: New Wine Press, c1995), by Bill Cooper (illustrated HTML at creationism.org)
• A General History of Europe, From the Origins of Civilization to the Present Time (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1921), by James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, and Emma Peters Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Introduction to the History of Western Europe (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1903), by James Harvey Robinson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Outlines of European History (2 volumes; Boston et al.: Ginn and Company, c1914-1918), by James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, and Charles A. Beard
  • Part I (Earliest Man, The Orient, Greece, and Rome; Europe to the Opening of 18th Century): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II (From the Seventeenth Century to the War of 1914; revised with supplementary chapter on the Great War, 1914-1918): multiple formats at archive.org
• A Short Sketch of European History: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Reformation (labeled "Part I", but no later parts known to exist; ca. 1920), by H. E. Marshall (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Story of Old Europe and Young America (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, c1922), by William H. Mace and Edwin P. Tanner, illust. by Homer Wayland Colby, B. F. Williamson, and Frank T. Merrill (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
• Early European History, by Hutton Webster (Gutenberg text)
• Europe and the Faith, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
• Europe, Its Past and Present Condition: Being a Comprehensive Manual of European Geography and History (Home Cyclopedia v8; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), by F. H. Ungewitter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• General History of Western Nations From 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D., I: Antiquity (the only 2 volumes published; London, Macmillan and Co., 1908), by Emil Reich
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Histoire Primitive du Genre Humain (in French; Tournai: H. Casterman; et al., 1864), by A. Fr. Gfrörer, trans. by Charles Sainte-Foi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Ideales Viejos e Ideales Nuevos; Significación Histórica del Movimiento Maximalista (in Spanish; ca. 1918), by José Ingenieros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.