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• The Condition of the Working Class in England, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)
• Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England, by Arnold Toynbee (text at McMaster)

• Letters to Our Working Party (New York: E. and J.B. Young and Co., n.d.), by Evelyn Whitaker (PDF and text with commentary at evelynwhitakerlibrary.org)

• The Carbonels, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• The Million-Peopled City: or, One-Half of the People of London Made Known to the Other Half (1853), by John Garwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• Improvements in Education, As It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community (London: Darton and Harvey, 1803), by Joseph Lancaster (multiple formats at Google)

• Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine, by Edwin Waugh (Gutenberg text)
• Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine (with additional related material), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)
• Walks in South Lancashire and on its Borders: With Letters, Descriptions, Narratives, and Observations, Current and Incidental (1844), by Samuel Bamford (HTML in the UK)

• Life and Labour of the People in London, First Series: Poverty (4 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1904), ed. by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Labour of the People in London, Second Series: Industry (5 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), ed. by Charles Booth
  • Volume 1 (Classification of the People, Building Trades, Wood and Metal Workers): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Precious Metals, Watches, Instruments, Paper and Printing Trades, Textiles, and Sundry Manufactures): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Dress, Food, Drink, Dealers, Clerks, Locomotion and Labour): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Public, Professional and Domestic Service; Unoccupied Classes; Inmates of Institutions): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (Comparisons, Survey and Conclusions): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes (some US access only): page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Labour of the People in London, Third Series: Religious Influences (7 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), ed. by Charles Booth
  • Volume 1 (London North of the Thames: The Outer Ring): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (London North of the Thames: The Inner Ring): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (The City of London and the West End): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Inner South London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (South-East and South-West London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (Outer South London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7 (Summary): multiple formats at archive.org
• London Labour and the London Poor (London: Griffin, Bohn and Co., 1861-1862), by Henry Mayhew
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
  • extra volume: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • extra volume: multiple formats at archive.org
• Toilers in London, by One of the Crowd, by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Toilers in London, or, Inquiries Concerning Female Labour in the Metropolis (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1889), by British Weekly Commissioners (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• 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

• Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text)

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

• High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist Analysis of the Changing Character of the Working Class (1986), by Sam Marcy (HTML at workers.org)
• Die Arbeiterfrage: Mit Besonderer Berücksichtigung der Sozialpsychologischen Seite des Modernen Grossbetriebes und der Psycho-Physischen Einwirkungen auf die Arbeiter (in German; Munich: E. Reinhardt, 1912), by Adolf Levenstein
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • reprint: page images in Germany
• Elements of the Labor Problem (1918), by Magnus W. Alexander (page images here at Penn)
• The Slavery of Our Times, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Aylmer Maude (HTML at cyberspacei.com)
• Two Memorials on Behalf of the Working Classes: The First Presented to the Governments of Europe and America, the Second to the Allied Powers Assembled in Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; et al., 1818), by Robert Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The A B C of Finance: or, The Money and Labor Questions Familiarly Explained to Common People, In Short and Easy Lessons, by Simon Newcomb
  • HTML at econlib.org
  • page images at MOA
• Miźh̀narodnyĭ Sot́s̀iíàlistychnyĭ i Robitnychyĭ Rukh (in Ukranian; Cleveland: Z Drukarni Robitnyka, 1917), by Zimmerwald Conference (1915), trans. by E. Kruk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Onward Sweep of the Machine Process (Chicago: I. W. W. Publishing Bureau, ca. 1917), by N. H. Hanson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Postulates of English Political Economy, by Walter Bagehot (HTML at econlib.org)
• The Right to Be Lazy, by Paul Lafargue, trans. by Charles H. Kerr (HTML at marxists.oef)
• The Wages Question: A Treatise on Wages and the Wages Class (London: Macmillan and Co., 1888), by Francis Amasa Walker (HTML at econlib.org)
• The Art of Handling Men (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1910), by James H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kapitalismus und Socialismus: mit Besonderer Rücksicht auf Geschäfts- und Vermögensformen (in German; Tübingen: H. Laupp, 1870), by A. Schäffle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Labor: Its History and Its Prospects (1848), by Robert Dale Owen, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
• The Organization of Labor and Association (New York: W. H. Graham, 1847), by Math Briancourt, trans. by Francis George Shaw (multiple formats at Google)
• Resolutions of the Congress of Geneva, 1866, and the Congress of Brussels, 1868 (London: Printed by the Westminster Printing Co., ca. 1868), by International Workingmen's Association (1864-1876)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sabotage (Chicago: C. H. Kerr Co., c1913), by Emile Pouget, trans. by Arturo M. Giovannitti, contrib. by Charles H. Kerr
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters (Richmond, VA: A. Morris, 1857), by George Fitzhugh
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Le Sabotage (Bibliotheque du Mouvement Proletarian #13, in French; Paris: Librairie des Sciences Politiques et Sociales, M. Riviere et cie., ca. 1911), by Emile Pouget
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished, by Henry Charles Carey (Gutenberg text)

• Report of the Proceedings of the Congress of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, by Pan-American Federation of Labor (partial serial archives)

• 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)

• The Awakening of China (Chicago: Daily Worker Pub. Co., c1926), by James H. Dolsen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Second Congress of the Labour and Socialist International, at Marseilles, 22nd to 27th August, 1925 (London: Labour Party, 1925), by Labour and Socialist International
  • first part: multiple formats at archive.org
  • statistics table from first part: page images at archive.org
  • second part: multiple formats at archive.org

• Beauty for Ashes (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1914), by Albion Fellows Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing of the Unskilled Wage Earner: America's Next Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Recent Trends in American Housing (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, Their Arrangement and Construction (third edition; London: The Society For Improving The Condition Of The Labouring Classes, ca. 1853), by Henry Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing Famine, How to End It: A Triangular Debate, by John J. Murphy, Edith Elmer Wood, and Frederick Lee Ackerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Housing Problem in War and Peace (1918), by Charles Harris Whitaker, Frederick Lee Ackerman, Richard S. Childs, and Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sybaris and Other Homes, by Edward Everett Hale (page images at MOA)

• Labour Conditions in Western Europe, 1820 to 1935 (New York: International Publishers, ca. 1936), by Jürgen Kuczynski (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1912), by Booker T. Washington and Robert Ezra Park (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Message of Internationalism (Amalgamated Education Pamphlet #8; New York: Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 1923), by Joseph Schlossberg (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.