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Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century...
by Randy Shaw...University of California Press

Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU...
by Harvey Schwartz...University of Washington Press

Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade...
by Lance A. Compa and Stephen F. Diamond, Editors...University of Pennsylvania Press

Working People: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labour Movement...
by Desmond Morton...McGill-Queens University Press

Sticking to the Union: The Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila...
by Sandy Polishuk...Palgrave Macmillan

Embedded With Organized Labor...
by Steve Early...Monthly Review Press

A Worker Justice Reader: Essential Writings on Religion and Labor...
by Interfaith Worker Justice...Orbis Books

Taxi!: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City...
by Biju Mathew...ILR Press

Voices From the Ships: Australia's Seafarers and Their Union...
by Diane Kirkby...University of New South Wales

Work and Sing: A History of Occupational and Labor Union Songs of the United States...
by Ronald Cohen...Capqinez Press

Retire Happy: What You Can Do to Guarantee a Great Retirement...
by Richard Stim and Ralph Warner...NOLO Press

Survival of the Fittest: How the Future of Union Construction Depends on Every Journeyman, Every Apprentice, and You...
by Mark Breslin...McNally International Press

Offensive Bargaining: Negotiating Aggressively in Contract Campaigns...
by David Rosenfeld...Institute For The Study of Labor Organizations

Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters...
by Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher...Cornell University Press...(includes over 200 full color images and a bibliography)

Strike Songs of The Depression...
by Timothy P. Lynch...University Press of Mississippi

The Great Strikes of 1877...
by David O. Stowell...University of Illinois Press

A Dolores Huerta Reader...
by Mario T. Garcia...University of New Mexico Press

Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood...
by Peter Carlson...W. W. Norton and Company

Trade Union Responses to Globalization: A Review by the Global Union Research Network...
by Verena Schmidt, Editor...International Labor Organization

A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track...
by Andy Stern...Simon and Schuster Publishing

Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis and the People Who Pay the Price...
by Jonathan Cohn...Harper Collins Press

Kids On Strike!...
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti...Houghton Mifflin Company

I Am a Teamster: A Short Fiery Story of Regina V. Polk...
by Terry Spencer Hesser...Lake Claremont Press

The Farmworker's Journey...
by Ann Aurelia Lopez...University of California Press

Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950...
by Rosemary Feurer...University of Illinois Press

Two Headed Space Alien Shrinks Labor Movement: Labor Cartoons...
by Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki...Capitalism Sucks Press

Rise Up Singing...
by Peter Blood-Patterson...New Society Publishers...(contains 1200 songs about labor and struggle)

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War...
by Thomas G. Andrews...Harvard University Press

Two Who Were There: A Biography of Stanley Nowak, Polish UAW Pioneer...
by Margaret Collingwood Nowak...Wayne State University Press

Trade Unionism in Australia: A History From Flood to Ebb Tide...
by Tom Bramble...Cambridge University Press

Labor Struggles in the Post Office: From Selective Lobbying to Collective Bargaining...
by John Walsh and Garth Mangum...M.E. Sharpe

Dreams of Dignity, Workers Vision: A History of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...
by Grace Palladino...International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike...
by John Salmond...University of North Carolina Press

The Funsten Nut Strike...
by Myra Fichtenbaum...International Publishers

Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen and Unionism in the 1930's...
by Bruce Nelson...University of Illinois Press

I Knew I Could Do This: Promoting Women as Union Leaders...
by Amy Caizza...Institute for Women's Policy Research

Labor Law For the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law...
by Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross...PM Press

Sweat and Blood: A History of U.S. Labor Unions...
by Gloria Skurzynski...Twenty-First Century Books

An Organizers Tale...
by Ceasar Chavez and Ilan Stavans, Editor...Viking Penguin...(collection of Chavez's speeches and writings)

Sisters in the Brotherhoods...
by Jane Latour...Palgrave Macmillian...(women entering the trades occupations in New York City)

Calling Home: Working Class Women's Writings...
by Janet Zandy, Editor...Rutgers University Press

The River Ran Red: Homestead 1892...
by David P. Demerest, Editor...University of Pittsburgh Press

On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5...
by Suzan Erem and E. Paul Durrenberger...Monthly Review Press

The Homestead Strike of 1892...
by Arthur G. Burgoyne...University of Pittsburgh Press

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream...
by Bruce Watson...Penguin Books

Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919...
by David Brody...University of Illinois Press

The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914-1915...
by Gary M. Fink...ILR Press

Organizing Unions...
by Mary Cornish and Lynn Spink...Second Story Press...(Canada)

Working Capital: The Power of Labor's Pensions...
by Archon Fung, Tessa Hebb, Joel Rogers, and Leo Gerard, Editors...Cornell ILR Press

The Canadian Labor Movement...
by Craig Heron...James Lorimer and Co.

Blue-Green Coalitions: Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities...
by Brian Mayer...Cornell ILR Press

Working People...
by Desmond Morton...McGill-Queen's University Press...(Canada)

The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements...
by Dan Clawson...Cornell ILR Press

The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker...
by Steven Greenhouse...Alfred A. Knopf

Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice...
by Bll Fletcher, Jr...University of California Press

Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market...
by Immanuel Ness...Temple University Press

State Of the Unions: How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class, Improve our Economy, and Regain Political Influence...
by Philip M. Dine...Magraw-Hill

The Black Rock That Built America: A Tribute to the Anthracite Coal Miners...
by Gerald Mckerns...Xlibris

Teaching for Change: Popular Education and the Labor Movement...
by Linda Delp, Miranda Dutman-Kramer, Susan J. Schurman, and Kent Wong...UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education

When Miners March: The Story of Coal Miners in West Virginia...
by William C. Blizzard...Appalachian Community Services

Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution...
by Edna Bonacich and Jake B. Wilson...Cornell University Press

A Rendezvous With Shame...
by Patrick L. Donachy...Inkwell...(Ludlow Massacre)

Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century South...
by Robert Rodgers Korstad...University of North Carolina Press

Education for Changing Unions...
by Bev Burke, JoJo Geronimo, D'Arcy Martin, Barb Thomas, and Carol Wall...Between the Lines

Barons of Labor...
by Michael Kazin...University of Illinois Press

Justice on the Job...
by Richard N. Block...W.E. Upjohn Institute

Harvard Works Because We Do...
by Greg Halpern...Quantuck Lane Press

Labor and the Environmental Movement...
by Brian K. Obach...MIT Press

Organized Labor and the Church...
by George Gilmary Higgins and William Bole...Paulist Press

Sweatshop Slaves...
by Kent Wong and Julie Monroe, Editors...UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education

The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life of Tony Mazzocchi...
by Les Leopold...Chelsea Green Publishing

Turning the Tide: Strategic Planning for Labor Unions...
by David Weil...Lexington Books

Police Association Power, Politics, and Confrontation: A Guide for the Successful Police Labor Leader...
by John H. Burpo, Ron Delord, and Michael Shannon...Charles C. Thomas Publishing

Organise or Fossilise: The Revival of Union Organizing...
by Edmund Heery, Rick Delbidge, and Melanie Simms...Palgrave Macmillian...(United Kingdom)

Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital Through Cross-Border Campaigns...
by Kate Bronfenbrenner, Editor...Cornell University Press

State of the Unions: How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class, Improve Our Economy and Regain Political Influence...
by Philip Dine...McGraw-Hill

Trade Union Woman...
by Alice Henry...IndyPublish

Cesar Chavez...
by Jacques E. Levy...University of Minnesota Press

The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor...
by Dorothy Sue Cobble...Cornell University Press

A Century of Organized Labor in France...
by Martin A. Schain, Mark Kesselman, and Herrich Chapman, Editors...St. Martin's Press

Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor During World War 11...
by Andrew E. Kersten...New York University Press

Rules for Radicals...
by Saul Alinsky...Vintage

Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction...
by Laura Hapke...Rutgers University Press

Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign...
by Michael K. Honey...W.W. Norton

Out of This Furnance: A Novel of Immigrant Labor in America...
by Thomas Bell...University of Pittsburgh Press

Shadow of the Mills: Working Class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907...
by S.J. Kleinberg...University of Pittsburgh Press

Automobile Workers and the American Dream...
by Ely Chinoy...University of Illinois Press

More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States...
by Michael D. Yates, Editor...Monthly Review Press

California's Broken Promises: The Laws on the Books Are Not the Laws in the Fields...
by the United Farm Workers

The Big Red Songbook...
by Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno, Editors...Charles H. Kerr...(comprehensive collection of rebel workers songs and poems)

In Defense of Our America...
by Anthony D. Romero...American Civil Liberties Union

Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor...
by Steve Fraser...Cornell University Press

United We Stand: The United Mine Workers of America 1890-1990...
by Maier Fox...United Mine Workers of America

Thirty Years of Labor, 1859-1889...
by Terrence V. Powderly...Augustus M. Kelley Publisher

American Women and the Labor Movement, 1825-1974, An Annotated Bibliography...
by Martha Jane Soltow and Mary K. Wery...Scarecrow Press

Madame Secretary, Frances Perkins...
by George Martin...Houghton Mifflin

Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor: 1848-1896...
by Stuart Kaufman...Greenwood Press

Harry Van Arsdale Jr.: Labor's Champion...
by Gene Ruffini...M. E. Sharpe

Historia Laboral Sindical de los EE.UU...
by Mary Harding...CASA de Maryland

Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain Dead Politics Are Selling Out America...
by Senator Byron L. Dorgan...Thomas Dunne Books

"My 70 Years in the Labor Movement" The Autobiography of Harry Kelber...
by Harry Kelber...Labor Educator

Strikes, Picketing, and Inside Campaigns...
by Robert M. Schwartz...Work Rights Press

The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs...
by Philip S. Foner...Pathfinder

Subterannean Fire...
by Sharon Smith...Haymarket Books

Work: The World in Photographs...
by Ferdinand Protzman...National Geographic

Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class...
by Thom Hartman...Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Labour Left Out: Canada's Failure to Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right...
by Roy J. Adams...Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

A History of the Australian Workers Union 1886-1994...
by Mark Hearn, Harry Knowles and Ian Cambridge...Cambridge University Press

Labor Law Stories...
by Laura J. Cooper and Catherine L. Fisk...Foundation Press

Employment Discrimination Stories...
by Joel Wm Friedman...Foundation Press

Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls...
by Victoria Byerly...ILR Press

Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement...
by Clayton Sinyai...Cornell University Press

Teamster Rebellion...
by Farrell Dobbs...Pathfinder Press

In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker...
by David Brody...Oxford University Press

Sisterhood and Solidarity: Feminism and Labor in Modern Times...
by Diane Balser...South End Press

Power! Black Workers, Their Unions, and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa...
by Denis MacShane...South End Press

Taking Back the Workers' Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights...
by Ellen Dannin...Cornell University Press

At Work: The Art of California Labor...
by Mark Dean Johnson, Editor...Heyday Books

Blue Collar Goodbyes...
by Sue Doro...Papier-Mache Press

The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences...
by Louis Uchitelle...Alfred A. Knope Publisher

Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government--And How We Take It Back...
by David Sirota...Crown Publishers

Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at The Edge of The Dream...
by Janice Fine...Cornell University Press

Plant Closings: Myths, Realities, and Responses...
by Gilda Haas...South End Press

For Here or To Go: Life in the Service Industry...
by Leah Ryan, Editor...Garrett County Press

The Haymarket Tragedy...
by Paul Avrich...Princeton University Press

When Kentucky Had No Union Men...
by George Davis...Smithsonian

On Strike for Respect: The Yale Strike of 1984-85...
by Toni Gilpin...Charles H. Kerr

Wal-Mart: The Face of 21st Century Capitalism...
by Nelson Lichtenstein, Editor...New Press

Colorado's War on Militant Unionism: James H. Peabody and the Western Federation of Miners...
by George G. Suggs...University of Oklahoma Press

The March Inland: Origins of the ILWU Warehouse Division 1934-1938...
by Harvey Schwartz...International Longshore and Warehouse Union Publisher

The Rise and Repression of Radical Labor 1877-1918...
by Daniel Fusfeld...Charles H. Kerr Publisher

The Autobiography of Osugi Sakae...
by Osugi Sakae...University of California Press

Building a Better World: An Introduction to Unionism in Canada...
by Errol Black...Fernwood Publishing

Collective Bargaining in Canada: Human Right or Canadian Illusion...
by Derek Fudge and John Brewin...Fernwood Publishing

My Union, My Life: Jean-Claude Parrot and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers...
by Jean-Claude Parrot...Fernwood Publishing

Stickin' to the Union: Local 2224 vs. John Buhler...
by Doug Smith...Fernwood Publishing

The Westray Tragedy: A Miners Story...
by Shaun Comish...Fernwood Publishing

United They Stand: The Story of the U.K. Firefighters Dispute 2002-2004...
by Roger Seifert and Tom Sibley...Lawrence and Wishart...(United Kingdom)

Forged in Fire: The History of the Fire Brigades Union...
by Victor Bailey, Editor...Lawrence and Wishart...(United Kingdom)

Air of Freedom: The Birth of the New Unionism...
by Yvonne Kapp...New York University Press

Contract Bargaining Handbook for Union Leaders...
by Maurice B. Better...BNA Books

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying...
by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin...South End Press

The Quiet Sickness: A Photographic Chronicle of Hazardous Work in America...
by Earl Dotter...American Industrial Hygiene Association

Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History...
by Grace Palladino...Cornell University Press

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America...
by David Von Drehle...Atlantic Monthly Press

High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline...
by Jim Rasenberger...Harper Collins

Slaughter in Serene: The Columbine Coal Strike Reader...
by Eric Margolis, Joanna Sampson, Phil Goodstein, and Richard Myers...Bread and Roses Workers Cultural Center

Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America...
by Dana Frank...South End Press

Allies Across the Border: Mexico's Authentic Labor Front and Global Solidarity...
by Dale Hathaway...South End Press

By These Hands: Portraits From the Factory Floor...
by David L. Parker...Minnesota Historical Society Press

Labor's Story in the United States...
by Philip Yale Nicholson...Temple University Press

Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Line...
by William M. Adler...Simon and Schuster

The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez...
by Jimmy Breslin...Crown Publishing Group

Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education...
by Joe Berry...Monthly Review Press

A People's History of the United States...
by Howard Zinn...Harper Collins Publisher

Framed! Labor and the Corporate Media...
by Christopher R. Martin...Cornell University Press

William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader...
by Craig Phelan...SUNY Press

Words on Fire: The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn...
by Rosalyn Baxandall...Rutgers University Press

Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930's...
by Bruce Nelson...University of Illinois Press

The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy...
by Si Kahn and Elizabeth Minnich...Berrett-Koehler Publshers

Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century...
by Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, and Robin D. G. Kelley...Beacon Press

Woody Guthrie Songs...
by Judy Bell and Nora Guthrie...Woody Guthrie Publications

Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism...
by Elizabeth Faue...Cornell University Press

The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation...
by Greg LeRoy...Berrett-Koehler Publishers

The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail Thirty Million Americans...
by Beth Shulman...New Press

The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South...
by WIlliam P. Jones...University of Illinois Press

Music of the Mill: A Novel...
by Luis J. Rodriguez...Rayo Publishers

New Approaches to Disability in the Workplace...
by Terry Thomason, John F. Burton and Douglass Hyatt, Editors...Cornell University Press

Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care...
by Suzanne Gordon...ILR Press

The Rambling Kid: A Novel About the IWW...
by Charles Ashleigh...Charles H. Kerr

The Big Strike: The Story of the Great San Francisco General Strike of 1934...
by Mike Quinn...International Publishers

Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace...
by Charles Morris and Theodore J. St. Antoine...ILR Press

Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker's Rights at Wal-Mart...
by Liza Featherstone...Basic Books

Salt of the Earth: The Story of a Film...
by Herbert Biberman...Harbor Electronic Publishing

Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor From Below...
by Vanessa Tait...South End Press

Haymarket: A Novel...
by Martin Duberman...Seven Stories Press

Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions...
by Tom Juravich...University of Massachusetts Press

Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement...
by Suzan Erem...Monthly Review Press

Mother Jones and the Union Miners Cemetery in Mount Olive, Illinois...
by Leslie F. Orear...Illinois Labor History Society

European Labor Unions...
by Joan Campbell...Greenwood Press

Just Passing Through...
by Paco Ignacio Taibo II...Cinco Puntos Press...(adventure novel set in 1920's post-revolutionary Mexico)

Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World...
by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman, Editors...Verso Books

Lane Kirkland: Champion of American Labor...
by Arch Puddington...Wiley

Staged Action: Six Plays From the American Workers Theatre...
by Lee Papa, Editor...ILR Press

"Go To The Worker" America's Labor Apostles...
by Kimball Baker...Marquette University Press

Uniting the Tailors...
by Anne Kershen...Taylor and Francis, Inc.

Great Burlington Strike of 1888: A Case History in Labor Relations...
by Donald L. McMurry...Harvard University Press

Restoring The Power of The Unions: It Takes a Movement...
by Julius G. Getman...Yale University Press

Killer Politics: How Big Money and Bad Politics are Destroying the Great American Middle Class...
by Ed Schultz...Hyperion

Justice at Work: Globalization and the Human Rights of Workers...
by Robert Senser...Xlibris Corp.

Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush...
by Robert, Sam, and Nat Parry...Media Consortium Books

Put To Work: The WPA and Public Employment in the Great Depression...
by Nancy E. Rose...Monthly Review Press

Can They Do That?: Retaking Our Fundamental Rights in the Workplace...
by Lewis Maltby...Penguin Group

Growing Up Hard in Harlan County...
by G.C. Jones...University Press of Kentucky

Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy...
by Ruth Milkman...ILR Press

Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness...
by Simon Cordery...University of New Mexico Press

Unseen America: Photos and Stories by Workers...
by Esther Cohen...Collins Design

The Fiery Struggle: Illinois Fire Fighters Build a Union, 1901-1985...
by Michael G. Matejka...Illinois Labor History Society

COCHABAMBA! Water War in Bolivia...
by Oscar Olivera and Tom Lewis...South End Press

Grassroots Journalism...
by Eesha Williams...Dollars and Sense...(essential handbook for a new kind of community journalism)

Real World Labor...
by Immanuel Ness, Amy Offner, and Chris Sturr, Editors...Dollars and Sense...(issues confronting labor unions and workers on a national and global level)

Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History...
by Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, and Immanuel Ness, Editors...M.E. Sharpe

Guns of Lattimer: The True Story of a Massacre and a Trial, August 1897-March 1898...
by Michael Novak...Basic Books

How Internet Radio Can Change The World: An Activists Guide...
by Eric Lee...iUniverse, Inc

Blue Collar Jesus: How Christianity Supports Workers Rights...
by Darren Cushman Wood...Seven Locks Press

Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor...
by Robert E. Weir and James P. Hanlan, Editors...Greenwood Press

The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising...
by Robert Shogan...Westview Press

Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On The Global Factory...
by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie...South End Press

Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed is Shipping American Jobs Overseas...
by Lou Dobbs...Warner Business

Unfair Advantage: Workers Freedom of Association in the United States Under International Human Rights Standards...
by Lance Compa...Cornell University Press

The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexican Border...
by David Bacon...University of California Press

The Magic of Blood...
by Dagoberto Gilb...Grove Press...(short stories about working class chicanos in the southwest of the U.S.)

Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our Lives...
by Sam Pizzigati...Apex Press

Workers' Rights as Human Rights...
by James A. Gross...Cornell University Press

Union Members Complete Guide: Everything You Want and Need to Know About Working Union...
by Michael Mauer...Union Communication Service Inc.

A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait...
by Jervis Anderson...University of California Press

Stories From the Mines...
by Thomas M. Curra and Greg Matkosky...University of Scranton Press

Remembering Cesar: The Legacy of Cesar Chavez...
by Ann McGregor..Quill Driver Books

Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers Rights...
by Judith Pinkerton Josephson...Lerner Publications Company

Sit Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-37...
by Sidney Fine...University of Michigan Press

Images of Labor...
by Moe Foner...Pilgrim Press

Once a Cigarmaker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories...
by Patricia Cooper...University of Illinois Press

Joe Hill: The IWW and the Making of a Revolutionary Working Class Counterculture...
by Franklin Rosemont...Charles H. Kerr Publishing

Talkin' Union: The American Labor Movement...
by Juliet H. Mofferd...Discovery Enterprises

Haymarket Scrapbook...
by David R. Roediger and Franklin Rosemont, Editor...Charles H. Kerr Publishing

Working...
by Studs Terkel...New Press...(people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do)

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America...
by Barbara Ehrenreich...Owl Books

Workplace Justice: Organizing Multi-Identity Movements...
by Sharon Kurtz...University of Minnesota Press

Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America...
by Mary Margaret Fonow...University of Minnesota Press

What Workers Want...
by Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers...Cornell University Press

Worker Activism After Successful Union Organizing...
by Linda Jill Markowitz...M.E. Sharpe

Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology...
by Joyce L. Kornbluh...Charles H. Kerr

The Future of the American Labor Movement...
by Hoyt N. Wheeler...Cambridge University Press

A Job to Die For: Why So Many Americans Are Killed, Injured, or Made Ill at Work and What To Do About It...
by Lisa Cullen...Common Courage Press

The Violence Prone Workplace: A New Approach to Dealing with Hostile, Threatening, and Uncivil Behavior...
by Richard V. Denenberg and Mark Braverman...Cornell University Press

Alcohol and Other Drugs: Issues in Arbitration...
by Tia Schneider Denenberg and R. V. Denenberg... BNA Books

Bread Upon the Waters...
by Rose Pesotta...Cornell University Press

Labor on the March...
by Edward Levinson...Cornell University Press

Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers...
edited by Paul F. Clark, Peter Gottlieb, and Donald Kennedy...Cornell Unversity Press

Pride and Solidarity: A History of the Plumbers and Pipefitters of Columbus, Ohio, 1889-1989...
by Richard Schneirov...Cornell University Press

Organizing the Shipyards: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Ports, 1933-1945...
by David Palmer...Cornell University Press

Seventy Years of Life and Labor: An Autobiography...
by Samuel Gompers...Cornell University Press

Students Against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement...
by Liza Featherstone...Verso Books

Building Unions: Past, Present and Future...
by Peter Kellman...Apex Press

A Union Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and It's Fight Against Organized Labor...
by William Millikan...Minnesota Historical Society Press

Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy...
by Edward C. Lorenz...University of Notre Dame Press

Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto...
by Dan Labotz...South End Press

Thunder on the Mountain: A Novel of 1936...
by David Poyer...Forge-St. Martin's Press

One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the end of Economic Democracy...
by Thomas Frank...Doubleday

The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States...
by Marie Gottschalk...ILR Press

May Day: A Short History of the International Workers' Holiday, 1886-1986...
by Philp S. Foner...International Pub.

Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War 1920-21...
by Lon Savage..University of Pittsburgh Press

When the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times...
by Thomas Dublin..Cornell University Press

The Triangle Fire...
by Leon Stein...ILR Press...(story of the catastrophe which claimed the lives of 146 workers)

Rekindling the Movement: Labor's Quest for Relevance in the Twenty-First Century...
by Lowell Turner, Harry Katz, and Richard Hurd, Editors...ILR Press

The Rights of Employees and Union Members...
by Wayne N. Outten, Robert J. Rabin and Lisa R. Lipman...Southern Illinois University Press, ACLU

No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers...
by Andrew Ross, Editor...Verso Books

Individual Rights Within the Union...
by Martin H. Malin and Lorraine A. Schmall...BNA Books

Transnational Cooperation Among Labor Unions...
by Michael E. Gordon and Lowell Turner, Editors...Cornell University Press

Strong in the Struggle: My Life as a Black Labor Activist...
by Lee Brown and Robert L. Allen...Rowman and Littlefield

The Fall of the House of Labor...
by David Montgomery...Cambridge University Press

Bread and Roses: The Struggle of American Labor 1865-1915...
by Milton Meltzer and John Anthony Scott, Editors...Replica Books

The TUC: From the General Strike to New Unionism...
by Robert Taylor...St. Martin's Press...(Trades Union Congress of the United Kingdom)

The Political Life of a Public Employee Labor Union: Regional Union Democracy...
by Frank D. Sisya...Edwin Mellon Press

From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future...
by Stanley Aronowitz...Basic Books

A New Labor Movement for the New Century...
by Gregory Mantsios...Monthly Review Press

The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor 1877-Present...
by Steve Babson...Rowman and Littlefield

Working People: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labor Movement...
by Desmond Morton...McGill Queens University Press

The Betrayal of Local 14...
by Julius Getman...Cornell University Press

Building More Effective Unions...
by Paul F. Clark...ILR Press

Strategic Negotiations...
by Richard E. Walton, Joel E. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, and Robert B. McKersie...Cornell University Press

The New Rank and File...
by Staughton and Alice Lynd, Editors...IRL Press

Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California...
by Ruth Milkman, Editor...ILR Press

The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case...
by Richard Rashke...Cornell University Press

The Great Labor Quotations: Sourcebook and Reader...
by Peter D. Bollen...RDEY

Hard Work: The Making of Labor History...
by Melvyn Dubofsky...University of Illinois Press

We Paid Our Dues: Women Trade Union Leaders of the Caribbean...
by Lynn A. Bolles...Howard University Press

The Sky Never Changes: Testimonies from the Guatemalan Labor Movement...
by Thomas F. Reed... Cornell University Press

Trade Unions at the Crossroads...
by Peter Fairbrother...Mansell

It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW...
by Edwin L. Brown and Colin J. Davis, Editors...University of Alabama Press

Whose Trade Organization? Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy...
by Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza...Public Citizen Foundation

Workers and Unions in Wisconsin: A Labor Anthology...
by Darryl Holter...State Historical Society of Wisconsin

The Lexicon of Labor...
by R. Emmett Murray...The New Press...(terms, biographical sketches, and historical insights concerning labor in America)

A History of British Trade Unionism 1700-1998...
by W. Harnish Fraser...St. Martins Press

Corporate Predators...
by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman...Common Courage Press

Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union...
by Sol Dollinger and Genora Johnson Dollinger...Monthly Review Press

The Necessity of Organization: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan and Trade Unionism...
by Kathleen Banks Nutter...Garland Publishers

Grounded: Reagan and the PATCO Crash...
by Michael A. Round...Garland Publishers

"We Are All Leaders" The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s...
by Staughton Lynd, Editor...University of Illinois Press

American Labor Struggles...
by Samuel Yellen...Pathfinder Press

Labor's Giant Step...
by Art Preis...Pathfinder Press

Mother Jones, the Miners Angel: A Portrait ...
by Dale Fetherling...Southern Illinois University Press

Ravenswood: The Steelworker's Victory and the Revival of American Labor...
by Tom Juravich and Kate Bronfenbrenner...Cornell University Press

We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women's Factory Strike of 1909...
by Joan Dash...Scholastic Inc.

A Pictorial History of American Labor...
by William Cahn...Crown Publishers

The Eastern Airlines Strike...
by Ernie Mailhot, Judy Stranahan, and Jack Barnes... Pathfinder Press

The IWW: It's First Seventy Years...
by Fred W. Thompson and Patrick Murlin...IWW Press

George Meany and His Times...
by Archie Robinson...Simon and Shuster

Women and the American Labor Movement...
by Phillip S. Foner...The Free Press

The Union Makes Us Strong...
by David Wellman...Cambridge University Press

Irish Voice and Organized Labor in America...
by L.A. O'Donnell...Greenwood Publishing Group

Through Jaundiced Eyes: How the Media View Organized Labor...
by William J. Puette...ILR Press

Mother Jones Speaks...
by Phillip S. Foner, Editor and Mary H. Jones...Pathfinder Press

The Autobiography of Mother Jones...
by Mother Jones, with Meridel Lesueur and Clarence Darrow...Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co.

Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983...
by Barbara Kingsolver...ILR Press

Union Sisters: Women in the Labor Movement...
by Linda Brisken, Editor...Bookpeople

Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre...
by Zeese Papanikolas and Wallace Stegner...University of Nebraska Press

Cesar Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit...
by Richard Griswold Del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia...University of Oklahoma Press

American Workers, American Unions...
by Robert H. Zieger...Johns Hopkins University Press

Labor In The Schools: How To Do It...
published by AFL-CIO Department of Education

How Arbitration Works...
by Frank Elkouri and Edna Asper Elkouri...BNA Books

The Union Steward's Complete Guide...
by David Prosten...Union Communication Service, Inc.

Legendary Labor Leaders...
by Thomas Streissguth...Oliver Press

Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes...
by Archie Green...University of Illinois Press

Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers,1894-1922...
by James J. Barrett...University of Illinois Press

Talking Union...
by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zettlin...University of Illinois Press

Gentle Rebel: Letters of Eugene V. Debs...
by Eugene V. Debs...University of Illinois Press

The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth-Century America...
by James R. Green...University of Illinois Press

The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Workers 1878-1905...
by David Brundage... University of Illinois Press

All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek...
by Elizabeth Jameson...University of Illinois Press

Steelworkers in America: The Non-Union Era...
by David Brody...University of Illinois Press

Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopman's Strike...
by Colin J. Davis...University of Illinois Press

Patch/Work Voices: The Culture and Lore of a Mining People...
by Dennis F. Brestensky, Evelyn A. Hovanec, Albert N. Skomra...University of Pittsburgh Press

Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist...
by Nick Salvatore...University of Illinois Press

Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit...
by Nelson Lichtenstein...University of Illinois Press

Dolores Huerta...
by Frank Perez...RaintreeS

Cesar Chavez: Union Leader...
by Bruce W. Conord...Chelsea House Publishers

Which Side Are You On? Trying To Be For Labor When It's Flat On Its Back...
by Thomas Geoghegan...Dutton Penguin Books

Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor...
by James C. Docherty...Scarecrow Pr., Inc.

British Trade Unions 1945-1995...
by Chris Wrigley...St. Martins Press

Joe Hill...
by Gibbs M. Smith...Gibbs M. Smith Inc., Publisher

Labor's Untold Story...
by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais...United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, Publisher

The New Labor Press: Journalism for a Changing Union Movement...
by Sam Pizzigati and Fred J. Solowey, Editors...ILR-Cornell University Press

Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Organized Guide to Films About Labor...
by Tom Zaniello...ILR-Cornell University Press

James Larkin: Irish Labor Leader,1876-1947...
by Emmet Larkin...Pluto Press

Labor Arbitration: What You Need To Know...
by Robert Coulson...American Arbitration Association

The Fight in the Fields: Ceasar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement...
by Susan Ferriss... Harcourt Brace

American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor, 1900-1941...
by Daniel Nelson...Princeton University Press

Rocking The Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975 ...
by Brigid O'Farrell and Joyce L. Kornbluh... Rutgers University Press

Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town...
by Steve Babson...Wayne State University Press

America Needs a Raise...
by John J. Sweeney and David Kusnet...Houghton Mifflin Company

Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene V.Debs...
by Ray Ginger...Thomas Jefferson University Press

The Molly Maguires...
by Anthony Bimba... International Publishing Company

Hoffa...
by Arthur A. Sloane...M I T Press

Negotiating Skills in the Workplace: A Practical Handbook...
by Larry Cairns...Pluto Press

John L. Lewis: Labor Leader...
by Robert H. Zieger ...Macmillan Publishing

The Dockers' Union: A Study of the National Union of Dock Labourers 1889-1922...
by Eric Taplin...Saint Martin's Press

Mother Jones: One Woman's Fight for Labor...
by Betsy Harvey Kraft...Houghton Mifflin Company

Guide to the Local Assemblies of the Knights of Labor...
by Jonathan Garlock, Editor... Greenwood Publishing Group

Look for the Union Label: A History of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
by Gus Tyler...M.E. Sharpe

America: What Went Wrong?...
by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele...Andrews and McMeel

Collective Bargaining: How It Works and Why...
by Thomas R. Colosi and Arthur Eliot...American Arbitration Association

The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationlism...
by Eric Lee...Pluto Press

Strike!...
by Jeremy Brecher...South End Press

Your Rights in the Workplace...
by Attorney Barbara Kate Repa...Nolo Press

Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies...
by Kate Bronfenbrenner, Editor...ILR Cornell University Press

Democracy is Power: Rebuilding Unions from the Bottom Up...
by Martha Gruelle and Mike Parker...Labor Notes

A Troublemaker's Handbook: How to Fight Back Where You Work-And Win...
by Dan La Botz...Labor Notes

Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy...
by Kim Moody...Verso Books

Working Smart: A Union Guide to Participation and Reengineering...
by Mike Parker and Jane Slaughter...Labor Notes

Stopping Sexual Harassment: A Handbook for Union Activists...
by Camille Colatosti and Elissa Karg...Labor Notes

Unions and Free Trade...
by Mary McGinn and Kim Moody...Labor Notes

An Injury To All: The Decline of American Unionism...
by Kim Moody...Routledge

Time Out!: The Case for a Shorter Work Week...
by Kim Moody and Simone Sagovac...Labor Notes

Power on the Job...
by Michael Yates...South End Press

The Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sitdowns...
by Sidney Lens...Doubleday and Co.

CyberUnion: Empowering Labor Through Computer Technology...
by Arthur B. Shostak...M.E. Sharpe Publishing

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