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• Germinal, by Émile Zola, trans. by Havelock Ellis (HTML with commentary at ibiblio.org)
• The Valley of the Moon, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• Black Earth (New York: Hillman-Curl, 1935), by Thomas Rowan (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Shall Strikes be Outlawed? (with an afterword on arbitration and the ILGWU; New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1938), by Joel Seidman, contrib. by Lazare Teper (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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

• The Great Sit-Down Strike (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by William W. Weinstone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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 Great San Francisco General Strike (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1934), by William F. Dunne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at flvc.org
• 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 Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution (Detroit: News and Letters, 1965), by Mario Savio, Eugene Walker, and Raya Dunayevskaya, contrib. by Joel L. Pimsleur (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)

• The Great San Francisco General Strike (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1934), by William F. Dunne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at flvc.org

• One of Them: Chapters From a Passionate Autobiography (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918), by Elizabeth Hasanovitz (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike: Women Needleworkers in America (originally published 1984; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), ed. by Joan M. Jensen and Sue Davidson, contrib. by Michelle Haberland (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Cartoons of the Welsh Coal Strike, April 1st to Sept. 1st, 1898, by J. M. Staniforth (multiple formats at llyfrau.org)

• Kentucky Miners Fight (New York: Workers International Relief, 1932), by Harry Gannes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Night Riders in Gallup (New York: International Labor Defense, 1935), by Louis Colman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Constitutional Government Overthrown in West Virginia, by John W. Brown (PDF page images at MSU)

• Criminal Record of the Western Federation of Miners, Coeur d'Alene to Cripple Creek, 1894-1904 (1904), by Colorado Mine Operators' Association (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Labor War in Colorado (New York: Socialistic Co-Operative Pub. Assoc., 1904), by Ben Hanford (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Labor War in Colorado (New York: Socialistic Co-Operative Pub. Assoc., 1904), by Ben Hanford (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The General Strike and the General Betrayal (Chicago: Workers (Communist) Party of America, 1926), by John Pepper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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 General Strike: An Economic Interpretation of Its Background and Its Significance (New York: Vanguard Press, 1926), by Scott Nearing, contrib. by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British Strike: Its Background, Its Lessons (Chicago: Daily Worker Pub. Co., ca. 1926), by William F. Dunne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The General Strike and the General Betrayal (Chicago: Workers (Communist) Party of America, 1926), by John Pepper (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Masayo Duus, ed. by Peter Duus, trans. by Beth Cary (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Class War in Idaho; The Horrors of the Bull Pen: An Indictment of Combined Capital in Conspiracy with President McKinley, General Merriam and Governor Steunenberg, for Their Crimes Against the Miners of the Coeur d'Alenes (third edition; 1899), by Job Harriman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Class War in Idaho; The Horrors of the Bull Pen: An Indictment of Combined Capital in Conspiracy with President McKinley, General Merriam and Governor Steunenberg, for Their Crimes Against the Miners of the Coeur d'Alenes (third edition; 1899), by Job Harriman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• What Means This Strike?, by Daniel De Leon (HTML at marxists.org)

• Passaic: The Story of a Struggle Against Starvation Wages and for the Right to Organize (Chicago: Pub. for the Workers (Communist) Party by the Daily Worker Pub. Co., 1926), by Albert Weisbord
  • HTML at weisbord.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at Rutgers
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Passaic: The Story of a Struggle Against Starvation Wages and for the Right to Organize (Chicago: Pub. for the Workers (Communist) Party by the Daily Worker Pub. Co., 1926), by Albert Weisbord
  • HTML at weisbord.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at Rutgers
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Report of the Executive Board of District Assembly 126, K. of L., Upon the Trouble of L.A.'s 2985, 4235, and 4717, K. of L. (1887), by Knights of Labor District Assembly 126 (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gastonia: A Class Case and a Class Verdict (1929), by International Labor Defense, contrib. by John Louis Engdahl (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gastonia, Citadel of the Class Struggle in the New South (New York: Printed for National Textile Workers Union by Workers Library Publishers, 1929), by William F. Dunne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • version with red-lettered cover: PDF at flvc.org
• Gastonia: A Class Case and a Class Verdict (1929), by International Labor Defense, contrib. by John Louis Engdahl (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Proletarian Journey: New England, Gastonia, Moscow (New York: Hillman-Curl, c1937), by Fred Erwin Beal (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Point Gorda Strike (New York: Marine Workers Industrial Union, ca. 1932), by George Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Criminal Record of the Western Federation of Miners, Coeur d'Alene to Cripple Creek, 1894-1904 (1904), by Colorado Mine Operators' Association (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Detroit Sunday Journal (newspaper published by striking workers from the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press; 1995-1999) (full serial archives)

• On Strike at Hormel: The Struggle for a Democratic Labor Movement (originally published 1990; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Hardy Green, contrib. by Peter J. Rachleff (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• The Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992), by Paul Krause (page images at Pitt)

• Liberty: A Speech Delivered at Battery D, Chicago, on Release from Woodstock Jail, November 22, 1895 (1895 speeech made on author's release from jail; Chicago: C.H. Kerr and Co, ca. 1911), by Eugene V. Debs (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Strikers, Communists, Tramps and Detectives (New York: G. W. Carleton, c1878), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Southern Labor in Revolt (New York and Philadelphia: Intercollegiate Student Council of the League for Industrial Democracy, 1930), by Kenneth Meiklejohn and Peter Raymond Nehemkis
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Spain and Peace (second edition; New York: Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, 1952), by Howard Fast, illust. by Pablo Picasso
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at flvc.org

• Strike Strategy (Labor Herald Library #18; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, 1926), by William Z. Foster
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • HTML with commentary at marxists.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
• Strikes and the Communists Behind Them (New York: Constitutional Educational League, c1947), by Joseph P. Kamp (page images at HathiTrust)

• The General Strike; The Last War; The Deadly Parallel, by Big Bill Haywood (HTML at Arizona)

• The Campus Strikes Against War (New York: Student League for Industrial Democracy, c1935), by Joseph P. Lash (page images at HathiTrust)

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