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An Annotated Bibliography
Updated December 1999
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Anderson, Jervis. A.
Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait.
Berkeley, University of California Press, c1973, reprinted 1986.
323.4092 R192a
When this was first published George Meany wrote in The American Federationist, "...a wonderful book. Anyone who cares about the struggle for racial and economic justice must be grateful for its publication."

Arnesen, Eric, Julie Green and Bruce Laurie.
Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1998.
331.0973 L123
The editors, all former students of David Montgomery, a leading labor historian of our times, capture the most important developments in the study of labor history over the past two decades.

Arnesen, Eric.
Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class and Politics, 1863-1923.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1991.
331.7 Ar74
Following a period of racial conflict in the 1890s, New Orleans' waterfront workers had forged an integrated movement that shifted a significant degree of managerial control to the workers, black and white.

Aronowitz, Stanley.
From the Ashes of the Old! American Labor and America's Future.
Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
331.880973 Ar769
Aronowitz, a former teacher, writer, and labor organizer, examines the decline of the labor movement in the past twenty-five years and its recent emergence.

Asher, Robert and Charles Stephenson, editors.
Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles, 1835-1960.
Albany, N. Y., State University of New York Press, 1990.
305.562 L12
This is the first anthology on race, ethnicity and the history of American working-class struggles to give substantial attention to the experiences of African-American, Asian, and Hispanic workers as well as to the experiences of workers from European backgrounds.

Bamberger, Bill and Cathy N. Davidson.
Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory.
Durham, N. C., Center for Documentary Studies, 1998.
338.76841 B199
Chronicles the closure of the White Furniture Company, a century-old North Carolina firm that made high-quality furniture. When White closed its doors its 203 workers lost their jobs, wreaking economic havoc on a small Southern town.

Barker, Kathleen and Kathleen Christensen, editors.
Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition.
Ithaca, N. Y., ILR Press, 1998.
331.2572 C762
The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work.

Baron, Ava, editor.
Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor.
Ithaca, N. Y., Cornell University Press, 1991.
306. 3615 W92
Contributors consider how gender has affected relations of power and hierarchy - between employers and workers, men and boys, whites and blacks, as well as between men and women.

Barrett, James R.
Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1990, c1987.
331.76649 B27
The book describes the world of a big-city neighborhood and the large mass-production factory, and more broadly, the social implications of early monopoly capitalism for the lives of American workers.

Baxandall, Rosalyn and Linda Gordon, editors.
America's Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present.
Revised and updated edition.
New York, Norton, 1995.
331.40973 Am5
A landmark work when it appeared in 1976, America's Working Women helped form the field of women's studies and transform labor history.

Bensman, David.
The Practice of Solidarity: American Hat Finishers in the Nineteenth Century.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1985.
331.88 B47
The hatters' unions used the union label boycott campaigns of 1898-1904 so successfully that they forced all but 12 of America's 190 hat manufacturers to recognize the unions. James Graham, president of the finisher's national association, told his followers that "only the union label saved the union from complete destruction."

Berube, Maurice R.
Teacher Politics: The Influence of Unions.
New York, Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1988.
331.88 B55
Berube states "the teacher unions have become the most powerful political constituency in education. Because of their enormous resources, their natural interest in education and the transitory nature of parent and student support, teacher unions have become the chief representatives of education in American politics."

Blewett, Mary H., editor.
The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960.
Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1990.
331.7677 L34
Thirty-four former textile workers describe their lives and their work in the Lowell mills. They worked low-paying 60-hour work shifts, in unhealthy conditions and under harsh, unfeeling supervisors. However, the women and their descendants who followed them into the mills shaped strong family structures and created vital ethnic communities.

Blewett, Mary H.
We Will Rise in Our Might: Workingwomen's Voices from Nineteenth-Century New England.
Ithaca, N. Y., Cornell University Press, 1991.
331.488531 B64
Blewett focuses on the shoemaking industry of eastern Massachusetts to illustrate the development of pre-industrial household production - the rise of the factory system, and the parallel operation of outwork and factory stitching.

Boris, Eileen and Nelson Lichtenstein, editors.
Major Problems in the History of American Workers: Documents and Essays.
Lexington, Mass., D. C. Heath, 1991.
331.0973 M23
The editors, in the introduction, say "Labor history is a contentious field, and the documents and readings in this anthology...are intended to introduce the student to a broad range of arguments and interpretations."

Boyer, Richard O. and Herbert M. Morais.
Labor's Untold Story.
3d ed.
New York, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, 1974.
331.110973 B79
Boyer says "labor has never lived in isolation or progressed without allies. Always it has been in the main stream of American life, always at the very crux of American history, with none more concerned than it at the ever-increasing concentration of American corporate power."

Brecher, Jeremy and Tim Costello, editors.
Building Bridges: The Emerging Grassroots Coalition of Labor and Community.
New York, Monthly Review Press, 1990.
322.20973 B93
"Building Bridges is one of the best practical how-to organizing manuals around. All the case studies are painstakingly realistic about the nuts, bolts and difficulties of building alliances between labor and community organizations."

Frank, Dana.
Backyard brigades.
(1990, November 12).
Nation, p.565-566.

Brecher, Jeremy.
Strike!
Revised and updated edition.
Cambridge, South End Press, 1997.
331.892973 B82
This book is the story of repeated, massive, and often violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. It includes nation-wide general strikes, seizure of powerful industrial establishments, guerrilla warfare, and armed battles with artillery and aircraft.

Brody, David.
Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919.
With a new bibliographic afterword.
Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1987, c1965. (331.89286 B86)
Widely regarded as a failure, nevertheless, the steel strike of 1919 helped end the twelve-hour day and dramatized the issues of the rights to organize and to bargain collectively.

Brody, David.
Steelworkers in America: The Nonunion Era.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1960.
331.766 B86
Drawing upon unpublished management and union collections, Professor Brody analyzes management policy and workers' reactions from the decline of the Amalgamated Association of the Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to the time of the great steel strike.

Brody, David.
Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the 20th Century Struggle.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1980.
331.880973 B86
The essays address the central issue of the labor history of the twentieth century; the themes are power, the effort of the workers to assert some control over their working lives, and the equal determination of business to conserve the prerogatives of management.

Buhle, Mari Jo, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas, editors.
Encyclopedia of the American Left.
New York, Garland Publishing, 1990.
R335.00973 En56
This volume is the first comprehensive reference work on the history of the American Left. The editors have defined the Left as that segment of society which has sought fundamental changes in the economic, political and cultural systems.

Buhle, Paul and Alan Dawley.
Working for Democracy: American Workers From the Revolution to the Present.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1985.
331.0973 W926
Most of the book's contributors have worked in and around the labor movement, most, too, are social and labor historians. The selections serve as an introduction to the history of American labor movements.

Cameron, Ardis.
Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912.
Urbana, University of Chicago Press, 1993.
331.4877 C182
Unionized women who fought for equality were tagged "radicals of the worst sort" because they rebelled against traditional economic and sexual hierarchies.

Cantor, Daniel and Juliet Schor.
Tunnel Vision: Labor, the World Economy, and Central America.
Boston, South End Press, 1987.
327.728073 C22
Cantor and Schor not only trace the history of the AFL-CIO in foreign affairs, but present a powerful set of principles for a new trade union thrust in international relations.

Chateauvert, Melinda.
Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1998.
331.4781138522 C492
In this first book-length history of the women of the BSCP, the author brings to life an entire group of women ignored in previous histories of the Brotherhood and of working-class women.

Clark, Paul F., Peter Gottlieb, and Donald Kennedy, editors.
Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers.
Ithaca, N. Y., ILR Press, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 1987.
331.88 F72
This collection of papers grew out of a symposium on the origins and early years of the United Steelworkers of America and Philip Murray's contributions to organized labor.

Cobble, Dorothy Sue.
Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1991.
331.4 C65
In the 1940's nearly one-fourth of all waitresses belonged to unions, pushing for equal rights and pay. In the years following World War II, however, economic, political, and social forces radically reshaped the nature of work and labor-management relations within the hotel and restaurant industry.

Cobble, Dorothy Sue, editor.
Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership.
Ithaca, N. Y., IRL Press, 1993.
331.478 W87
More than forty scholars and activists consider how women and unions can best serve each other and themselves. They discuss ways to close the wage gap and to meet family needs. Finally, they document new directions in organizing and representing women.

Cohen, Lizabeth.
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939.
Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
305.562 C67
Cohen uses a mass of sources to paint a portrait of working-class life in the 1920s and 1930s. She assesses the diversity of the workers' social experience, examining African-American and Mexican workers, as well as eastern and southern Europeans.

Cohen-Rosenthal, Edward and Cynthia E. Burton.
Mutual Gains: A Guide to Union Management Cooperation.
Second edition, revised.
Ithaca, N. Y., ILR Press, 1993.
Frank Emspak from the School for Workers, University of Wisconsin, calls the book "a ‘must' for anyone who is serious about employing joint labor-management committees."

Coles, Nicholas and Peter Oresick, editors.
For A Living: The Poetry of Work.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1995.
811.54080355 F692
These poems make clear that subordination is still the dominant relation in our
‘transformed' economy. Class division and class antagonism persist as vigorously as ever, and it is, above all, in our experience of work that we bump into class boundaries.

Cook, Alice Hanson.
A Lifetime of Labor: The Autobiography of Alice H. Cook.
New York, The Feminist Press of the City University of New York, 1998.
331.092 C771
The work of Alice Cook benefitted the lives of working people on four continents. She was a pioneer in union organizing, worker education, and equal rights for working women.

Cooper, Patricia A.
Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1987.
331.767972 C77
Little remains of the trade that produced Samuel Gompers, the founder of the American Federation of Labor and was often labeled the model for craft unionism in the United States. At the turn of the century, however, hardly a town or city neighborhood throughout the East and Midwest was without a tiny cigar workshop - perhaps with a show window so a passerby could watch the lightning hands of the experienced cigar maker.

Corbin, David Alan.
Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1981.
331.7622334 C79
Between 1880 and 1922 two bloody strikes took place in the coal fields of southern West Virginia. These strikes resulted in an untold number of deaths, indictments of over 550 coal miners for insurrection and treason, and four declarations of martial law.

Corbin, David Alan, editor.
The West Virginia Mine Wars: An Anthology. 1990.
331.89 W5
These accounts tell the story of the mine wars as seen by the leaders, rank-and-file participants, and the national journalists who came to cover them.

Costello, Cynthia B.
We're Worth it! Women and Collective Action in the Insurance Workplace.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1991.
331.4 C84
This engrossing study illustrates conditions in insurance companies in Madison, Wisconsin that can encourage or discourage activism among working women. She discusses the impact of management styles, work settings, availability of union resources and employer counterattacks at WEAC, CUNA, and WPS.

Craver, Charles B.
Can Unions Survive? The Rejuvenation of the American Labor Movement.
New York, New York University Press, 1995.
331.880973 C898
Craver examines the roots of labor's decline, the myth of America's 'classless' society, and the current factors which contribute to the dismal present. He concludes with a manifesto for change, meant to reinvigorate the American labor movement.

Craypo, Charles and Bruce Nissen, editors.
Grand Designs: The Impact of Corporate Strategies on Workers, Unions, and Communities.
Ithaca, N. Y., ILR Press, 1993.
This collection of essays describe the hardships when plants close, relocate, or merge.

Daniel, Pete.
The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969. With a new preface.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1990.
331.542 D18
The author tells both the legal and social history of involuntary servitude in the twentieth century up to 1969. Starting with the Black Codes of Reconstruction, continuing with lien laws, and concluding with contract labor laws passed during the 1890s, it became increasingly difficult for the Black workers to leave their jobs.

DeVault, Ileen A.
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in the Turn-of-the Century Pittsburgh.
Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1990.
305.9651 D488
The laborers of Pittsburgh saw the entry of their daughters in the white-collar clerical fields as an affirmation of their class status as skilled workers.

Doeringer, Peter B.
Bridges to Retirement: Older Workers in a Changing Labor Market.
Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, ILR Press, 1990.
331.3980973 B851
Nine articles describe and analyze the labor market experiences of older workers. This book's particular strength is its discussion of retirement patterns, second-career and bridge-job decisions and the issue of collective bargaining for alternative work arrangements to avoid the marginalization of the work force.

Doro, Sue.
Blue Collar Goodbyes.
Watsonville, Calif., Papier-Mache Press, 1992.
811.54 D715
In this powerful collection of poetry and essays, Doro speaks not only to those women who work in nontraditional jobs, but to every woman who works and to every worker who lives with closure threats to economic survival.

Doro, Sue.
Heart, Home & Hard Hats: The Non-Traditional Work and Words of a Woman Machinist and Mother. Minneapolis, Midwest Villages & Voices, 1986.
811.54 D715h
Sue Doro is a working class poet, not because she has chosen to be that, but because she has worked for years on the Milwaukee Road, making wheels. Her poems reflect the sensitivity of a woman whose eyes and ears and hands and heart are open to what makes the American worker life.

Dublin, Thomas.
Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860.
New York, Columbia University Press, 1979.
331.487 D8
The author describes the lives and experiences of the first generation of American women to face the demands of industrial capitalism.

Dubofsky, Melvyn and Warren Van Tine.
John L. Lewis: A Biography.
Abridged edition.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1986.
331.88330924 D8
John L. Lewis was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960. He was a prime organizer in the industrial unions in steel, rubber, automobiles, and other mass-production industries. He later led these workers out of the American Federation of Labor and formed the Committee for Industrial Organization, later the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO).

Dubofsky, Melvyn and Stephen Burwood.
Labor: Selected Articles on Workers and Unions During the Great Depression.
New York, Garland Publishing, 1990.
331.880973 L12
The Great Depression cut through the ranks of labor, leaving nearly a third of the workers unemployed at the depth of the Depression in the winter of 1932-33. From 1933 through 1937 workers rebelled against the circumstances of their lives and sought to get a share of power from those who had dominated them.

Emmons, David M.
The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1990, c1989.
978.668 Em54
Nowhere do all the factors involved in the development of an Irish working class in the West converge as they do in the copper-mining center of Butte, Montana. The Irish who migrated to Butte came to fill jobs in the copper mines and in this capacity formed an immigrant working class.

Erlich, Mark.
Labor at the Ballot Box: The Massachusetts Prevailing Wage Campaign of 1988.
Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1990.
322.209744 Er69
Erlich documents the struggle to defeat a referendum on a little known law governing wages on publish construction projects. A coalition of labor and community activists worked together to protect the quality of life in their neighborhoods.

Ewen, Elizabeth.
Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East Side, 1890-1925.
New York, Monthly Review Press, 1985.
305.4 Ew94
By looking at two generations, mothers born in the Old World and daughters born in the new, the author describes a metamorphosis in life and perception. We see these women laboring in dank workplaces, trying to make ends meet in a forbidding marketplace, and reconstructing the meaning of home and community.

Faler, Paul Gustaf.
Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution.
Albany, State University of New York Press, 1981.
331.768531 F17
The author expanded the scope of labor history to include the social relations beyond the workplace. He followed the mechanics and manufacturers to their homes and neighborhoods, fire companies and social clubs, schools and churches.

Faue, Elizabeth.
Community of Suffering & Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945.
Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
331.478 F273
The depiction of work and the worker as male and the ideas of women's place all reinforced the representation of labor solidarity as masculine during a time of increasing female participation in the labor force.

Filippelli, Ronald L., editor.
Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia.
New York, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990.
331.892973 L12
The encyclopedia covers 254 articles about labor unrest in the United States. It describes not only strikes, but also lockouts, boycotts, race riots, slave rebellions, and radical political activity.

Fine, Sidney.
Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937.
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1969.
331.881292 F49
One of the most dramatic strikes in American labor history started with the sitting down of workers in Fisher Body plant in Cleveland December 28, 1936. Fine describes the battle between GM and the workers.

Fink, Gary M.
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914-1915: Espionage, Labor Conflict, and New South Industrial Relations.
Ithaca, N. Y. ILR Press, 1993.
331.89287721 F499
This case study of a year long strike uses labor spies' reports to management for its foundation..

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley.
Words on Fire: The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Edited by Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall.
New Brunswick, N. J., Rutgers University Press, 1987.
335.088042 F64
As one of the greatest orators of her day, Flynn organized for the Industrial Workers of the World and led many of the Wobbly strikes.

Foner, Philip Sheldon, compiler.
American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1975.
784.68 F67
More than 550 songs and ballads of American labor written from Colonial times to the beginning of the twentieth century show that American workers have always expressed their views on economic, political, and social issues in song.

Foner, Philip Sheldon, editor.
The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs.
Edited with an introduction by Philip S. Foner.
New York, Monad Press, 1983, c1969.
977.311 Au88
Eight anarchists were charged with throwing a bomb into a group of police who had begun to disperse a small crowd at a protest meeting. Seven were condemned to death, the others to fifteen years' imprisonment. Their autobiographies give us a picture of the conditions which caused them to join the radical movement.

Foner, Philip Sheldon.
Black Workers: A Documentary History From Colonial Times to the Present.
Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1989.
331.6396073 B62
This volume presents selections from the eight volumes of The Black Worker. The original work was the first collection of documents to focus on the lives of free black workers.

Foner, Philip Sheldon, editor.
Fellow Workers and Friends: I. W. W. Free-Speech Fights As Told by Participants.
Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1981.
323.443 F32
The I. W. W. free-speech fights are among the most spectacular of labor activities in the first two decades of the twentieth century. They rank high in the history of the civil liberties movement. The deprivation of the right of I. W. W. members to free speech foreshadowed the repression of antiwar dissenters during the First World War.

Foner, Philip Sheldon.
The Great Labor Uprising of 1877.
New York, Pathfinder, 1977.
331.881 F67
In July of 1877, 100,000 railroad workers went out on strike against still another wage cut. The Great Strike developed into a systematically organized and complete shutdown of all industry - the first truly general strike in history. Railroad, canal boat, manufacturing, and construction workers walked off the job. Over 100 lives were lost before the strikers were forced by the military to return to work with none of their demands met.

Foner, Philip Sheldon.
History of the Labor Movement in the United States.
New York, International Publishers, 1980-1991.
331.880973 F67
Contents.-v.1. From Colonial Times to the Founding of the American Federation of Labor. - v.3. The Policies and Practices of the American Federation of Labor 1900-1909. - v.5. The AFL in the Progressive Era, 1910-1915. - v.6. On the Eve of America's Entrance Into World War I, 1915-1916. - v.7. Labor and World War I, 1914-1918. - v.8. Postwar Struggles, 1918-1920. - v.9. The T. U. E. L. to the End of the Gompers Era.

Foner, Philip Sheldon.
Labor and the American Revolution.
Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1976.
973.315 F67L
Foner contends that the American labor movement is a product of our Revolutionary period -- a product of the freeing of American economic life from the restrictions of British mercantile policy and the widening of the income gap between employer and worker during the war years.

Foner, Philip Sheldon, editor.
Mother Jones Speaks: Collected Speeches and Writings.
New York, Monad Press, 1983.
331.880924 M9
Throughout her career, Mother Jones had to face the cry that she represented anarchy, insurrection, and violence while the mine operators and employers in general represented law and order. She was called "the most dangerous women in America."

Foner, Philip Sheldon.
Women and the American Labor Movement: From the First Trade Unions to the Present.
New York, Free Press, 1982.
331.4 F67
This history traces women's struggle for freedom, equality, and unity on the labor front from the first Colonial trade unions to the struggle for a voice in twentieth-century labor movements.

Forbath, William E.
Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1991.
332.20973 F69
The author argues that the nineteenth-century American labor movement was similar to Europe's labor groups. However, struggles with the courts forced American unionists to moderate the social reforms won in Europe.

Form, William.
Segmented Labor, Fractured Politics: Labor Politics in American Life.
New York, Plenum Press, 1995.
322.20973 F723
The author describes the changes in organized labor's social class composition, the electoral effectiveness of labor and its political strategy, and suggests ways to increase its political power.

Friedlander, Peter.
The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936-1939: A Study in Class and Culture.
Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975.
331.8812 F9
This account of Local 229 of the UAW is based on a lengthy and detailed collaboration with Edmund Kord, the president of the local during most of its first eighteen years.

Gabaccia, Donna R.
Militants and Migrants: Rural Sicilians Become American Workers.
New Brunswick, N. J., Rutgers University Press, 1988.
325.458 G1
The author examines the relationships between the development of workers' movements for economic and social change and the mass migration of rural people to industrial cities.

Gabin, Nancy Felice.
Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935-1975.
Ithaca, N. Y., Cornell University Press, 1990.
331.48292 G1
Gabin documents the struggles of United Auto Workers women to achieve greater opportunity in the union, on the job,and ultimately in American society.

Georgianna, Daniel and Roberta Hazen Aaronson.
The Strike of ‘28.
New Bedford, Mass., Spinner Publications, 1993.
331.76 G352
The Strike begins with a look at the development of a mill community, mill expansion, and working conditions leading to the events of 1928.

Geoghegan, Thomas.
Which Side Are You On? Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back.
New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.
331.880973 G34
Geoghegan tells of labor's tragedy with an intimacy that is full of pain, humor, anger, and honesty. He is a labor lawyer in Chicago, working for dissident teamsters, retired millworkers, nurses, and carpenters.

Gilbert, Ronnie.
Ronnie Gilbert on Mother Jones: Face to Face With the Most Dangerous Woman in America.
Berkeley, Calif., Conari Press, 1993.
812.54 G464
The play presents Gilbert's perspectives on why this colorful and controversial figure has been ignored by modern day feminists and why her life has tremendous relevance for us today.

Gilden, K. B.
Between the Hills and the Sea.
Ithaca, N. Y., ILR Press, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1971.
Fic-Gilden, K
The novel centers on Mish Lunen and his wife, brought together by the hopes they shared that working men and women might transform industrial America into a fairer society. Ten years later their dream lay shattered.

Green, Archie.
Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1993.
398.0973 G795
The author explores occupational expression - stories, songs, customs, beliefs, artifacts - on the job and in institutions such as trade unions.

Green, Hardy.
On Strike at Hormel: The Struggle for a Democratic Labor Movement.
Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1990.
331.8928649 G79
Opposed even by their own United Food and Commercial Workers national parent union, P-9 workers endured zero-cold picketing, police and military action, and jail time.

Green, Julie.
Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917.
New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
331.88320973 G811
A textured portrait of Progressive Era politics, the author tranforms our understanding of the ‘labor question' during the years when that issue stood near the center of American party politics.

Grenier, Guillermo J.
Inhuman Relations: Quality Circles and Anti-Unionism in American Industry.
Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1988.
331.25 G82
Grenier was able to work as an unpaid research assistant to study how the management of Johnson and Johnson Ethicon subsidiary used the superficially democratic quality of life groups to facilitate managerial control.

Griffith, Barbara.
The Crisis of American Labor: Operation Dixie and the Defeat of the CIO.
Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1988.
331.88330975 G85
The question was simple: how to crack the South? How to organize the workers in the most anti-union region of the nation? Operation Dixie was launched to answer these questions.

Griswold del Castillo, Richard and Richard A. Garcia.
César Chávez: A Triumph of Spirit.
Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
331.8813092 C512g
Chávez's life mirrors majoir events in Mexican American history: immigration in the 1920s, forced repatriation in the 1930s, segregration in public schools, the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles, the Chicano movement and the emergence of a conservative backlash in the 1980s and finally the new immigration in the 1990s.

Gutman, Herbert G.
Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America.
New York, Vintage Books, 1977.
301.4442 G98
The essays, published over fifteen years, from 1962 to 1977, try to explain the beliefs and behavior of American working people in the years that saw this country transformed into a powerful industrial capitalist society.

Halpern, Rick and Roger Horowitz.
Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality.
New York, Twayne Publishers, 1996.
331.6396073 H195
The interviewees relate the remarkable representation of interracial cooperation within a labor union - the United Packinghouse Workers of America - and the positive role this organization played in the promotion of social change, racial equality, and tolerance.

Harris, Howell John.
The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s.
Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.
331.0973 H85
The author views the history of the American labor movement during the 1940s from the managerial point of view. He combines an analytical discussion of American labor history with a study of the way managers met the challenges of the unions.

Harris, William H.
Keeping the Faith: A. Philip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925-37.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, c1977.
Printed in 1992 by UMI, Out-of-Print Books on Demand, Ann Arbor, Mich.
331.8811 H3
In the early part of the twentieth century, the Pullman Company was the largest single employer of blacks in the United States. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters waged a ten year battle against a company union controlled by Pullman. The BSCP finally succeeded with help provided by the New Deal.

Hesse-Biber, Sharlene and Gregg Lee Carter.
Working Women in America: Split Dreams.
New York, Oxford University Press, 2000.
331.40973 H587
The authors provide an overview of the history of American women at work. The economic, legal-political, familial and educational institutions are analyzed to show the ways in which they produce and maintain inequality for women in the workplace.

Hobsbawm, Eric.
Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz.
New York, New Press, 1998.
331.1109 H68
This engaging collection features twenty-six Hobsbawm essays covering the history of working men and women between the late eighteenth century and today.

Hoerr, John.
We Can't Eat Prestige: The Women Who Organized Harvard.
Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1997.
331.8811378112 H695
The workers involved Harvard's 3,600 member ‘support staff' who had to put up with exploitative management policies that denied them respect and decent wages.

Huck, Gary, Mike Konopacki, and Dave Elsila.
Bye! American: The Labor Cartoons of Gary Huck & Mike Konopacki.
Chicago, C. H. Kerr Publishing Co., 1987.
322.20973 H882
Huck's and Konopacki's wonderfully imaginative and beautifully drawn cartoons reflect the passion of legimate anger together with a free-spirited humor that packs a wallop of message. This is a message needed because labor today has a long way to go just to catch up with what it has lost.

Hunnicutt, Benjamin Kline.
Kellogg's Six-Hour Day.
Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1996.
331.2572 H938
The workers at W. K. Kellogg fought to retain their six hour days and in the process preserved the century-old vision of "progressive shortening of the hours of labor."

Hunter. Tera W.
To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1997.
331.4089 H947
Winner of the International Labor Association Book of the Year award, the author describes the culture and experience of black women workers in the pos-Civil War South.

Jacobson-Hardy, Michael.
The Changing Landscape of Labor: American Workers and Workplaces.
Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
331.20974 J17
Fifty black-and-white photographs contrast the work environments of such industries as paper and textile mills, shipyards, and foundries with such high technology industries as computer manufacturing and aircraft production.

Jacoby, Daniel.
Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in America.
Armonk, N. Y., M. E. Sharpe, 1998.
331.0973 J17
The book is an account of labor's primary impediments, periodic gains, and frequent setbacks in American history.

Jamakaya.
Like Our Sisters Before Us: Women of Wisconsin Labor.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Labor History Society, 1998.
331.478 J27
Based on interviews conducted for the Women of Wisconsin Labor Oral History Project.

Jameson, Elizabeth.
All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek.
Urbana, University of Chicago Press, 1998.
305.562 J31
The author tells the story of Cripple Creek, the scene in 1894 of one of radical labor's most stunning victories and in 1903-4 of one of its most crushing defeats.

Jennings, Kenneth M.
Balls and Strikes: The Money Game in Professional Baseball.
New York, Praeger, 1990.
331.89 J54
This book focuses on confrontations and relationships between players and management from the perspective of those union and management officials who negotiate the labor agreement and the union members who must approve and live with the agreement.

Juravich, Tom and Kate Bronfenbrenner.
Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor.
Ithaca, N. Y., ILR Press, 1999.
331.8929 J95
The imaginative techniques that were devised to overcome a lockout yield many lessons for working people and unions in the face of powerful yet diffuse corporate structures.

Kazin, Michael.
Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1989, c1987.
331.88124 K33
This is a study of a working-class organization that accumulated, used, and then lost great deal of power. From the depression of the 1890s to the 1920s construction tradesmen were a powerful group in the economic and political life of San Francisco. Only a full-scale offensive by local businessmen and the national shift to the right ended their influence.

Keeren, Roger.
The Communist Party and the Auto Workers' Unions.
New York, International Publishers, 1980.
322.20973 K26
Keeren was in the University of Wisconsin Teaching Assistant Union in the early 70s. In this book he explains the ways in which the history of Communists in the auto unions contradicts familiar ideas about Communists and labor.

Kerchner, Charles Taylor and Douglas E. Mitchell.
The Changing Idea of a Teacher's Union.
London, New York, Philadelphia, Falmer Press, 1988.
331.8811 K39
This book looks at three distinct generations of teacher bargaining: meet-and-confer, good-faith-bargaining, and negotiated policy.

Kerchner, Charles Taylor and Julia E. Koppich.
A Union of Professionals: Labor Relations and Educational Reform.
New York, Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1993.
331.88113711 Un58
The search for ‘professional unionism' is pursued in the nine case studies written about unions from all over the country that are forging new collaborative relationships.

Keyssar, Alexander.
Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts.
Cambridge, London, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
331.1379744 K44
Professor Keyssar analyzes the economic and social changes that gave birth to the modern phenomenon of unemployment and traces its evolution from the nineteenth century to the 1930s.

Kingsolver, Barbara.
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983.
Ithaca, N. Y., ILR Press, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University Press, 1989.
331.8928292 K55
Copper miners in the Southwest went on strike against the Phelps Dodge Copper Corporation in 1983, and stayed out for eighteen months. The women in several small towns in Arizona sustained the strike.

Kochan, Thomas, Harry Charles Katz and Robert B.McKersie.
The Transformation of American Industrial Relations.
Ithaca, N. Y., ILR Press, 1986.
331.0973 K76
This book attempts to develop a new industrial relations model. It includes changes in the individual's role in the workplace and in the role workers and unions play in determining the organization's human resources strategies.

Korth, Philip A. and Margaret R. Beegle.
I Remember Like Today: The Auto-Lite Strike of 1934.
East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, 1988.
331.89 K87
Important for understanding the importance of the Auto-Lite Strike in 1934 is the realization that, at that time, it was not certain that labor unions were legal or that they could appeal to the legal system for fair treatment and resolution of disputes. Unions, courts asserted, were really conspiracies to restrain trade in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890.

Korth, Philip A.
The Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934.
East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, 1995.
331.89 K87m
When strikers clashed with Citizens Alliance members, police, and the Minnesota National Guard, more than 200 people were injured; four were killed. Ultimately, this strike resulted in the federal government's adoption of the Wagner Act of 1935. a set of national standards for resolving industrial disputes.

Kraus, Henry.
Heroes of Unwritten Story: The UAW, 1934-39.
Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1993.
331.04292 K91
Kraus, a UAW founder and labor journalist, combines interviews conducted more than fifty years ago with a decade of recent research to present a richly detailed account of the union's beginnings.

Kwong, Peter.
Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor.
New York, The New Press, 1997.
331.6251073 K98
From the villages of Fuzhou province in mainland China to the restaurants and garment factories of the United States, Kwong traces immigrants' lives and exposes the contradictions in our national immigration and labor practices.

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