Topical

Books that are highly readable
Books for Children
Overviews and Surveys of Labor History
Documents Collections
Essay Collections
Biographies and Oral Histories
U.S. Labor History in Global/Transnational Perspective
Interpretations of Class in the USA
Managerial Strategies /Bourgeois Class Formation
Professionals and Class Issues
Working Class Cultures/Cultures of the Workplace
Exceptionalism (why no Labor Party/Socialism)
Labor and the State/Labor and the Law
Unemployment/Hours/Leisure
African-American Labor History/Race and Labor
Latinos/Latinas in US Labor History
Immigration Ethnicity and Labor History
Women/Gender
War and the Working Class/War and Labor
Specific trades/industries
Geographical treatments

Chronological

Colonial thru Early Nineteenth Century
Slavery
Late 19th through early 20th
Working Class Formation/Working Class Community
Studies 1850-1950
Twentieth Century Approaches and overviews
Labor and Radicalism late 19th early 20th
IWW early 20th
World War I
Interwar Years/1930s
World War II
Cold War & Labor-Anticommunism/Red Scare
Postwar-present
Capital Disinvestment in recent years

Books that are highly readable -let me know if your favorite is not here!

• "They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration by Aviva Chomsky (2007)
• Jeff Faux The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It Back
• David Roediger, Haymarket Scrapbook (1986) and many books from Charles Kerr
• Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, Robin D.G. Kelley
  Jeremy Brecher, Strike!
• Murolo/Chitty From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend
• Studs Terkel, Working (1974)
• Staughton Lynd, Rank and File
• Kingsolver, Barbara, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 (Cornell, 1989, 1996)
• Franklin Folsom, Impatient Armies of the Poor (1992)
• Zweig, Michael, The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret
• William M. Adler, Mollie’s Job: A Story of Life and Work on the global Assembly Line (2000)
• Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas (1998)
• Priscilla Long, Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry (1989)
• Death in the Haymarket James Green  2007
• Richard Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, Labor's Untold Story (1955) a classic that many trade unionists insist is their favorite, even when they've read all our other wonderful books

Labor History Surveys and Perspectives

• Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870. By Beverly J. Silver. 2003.
• Philip Yale Nicholson , Labor's Story in the United States (2004)
• Murolo, Patricia From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend (2001)
• American Social History Project, Who Built America, Vols. I & II new edition 2008
• Ronald Filipelli, Labor in the USA: A History (1984)
• Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877-present  ( 1999)
• Daniel Jacoby Laboring For FreedomA New Look at the History of Labor in America (1998)
• Paul LeBlancA Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (1999)
• Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present (1985)·       
• Jacquelyn Jones, A Social History of the Laboring Classes in America ·       
• Jacquelyn Jones, American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor in America
• David Brody, In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker (1993)
• William Harris, The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War (1982)
• Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in America (1982)
• Teresa L. Amott and Julie A. Matthaei, Race, Gender and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States (1991)
• Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class (1986) · 
• Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon
• Montgomery, David.  Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles. 1979.
• Michael Reich, Segmented Work, Divided Workers
• Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital
• Philip Foner, 10 volume History of American Labor
• Jeremy Brecher, Strike!
• Richard Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, Labor's Untold Story (1955

Essay Collections

• Stromquist, Shelton, ed. · Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context (Collection of Essays), 2008)  
• The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor by Dorothy Sue Cobble, ed. 2007
• Eric Arnesen The Black Worker
• Mercier, Laurie and Jaclyn J. Gier, eds.  Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670-2005.  2006.
• David Brody, Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights (2005)
• Cherny, et.al. American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture (2004)
• The African- American Urban Experience:  Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present, ed. Joe William Trotter, Jr., Earl Lewis, and Tera Hunter. 2005
• Colin Davis, Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworker, 1946-1961 (2003)
• Linkon, Sherry Lee and John Russo.  Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown.  (2002)
• Boyle, Kevin, ed. Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal
  Alliance.  1998
• Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry by Marvin Bergman and Shelton Stromquist (1997)
• Buhle, Paul, From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order: Essays on Labor and Culture (Garland, 1997)
• Miller, Sally M, and Daniel A. Cornford, eds. American Labor in the Era of World War II.
  1995.
• Perusek, Glenn, and Kurt Worcester, eds.  Reade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change, 1960s-1990s 1995
• Brody, David.  Workers in Indsutrial America, 2nd ed.  1993
• Rosswurm, Steve, ed.  The CIO's Left-Led Unions 1992
• Baron, Ava, ed.  Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor 1991.
• Asher, Robert, and Charles Stephenson, eds.  Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States
  Labor Struggles, 1835-1960.  1990.
• Boris, Eileen, and Cynthia R. Daniels, eds.  Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home.  1989.
• Lichtenstein, Nelson, and Stephen Meyer, eds.  On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work. 1989.
• Dubofsky, Melvyn, and Warren Van Tine, eds. Labor Leaders in America  1987
• Groneman, Carol, and Mary Beth Norton, eds.  "To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at
  Work, 1780-1908  (1987)
• Gutman, Herbert G., and Donald H. Bell, eds. The New England Working Class and the New
  Labor History  (1987)
• Gutman, Herbert G.  Power and Culture:  Essays on the American Working Class ( 1987)
• Clark, Paul F., Peter Gottlieb, and Donald Kennedy, eds.  Forging a Union of Steel: Philip
  Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers  (1987)
• Hoerder, Dirk, ed.  "Struggle a Hard Battle": Essays on Working-Class Immigrants 1986
• Stephenson, Charles, and Robert Asher, eds.  Life and Labor: Dimensions of American Working-
  Class History.  1986
• Milkman, Ruth, ed.  Women's Work and Protest: A Century of Women's Labor History 1985
• Jensen, Joan M., and Sue Davidson, eds.  A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike: Women Needleworkers in
  America. (1984)
• Frisch, Michael, and Daniel Walkowitz, eds.  Working-Class America: Labor, Community, and
  American Society 1983
• Keil, Hartmut, and John B. Jentz, eds.  German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910 1983
• James C. Foster, ed. American Labor in the Southwest (1982) Bisbee Deportation, Latino workers
• Montgomery, David.  Workers' Control in America:  Studies in the History of Work, Technology,
  and Labor Struggles 1979.
• Gutman, Herbert G.  Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American
  Working Class and Social History  1976
• Cantor, Milton, and Bruce Laurie, eds.  Class, Sex, and the Woman Worker 1977
• Fink, Gary, ed.  Essays in Southern Labor History  1977
• Laslett, John H.M., and S. M. Lipsett, eds.  Failure of a Dream? Essays in the History of
  American Socialism 1974.
• Bracey, John H., Jr., August Meier, and Elliott Rudwick, eds.  Black Workers and Organized
  Labor 1971
• Jacobson, Julius, ed.  The Negro and the American Labor Movement.  1968

Biographies and Oral History Published Collections

• (see biography page for internet-based materials)

Biographies (more to be added soon!)

• A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) (2007)
• James Barrett, William Z. Foster  and the Tragedy of American Radicalism
• Elliott J. Gorn, Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America.  2001 Mother Jones Bibliography
• Robert Bussel, From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor: Powers Hapgood and the American Working Class
• Nell Irvin Painter, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson (Norton, 1993)
• Dubofsky, Melvyn, and Warren Van Tine, eds. Labor Leaders in America.  1987

Oral History Published Collections

• Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City by Jane Latour (2008)
• Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila by Sandy Polishuk (2003)
• Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle) by MichaelHoney (2002)
• Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975 by Brigid O'Farrell Joyce L. Kornbluh
• Marat Moore, Women in the Mines: Stories of Life and Work (1996).
• Stromquist, ed. Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century (1993)
• Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality (by Rick Halpern & Roger Horowitz (1999)
• Susan Eisenberg, We’ll Call You if We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction (1998)
• Talking Union by Judith Stepan-Norris Maurice Zeitlin Ford Local 600, left labor and anticommunism
• When the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times ed. Thomas Dublin (1998). anthracite region of Pennsylvania.
• Hooligans and Rebels: An Oral History of Working-Class Childood and Youth 1889-1939 by Stephen Humphries (1995)
• A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working Class Women 1890-1940 Elizabeth Roberts (1995)
• Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings : An Anthology by Janet Zandy (1990)
• Studs Terkel, Working (1972)

U.S. Labor History in Global/Transnational Perspective

• The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin History of American Life BY Julie Greene (2009)
• David Bacon, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants 2008.
• Nan Enstad American Congo (at least it starts out that way)
• Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis (2007)
• Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class Aviva Chomsky
• "They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration (Paperback)by Aviva Chompsky (2007)
• Mercier, Laurie and Jaclyn J. Gier, eds.  Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670-2005.  2006.
• Zweig, Michael, The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret
• William M. Adler, Mollie’s Job: A Story of Life and Work on the global Assembly Line (2000)
• Berberoglu, Berch Labor and capital in the age of globalization :   the labor process and the changing nature of work in the global  economy
• William Greider, “Why the Global Economy Needs Worker Rights” WorkingUSA May/June 1997
• David Harvey, Spaces of Hope (California Studies in Critical  Human Geography, 7)
• Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local by Kevin R. Cox (1997)

Comparative/Transnational Labour History - Preliminary Bibliography

• Marcel Van der Linden, “The Globalization of Labor and Working Class History and Its Consequences,” ILWCH 65 (Spring 2004) 136-156
• Donna Gabaccia. Franca Iocavetta and Fraser Ottanelli, Laboring Across National Borders: Class, Gender and Militancy in the Proletarian Mass Migrations, ILWCH (Fall 2004) 57-77 ·   
• Jamie Bronstein, Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 ·      
• John H. M. Laslett  Colliers Across the Sea: A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924 (The Working Class in American History)
• Comrades or Cousins: Globalization, Workers and Labour Movements in Britain, the USA and Australia from the 1880s to 1914 - Neville Kirk; (2003)
• ·Colin Davis, Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworker, 1946-1961 (2003)
• Steinfeld, Robert The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
• Sam Davies, et.al  Dock Workers: International Explorations in Comparative Labour Histoyr, 1790-1970 by. (2000)
• Victor Silverman, Imagining Internationalism in American and British Labor, 1939–1949.  2000.
•    Marcel van der Linden “Transationalizing American Labor History,” Journal of American History Vol 86, no 3, (1999) ·        
• Gerald Friedman State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States, 1876-1914 (1999) · 
•  Neville Kirk Labour and Society in Britain and the USA: Capitalism, Custom and Protest, 1780-1850 (1994)
•   Guerin-Gonzalez Camille and Carl Strikwerda eds. The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in  the World Economy Since 1830 (1993)
•    Steinfeld, Robert The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 (1991)
•   Levine, Rhonda ed. Bringing Class Back In: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives (Boulder 1991).
•     Kealey, Greg and Greg Patmore eds. Canadian and Australian Labour History: Towards a Comparative Perspective    (Sydney 1990).
•    Haimson, Leopold and Charles Tilly eds. Strikes, Wars and Revolutions in an International Perspective Strike Waves in  the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge 1989).
•    Haydu, Jeffrey. Between Craft and Class: Skilled Workers and Factory Politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922 (California 1988).
•     Bergquist, Charles Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Chile, Argentina Venezuela, and Colombia.     Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986. ·      
• Bright, Charles and Susan Harding eds. Statemaking and Social Movements (Michigan 1984).
•    Cronin, James and Carmen Sirianni eds. Work, Community and Power: The Experience of Labor In Europe and America, 1900-1925 (Philadelphia 1983). ·
•   Katznelson “Working Class formation: Constructing Casess and Comparisons, “ in Working Class formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe and the US (Princeton, 1986) p 3-41 ·         Edwards, P.K. Conflict at Work (Oxford 1986).
• Katznelson, Ira and Aristide Zolberg eds. Working Class Formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe  and the U.S. (Princeton 1986).
•   Fredrickson, George. White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (1980)
• Frenkel, Stephen ed. Organized Labour in the Asia-Pacific Region: a Comparative Study of Trade Unionism in Nine Countries (Ithaca 1993).
• Laslett, John. Nature's Noblemen: The Fortunes of the Independent Collier in Scotland and the American Midwest,  1855-1889. ·
• Pahl, R.E. On work: historical, comparative and theoretical approaches (Oxford 1988).
• Ramirez, Bruno. On the Move: French Canadian and Italian Migrant Workers in the Atlantic Economy, 1860-1914 (Toronto 1993) ·       
•   Safa, Helen and Eleanor Leacock. Women's Work: Development and the Division of Labor by Gender (South Hadley 1986). · 
• Skocpol, Theda et.al eds. Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge 1985). ·   
• Taylor, Andrew. Trade Unions and Politics: A Comparative Introduction (New York,1989). ·
• Tolliday, Stephen and Jonathan Zeitlin eds. Shop Floor Bargaining and the State: historical and comparative perspectives     (Cambridge 1985). ·  
• Ward, Kathryn. Women's Work and Global Restructuring (Ithaca 1992). ·
• Wrigley, Chris ed. Challenges of Labour: Central and Western Europe, 1917-1920 (London 1993).
• Haimson, Leopold and Charles Tilly eds. Strikes, Wars and Revolutions in an International Perspective Strike Waves in  the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge 1989).
•   Zeitlin, Jonathan ed. The automobile industry and its workers: between Fordism and Flexibility (London 1986).
• S.M. Jacoby, ed., Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Emplyers (Columbia ·         Univ. Press 1991) ·       
•   S.M. Jacoby, ed., The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy (f
• Bergquist, Charles Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Chile, Argentina Venezuela, and Colombia.     1986.
• Bright, Charles and Susan Harding eds. Statemaking and Social Movements (Michigan 1984).
• Cronin, James and Carmen Sirianni eds. Work, Community and Power: The Experience of Labor In Europe and America, 1900-1925 (Philadelphia 1983).
• Katznelson “Working Class formation: Constructing Casess and Comparisons, “ in Working Class formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe and the US (Princeton, 1986) p 3-41
• Katznelson, Ira and Aristide Zolberg eds. Working Class Formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe  and the U.S. (Princeton 1986).
• Fredrickson, George. White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (1980)
• Frenkel, Stephen ed. Organized Labour in the Asia-Pacific Region: a Comparative Study of Trade Unionism in Nine Countries (Ithaca 1993).
• Geary, Dick. European Labour Protest 1848-1939 (London 1981).
• Greenberg, Stanley. Race and State in Capitalist Development: Comparative Perspective (New Haven 1980).
• Haydu, Jeffrey. Between Craft and Class: Skilled Workers and Factory Politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922 (California 1988).
• Kealey, Greg and Greg Patmore eds. Canadian and Australian Labour History: Towards a Comparative Perspective    (Sydney 1990).
• Laslett, John. Nature's Noblemen: The Fortunes of the Independent Collier in Scotland and the American Midwest,  1855-1889.
• Ward, Kathryn. Women's Work and Global Restructuring (Ithaca 1992).
• Wrigley, Chris ed. Challenges of Labour: Central and Western Europe, 1917-1920 (London 1993).
• Zeitlin, Jonathan ed. The automobile industry and its workers: between Fordism and Flexibility (1986)

Managerial Strategies /Bourgeois Class Formation (see also capital disinvestment section)

• Andrew Dawson Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class and Revolution, 1830-1890 (2004)
• Sven Beckert's The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 (2003)
• Markowitz & Rosner, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (2003)
• Robert Michael Smith, From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A Histoyr of Comercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States (2003)
• Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz, The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America (2001)
• William Millikan, A Union Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor(2001)
• Clifford Kuhn, Contesting the New South Order: The 1914-1915 Strike at Atlanta’s Fulton Mills (2001)
• Stephen Norwood, Strikebreaking and Intimidation:Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth Century America (2001)
• Venus Green Race on the Line: Gender, Labor and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980 (2001)
• Marc Linder and Ingrid Nygaard, Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right to Urinate on Company Time
• Sanford Jacoby Modern Manors
• David Brian Robertson, Capital, Labor and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal (2000)
• Howell John Harris, Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940 (2000)
• Marc Linder Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable and the Decline of Construction Unions (1999)
• Charles McCormick,  Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill District, 1917-1921 (1998)
• Theodore Kornweibel, Jr, Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns against Black Militancy, 1919-1925 (1998) –some sections on labor activists
• Daniel Nelson, Managers and Workers: Origins of the New Factory System (1975, new ed. 1995)
• Gary Fink, The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914-1915:Espionage, Labor Conflict and New South Industrail Relations (1993)
• Sanford M. Jacoby, Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900-1945 (1985)
• Ruth Milkman  Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During WWII (1987)
• Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940 (1986)
• Braverman, Harry Labor and Monopoly Capitalism: The Degradation of Work in Twentieth Century (1974)
• Gordon, Robert, Edwards, Reich, Segmented Work, Divided Workers
• Gerald Zahavi, Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism: The Shoeworkers and Tanners of Endicott Johnson, 1890-1950
• Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-1960 (1994)
• Daniel Ernst, Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (1995)
• Jay Leavitt, Confessions of A Union Buster (1980s-present)
• Stephen Meyer, The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management at the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921 (1981)
• Howell Harris, The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s(1981
• Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz, It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America  (1989)
• Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone, The Great U-Turn: Corporate Retructuring and the Polarizing of America (1988)
• John Cumbler, A Social History of Economic Decline (1988)
• Patricia Cayo Sexton, The War on Labor and The Left
• Jerry Cooper, The Army and Civil Disorder (1980)
• Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson (anti-union ideology)
• Sylvester Petro, works on unions for Right-to-Work committee (leading light)
• Frederick Hayek'schapter on unions in Constitution of Liberty (1960) (anti-union ideology)

Professionals and Class

• Jack Metzgar, Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered
• Barbara Ehrenreich Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
• Walkowitz, Daniel Working With Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle Class Identity (1999)
• Clarence Wunderlin Visions of A New Industrial Order: Social Science and Labor Theory in America’s Progressive Era (1992)
• Marjorie Murphy Blackboard Unions: The AFT and the NEA, 1900-1980 (1990)
• Michelle M. Tokarczyk , Elizabeth A. Fay eds. Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory –
• This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class - C. L. Barney Dews, Carolyn Leste La

Working Class Cultures/Cultures of the Workplace

see also working class formation/community Studies, which usually address this

• On Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America by Ellen R. Baker
• Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940 (1986)
• Herbert G. Gutman, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American Working Class and Social History (1977
• Madelon Powers Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Wrokingman’s Saloon, 1870-1920
• Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940 (1986)
• Francis Couvares,                                                     
• Colette Hyman,  Staging Strikes: Workers’ Tehatre and the American Labor Movement
• Roy Rozenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will

Labor "Exceptionalism"

• Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States?by Robin Archer (2008)
• Sean Wilentz, "Against Exceptionalism: Consciousness and the American Labor Movement, 1790-1920," International Labor and Working Class History (Fall 1984) + responses
• Sanford M. Jacoby, "American Exceptionalism Revisited: The Importance of Management," in S. Jacoby, ed., Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers (1991)
• Kim Voss, The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century (1994)
• Aristide Zolberg, "How Many Exceptionalisms?" in Ira Katznelson and Zolberg, ed.s, Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States (1986)
• Patricia Sexton, The War on Labor and the Left (1993)
• John H.M Laslett and Seymour Martin Lipset Failure of a Dream? Essays in the Histoyr of American Socialism (New York, 1974)
• Marianne Debouzy, In the Shadow of the Statue of Liberty: Immigrants, Workers and Citizens in the American Republic, 1880-1920) Paris: 1988
• Eric Foner, “Why is There No Socilaism in the United States” Histoyr Workshop, 17 (Spring 1984) pp 57-80
• Selig Perlman, A Theory of the Labor Movement (1928)
• Christopher Johnson, “French Exceptionalism,” Labor History, Winter 1995

Labor and the State/Labor and the Law (American exceptionalism and the law)-

• Barbara Young Welke, Recasting American Liberty : Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (2002)
• Robert Steinfeld Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century (2003)
• Steinfeld, Robert The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
• Julie Novkov, Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years  (2001)
• Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and  Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America
• Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America (2001)
• David Brian Robertson, Labor Capital and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets\
• James Schmidt, Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1815-1880 (1999)
• Ruth O’Brien, Workers’ Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935 (1998)
• Simon, Bryant   A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948. 1998.
• Breen, W.J., Labor Market politics and the Great War: the Dept of Labor, the states and the first U.S. Employment Service, 1907-1933 (1997)
• Amy Dru Stanley From Bondage to ContractColin Gordon, New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics in America, 1920-1935 (1995)
• Ernst, Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (1995)
• Steven Fraser, Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (1994)
• Udo Sautter, Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment Before the New Deal (1991)
• James Gross, Broken Promise: The Subversion of U.S. Labor Relations Policy, 1947-1994 (1995)
• Melvyn Dubofsky The State and Labor in Modern America (1994)
• Nelson Lichtenstein and Howell John Harris, eds. Industrial Democracy in America: the Ambiguous Promise (1993)
• Victoria Hattam, Labor Visions and State Power –
• Victoria Hattam, “Economic Visions and Political Strategies: American Labor and the State, 1865-1936” in Studies in American Political Development 4 (199), 82-129
• Karen Orren Belated Feudalism: Labor the Law and Liberal Development in the United States (1991)
• Kim Voss, The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century
• William E. Forbath, Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (1991)
• Marty Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Politics (1988)
• Christoper L. Tomlins, The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880-1960 (1985)
• Christoper Tomlins, Law Labor and Ideology in the Early American Republic
• Richard Oestreicher, “Urban Working-Class Political Behavior and Theories of American Electoral Politics, 1870-1940The Journal of American History, Vol. 74, No. 4. (Mar., 1988), pp. 1257-1286.
• Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991)
• David Montgomery, Citizen Worker (1994)
• Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics (1984)—excellent section on the effects of labor’s Cold War blinders on direction of postwar state
• Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (1982)
• Karl E. Klare, "Judicial Deradicalization of the Wagner Act and the Origins of Modern Legal Consciousness, 1937-1941," Minnesota Law Review 62 (1978) 265-339 ; classic article about the way that the state dismantled radical possibilities for the Wagner Act and the labor movement
• James Gross, The National Labor Relations Board (3 vols)
• Staughton Lynd, "Ideology and Labor Law," Stanford Law Review 36 9184) 1273-1298
• Staughton Lynd and Michael Klare, articles in Industrial Relations Law Journal, 1981
• Dawley, “Workers, Capital and the State in the Twentieth Century,” in J. Carroll Moody and Alice Kessler-Harris, eds., Perspectives on American Labor History ( 1990), 152-202
• Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin. Shop Floor Bargaining and the State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (1985)
• Rick Fantasia, Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, adn Contemporary American Workers (1988)
• Barbara Garson, The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers Are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past (1988)
• Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988)
• Gerda Ray, “Strike Control and the State Police in New York, 1991-1923” Labor History Summer 1995
• Price Fishback, “An Alternative View of Violence in Labor Disputes in the early 1900s: The Bituminous Coal Industry, 1890-1930J
• Joseph McCartin, Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921Charles McCormick, Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mills District, 1917-1921Julie Greene, Pure and Simple Politics : The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917

Unemployment/Hours/Leisure

• Labor's time: shorter hours, the UAW, and the struggle for the American unionism Jonathan Cutler 2004
• David Roediger and Philip Foner, Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (1988)
• Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (1983)
• Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt, Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work (1988)
• Gary Cross, the Quest for Time
• Juliet Schor, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (1992) Folsom, Franklin.
• Impatient Armies of the Poor: The Story of Collective Action of the Unemployed, 1808-1942.(1990)
• Breen, W.J., Labor Market politics and the Great War: the Dept of Labor, the states and the first U.S. Employment Service, 1907-1933 (1997)
• Udo Sautter, Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment Before the New Deal (1991)
• David Montgomery, Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans  Heather Cox Richardson, Race, Labor and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901

African-American Workers / Race and Labor (much to be added here soon)

• Bob Zieger's bibliography on Race and Labor
• Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle by Laurie B. Green
• Michael Honey Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (2007)
• Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left by Richard Iton (2000)
• David Roediger, Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991)
• Roediger, David, ‘Labor in White Skin’: Race and Working Class History, Reshaping th eU.S. Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980s: The Year Left, Volume 3 ed, Mike Davis (verso, 1988), 287-308
• Roediger, David, “What if Labor Were Not White and Male? Recentering Working Calss Histoyra nd Reconstructing ----Debate on the Unions and Race International Labor and Working Class History, NO. 51, Spring 1997 pp 72-95
• Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (New York, 1985)
• Gwendolyn Mink New Labor, Old Immigrants
• Alexander Saxton, The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in 19th Century America (Verso, 199)
• Eric Arnesen, “Up From Exclusion: Black and White Workers, Race, and the State of Labor History,” Reviews in American History 26 (1998) 1946-174
• Eric Arnesan, Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class and Politics, 1863-1923
• Bruce Nelson, Divided We Stand
• Symposium: Bruce Nelson, “Class, Race and Democracy in the CIO: The “New” Labor History Meets the “Wages of Whiteness” International Review of Social Histiry 41 (1996) pp. 351-374; and responses: Elizabeth Faue, “Anti-Heroes of the Working Calss”: A Response to Bruce Nelson” IRSH 41 (1996), pp. 375-388, Thomas Sugrue, “Segmented Work, Race Conscious Workers: Structure, Agency and Division in the CIO Era, IRSH 41 (1996), pp 389-406, and Reply, Worling Class Agency and Racial Inequality, IRSH 41 (1996)pp 407-420
• Thomas Sugrue, “The Origins of the uRband Crisis, with responses- Labor History Vol 39, No. 1, Feb 1998
• Eric Arneson, Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Quest for Equality (2001)
• Obadele-Starks, Ernest Black Unionism in the Industrial South ( 2000)
• Walter Johnson, Soul By Soul: Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
• Daniel Letwin The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921
• Peter Rachleff, Black Labor in Richmond
• Earl Lewis, In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth Century Norfolk—(1991)discussion of class in the U.S. and U.S. working class, challenges to interpretation
• Kelly, Race Rebels
• Eric Arnesan, Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class and Politics (1990)
• Janiewski, Dolores, Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender and Class in a New South Community (Temple, 1985)
• Organized Labor in the Twenieth-Century South, ed Robert H. Zieger, 35-59
• Robin D. G. Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class (1994)
• Michael Honey, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (1992)
• Thomas Sugrue The Origins of the Urban Crisis: see also symposium on the book in Labor History Feb 1998, vol 39, and Sugrue’s response
• Bates, Beth Tompkins Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925,-1945
• Minchin, Timothy, The Color Of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
• Minchin, Timothy, Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980
• Nell Irvin Painter, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson (Norton, 1993)
• Robin Kelley Hammer and Hoe (University of North Carolina Press, 1990)
• Robert Asher and Charles Stephenson, eds., Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles (1990)
• Herbert Hill, Black Labor and the American Legal System: Race, Work and the Law (1985) and his numerous articles
• Joe William Trotter, Jr, Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industriaal Proletariat, 1915-45
• Susan Turner Meiklejohn, Wages, Race, Skills and Space: Lessons from Employers in Detroit’s Auto Industry (2000)
• Halpern and Horowitz: Packinghouse Unionism, see symposium in Labor History, May 1999
• Du Bois, W.E.B.  Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880.  1935  the classic work of African-Americans as a black proletariat

Latino/Latina Labor History

• Guerin-Gonzales, “CONVERSING ACROSS BOUNDARIES OF RACE, ETHNICITY, CLASS, GENDER, AND REGION: LATINO AND LATINA LABOR HISTORY,”in The African- American Urban Experience:  Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present, ed. Joe William Trotter, Jr., Earl Lewis, and Tera Hunter. 2005
• On Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America by Ellen R. Baker (2007)
• Jose Alamillo, Making lemonade out of lemons: Mexican American labor and leisure in a California town, 1880-1960,2006.
• Vargas, Zaragosa, Labor Rights are Civil Rights (2005)
• Matt García. A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of GreaterLos Angeles, 1900–1970. 2001.
• Carmen Teresa Whalen, From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Work-ers and Postwar Economies. 2001.
• Mike Davis, Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City (2001)
• Guerin-Gonzales, Camille, Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 (1996)
• Zaragosa Vargas,  Proletarians of the North A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933 (1993)
• Cletus E. Daniel, Bitter Harvest  (1991)
• Cletus E. Daniel, Chicano Workers and the Politics of Fairness (1991)
• Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (1990)
• Erasmo Gamboa, Mexican Labor and World War II (1990)
• Sara Deutsch, No separate refuge: culture, class, and gender on an Anglo-Hispanic frontier, 1880-1940. 1987.
• Robin F. Scott, “Wartime Labor Problems and Mexican-Americans in the War,” in Manuel P. Servin, ed., The Mexican Americans (1974)
• Juan R. Garcia Operation Wetback (1965)
• Ernesto Galarza, Merchants of Labor (1965)
• Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives (1976)
• Selden C. Menefee and Orin C. Cassmore, The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio (1940)
• George Sanchez, Forgotten People (1996)
• Daniel T. Simon, “Mexican Repatriation in East Chicago, Indiana,” Journal of Ethnic Studies 2 (Summer 1974) 11-23
• Richard Griswold del Castillo, The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890 (1979)
• James R. Kluger, The Clifton-Morenci Strike (1970)
• Mark Reisler, By the Sweat of Their Brow  (1976)
• David R. Maciel, “Mexican Migrant Workers in the United States,” in James C. Foster, ed. American Labor in the Southwest (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1982)
• Ortiz, Altagracia, ed. Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in Transnational Labor (1996)
• The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas (1995)
• Open Veins of Latin America
• Juan R. Garcia Operation Wetback (1965)
• Ernesto Galarza, Merchants of Labor (1965)
• Cletus E. Daniel, Bitter Harvest  (1991)
• Cletus E. Daniel, Chicano Workers and the Politics of Fairness (1991)
• Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives (1976)
• George Sanchez, Forgotten People (1996)
• Juan Gomez-Quiñones. Mexican American Labor, 1790-1990. University of New Mexico Press. 1994.
• Barbara A. Driscoll. The Tracks North: The Railroad Bracero Program of World War II. Texas UP.

Ethnicity/Immigration (more to be added)

• Glen Omatsu's bibliographic list: Asian Pacific American Labor Organizing: An Annotated Bibliography, Part I: Historical Struggles, 1840s – 1960s
• Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act by Andrew Gyory (1998)
• Peck, Gunther, Reinventing Free Labor: Immigrant Padrones and Contract Laborers in North America, 1880-1920
• Alexander Saxton, The Indispensible Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (1971)
• *James Barrett, "Americanization from the Bottom Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working Class in the United States, 1880-1930," Journal of American History (79 (Dec 1992)
• *Gary Gerstle, Working Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960 (1989)
• Donna Gabaccia, Militants and Migrants: Rural Sicilians Become American Workers (1988)
• Robert Asher and Charles Stephenson, eds., Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles (1990)
• The Butte Irish
• Dehart, Evelyn Hu ,Women, work, and globalization in late 20th century capitalism : Asian women immigrants in the United States  Pullman, Wash. : Dept. of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State  University, Working papers series in cultural studies, ethnicity, and race relations   1999

Women/Gender

• Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City by Jane Latour (2008)
• The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor by Dorothy Sue Cobble, ed. 2007
• Mercier, Laurie and Jaclyn J. Gier, eds.  Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670-2005.  2006.
• United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionismby Ileen DeVault
• Dorothy Cobble The Other Women’s Movement (Princeton, 2004)
• Mary Fonow, Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America (2003)
• Ann Crittenden, The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued (2001)
• Allison Helper, Women in Labor: Mothers, Medicine and Occupation Health in the United States, 1890-1980 (2000)
• Kessler Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America (2001)
• Joan Williams Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do about it (2000)
• Dennis A. DeSlippe, “Rights, Not Roses” Unions and the Rise of Worling-Class Feminism, 1945-80 (I2001)
• Barbara Ehrenreich, “Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women’s Work, “ Harper’s Magazine, vol 300, No. 1799 (April 2000)
• Albelda, Randy Pearl and Chris Tilly.  Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty. 1997
• Susan Eisenberg, We’ll Call You if We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction (1998)
• Amott, Teresa and Julie Matthaei, Race, Gender and Work: A Multi-cultural Economic History of Women in the United States (1996)
• Blackwelder, Julia Kirk Now Hiring : The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995 (1997)
• Arlie Hochschild with Anne Machung, The Second Shift (1997)
• Eileen Boris, Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework (1994)
• Tera W. Hunter, To ‘Joy Our Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War
• Thomas Dublin, Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution ( 1994)
• Eileen Boris, Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More (1996)
• Amy Kesselman, Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver During World War II and Recoversion (1990)
• Lise Vogel, Mothers on the Job: Maternity Policy in the U.S. Workplace (1991)
• Zandy, Janet, ed. Calling Home: Working-Class Women’s Writings: An Anthology.( 1990.)
• Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in America (1982)
• Karen Anderson Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women in World War II (1981)
• Elizabeth Jameson All that Glitters
• Novkov, Julie. Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years (2001)
• Du Bois, Ellen Carroll and Vicki Ruiz eds. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (New York 1990).
• Kingsolver, Barbara, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 (Cornell, 1989, 1996)
• Mary Blewett, Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 (1988)
• Patricia Ann Cooper, Once A Cigarmaker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919
• Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (1987)
• Sharon Hartman Strom, Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930 (1992)
• Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
• --articles in special issue of Labor History on Gender, Spring Summer 1993—Tera Hunter, Faue, Kessler-Harris esp
• Ardis Cameron, Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912 (1994)
• Vivien Hart, Bound By Our Constitution: Women, Workers and the Minimum Wage (Princeton, 1994)
• Annelise Orleck, Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women anf Working Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 (University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
• Eisenberg, Susan We’ll Call you if We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction (Cornell, 1998)
• Nancy Gabin, Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935-1975 (1990)
• Sarah Deutch, No Separate Refuge: Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier
• Johanna Brenner Women and the Politics of Class --challenges traditional Marxist and traditional feminist analysis of gender and family life-
• Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (1999)
• Tera W. Hunter, To ‘Joy Our Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War
• *Lawrence Glickman, "Inventing the "American Standard of Living: Gender Race and Working-Class Identity, 1880-1925," Labor History Winter 1993)

• Nancy Folbre, The Invisible Heart (2000)—on care giving and it’s under valuation in capitalist value systems
• Kingsolver, Barbara, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 (Cornell, 1989, 1996) This is one of my favorite books
• Susan Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework
• Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology From the Open Hearth to the Microwave (1983)
• Jeanne Boydston, “The Woman Who Wasn’t There: Women’s Market Labor and the Transition to Capitalism,” Journal of the Early Republic 16, 2 (Summer 1996)
• Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
• Dolores Janiewski, Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender and Class
• Sue Levine, Labor’s True Women: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age
• Dana Frank Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1991-1929
• Patricia Cooper, Once a Cigar Maker: Men Women and …
• Glenna Matthews, Just a Housewife: The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America (New York: Oxford University Press)
• *Dana Frank, Purchasing Power: Gender, Consumer Organizing, and the Labor Movement of Seattle (1994)
• Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II (1987)
• Eileen Boris and Cynthia Daniels, Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home (1989)
• Ruth Milkman, ed., Women, Work and Protest (1985)—essays on WTUL, Bread and Roses strike, WWII,
• Hoffman, Nancy and How, Florence, eds Women Working: An Anthology of Stories and Poems (Feminist Press, 1979)
• Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (1979).
• Mary Blewett, Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 (1988)
• Patricia Ann Cooper, Once A Cigarmaker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919
• Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (1987)
• Sharon Hartman Strom, Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930 (1992)
• Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
• --articles in special issue of Labor History on Gender, Spring Summer 1993—Tera Hunter, Faue, Kessler-Harris esp
• Ardis Cameron, Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912 (1994)
• Sara Deutsch, No separate refuge: culture, class, and gender on an Anglo-Hispanic frontier, 1880-1940. 1987.
• Vivien Hart, Bound By Our Constitution: Women, Workers and the Minimum Wage (Princeton, 1994)
• Annelise Orleck, Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women anf Working Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 (University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
• Eisenberg, Susan We’ll Call you if We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction (Cornell, 1998)
• Johanna Brenner Women and the Politics of Class --challenges traditional Marxist and traditional feminist analysis of gender and family life-
• Barbara Ehrenreich, “Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women’s Work, “ Harper’s Magazine, vol 300, No. 1799 (April 2000)
• Nancy Folbre, The Invisible Heart (2000)—on care giving and it’s under valuation in capitalist value systems
• Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in America (1982)
• Susan Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework
• Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology From the Open Hearth to the Microwave (1983)
• Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
• Dolores Janiewski, Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender and Class
• Sue Levine, Labor’s True Women: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age
• Dana Frank Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1991-1929
• Patricia Cooper, Once a Cigar Maker: Men Women and …
• Glenna Matthews, Just a Housewife: The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America (New York: Oxford University Press)
• Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II (1987)
• Eileen Boris and Cynthia Daniels, Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home (1989)
• Ruth Milkman, ed., Women, Work and Protest (1985)—essays on WTUL, Bread and Roses strike, WWII,

War and American Labor (see also WWI and World WarII and Cold War and Labor)

• Weinberg, Carl Labor, Loyalty and Rebellion:  Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I
•   Between a River and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War by Edmund Wehrle (2005).
• Elizabeth McKillen, Chicago Labor and the Quest for a Democratic Diplomacy,  (I1995);,
• Elizabeth McKillen, "Hybrid Visions: Working-Class Internationalism in the Mexican Borderlands, Seattle, and Chicago, 1910-1920," Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 2:1 (Winter 2005): 77-107;
• Elizabeth McKillen, "Ethnicity, Class, and Wilsonian Internationalism Reconsidered: The Mexican- and Irish-American Immigrant Left and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1914-1922," Diplomatic History 25 (Fall 2001): 553-87
• Catherine Lutz, Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century ( 2001).
• Kim Phillips, "'All I wanted Was a Steady Job: The State and African American Workers," in New Working-Class Studies, eds.John Russo and Sherry Linkon (2005).
• Christian Appy's Working Class War (Vietnam)  (1993)
• Savage Acts (American Social History Project film)-Phillipines War
• Jeannette Keith
• Randolph S. Bourne's  War and the Intellectuals: Collected Essays ,1915-1919 (1999 ).
• Roger Horowitz, "It is 'the Working Class Who Fight All the Battles': Military Service, Patriotism, and the Study of American Workers," in Rick Halpern and Jonathan Morris, eds., American Exceptionalism? US Working Class Formation in An International Context (1997)
• Richard Moser's The New Winter Soliders:  GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era
• William Short and Willa Seidenberg, A Matter of Conscience:  GI Resistance During the Vietnam War (1992)

Specific trades/industries (more to come on this)

Samuel Gompers papers site has a listing of works for the following industries:

Clothing & Textiles / Communication / Service /  Food, Alcohol & Tobacco / Graphic Arts / Manufacturing / Maritime / Metal Trades / Mining/ Railroads

Meatpacking

• Wilson Warren, Tied to the Great Packing Machine (2007)
• Deborah Fink, Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest (also great on dis-remembering class)
• Cheri Register, Packinghouse Daughter
  Halpern, Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago’s Packinghouses
• Horowitz, "Negro and White, Unite and Fight!" A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking: 1930-1990.

Agricultural/Sharecropping/Tenant Farmers/Migrant Farmworkers

Cindy Hahamovitch, The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 1997)
Cletus Daniel, Bitter Harvest
Donald H. Grubbs, Cry From the Cotton: The Southern Tenanet Farmers’ Union and the New Deal
Jane Maguire On Shares: Ed Brown’s Story HD1478.U6   B761975
Maralyn Edid, Farm Labor Organizing
Dennis Valdes, El Norte
Alec Wilkiesson, Big Sugar
Leo Chavez, Shadowed Lives
Daniel Rothenberg, With These Hands
Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women/Cannery Lives

Geographical

West

David Brundage, The Making of Western Labor Radicalism
Elizabeth Jameson, All That Glitters: Class, Conflict and Community in Cripple Creek (University of Ill, 1998)
Katznelson “Working Class formation: Construcing Casess and Comparisons, “ in Working Class formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe and the US (Princeton, 1986) p 3-41

South

• James Gregory's bibliography of the Southern diaspora-migrations of black and white southerners
• Brian Kelly's list of essential Southern Labor/Social Movement History Reading List
• Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle by Laurie B. Green
• Michael Honey Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (2007)
• Defyng Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
• James Gregory The Southern Diaspora: How The Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America ( 2005)
• Robert Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism Tobacco Workers & the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (2002)
• Michelle Brattain, The Politics of Whiteness; race, Workers and Culture in the Modern South (Princeton 2001)
• Carlton, David, “Capital Mobilization and Southern Industry 1880-1905) JEH 49 (March 1989): 73-94
• Mohl,  Searching for the Sunbelt: Historical Perspectives on a Region, (1990)
• Daniel, Pete Breaking the Land: The transformation of Cotton, Tobacco and Rice Cultures since 1880
• Flamming, Douglas Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984 (1992)
• Flowers, Linda Throwed Away: Failures of Progress in Eastern North Carolina (1990)
• Hahamovich, Cidny, The Fruits of their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 (1997)
• Hanchett, Thomas W. Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975 1998
• Janiewski, Dolores Sisterhood Denied (1985)
• William Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930 (1992)
• Obadele-Starks, Ernest Black Unionism in the Industrial South (2000)
• Rachleff, Black Labor in the South
• Shirley, From Congregation to Industrial Community:" Culture and Social Change in a Southern Community (NY: NYUP, 1994)
• Wood, Phillp J. Southern Capitalism: The Political Economy of North Carolina (1986
• Zieger, Robert H. Organized Labor in the twentieth Century South (1981)
• "O. Delight Smith: A Labor Organizer's Odyssey," in Forgotten Heroes From America's Past: Inspiring Portraits From Our Leading Historians
• "O. Delight Smith's Progressive Era: Labor, Feminism and Reform in the Urban South," in Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism;
• "Private Eyes, Public Women: Class and Sex in the Urban South, Atlanta, 1913-1915," in Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor;
• William  Cohen: At Freedom’s Edge: Black Mobility and the Southern White Quest for Racial Control, 1861-1915
• Pete Daniel, The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969
• Korstad, Robert and Nelson Lichtenstein, “Opportunities Lost and Found; Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement,” Journal of American History 75 (December 1988) 786-811
• Organized Labor in the Twenieth-Century South, ed Robert H. Zieger, 35-59
• Gary Fink and Merl Reed, eds Race Class and Community in Southern Labor History
• Obadele-Starks, Ernest Black Unionism in the Industrial South (2000)
• Daniel Letwin The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921
• Minchin, Timothy, The Color Of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
• Minchin, Timothy, Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980
• Nell Irvin Painter, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson (1993)
• Hall, et. al., Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Mill World
• Robin Kelley Hammer and Hoe (1990)
• Peter Rachleff, Black Labor in Richmond
• Earl Lewis, In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth Century Norfolk—discussion of class in the U.S. and U.S. working class, challenges to interpretation
• Robin D. G. Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class (1994)
• Michael Honey, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (1992)

Colonial thru Early Nineteenth Century

• Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker, The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (2000)
• Glickstein, Jonathan American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety
• Kenneth Morgan, Slavery and Servitude in Colonial Norht America (2001)
• The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 - Sven Beckert (2001)
• Daniel Vickers, Farmers and Fishermen; Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1830
• Michele Gillespie, Free Labor in an Unfree Worlds: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1960 (2000)
• Dublin, Thomas, Transforming Women’s Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution (1994)
• Boydston, Jeanne Home and Work: /Housework, Wages and Ideology in the Early Republic (1990);
• Bruce Laurie Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth Century America (1989)
• Rediker, Marcus, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (1987)
• David Montgomery, Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States With Democracy and the Free Market During the Nineteenth Century (1993)
• Glcikstein, Jonathan, Concepts of Free Labor in Antebellum America (1991)
• Peter Way, Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of the North American Canals, 1780-1850 (1993)
• Billy Smith, The “Lower Sort”: Philadelphia’s Laboring People, 1750-1800 (1990)
• Laurel Ulrich A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990)
• David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
• Bolster, W. Jefffrey. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the age of Sail (1997)
• Redicker, Marcus Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (1987)
• Peter Way, Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of the North Amerian Canals (Cambridge, 1993)
• Walter Licht, Industrializing America
• Bruce Levine, The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War (1992)
• Bruce Laurie, Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America (1989)
• Salinger,  Sharon To Serve Well and Faithfully: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania 1762-1800 (1987)
• Bryan Palmer, "Social Formation and Class Formation in North America, 1800-1900," in David Levine, ed Proletarianization and Family History (1984)
• Steffen, Charles G. The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politcs in the age of Revolution, 1763-1812 (1984)
• Richard White, The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment and Socail Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos (1983)
• Stansell, Christine, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York: 1789-1860 (1986)
• Susan Hirsch, Roots of the American Working Class: The Industrialization of Crafts in Newark, 1800-1860 (19
• Dublin, Thomas, Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (1979).

Slavery

• Susan Peabody's bibliography & guide
• Bibliographic guide -
• Morgan, Kenneth, Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America (2001)
• Gillespie, Michele, Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia 1789-1860 (2000)
• Johnson, Michael Soul By Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (2000)
• Berlin, Ira, Many Thousands Gone: The first Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998)
• Brown, Kathleen Good Wives Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
• David Roediger and Martin Blatt, The Meaning of Slavery in the North (1998)
• Shane White, Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City 1770-1810 (1991)
• Betty Wood, Women’s Work, Men’s Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia (1995)
• Kolchin, Peter Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (1987)
• Deborah White, Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1986)
• Gavin Wright, The Political Economy of the Plantation South (1978)
• Eugene Genovese Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974)
• Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Virginia (1975)

Late 19th, early 20th—see community studies as well

• The Great Strikes of 1877 by David O. Stowell (Editor) (2008)
• Reinventing "the People": The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem and the Origins of Modern Liberalism by Shelton Stromquist( 2006)
• Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation by Moon-Ho Jung (2006)
• Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America by Joshua Brown (2006)
• Heather Cox Richardson. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901(2001)
• Julie Greene, Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917 (see symposium in Labor History,  May 1999)
• The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890's: Essays on Labor, Politics and the State, by Shelton Stromquist, Richard Schneirov and Nick Salvatore ( 1999)
• Herbert G. Gutman, Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class (New Press, 1992)
• David Stowell, Streets, Railsroads and the Great Strike of 1877 (1999)
• Tera Hunter, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War (1998)_
• David O Stowell Streets Railroads and the Great Strike of 1877 (1999)
• Leon Fink, Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (1982)
• Richard Oestreicher, Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900 (1986)
• Shapiro, Karen, A New South Rebellion: The Battle Against Convict Labor in the Tennesseee Coalfields, 1971-1896 (1998)
• Kim Voss, The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the 19th Century (1994)
• Bruce Nelson, Beyond the Martyrs: A Social History of Chicago’s Anarchists, 1870-1900 (1988)
• Paul Krause, The Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, Steel (1992)
• Madelon Powers Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman’s Saloon, 1870-1920
• Shelton Stromquist, A Genderation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth Century America
• Michael Gordon’s bibliography of Working-Class Protests, 1870s-1890s and his list forThe Knights of Labor, Socialists, and the American Federation of Labor, 1880s-1890s

Twentieth Century-approaches and overviews

• Nelson Lichtenstein State of the Unions: A Century of American Labor
• Alice Kessler Harris In Pursuit of Equity
• Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor (2000)
• James Green, The World of the Worker
• Richard Edwards Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century (1979)
• David Brody, Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle (2nd ed, 1993)
• David Brody, In Labor’s Cause (20th Century)
• Zieger, Robert H.  American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1985. 1986.
• James Barrett, Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922 (1987)
• John Bodnar, Workers' World: Kinship, Community and Protest in an Industrial Society (1982)
• Jacqueline Dowd Hall, et. al., Like A Family: The Making of A Southern Cotton Mill World (1987)
• Tamara K. Hareven, Family Time and Industrial Time: The Relationship Between Family and Work in a New England Industrial Community (1982)

Working Class Formation/Working Class Community Studies 1850-1950

• Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven's Working Class, 1870-1940 by Stephen Lassonde (2008)
• Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963 (2000)
• David Corbin, Life, Work and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The South Virginian Miners, 1890-1922
• Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (1997)
• Kimberley Phillips, Alabama North: African-American Migrants, Community and Working Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945 (2000)
• Walker, Melissa, All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941 (2000)
• Cubmler, John, Working Class Community in Industrial America: Work, Leisure and Struggle in Two Industrial Cities (1979)
• Gunther Peck, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrone and Immigrant Workers int ehNorth American West, 1880-1930
• Cindy Hahamovitch, The Fruits of their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworekrs and the Making of Migrant Poverty (1997)
• Curtin, Mary Ellen, Black Prisoners and their World: Alabama, 1865-1900 (2000)
• Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community (1996)
• Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 (1987)
• Zaragosa Vargas, Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest (1993)
• Guerin-Gonzales, Camille, Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 (1996)
• Earl Lewis, In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth Century Norfolk (1991)—discussion of class in the U.S. and U.S. working class, challenges to interpretation
• Letwin, Daniel, The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921 (1998)
• Gregg Andrews, City of Dust: A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer
• Camille Guerin-Gonzales The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration  in the World Economy since 1830 (1993)-see especially Foreman-Peck article “Insiders and Outsiders”
• James Barrett, Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922 (1987)
• John Bodnar, Workers' World: Kinship, Community and Protest in an Industrial Society (1982)
• Donna Gabbacia, From Italy to Elizabeth Street (1983)
• Olivier Zunz, The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industiral Developmetn, and Immigrants in Detroit (1982)
• Michael Piore Birds of Passage; Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies (1979
• Millie Beik, The Miners of Windber
• The Butte Irish
• Jacqueline Dowd Hall, Like A Family: The Making of a Southern Mill World (1987)

Labor and Radicalism late 19th-early 20th-much more to be listed in this category

• Gordon's listing of Socialists, the IWW, and Women Workers: 1900-1919
•   Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs, Citizen and Socialist (1982)

IWW early 20th

•   Bibliography of the IWW--Miles, Dione Something In Common   1986. ·       
•   List of books found at  http://bari.iww.org/homesites/Bibliography-1.html
• Franklin Rosemont, Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture (2003)
• Sandy Polishuk, Sticking to the Union : An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila (2003)
• Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930 - Nigel Anthony Sellars
•   Green, Archie Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations 1993
• Dubofsky, Melvyn We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (1969)   Sympathetic narrative, but treats the idea of worker’s control as preposterous. Focuses on Wobblies "leadership". See symposium on it in Labor History, August 1999
• Preston, William, Jr. Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals,   1903-1933  1963.
• Conlin, Joseph R., ed. At the Point of Production: The Local History of the IWW ( 1981 )
• Salerno, Salvatore Red November/Black November: Culture and Community in the IWW  1989
• Foner, Phillip S., ed. Fellow Workers and Friends: IWW Free Speech Fights As Told By Participants  1981.
• Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, Walker C. Smith, & William E. Trautman [Salvatore Salerno, ed.] Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s   Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1997 –one of my favorites-best stuff on sabotage and subverting ideology (primary documents with good introduction)
• Sellars, Nigel Anthony Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in  Oklahoma, 1905-1930
• Kimeldorf, Howard Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement ( 1999)   comparative Philadelphia and New York, 1910-39. -- argues that successful unionism depends on rank   & file workers achieving and practicing shop floor control regardless of professed ideology of the unions  involved.
• Roediger, David, ed. Covington Hall: Labor Struggles in the Deep South & Other Writings.  Chicago:  Charles Kerr Press, 2000, illustrated. – writings of the renowned Wobbly philosopher and organizer;  Wobblies in the south-a rare glimpse into the deep south labor and race issues

WWI era --will be expanded soon

• On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation (Hardcover)by Robert Whitaker (2008)
• Joseph McCartin, Labor’s Great War: The struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Oritgins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921
• Thomas Fleming Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I (2004) sections on workers
•  Shogan, The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising - Robert Shogan (2004)
• William J. Breen, Labor Market Politics and the Great War: The Department of Labor, The States and the first U.S. Employment Service, 1907-1933  (1997) HD 8072 B726 1997
• Charles McCormick, Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill District, 1917-1921 (1998)

Interwar period/1930s/CIO

•        How Radical were the 1930s?—list of sources by Michael Gordon ·         Labor in the 1930s bibliography  --huge list organized by subject and author, therefore, the list below is abbreviated for this period
• The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941by James J. Lorence (2009)
• Randi Storch, Red Chicago (2007)
• Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950 by Rosemary Feurer (2006)
• Bucki, Cecelia, Bridgeport’s Socialist New Deal, 1915-1936 (2001)
•      Sol Dolinger and Genora Johnson Dollinger, Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Worker’ Union (
• Michelle Brattain, The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers and Culture in the Modern South (2001)
•  Janet Irons Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South (2000)
• James D. Rose, Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism (2000)
• Simon, Bryant   A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948. 1998.
• Michael Denning, The Cutlural Front: The Laboring of American Culture, (see symposium in Labor History, August 1998
•  David F. Selvin, A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco (1996) ·    
• Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1987)
• Staughton & Alice Lynd, "Rank and File": Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers (1973)
• David F. Selvin, A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco (1996)
• Which Side Are You On?: The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931-39
• Symposium: Bruce Nelson, “Class, Race and Democracy in the CIO: The “New” Labor History Meets the “Wages of Whiteness” International Review of Social Histiry 41 (1996) pp. 351-374;  and responses: Elizabeth Faue, “Anti-Heroes of the Working Class”: A Response to Bruce Nelson” IRSH 41 (1996), pp. 375-388, Thomas Sugrue, “Segmented Work, Race Conscious Workers: Structure, Agency and Division in the CIO Era, IRSH 41 (1996), pp 389-406, and Reply, Working Class Agency and Racial Inequality, IRSH 41 (1996)pp 407-420 ·    
• Bruce Nelson, Workers on the Waterfront (see Nelson’s revisions in Divided We Stand),
• Colin Gordon, New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics in America, 1920-1935 (1995)
•   Robert Zieger, The CIO: 1935-1955 (1995)—see symposium in Labor History, Spring 1996
• Ronald Schatz, The Electrical Workers
• Staughton Lynd, ed. "We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the 1930s (1996)
• ·  Steven Fraser, Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (1994) · 
• Elizabeth Faue, Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945 (1991)
• Joshua Freeman In Transit: The Transport Workers Union of New York City (1989)
• Benjamin Hunnicutt,  Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work (1988)
• Melvyn Dubofsky, "Not So 'Turbulent Years': A New Look at the 1930s," in Charles Stephenson and Robert Asher, Life and Labor: Dimesions of American Working Class History (1986)
• Gary Gerstle, Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960 (1989)
•   Robert Zieger, The CIO: 1935-1955 (1995)
• ·         Irving Bernstein, Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 (1970)
•    Alice and Staughton Lynd, eds. Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working Class Organizers     

• Ruth O’Brien, Workers’ Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935 (1998) ·    
• Ronald Schatz, The Electrical Workers: A History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse 1923-1960 (1983)
•   David Brody Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle (1981) · 
• David Brody, "The CIO After Fifty Years," Dissent (Fall 1985) ·       
• Symposium: Bruce Nelson, “Class, Race and Democracy in the CIO: The “New” Labor History Meets the “Wages of Whiteness” International Review of Social Histiry 41 (1996) pp. 351-374; and responses: Elizabeth Faue, “Anti-Heroes of the Working Calss”: A Response to Bruce Nelson” IRSH 41 (1996), pp. 375-388, Thomas Sugrue, “Segmented Work, Race Conscious Workers: Structure, Agency and Division in the CIO Era, IRSH 41 (1996), pp 389-406, and Reply, Working Class Agency and Racial Inequality, IRSH 41 (1996)pp 407-420

WWII, 1940s

• Daniel Kryder Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State During World War II (2000)
• Silverman, Victor, Imagining Internationalsim in American and British Labor, 1939-1949 (2000)
• Andrew Kersten Race, Jobs and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46  (2000)
• Miller, Sally M, and Daniel A. Cornford, eds. American Labor in the Era of World War II. 1995
• Maureen Honey, Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II (1999)
• Nelson Lichtenstein,  Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II (1982)
• Ruth Milkman  Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During WWII (1987)
• Maureen Honey, Creating Rosie the Riveter: Classs, Gender and Propaganda During World War II
• Michael Honey,  Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (1993)
• Barbara Griffith, The Crisis of American Labor: Operation Dixie and the Defeat of the CIO
• Nelson Lichtenstein, “Class Politics and the State During World War II”, International and Working Class History, Fall 2000 (no. 58)
• Erasmo Gamboa Mexican Labor and World War II (1990)
• James Atleson, Labor and the Wartime State: Labor Relations and Law During World War II
• Irving Richeter, Labor’s Struggles, 1945-1950: A Participatns;’s View
• Jim Rose, “The Problem Every Supervisor Dreads: Women Workers at the U.S. Steel Duquesne Works” Labor History
• Marilyn Johnson, The Second Godl Rush: Oakland and the East Bay During World War II (1993)
• Steve Fraser Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (1993)
• Howell Harris, The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s (1982)

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Cold War and Labor

• John Haynes list of books and articles –the most comprehensive list of books and articles on the subject,  highly searchable, therefore I will list only a select list below
• Stromquist, Shelton, ed. · Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context 2008
• Rosemary Feurer, Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950 (2006)
• Cherny, et.al. American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture (2004)
• Thai Jones, A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience (2004)
• Robert Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism (2003)
• Stepan Norris and Zeitlin: Left Out (2002)
• Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation by Kate Weigand; (2002)
• Joshua R. Freeman Working Class New York
• Sexton, The War on Labor and the Left
• Steve Rosswurm, The CIO's Left-Led Unions (1992)
•   Meyer, Stephen Stalin Over Wisconsin (1992)
• Ellen Schrecker, “How Red is a Valley” Clinton Jencks and His Union,” Chapter 9 of  Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
• Horowitz, Daniel. Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (1998)
• Stepan-Norris, Talking Union (1995)-Ford Local 600
•    James J. Lorence, The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America
• Ellen Schrecker, “McCarthyism and Organized Labor: Fifty Years of Lost Opportunities” Working USA (vol 3, no. 5) 93-102—highly readable summary of consequences of labor’s cold war

“Capital Disinvestment and Globalization of the recent era ”

•   Gar Alperovitz, America Beyond Capitalism : Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy
•   Dimiltri Doukas Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community (2003)
•   Michael E. Gordon and Lowell Turner, eds., Transnational Cooperation Among Labor Unions. 2000.
• Arlie Russell Hochschild  and  Barbara Ehrenreich ,eds. Global Woman : Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy-
• Rhacel Salazar Parrenas,  Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work
• Kim Moody, Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy
• The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht (2005)
  
•   Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy Year Quest for Cheap Labor
• Andrew Herod, Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism
•   Grace Chang, Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
•   Leon Fink, The Maya of Morgantown : Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
• Michael E. Gordon and Lowell Turner, eds., Transnational Cooperation Among Labor Unions. 2000.
•   William M. Adler, Mollie’s Job: A Story of Life and Work on the global Assembly Line 2000)
• Berberoglu, Berch Labor and capital in the age of globalization :   the labor process and the changing nature of work in the global  economy
• Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (2001)
• McCall, Leslie. Complex Inequality: Gender, Class and Race in the New Economy (2001)
•    Articles in special issue of Monthly Review “Rising from the Ashes? Labor in the Age of Global Capitalism” July-Aug 1997 Vol 49 no. 3
•     Sugrue, Origins of the Urban Crisis
•   David Bensman and Roberta Lynch, Rusted Dreams: Hard Times in a Steel Community (Wisconsin Steel-Chicago)
•    Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, The Deindustrialization of America
•   Eileen Boris, Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More (1996)
•   Louise Lamphere, et. al., Newcomers in the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring of the U.S. Economy (1994)
•    Ruth Milkman, Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late 20th century (1997)
• Ortiz, Altagracia, ed. Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in Transnational Labor (1996)
• Babson Lean Work

Prescriptions/Analysis (much more to be added here)

• Steve Early Embedded with Organized Labor (2009)
• "They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration by Aviva Chompsky (2007)
• Reigniting the Labor Movement by Gerald Friedman (2007)
• Kate Bronfenbrenner, et al, eds. Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies (1998)
• Fletcher, Bill, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin.  2008.  Solidarity Divided:  The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice.  (2007)