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• Dismal England (Walter Scott, 1901), by Robert Blatchford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Change in the Village, by George Sturt (Gutenberg ebook)

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

• Lower class (Caxton, 1938), by George Youell and Anton Otto Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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

• V Rossii i v Anglii : nabli︠u︡denii︠a︡ i vospominanii︠a︡ peterburgskogo rabochego (1890-1921 g.g.) (Gosudarstvennoe izd-vo, 1987), by A. Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Historical account of the Luddites of 1811, 1812, and 1813 : with report of their trials at York Castle, from the 2nd to the 12th of January, 1813, before Sir Alexander Thompson and Sir Simon Le Blanc, knights, judges of the special commission. (J. Cowgill, 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Historical account of the Luddites of 1811, 1812, and 1813 : with report of their trials at York Castle, from the 2nd to the 12th of January, 1813, before Sir Alexander Thompson and Sir Simon Le Blanc, knights, judges of the special commission. (J. Cowgill, 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Improvements in Education, As It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community (London: Darton and Harvey, 1803), by Joseph Lancaster (multiple formats at Google)
• Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community; : containing, among other important particulars, an account of the institution for the education of one thousand poor children, Borough-road, Southwark; and of the new system of education on which it is conducted. (Printed and sold by J. Lancaster ... Darton and Harvey ... and Hatchard ..., 1806), by Joseph Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community: containing among other important particulars, an account of the institution for the education of one thousand poor children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the new system of education on which it is conducted. (Printed and sold by Collins and Perkins, 1807), by Joseph Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improvements in education : abridged. Containing a complete epitome, of the system of education, invented and practised by the author (Printed and sold by J. Lancaster, 1808), by Joseph Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community : containing a short account of its present state, hints towards its improvement, and a detail of some practical experiments conducive to that end (s.n., 1803), by Joseph Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)

• London life in the xviiith century (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner;, 1925), by M. Dorothy George (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Life and Struggles of William Lovett, in His Pursuit of Bread, Knowledge, and Freedom (2 volumes in different editions; 1920), by William Lovett, contrib. by R. H. Tawney
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The progress of the working classes in the last half century / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1884), by Robert Giffen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-revolutionary tracts (J. Masters, 1848), by Sosthenes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and struggles of William Lovett, in his pursuit of bread, knowledge, and freedom ; with some short account of the different associations he belonged to, and of the opinions he entertained (Trübner, 1876), by William Lovett (page images at HathiTrust)
• A proposal for an agrarian endowment of the population, in lieu of the existing poor law and corn law : in a letter to His Grace the Duke of Richmond, K.G. (John Miland, 1846), by David Owen Edwards and Charles Gordon-Lennox Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report from the Select Committee on Labourers Wages. (s.n.], 1824), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Select Committee on Labourers Wages (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Paul Thomas Murphy (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes. (Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1885), by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Housing of the working classes (C. Tinling, 1901), by Liverpool (England). Housing Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), by George Jacob Holyoake (HTML in the UK)

• For Their Own Good: The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lucinda McCray Beier (PDF at Ohio State)

• Sixty years of an agitator's life (T. Fisher Unwin, 1900), by George Jacob Holyoake (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The organization of labor and association (William H. Graham, 1847), by Math Briancourt and Francis George Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The labor-value fallacy (Patriots' League, 1886), by M. L. Scudder and Patriots' League (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some religious aspects of positivism : a paper read before the Oxford University Church Society, on Jan. 26, 1880 / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (Printed by E. Baxter, 1881), by W. Lock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Woman's wages. (Daily Gazette Book and Job Office, 1888), by Catharine Waugh McCulloch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Working People of California (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), ed. by Daniel A. Cornford (HTML at UC Press)

• Bread, or Bullets! Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), by Joan Casanovas (page images at Pitt)

• Burzhuazīi︠a︡ i Proletarīat v Revoli︠u︡t︠s︡īi︠a︡kh 1830 i 1848 gg vo Frant︠s︡īi (published anonymously in Russian, but attributed in some library catalogs to Magnus; Moscow: A. Pechkovskii, 1906), by Maurice Magnus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Études sur les principales causes de la misère (Meline, Cans, 1850), by Michel Chevalier (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Révolution de février au Luxembourg (Michel Lévy frères, 1849), by Louis Blanc and France. Commission de gouvernement pour les travailleurs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Entwicklung der nichtsozialdemokratischen Arbeiterbewegung in Deutschland (A. Gornik, 1909), by Alfons Gornik (page images at HathiTrust)

• Urban Revolt: Ethnic Politics in the Nineteenth-Century Chicago Labor Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Eric L. Hirsch (HTML at UC Press)

• 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)
• "Fort Frick," or the Siege of Homestead; a history of the famous struggle between The Amalgamated Association of iron and steel workers and the Carnegie Steel Co. of Pittsburg, Pa. (Pittsburg Printing Co., 1893), by Myron R Stowell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nachalo sot︠s︡ialisticheskogo rabochego dvizhenii︠a︡ v byvsheĭ russkoĭ Polʹshe : podgotovitelʹnyĭ period partii "Proletariat" : opyt istoricheskogo issledovanii︠a︡ (Gos. izd-vo, 1925), by I. Volkovicher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ocherk peterburgskago rabochago dvizhenīi︠a︡ 90-kh godov : po lichnym vospominanīi︠a︡m (Knigoizd-vo "Zhiznʹ i znanīe", 1918), by K. M. Takhtarev (page images at HathiTrust)

• Workers and idlers ([M.H. Dement], 1883), by Merritt H. Dement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Labor parties and labor reform (Cochrane, printer, 1871), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Associative manual. Pt.I. (Dewitt & Davenport, 1851), by C. S. (Charles Sully) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years among the working-classes in the United States during the war. (Smith, Elder and co., 1865), by James Dawson Burn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The labor question (Lee and Shepard ;, 1884), by Wendell Phillips and George Lowell Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The necessary relations of labor and capital : an address given before the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, April, 1885 (s.n., 1885), by Edward Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• La questione operaia nei principali stati del continente europeo e d'America (s.n., 1890), by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Labour and Geoffrey Drage (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Eglinton tovrnament : dedicated to the Earl of Eglinton, Friday Avgvst 30th, 1839. (Hodgson & Graves, 1840), by Edward Henry Corbould (page images at HathiTrust)

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