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• Weaving the Future (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by Evelyn B. Gordon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Weaving the Future (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by Evelyn B. Gordon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Loom and Spindle: or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls, with a Sketch of The Lowell Offering and Some of its Contributors (New York and Boston: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1898), by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, contrib. by Carroll Davidson Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lowell Offering (full serial archives)

• Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender, and Class in a New South Community (originally published 1985; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019), by Dolores E. Janiewski, contrib. by LaGuana Gray (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

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

• The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists, and Plug-Drawers (third edition; Brighouse, UK: J. Hartley, 1895), by Frank Peel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists and Plugdrawers (second edition; Heckmondwike, UK: Senior and Co., 1888), by Frank Peel
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Wych Hazel (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1876), by Susan Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner (page images at Harvard)
• Wych Hazel (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1888), by Susan Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner (Gutenberg text)

• Lancashire and the Far East (London: Allen and Unwin, c1931), by Freda Utley (PDF at fredautley.com)

• 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)

• Proletarian Journey: New England, Gastonia, Moscow (New York: Hillman-Curl, c1937), by Fred Erwin Beal (page images at HathiTrust)

• Southern Cotton Mills and Labor (New York: Workers Library Publishers, c1929), by Myra Page (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

• 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

• 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)

• Sociology and the Unrecognized Worker (ca. 1977), by National Labor Federation (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Worker Voice: Employee Representation in the Workplace in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US, 1914-1939 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2016), by Greg Patmore
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • 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)

• Supplemental Unemployment Benefit and Retirement Plan Between International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW CIO) and Ford Motor Company (1955), by International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Medical Monitoring and Screening in the Workplace: Results of a Survey (Washington: GPO, 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton
  • PDF at unt.edu

• Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States (2004), by Free the Slaves (Organization) and University of California Berkeley Human Rights Center (PDF at Cornell)
• Forced Labor in the United States (New York: International Publishers, c1933), by Walter Wilson, contrib. by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration (1997), ed. by James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States (2004), by Free the Slaves (Organization) and University of California Berkeley Human Rights Center (PDF at Cornell)
• Legal Immigration: Setting Priorities (report to Congress; 1995), by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, contrib. by Barbara Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Immigration Policy: Restoring Credibility (Jordan commission interim report to Congress; 1994), by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, contrib. by Barbara Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shame of a Nation: A Documented Story of Police-State Terror Against Mexican-Americans in the U.S.A. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1954), by Patricia Morgan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Work-Accidents and the Law (New York: Charities Publication Committee, c1910), by Crystal Eastman
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Liberalism at Work: The Rise and Fall of OSHA (originally published 1986; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019), by Charles Noble, contrib. by Bryant Simon (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)
• Preventing Illness and Injury in the Workplace (OTA-H-256; 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Law in the Age of Hypercapitalism: The Worker, the Family, and the State (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Ruth Colker (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Labor Looks at the 90th Congress: An AFL-CIO Legislative Report (1968), by AFL-CIO Department of Legislation (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Right to Work" Laws: A Trap for America's Minorities (English and Spanish versions; ca. 1968), by Cesar Chavez and Bayard Rustin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Shannon Gleeson
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Labor's Charter of Rights (Washington: American Federation of Labor, ca. 1935), by William Green, Robert F. Wagner, Lloyd K. Garrison, Francis Biddle, Edwin S. Smith, Harry A. Millis, and Charlton Ogburn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor Looks At Congress 1973, by AFL-CIO Department of Legislation (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labour Laws for Women in the United States (London: Women's Industrial Council, 1907), by Josephine Goldmark
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
• 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)
• Should Unions Be Incorporated? Responsibility of Unions Under the Law (Washington: Social Democratic Federation, USA, 1937), by Louis Waldman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People (Washington: Center for Economic and Policy Research, c2013), by Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein (multiple formats at cepr.net)
• The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record (Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, c2014), by Steven Raphael (PDF with commentary at upjohn.org)

• Preventing Illness and Injury in the Workplace (OTA-H-256; 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial Poisons in the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1929), by Alice Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen: A Just Free Market Solution for Saving Social Security (2004), by Norman G. Kurland, Dawn K. Brohawn, and Michael D. Greaney (PDF at cesj.org)
• The Townsend Plan: What It Is and What It Isn't (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1936), by Alex Bittelman (PDF at flvc.org)
• Supplemental Unemployment Benefit and Retirement Plan Between International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW CIO) and Ford Motor Company (1955), by International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (page images at HathiTrust)

• Issues in Civilian Outplacement Strategies: Proceedings of a Workshop (1996), ed. by Renae F. Broderick (page images with commentary at NAP)

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