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Christie, Robert A. Empire in wood; a history of the carpenters' union. Ithaca, Cornell University,1956. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.C18 U83
Fine, Sidney. "Without blare of trumpets;" Walter Drew, the National Erectors Association, and the open shop movement, 1903-57. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. LC CALL NUMBER: HD 6947.B92U63 1995.
Galenson, Walter. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters: the first hundred years. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. LC CALL NUMBER:HD6515.C2 U54 1983
Haber, William. Industrial relations in the building industry. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1930. LC CALL NUMBER: HD 9715.U52H3
Kazin, Michael. Barons of labor : the San Francisco building trades and union power in the Progressive Era. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.B9 S45 1987
Mangum, Garth L. The Operating Engineers: the economic history of a trade union. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1964. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.E5 M3 1964
Mercey, Arch A. The laborers' story, 1903-1953 : the first fifty years of the International Hod Carriers', Building and Common Laborers' Union of America (AFL) . Washington : Ransdell, 1954. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.B89 I545
Mulcaire, Michael Aloysius. The International brotherhood of electrical workers; a study in trade union structure and functions. Washington, D.C., 1923. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.E3 M8
Palladino, Grace. Dreams of dignity, workers of vision : a history of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Washington, D.C. : IBEW, 1991. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.E32 I567 1991
Segal, Martin. The rise of the United Association: national unionism in the pipe trades, 1884-1924. Cambridge, Wertheim Committee, Harvard University; distributed by Harvard University Press, 1970. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.P6 S43
Bensman, David. The practice of solidarity : American hat finishers in the nineteenth century. Urbana : University of Illinois, 1985. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.H3 B46 1985
Carpenter, Jesse T. Competition and collective bargaining in the needle trades, 1910-1967. Ithaca, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1972. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.C5 C33
Foner, Philip Sheldon. The fur and leather workers union, a story of dramatic struggles and achievements. Newark [N.J.] Nordan Press,1950. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.L4 F6
Green, Charles H. The headwear workers, a century of trade unionism. New York, N.Y., United hatters, cap and millinery workers international union ,1944. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.H3 U325
Lorwin, Lewis Levitzki. The women's garment workers. New York, Arno, 1969. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.G3 L6 1969 [1924]
McLaurin, Melton Alonza. Paternalism and protest; Southern cotton mill workers and organized labor, 1875-1905. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pub. Corp.,1971. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.T4 M36
Nestor, Agnes. Brief history of the International glove workers union of America, [Chicago?] Research department of the International glove workers union of America [1942]. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.G6 N4
Robinson, Donald B. Spotlight on a union; the story of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union. New York, Dial Press, 1948. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.H3 U328
Stowell, Charles Jacob. The Journeymen Tailors' Union of America; a study in trade union policy. New York, Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970.[1918] LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.T2 S65 1970
Tyler, Gus. Look for the union label : a history of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 1995. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.C62 I558 1995
Zaretz, Charles Elbert. The Almagamated clothing workers of America; a study in progressive trades-unionism. New York, Ancon Publishing Company, 1934. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.C5 Z3
Gabler, Edwin. The American telegrapher : a social history, 1860-1900. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1988. LC CALL NUMBER: HD5325 .T252 1883
Norwood, Stephen H. Labor's flaming youth : telephone operators and worker militancy, 1878-1923.Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1990. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6073.T32 U56 1990
Schacht, John N. The making of telephone unionism, 1920-1947. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1985. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.T33 S33 1985
Baker, Robert Osborne. The International alliance of theatrical stage employes and moving picture machine operators of the United States and Canada. Lawrence, Kan., 1933. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.T55 B3 1933
Beadling, Tom, Patricia Cooper, Grace Palladino. A Need for Valor: The Roots of the Service Employees International Union, 1902-1980. Washington: SEIU, 1984.
Cobble, Dorothy Sue. Dishing it out : waitresses and their unions in the twentieth century. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1991. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6073.H82 U53 1991
Hall, W. Scott. The Journeymen Barbers' International Union of America: Where we come from, who we are. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1936. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.B3 J76 1934
Josephson, Matthew. Union house, union bar; the history of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, AFL-CIO. New York, Random House, 1956. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.H9 J6
Service Workers Oral History Project. Where We Come From Who We Are: SEIU Local 82. Washington, D.C. 1997
Belsky, Joseph. I, the union; being the personalized trade union story of the Hebrew Butcher Workers of America. New York, Raddock,1953. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.B97 N42
Brody, David. The butcher workmen; a study of unionization. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1964. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.B96 B7
Cooper, Patricia A. Once a cigar maker : men, women, and work culture in American cigar factories, 1900-1919. Urbana:University of Illinois Press,1987. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8039.C542 U63 1987
Kaufman, Stuart Bruce. A vision of unity : the history of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union. Kensington, Md. : Bakery, Confectionery, and Tobacco Workers International Union, 1986. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.B2 K38 1986
Kaufman, Stuart Bruce. Challenge & change : the history of the Tobacco Workers International Union. Kensington, Md. : Bakery, Confectionery, and Tobacco Workers International Union, 1986. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.T6 K38 1986
Schluter, Hermann. The brewing industry and the brewery workers' movement in America. New York, B. Franklin, 1970 [1910 ]. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.L75 S3 1970
Barnett, George Ernest. The printers; a study in American trade unionism. Cambridge, Mass., American economic association; 1909. LC CALL NUMBER: Z243.U5 B3
Pancoast, Elinor. The International Photo-Engravers' Union. 1927. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.P42 P35 1927
Tracy, George A. comp. History of the Typographical union, its beginnings, progress and development. [Indianapolis] The International typographical union, 1913. LC CALL NUMBER: Z243.U5 T
Brody, David. Steelworkers in America : the nonunion era. Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 1998 [1960]. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8039.I52 U52 1998
Cornfield, Daniel B. Becoming a mighty voice : conflict and change in the United Furniture Workers of America. New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 1989. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.F92 U53 1989
Marsh, Charles Franklin. Trade unionism in the electric light and power industry. Urbana, Ill., 1930. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.E3 M3 1928
Nelson, Daniel. American rubber workers & organized labor, 1900-1941. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1988. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.R9 N45 1988
Albrecht, Arthur Emil. International seamen's union of America ; a study of its history and problems. Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1923. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.S4 A4 1923a
Schwartz, Stephen. Brotherhood of the sea : a history of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, 1885-1985. 1st ed. San Francisco, Cal. : Sailors' Union of the Pacific, AFL-CIO ; New Brunswick, USA :Distributed to the trade by Transaction Books, Rutgers--The State University, 1986. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.S42 P337 1986
Taylor, Paul Schuster. The Sailors' Union of the Pacific. New York. Arno, 1971 [1923]. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.S4 T3 1971
Perlman, Mark. The machinists: a new study in American trade unionism. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1961. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.M2 I535
Rodden, Robert G. The fighting machinists : a century of struggle. Washington, D.C. : Kelly Press, 1984. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.M2 R63 1984
Aurand, Harold W. From the Molly Maguires to the United Mine Workers; the social ecology of an industrial union, 1869-1897. Philadelphia, Temple University Press,1971. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.M616 P42
Evans, Chris. History of united mine workers of America .Indianapolis [1918?-20] LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.M7 U83.
Fox, Maier Bryan. United we stand : the United Mine Workers of America, 1890-1990. Washington, D.C. : United Mine Workers of America, 1990. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.M72 U554 1990
Lingenfelter, Richard E. The hardrock miners; a history of the mining labor movement in the American West, 1863-1893. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1974. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.M72 W44
Wieck, Edward A. The American Miners' Association; a record of the origin of coal miners' unions in the United States. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1940. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.M7 A59
Davis, Colin J. Power at odds : the 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike.Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1997. LC CALL NUMBER: HD5325 .R38 1922
Estes, George. Railway employees united; a story of railroad brotherhoods. Portland, Or. G. Estes, 1931. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.R42 O93
Henig, Harry. The Brotherhood of railway clerks. New York, Columbia university press, 1937. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.R28 B85 1937a
Hertel, Denver Willard. History of the Brotherhood of maintenance of Way Employes. Washington, Ransdell, 1955. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.R43 H4
Lyon, Arlon Everett. The first 75 : history of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, 1901-1976. Mount Prospect, Ill. : Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, 1976. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.R39 L9
McIsaac, Archibald MacDonald. The Order of railroad telegraphers; a study in trade unionism and collective bargaining. Princeton, Princeton university press, 1933. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.R42 O96
Painter, Leonard. Through fifty years with the Brotherhood railway carmen of America. Kansas City, Mo., Brotherhood railway carmen of America,1941. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.R25 P3
American Federation of Labor. American Federation of Labor : history, encyclopedia, reference book : prepared and published by authority of the 1916 and 1917 conventions. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977, 1919-1960. 3 v. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8055.A5 A196 1977
Andrews, Gregg. Shoulder to shoulder? : the American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1924. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1991. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6490.F582 U613 1991
Babcock, Robert H. Gompers in Canada: a study in American continentalism before the First World War. Toronto & Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1974. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6525.G6 B3
Dick, William M. Labor and socialism in America: the Gompers era. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1972. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6508 .D5
Greene, Julie. Pure and simple politics : the American Federation of Labor and political activism, 1881-1917. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1998. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8055.A5 G784 1998
Gompers, Samuel. American labor and the war. New York, G. H. Doran, 1919. LC CALL NUMBER: D639.L2 G6
Gompers, Samuel. Labor and the common welfare. New York, Arno Press, 1969.[1919]. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8072 .G75 1969b
Gompers, Samuel. Labor and the employer. New York, Arno, 1971 [1920]. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8072 .G76 1971
Gompers, Samuel. Labor in Europe and America. New York & London, Harper & Brothers, 1910. LC CALL NUMBER: HD4901 .G7
Gompers, Samuel. Seventy years of life and labor; an autobiography. New York, E.P. Dutton & company, 1925. 2 v. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.G6 A3
Gompers, Samuel. Seventy years of life and labor : an autobiography. Ithaca, NY : ILR Press, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1984. [Abridged] LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.G6 A3 1984
Green, Marguerite. The National Civic Federation and the American labor movement,1900-1925. Washington, Catholic University of America Press, 1956. [ HD8072 .G786 ]
Grubbs, Frank L. Samuel Gompers and the great war : protecting labor's standards. Wake Forest, N.C. : Meridional Publications ; Raleigh, N.C., 1982. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8076 .G69 1982
Hughes, Rupert. The giant wakes; a novel about Samuel Gompers. Los Angeles: Borden Pub. Co., 1950. LC CALL NUMBER: PZ3. H8736 Gi
Kaufman, Stuart Bruce. Samuel Gompers and the origins of the American Federation of Labor, 1848-1896. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1973. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.G6 K38 1973
Larson, Simeon. Labor and foreign policy; Gompers, the AFL, and the First World War, 1914-1918. Rutherford [N.J.] Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 1975. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6490.F58 L35 1975
Livesay, Harold C. Samuel Gompers and organized labor in America. Boston : Little, Brown, 1978. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6509.G57 L58
Lorwin, Lewis Levitzki.The American Federation of Labor; history, policies, and prospects. [1st AMS ed.] New York, AMS Press, 1970 [1933]. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8055.A5 L6 1970
Mandel, Bernard. Samuel Gompers, a biography. Yellow Springs, Ohio: Antioch Press, 1963. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.G6 M2
Reed, Louis Schultz. The labor philosophy of Samuel Gompers. New York, 1930. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.G6 R4 1930
Taft, Philip. The A.F. of L. in the time of Gompers. New York : Harper, 1957. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8055.A5 T3
Dubofsky, Melvyn. The state & labor in modern America . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1994. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8072 .D848 1994
Dubofsky, Melvyn. We shall be all : a history of the Industrial Workers of the World. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1969. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8055.I5 D8
Foner, Philip Sheldon. History of the labor movement in the United States. New York : International Publishers, [1980-1998] Description: 10 v. Contents: v.1. From colonial times to the founding of the American Federation of Labor (1998) -- v.2. From the founding of the American Federation of Labor to the emergence of American imperialism (1998) -- v.3. The politics and practices of the American Federation of Labor, 1900-1909 (1981) -- v.4. The Industrial Workers of the World, 1905-1917 (1997) -- v.5. The AFL in the progressive era, 1910-1915 (1980)-- v.6. On the eve of America's entrance into World War I, 1915-1916 (1982) -- v.7. Labor and World War I, 1914-1918 (1987)-- v.8. Postwar struggles, 1918-1920 (1988) -- v.9. The T.U.E.L. to the end of the Gompers era (1991) -- v.10. The T.U.E.L., 1925-1929 (1994).
Glickman, Lawrence B. A living wage : American workers and the making of consumer society. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6983 .G475 1997
Kimeldorf, Howard. Battling for American labor : wobblies, craft workers, and the making of the union movement. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6508 .K485 1999
Laslett, John H. M. Labor and the left; a study of socialist and radical influences in the American labor movement, 1881-1924. New York: Basic Books, 1970. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6508 .L28
McCartin, Joseph Anthony. Labor's great war : the struggle for industrial democracy and the origins of modern American labor relations, 1912-1921. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8072 .M189 1997
Mink, Gwendolyn. Old labor and new immigrants in American political development : union, party, and state, 1875-1920. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1986. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6508 .M584 1986
Montgomery, David. Citizen worker : the experience of workers in the United States with democracy and the free market during the nineteenth century . Cambridge New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8072 .M728 1993
Montgomery, David. The fall of the house of labor : the workplace, the state, and American labor activism, 1865-1925. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press ; 1987. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8072 .M73 1987
Roediger, David R. The wages of whiteness : race and the making of the American working class . London ; New York : Verso, 1991. LC CALL NUMBER: HD4903.5.U58 R64 1991
Schneider, Dorothee. Trade unions and community : the German working class in New York City, 1870-1900. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1994.LC CALL NUMBER: HD6519.N5 S36 1994
Saxton, Alexander. The indispensable enemy : labor and the anti-Chinese movement in California. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8081.C5 S3 1995
Tomlins, Christopher L. The state and the unions : labor relations, law, and the organized labor movement in America, 1880-1960. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985. LC CALL NUMBER: KF3389 .T6 1985 Ulman, Lloyd. The rise of the national trade union. Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press, 1966. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6508 .U4 1966
Biographies and Autobiographies (arranged alphabetically by subject)
Bisno, Abraham. Abraham Bisno, union pioneer; an autobiographical account of Bisno's early life and the beginnings of unionism in the women's garment industry. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515.C6 B5
Buchanan, Joseph Ray. The story of a labor agitator. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1971. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073 .B8A3 1971
Salvatore, Nick. Eugene V. Debs : citizen and socialist. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1982. LC CALL NUMBER: HX84.D3 S23 1982
Seretan, L. Glen. Daniel DeLeon, the odyssey of an American Marxist. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1979. LC CALL NUMBER: HX84.D5 S35
Barrett, James R. William Z. Foster and the tragedy of American radicalism. Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 1999. LC CALL NUMBER: HX84. F6 B37 1999
Johanningsmeier, Edward P. Forging American communism : the life of William Z. Foster. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994. LC CALL NUMBER: HX84.F6 J65 1994
Berwick, Arnold. The Abraham Lincoln of the sea : the life of Andrew Furuseth. Santa Cruz : Odin Press, 1993. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.F8 B47 1993
Weintraub, Hyman. Andrew Furuseth, emancipator of the seamen. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1959. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.F8 W4
Dubofsky, Melvyn. "Big Bill" Haywood. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1987. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6509.H3 D82 1987
Goldman, Emma. Living my life.New York : Knopf, 1934. LC CALL NUMBER: HX844.G6 A3 1934
Phelan, Craig. William Green : biography of a labor leader. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 1989. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.G7 P54 1989
Haywood, William Dudley. Bill Haywood's book. New York, International publishers, 1929. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.H3 A3
Fraser, Steve. Labor will rule : Sidney Hillman and the rise of American labor.Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993. xvi, LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.H5F73 1993
Raddock, Maxwell C. Portrait of an American labor leader, William L. Hutcheson : saga of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, 1881-1954. 5th ed. New York : American Institute of Social Science, 1955. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.H8 R3
Jones, Mary (Harris), Mrs. Autobiography of Mother Jones. Chicago, C. H. Kerr & company, 1925. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.J6 A3
Dubofsky, Melvyn. John L. Lewis : a biography. New York : Quadrangle.New York Times Book Co., 1977. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6509.L4 D8 1977
Gluck, Elsie. John Mitchell, miner; labor's bargain with the gilded age. New York, Greenwood Press [1969, c1929] LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.M5 G6 1969
Phelan, Craig. Divided loyalties: the public and private life of labor leader John Mitchell. Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1994. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.M5 P48 1994
Nutter, Kathleen Banks. The necessity of organization: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan and trade unionism for women, 1892-1912. New York: Garland Pub., 2000. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6079.2 U5 N88 2000
Pesotta, Rose. Bread upon the waters. New York Dodd, Mead & co., 1944. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.P4 A3
Powderly, Terence Vincent. The path I trod; the autobiography of Terence V. Powderly. New York, Columbia University Press, 1940. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.P69 A3
Powderly, Terence Vincent. Thirty years of labor, 1859-1889. New York, A. M. Kelley, 1967 [1890]. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8066 .P72 1967
Faue, Elizabeth. Writing the wrongs: Eva Valesh and the rise of labor journalism. Ithaca, Cornell Univ. Press, 2002. LC CALL NUMBER: PN4874.V25 F38 2002
Babson, Roger Ward. W. B. Wilson and the Department of labor. New York, Brentano's, 1919. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.W5 B3
Philip S. Foner and Ronald L. Lewis, eds. The Black worker during the era of the American Federation of Labor and the railroad brotherhoods. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1979. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8081.A65 B55 1989 [check]
Letters of Eugene V. Debs. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1990. 3 v. LC CALL NUMBER: HX84.D3 A4 1990
The Correspondence of Mother Jones. Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. LC CALL NUMBER: HD8073.J6 A4 1985
The Samuel Gompers Papers . Urbana :
University of Illinois Press, 1986- . 9 v. to date. LC CALL NUMBER:
HD6508 S218 1986
Stewart, Ethelbert. A documentary history of the early organizaions of printers. Indianapolis, Ind., International Typographical Union 1907. LC CALL NUMBER: HD6515 .P9
