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• Mrs. Christy's Bridge Party (c1907), by Sara Ware Bassett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cecilia of the Pink Roses, by Katharine Haviland-Taylor, illust. by May Wilson Preston (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Barrier: A Novel, by Allen French (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mayor of Warwick, by Herbert M. Hopkins (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Bishop's Jaegers (1932), by Thorne Smith (HTML and MS Reader in the UK; NO US ACCESS)
• Down the line with John Henry, by George V. Hobart, illust. by McKee Barclay (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ralstons, by F. Marion Crawford (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Damned Agitator; Free!; The Coal Breaker (Little Red Library #7; Chicago: Daily Worker Pub. Co., ca. 1926), by Michael Gold
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at marxists.org

• Riot (Chicago: Chicago Labor Printing Co., ca. 1922), by W. E. Trautmann and Peter Hagboldt (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Caballero (New York: New American Library, 1948), by Johnston McCulley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• The American Perception of Class (originally published 1987; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Reeve Vanneman and Lynn Weber Cannon, contrib. by Matt Wray (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)
• Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums (London and New York: Routledge, c2019), by Patricia Ann Banks (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• The Americans, by Edwin Davies Schoonmaker (Gutenberg ebook)

• Between Craft and Class: Skilled Workers and Factory Politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Jeffrey Haydu (HTML at UC Press)

• Thoreau, the poet-naturalist : with memorial verses / by William Ellery Channing. (Boston : Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902), by William Ellery Channing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The obligations of the American scholar to his country and the world : an address delivered before the Philalethean Society of Hanover College, September 28th, 1841 / by Gilbert McMaster. (Madison, Ind. : Printed by Simrall and Jones, 1841), by Gilbert McMaster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Letters of William James, Vol. 1, by William James, ed. by Henry James (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Letters of William James, Vol. 2, by William James, ed. by Henry James (Gutenberg ebook)

• Taking a Stand on Poverty (c1991), by Helen P. Rogers (Javascript-dependent HTML at Scribd)
• Bringing In the Sheaves: Transforming Poverty Into Productivity (Atlanta: American Vision Press, c1985), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Horace, Priest of the Poor (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1985), by John S. Monagan (PDF at Georgetown)
• Appeal to the Wealthy of the Land, Ladies as Well as Gentlemen, on the Character, Conduct, Situation, and Prospects of Those Whose Sole Dependence for Subsistence Is on the Labour of Their Hands (third edition, 1833), by Mathew Carey (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe: Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law Report, by Nassau William Senior (Gutenberg ebook)

• Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer (Washington: Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2016), by Dean Baker (multiple formats with commentary at deanbaker.net)
• The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer, by Dean Baker (multiple formats at deanbaker.net)
• The Passing of the Idle Rich, by Frederick Townsend Martin (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Private World of High Society (New York: D. McKay Co., c1960), by Lucy Kavaler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Perception of Class (originally published 1987; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Reeve Vanneman and Lynn Weber Cannon, contrib. by Matt Wray (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)
• The Working Class and Social Change: Four Essays on the Working Class (1975), by Martin Glaberman (HTML at marxists.org)
• "Be His Payment High or Low": The American Working Class in the Sixties (1965), by Martin Glaberman (HTML at marxists.org)
• America's Decisive Battle (New York: New Century Publishers, 1945), by Earl Browder (PDF at flvc.org)
• For a Trotskyist Organization in the Working Class (1971), by Spark (Organization : United States) (HTML at the-spark.net)
• Not Labor's War (New York: American Peace Mobilization, 1941), by American People's Meeting (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Proletarian Journey: New England, Gastonia, Moscow (New York: Hillman-Curl, c1937), by Fred Erwin Beal (page images at HathiTrust)
• How Class Collaboration Works (Little Red Library #9, ca. 1926), by Bertram D. Wolfe
  • PDF at marxists.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Reindustrialization: The Menace Behind the Promise (1981), by Sam Marcy (HTML at workers.org)
• Appeal to the Wealthy of the Land, Ladies as Well as Gentlemen, on the Character, Conduct, Situation, and Prospects of Those Whose Sole Dependence for Subsistence Is on the Labour of Their Hands (third edition, 1833), by Mathew Carey (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• 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)
• Modern Industry in Relation to the Family, Health, Education, Morality (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914), by Florence Kelley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nature's Aristocracy: or, Battles and Wounds in Time of Peace, by Jennie Collins (page images at MOA)
• 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)
• The Chicano Struggle and the Struggle for Socialism (second printing, 1979), by Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (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)
• In the Great Tradition: 11th Convention, UAW-CIO (1947), by International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Introduction to Housing: Facts and Principles (Washington: United States Housing Authority, 1940), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor's Answer to Conscription (New York: Pioneer Publishers, ca. 1940), by Felix Morrow (HTML at marxists.org)
• Negro Liberation (revised enlarged edition; New York: International Pamphlets, ca. 1938), by James S. Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Communists in the People's Front: Report Delivered to the Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A. held June 17-20, 1937 (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by Earl Browder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Negro Liberation (International Pamphlets #29, third edition; New York: International Pamphlets, 1935), by James S. Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prospects of American Capitalism (New York: Organization Pub. Co., ca. 1935), by B. J. Field
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Marx and America (John Day pamphlets #38; New York: The John Day Co., c1934), by Bertram D. Wolfe
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• People at Work (New York: The John Day Co., c1934), by Frances Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Every Worker Should Know About the N.R.A. (second edition; New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1933), by Earl Browder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Negro Liberation (International Pamphlets #29; New York: International Pamphlets, 1932), by James S. Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Misleaders of Labor (Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, c1927), by William Z. Foster (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)
• 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
• 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
  • PDF at marxists.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners, by Samuel Peter Orth (Gutenberg text)
• The Bolsheviki and the American Workers (New York: American Bolshevist Bureau of Information, ca. 1918) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• College Made Utopias and Labor Unrest (1919), by D. E. Felt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Growth of Socialism (Chicago: C.H. Kerr, 1902), by Eugene V. Debs (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Hireling and the Slave, Chicora, and Other Poems (Charleston, SC: McCarter and Co., 1856), by William J. Grayson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial Unionism the Road to Freedom, by Joseph Ettor (HTML at Arizona)
• 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)
• 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
• The Tramp at Home (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1889), by Lee Meriwether (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• What Next for the American Workers?, by United Workers Party of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Incentive Pay: The Speed-Up New Style (New York: Workers Party, ca. 1943), by Albert Glotzer (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)
• Debate: Which Road for American Workers, Socialist of Communist? Norman Thomas vs. Earl Browder, Madison Square Garden, New York, November 27, 1935 (New York: Socialist Call, 1936), by Norman Thomas and Earl Browder (PDF at flvc.org)
• An Appeal to the Membership of the Socialist Party (1934), by Revolutionary Policy Committee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Government, Strikebreaker: A Study of the Role of the Government in the Recent Industrial Crisis (Workers Party Library #2; New York: Workers Party of America, 1923), by Jay Lovestone
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Better Times! (second edition; New York: Samisch and Goldmann, 1884), by Adolf Douai (page images at Columbia)
• 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
• The Housing of the Unskilled Wage Earner: America's Next Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor and Capital Are One (10th edition; New York: American Bank Note Co., 1886), by Elliott F. Shepard
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Labor's Civil War (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1940), by Herbert Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newer Ideals of Peace, by Jane Addams (HTML at Brock)
• War of the Classes (New York: Regent Press, c1905), by Jack London
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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)
• Labor and Farmer Parties in the United States, 1828-1928 (New York: Rand School of Social Science, c1928), by Nathan Fine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Labor and the Next War: A Study of American Imperialism and its Effect Upon the Workers (Chicago: Socialist Party of the United States, ca. 1922), by James Oneal (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)
• A dead issue and the live one, by B.F. Van Meter, sr. ... (Louisville, Ky., Printed by the Bradley & Gilbert Co., 1913), by Benjamin Franklin Van Meter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public addresses of Avery C. Moore of Idaho. ([S.l. : s.n., 1906?]), by Avery C. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newer ideals of peace, by Jane Addams (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Workers: An Experiment in Reality. The West, by Walter A. Wyckoff (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Workers: An Experiment in Reality. The East, by Walter A. Wyckoff (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Dogs and the Fleas: By One of the Dogs, by Frederic Scrimshaw (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Day with a Tramp, and Other Days, by Walter A. Wyckoff (Gutenberg ebook)
• Our Benevolent Feudalism, by William J. Ghent (Gutenberg ebook)
• Men and Things, by Henry A. Atkinson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago: as Shown by the Diary of Joseph Lye, Shoemaker, by Fred A. Gannon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Labor and Freedom: The Voice and Pen of Eugene V. Debs, by Eugene V. Debs (Gutenberg ebook)
• Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States: The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12, by Archibald Henry Grimké (Gutenberg ebook)
• Industrial Conspiracies, by Clarence Darrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• Working With the Working Woman, by Cornelia Stratton Parker (Gutenberg ebook)

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