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• Class and Colour in South Africa, 1850-1950, by Jack Simons and Ray Simons (HTML in South Africa)

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• Arise! Vukani! (partial serial archives)
• The Shopsteward (partial serial archives)

• NUM News, by National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa) (partial serial archives)

• NUM News, by National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa) (partial serial archives)

• Outline History of the World Trade Union Movement (New York: International Publishers, c1956), by William Z. Foster (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Trade Unions: Their Origin and Objects, Influence and Efficacy; With an Appendix Showing the History and Aims of the American Federation of Labor (10th edition, 1902), by William Trant (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Black Worker: A Documentary History From Colonial Times to the Present (8 volumes, originally published 1978-1984; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019), ed. by Philip Sheldon Foner and Ronald L. Lewis, contrib. by Keona K. Ervin
  • Volume I (The Black Worker to 1896): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
  • Volume II (The Black Worker During the Era of the National Labor Union): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
  • Volume III (The Black Worker During the Era of the Knights of Labor): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
  • Volume IV (The Black Worker During the Era of the American Federation of Labor and the Railroad Brotherhoods): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
  • Volume V (The Black Worker From 1900 to 1919): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
  • Volume VI (The Era of Post-War Prosperity and the Great Depression, 1920-1936): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
  • Volume VII (The Black Worker from the Founding of the CIO to the AFL-CIO Merger, 1936-1955): multiple formats with commentary at Temple
  • Volume VIII (The Black Worker Since the AFL-CIO Merger, 1955-1980): multiple formats with commentary at Temple

• Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Yevette Richards (page images at Pitt)

• 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)

• With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts (originally published 1986; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Mark Erlich, contrib. by David Goldberg and Miriam Frank (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• From the Molly Maguires to the United Mine Workers: The Social Ecology of an Industrial Union, 1869-1897 (originally published 1971; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Harold W. Aurand, contrib. by Walter Licht (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Union-Smashing in Sacramento: The Truth About the Criminal Syndicalism Trial (New York: National Sacramento Appeal Committee, 1935), by Herbert Solow
  • page images at Pitt
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

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

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

• Labor in England and America: A Significant Contrast (New York: American Labor Party, 1924), by James Oneal and Socialist Party (U.S.) (multiple formats at Indiana)

• European Labor Aristocracies: Trade Unionism, the Hierarchy of Skill, and the Stratification of the Manual Working Class Before the First World War (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1985), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• European Labor Aristocracies: Trade Unionism, the Hierarchy of Skill, and the Stratification of the Manual Working Class Before the First World War (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1985), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• The Builders' History (London: Pub. for the National Federation of Building Trade Operatives by the Labour Publishing Company Ltd., ca. 1923), by Raymond Postgate
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Troubled Origins of the Italian Catholic Labor Movement, 1878-1914 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988), by Sándor Agócs (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• The Birth of the Japanese Labor Movement: Takano Fusatarō and the Rōdō Kumiai Kiseikai (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1989), by Stephen E. Marsland (PDF and EPub with commentary at Hawaii)

• 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)

• For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City's Department Store Unions, 1934-1953 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Daniel J. Opler (PDF at Ohio State)

• For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City's Department Store Unions, 1934-1953 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Daniel J. Opler (PDF at Ohio State)

• For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City's Department Store Unions, 1934-1953 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Daniel J. Opler (PDF at Ohio 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)

• The Crisis of American Labor: Operation Dixie and the Defeat of the CIO (originally published 1988; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Barbara S. Griffith, contrib. by Janet Christine Irons (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• 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)
• History of the American Labor Movement, 1700-1943: Study Outline (San Francisco: Tom Mooney Labor School, ca. 1943), by California Labor School and Vern Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners, by Samuel Peter Orth (Gutenberg text)
• Labor in England and America: A Significant Contrast (New York: American Labor Party, 1924), by James Oneal and Socialist Party (U.S.) (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Trade Unions: Their Origin and Objects, Influence and Efficacy; With an Appendix Showing the History and Aims of the American Federation of Labor (10th edition, 1902), by William Trant (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Trade Union Publications: The Official Journals, Convention Proceedings, and Constitutions of International Unions and Federations, 1850-1941 (3 volumes; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1944-1945), by Lloyd G. Reynolds and Charles Killingsworth (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)

• Sisterhood and Solidarity: Workers' Education for Women, 1914-1984 (originally published 1984; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), ed. by Joyce L. Kornbluh and Mary E. Frederickson, contrib. by Dorothy Sue Cobble (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• 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)

• William Green: A Pictorial Biography (New York: Inter-Allied Publications, c1952), by Max D. Danish (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Yevette Richards (page images at Pitt)
• The Autobiography of Mother Jones (Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., 1925), by Mother Jones, ed. by Mary Field Parton, contrib. by Clarence Darrow
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • 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

• Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988), by Christopher H. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable and the Decline of Construction Unions (second revised edition; Iowa City: Fanpihua Press, 2000), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• Flame and Heart: A History of the Glass Bottle Blowers Association of the United States and Canada (Washington: Merkel Press, c1961), by Lee W. Minton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Union Political Activity Spans 230 Years of U.S. History (AFL-CIO publication #106; 1960), by AFL-CIO (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; With Special Reference to the Life of Alexander F. Whitney (New York: A. and C. Boni, c1936), by Walter Flavius McCaleb (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An African Explains Apartheid (New York: F. A. Praeger, 1963), by Jordan K. Ngubane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Africa South (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1962), by Harm J. De Blij (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Scouting on Two Continents (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1926), by Frederick Russell Burnham, ed. by Mary Nixon Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1903), by John Buchan (Gutenberg text)
• South Africa, by Ian Duncan Colvin, illust. by G. S. Smithard and J. S. Skelton (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Story of Melina Rorke, R.R.C. (New York: Greystone Press, 1938), by Melina Rorke (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Vredesonderhandelingen Tusschen de Regeeringen der Twee Zuid-Afrikaansche Republieken en de Vertegegenwoordigers der Britische Regeering, Welke Uitliepen op den Vrede, op 31 Mei 1902 te Vereeniging Gesloten (in Dutch; Pretoria-Amsterdam, J. H. de Bussy, 1909), by J. D. Kestell and D. E. van Velden
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Letters from South Africa (London and New York: Macmillan, 1893), by Flora L. Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Peace Negotiations Between the Governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the Representatives of the British Government, Which Terminated in the Peace Concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902 (London: R. Clay and Sons, 1912), by J. D. Kestell and D. E. van Velden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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