Labor unions -- United States -- History
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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)
- Working People of California (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), ed. by Daniel A. Cornford (HTML at UC Press)
- 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)
- Working People of California (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), ed. by Daniel A. Cornford (HTML at UC Press)
- 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
- Seventy Years of Life And Labor: An Autobiography (1 volume edition, with new introduction by Woll and appendix by Thorne; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1948), by Samuel Gompers, contrib. by Matthew Woll and Florence Calvert Thorne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood (New York: International Publishers, 1969), by Big Bill Haywood (page images at HathiTrust)
- It Can Be Done: The Autobiography of James Hudson Maurer (New York: Rand School Press, 1938), by James H. Maurer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood (New York: International Publishers, 1958), by Big Bill Haywood (page images at HathiTrust)
- Seventy Years of Life And Labor: An Autobiography (2 volumes, with an appendix by Thorne on Gompers's last year; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1925), by Samuel Gompers, contrib. by Florence Calvert Thorne
- 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)
- Union-Smashing in Sacramento: The Truth About the Criminal Syndicalism Trial (New York: National Sacramento Appeal Committee, 1935), by Herbert Solow
- 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)
- Chapters in the History of Organized Labor in Texas (University of Texas Publication #4143; 1941), by Ruth Alice Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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Filed under: Labor unions -- United States- The Practice of Local Union Leadership: A Study of Five Local Unions (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1965), by Robert W. Miller, Frederick Anthony Zeller, and Glenn W. Miller (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Crisis of American Labor (New York: Sagamore Press, c1959), by Sidney Lens (page images at HathiTrust)
- Unionism: Fraudulent or Genuine? (New York: New York Labor News Co., 1958), by Nathan Karp, contrib. by Daniel De Leon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Colonization of America's Basic Industries by the Communist Party of the U.S.A. (1954), by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Left, Right and Center; Conflicting Forces In American Labor (Hinsdale, IL: H. Regnery Co., 1949), by Sidney Lens (page images at HathiTrust)
- Communists Within the Labor Movement: A Handbook on the Facts and Countermeasures (1947), by Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America Committee on Socialism and Communism (multiple formats at archive.org)
- I Belong Here (Washington: Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1947), by Richard Cushing (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Labor in the New Deal Decade: Three Lectures (New York: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, c1945), by Selig Perlman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Organized Labor Faces the New World (New York: New Century Publishers, 1945), by William Z. Foster (PDF at flvc.org)
- Handbook of Labor Unions (Washington: American Council on Public Affairs, c1944), by Florence Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
- New Frontiers for Labor (New York: Workers Age, ca. 1940), by Jay Lovestone (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Trade Unionism Today (1940), by Revolutionary Workers League of the U.S.
- Introduction to American Trade Unionism; With Supplement (New York: Affiliated Schools for Workers, c1937), by Elsie Glück (page images at HathiTrust)
- Should Unions Be Incorporated? Responsibility of Unions Under the Law (Washington: Social Democratic Federation, USA, 1937), by Louis Waldman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Handbook of American Trade-Unions: 1936 Edition (Bulletin of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics #618; Washington: GPO, 1936), by Estelle M. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
- Industrial Unionism (second edition; New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1936), by William Z. Foster
- Industrial Unions Mean Unity: Our Answer to President Green (CIO publication #3; 1936), by American Federation of Labor Committee for Industrial Organization (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Why One Big Union? (1936), by One Big Union Club (New York, N.Y.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- "Be His Payment High or Low": The American Working Class in the Sixties (1965), by Martin Glaberman (HTML at marxists.org)
- The Labor Movement and the NRA: The Standpoint of Progressive Unionism (New York: Dressmakers Union Local 22, ca. 1934), by Charles S. Zimmerman and International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Local 22 (New York, N.Y.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Little Brothers of the Big Labor Fakers: Report of a Speech Against the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, Made in New Star Casino, New York City on May 10, 1931 (New York: Trade Union Unity League, ca. 1931), by William Z. Foster
- The Man in the Middle (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961), by Nathan W. Shefferman and Dale Kramer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Why Unions Go Smash! Certain Dangerous Trends in American Trade Unionism and What Is to Be Done (1930), by James Oneal, contrib. by J. B. S. Hardman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Handbook of American Trade-Unions: 1929 Edition (Bulletin of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics #506; Washington: GPO, 1929), by Estelle M. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Labor Lieutenants of American Imperialism (New York: Daily Worker Pub. Co., ca. 1927), by Jay Lovestone (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Misleaders of Labor (Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, c1927), by William Z. Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Threat to the Labor Movement: The Conspiracy Against the Trade Unions (ca. 1927), by William F. Dunne
- Handbook of American Trade-Unions (Bulletin of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics #420; Washington: GPO, 1926), by Estelle M. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
- Left Wing Unionism: A Study of Radical Policies and Tactics (New York: International Publishers, 1926), by David J. Saposs (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Woman Worker and the Trade Unions (New York: International Publishers, 1926), by Theresa Wolfson
- Amalgamation (Labor Herald Library #5; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, 1923), by Jay Fox
- American Labor Unions, By a Member (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914), by Helen Marot (frame-dependent page images at Harvard)
- The Bankruptcy of the American Labor Movement (Labor Herald Library #4; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1922), by William Z. Foster
- The Burning Question of Trades Unionism, by Daniel De Leon (HTML at marxists.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
- Historical Catechism of American Unionism, by Industrial Workers of the World (PDF page images at MSU)
- Industrial Unionism (two pieces on the same subject; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1919), by Daniel De Leon and Eugene V. Debs (page images at HathiTrust)
- Industrial Unionism the Road to Freedom, by Joseph Ettor (HTML at Arizona)
- Report of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor to the Sixty Seventh Annual Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio Nov. 14, 1948, by American Federation of Labor. Executive Council (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Trade Unionism in the United States (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1921), by Robert Franklin Hoxie, ed. by Lucy Bennett Hoxie and Nathan Fine, contrib. by E. H. Downey
- Trade Unionism in the United States (second edition; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1923), by Robert Franklin Hoxie, ed. by Lucy Bennett Hoxie and Nathan Fine, contrib. by E. H. Downey and Mollie Ray Carroll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Trade Unions in America (Little Red Library #1; Chicago: Pub. for the Trade Union Educational League by the Daily Worker Pub. Co., ca. 1925), by William Z. Foster, James Patrick Cannon, and Earl Browder
- What Sort of Union is the I.W.W. Asking You to Build?, by Industrial Workers of the World (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Wm. F. Dunne's Speech at the A.F. of L. Convention, Portland, 1923 (Labor Herald Library #9; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1923), by William F. Dunne (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Case Against David Dubinsky (New York: New Century Publishers, 1946), by William W. Weinstone (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Truth about CIO (CIO publication #130; 1946), by Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) Department of Education and Research (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Labor and the War (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1942), by William Z. Foster
- Do We Have a Stake in This War? An Address to Organized Labor (New York: Trade Union Division, Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 1941), by Alfred Baker Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Anti-Labor Activities in the United States (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1938), by David J. Saposs and Elizabeth T. Bliss (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Safeguard Your Unions Against Disruption! An Appeal to All Trade Unionists (ca. 1937), by Independent Communist Labor League (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Program of the American Labor Party (1936), by American Labor Party (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ten Years of Labor Defense (New York: International Labor Defense, 1935), by Sasha Small
- American Labor Faces the Future: The Problems of Trade Unionism in the Light of the San Francisco General Strike (New York: Dressmakers Union Local 22, ca. 1934), by William Green and Charles S. Zimmerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Trade Union Unity League (American Section of the R.I.L.U.): Its Program, Structure, Methods and History (ca. 1930), by Trade Union Unity League (U.S.) (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)
- The Trade Union Unity League, Affiliated to R.I.L.U.: Its Program, Structure, Methods and History (ca. 1929), by Trade Union Unity League (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Communist Party vs. the C.I.O.: A Study in Power Politics (New York: F. A. Praeger, 1957), by Max M. Kampelman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Watson-Parker Law: The Latest Scheme to Hamstring Railroad Unionism (Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, 1927), by William Z. Foster
- Strike Strategy (Labor Herald Library #18; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, 1926), by William Z. Foster
- Discrimination Costs You Money, by National Labor Service (PDF at ajcarchives.org)
- The Double Edge of Labor's Sword: Discussion and Testimony on Socialism and Trade-Unionism Before the Commission on Industrial Relations (Chicago: Socialist Party, ca. 1914), by Morris Hillquit, Samuel Gompers, and Max S. Hayes
- History of Labour in the United States (2-volume edition; New York: Macmillan, 1918), by John R. Commons, David J. Saposs, Helen L. Sumner, E. B. Mittelman, Henry E. Hoagland, John B. Andrews, and Selig Perlman, contrib. by Henry W. Farnam
- Insurgency: or, The Economic Power of the Middle Class (Seattle: Trustee Printing Co., c1910), by William Z. Foster and Hermon F. Titus (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The I.W.W.: Its History, Structure, and Methods, by Vincent St. John (HTML at Arizona)
- Preamble and Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World (1905 version), by Industrial Workers of the World (HTML at Arizona)
- Preamble and Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World (2002 version, with additional material), by Industrial Workers of the World (PDF at iww.org)
- Record of Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor, Held at Reading, Pennsylvania, January 1-4, 1878, by Knights of Labor (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Revolutionary I.W.W., by Grover H. Perry (HTML at Arizona)
- The Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance Versus the "Pure and Simple" Trade Union: A Debate at the Grand Opera House, New Haven, Conn., November 25, 1900, by Daniel De Leon and Job Harriman (PDF at marxists.org)
- Supreme Court, Monroe County: Joseph Michaels, Morley A. Stern et al, Plaintiffs, Against Sidney Hillman, Individually and as President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, et al., Defendants: Memorandum of Law, contrib. by Sidney Hillman and Felix Frankfurter (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- A "Turnover" Talk for Fair Practices (ca. 1947), by National Labor Service, contrib. by American Federation of Labor (PDF at ajcarchives.org)
- Maritime: A Historical Sketch and a Workers' Program (second edition; New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1945), by Frederick J. Lang, ed. by Terence Phelan (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Trotskyite 5th Column in the Labor Movement (New York: New Century Publishers, 1945), by George Morris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Labor's Civil War (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1940), by Herbert Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Supreme Court's Challenge to Labor: The N.I.R.A. Decision a Signal for Intensified Attacks on the Workers (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1935), by William F. Dunne
- The Bankruptcy of Reform (ca. 1932), by Walter H. Senior (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Workers' (Communist) Party and American Trade Unions (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, series 46, #2; 1928), by David M. Schneider (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Americanization of Labor: The Employers' Offensive Against the Trade Unions (New York: International Publishers, c1927), by Robert W. Dunn, contrib. by Scott Nearing (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Company Unions: Employers' "Industrial Democracy" (New York: Vanguard Press, c1927), by Robert W. Dunn, contrib. by Louis F. Budenz (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)
- American Company Unions: A Study of Employee Representation Plans, "Works Councils", and Other Substitutes for labor Unions (Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1926), by Robert W. Dunn, contrib. by William Z. Foster (PDF at flvc.org)
- American Syndicalism: The I. W. W. (New York: Macmillan, 1913), by John Graham Brooks
- The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It, by James J. Davis (Gutenberg text)
- Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World (selected conventions, 1905-1919), by Industrial Workers of the World (partial serial archives)
- 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)
- 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)
- Marx and America (John Day pamphlets #38; New York: The John Day Co., c1934), by Bertram D. Wolfe
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