Labor unions in the United States/References

These are References for Labor unions in the United States.

To 1900

* Commons, John R. "History of Labour in the United States" - Vol. 2 1860-1896 (1918)
* John R. Commons, "American Shoemakers, 1648-1895: A Sketch of Industrial Evolution," "Quarterly Journal of Economics" 24 (November, 1909), 39-83. in JSTOR
* Grob, Gerald N. "Workers and Utopia: A Study of Ideological Conflict in the American Labor Movement, 1865-1900" (1961)
* John P. Hall, "The Knights of St. Crispin in Massachusetts, 1869-1878," "Journal of Economic History" 18 (June, 1958), p 161-175
* Laslett, John H. M. "Labor and the Left: A Study of Socialist and Radical Influences in the American Labor Movement, 1881-1924" (1970)
* Mandel, Bernard. "Samuel Gompers: A Biography" (1963)
* Orth, Samuel P. "The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners" (1919) short overview [http://manybooks.net/titles/orthsamuetext02labor10.html manybooks.net PDF]
* Voss, Kim. "The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century" (1993)]
* Weir, Robert E. "Beyond Labor's Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor" (1996)
* [http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/railroad.htm#D Bibliography of online resources on railway labor in late 19th century]

Primary Sources

* Gompers, Samuel. "Seventy Years of Life and Labor: An Autobiography" (1925)

1900-1932

* Bernstein, Irving. "The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-33" (1966)
* Brody, David. "Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919" (1965)
* Dubofsky, Melvyn and Warren Van Tine. "John L. Lewis: A Biography" (1986)
* Brody, David. "Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919" (1965)
* Faue, Elizabeth. "Community of Suffering & Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945" (1991)
* Fraser, Steve. "Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor" (1993)
* Gordon, Colin. "New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics, 1920-1935" (1994)
* Greene, Julie . "Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917" (1998)
* Hooker, Clarence. "Life in the Shadows of the Crystal Palace, 1910-1927: Ford Workers in the Model T Era" (1997)
* Laslett, John H. M. "Labor and the Left: A Study of Socialist and Radical Influences in the American Labor Movement, 1881-1924" (1970)
* Karson, Marc. "American Labor Unions and Politics, 1900-1918" (1958)
* McCartin, Joseph A. "’Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921" (1997)
* Mandel, Bernard. "Samuel Gompers: A Biography" (1963)
* Meyer, Stephen. "The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921" (1981)
* Mink, Gwendolyn. "Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920" (1986)
* Orth, Samuel P. "The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners" (1919) short overview
* Quint, Howard H. "The Forging of American Socialism: Origins of the Modern Movement" (1964)
* Warne, Colston E. ed. "The Steel Strike of 1919" (1963), primary and secondary documents
* Zieger, Robert. "Republicans and Labor, 1919-1929." (1969)

Primary Sources

* Gompers, Samuel. "Seventy Years of Life and Labor: An Autobiography" (1925)

1932 - 1955

* Bernstein, Irving. "Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941" (1970)
* Campbell, D'Ann. "Sisterhood versus the Brotherhoods: Women in Unions" "Women at War With America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era" (1984).
* Dubofsky, Melvyn and Warren Van Time "John L. Lewis" (1986).
* Faue, Elizabeth. "Community of Suffering & Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945" (1991), social history
* Fraser, Steve. "Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor" (1993).
* Galenson, Walter. "The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1935-1941" (1960)
* Gordon, Colin. "New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics, 1920-1935" (1994)
* Jensen, Richard J. "The Causes and Cures of Unemployment in the Great Depression," "Journal of Interdisciplinary History" 19 (1989) p. 553-83
* Kennedy, David M. "Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945." (1999) recent narrative.
* Lichtenstein, Nelson. "Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II" (2003)
* Miller, Sally M., and Daniel A. Cornford eds. "American Labor in the Era of World War II" (1995), essays by historians, mostly on California
* Seidman; Joel. "Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen: The Internal Political Life of a National Union" (1962)
* Vittoz, Stanley. "New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy" (1987)
* Zieger, Robert H. "The CIO, 1935-1955" (1995)

Fair Employment FEPC

* William J. Collins, "Race, Roosevelt, and Wartime Production: Fair Employment in World War II Labor Markets," "American Economic Review" 91:1 (March 2001), pp. 272-286
* Andrew Edmund Kersten, "Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46" (2000) [http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0340.shtml online review]
* Merl E. Reed. "Seedtime for the Modern Civil Rights Movement: The President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice, 1941-1946" (1991)

Taft-Hartley and the NLRA

* Abraham, Steven E. "The Impact of the Taft-Hartley Act on the Balance of Power in Industrial Relations" "American Business Law Journal" Vol. 33, 1996
* Ballam, Deborah A. "The Impact of the National Labor Relations Act on the U.S. Labor Movement" "American Business Law Journal", Vol. 32, 1995
* Brooks, George W., Milton Derber, David A. McCabe, Philip Taft. "Interpreting the Labor Movement" (1952)
* Gilbert J. Gall, "The Politics of Right to Work: The Labor Federations as Special Interests, 1943-1979" (1988)
* Fred A. Hartley Jr. and Robert A. Taft. "Our New National Labor Policy: The Taft-Hartley Act and the Next Steps" (1948)
* Lee, R. Alton. "Truman and Taft-Hartley: A Question of Mandate" (1966)
* Harry A. Millis and Emily Clark Brown. "From the Wagner Act to Taft-Hartley: A Study of National Labor Policy and Labor Relations" (1950)