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"If a man love the labour of his trade, apart from any suggestion "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance "If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich "Men do not shrink from work, but from slavery. The man who works "You don't own it until it costs you something." "Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage has decreased 38% since 1968." "The average real weekly earnings of a typical [American] blue-collar worker are lower today than in 1964." "Labor is the source of all wealth."
of success or fame, the gods have called him."
— Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-94]
to work hard at work worth doing."
— Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919], Labor Day speech, 1903
would have kept it all to themselves."
— Lane Joseph Kirkland [president AFL-CIO, 1980-95]
primarily for the benefit of another does so only from compulsion,
and work so done is the very essence of slavery."
— Eugene V. Debs [1855-1926]
— George Meany [president AFL-CIO 1955-79]
— Howard Dean, 2003
— Time Magazine, September 2011
— G.E. Nordell
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Labor Links
sociologist C. Wright Mills [1916-62]
labor leader Eugene V. Debs [1855-1926]
links, timeline, and more links consolidated on the
'Labor, Capitalism & the Working Mind' Page
at Working Minds / Solutions
American Labor History Timeline at Working Minds / Solutions
UFCW Labor History Timeline 1800-1900
UFCW Labor History Timeline 1900-1979
"A Brief History of Unions" [1.5 minute short] from PA-AFLCIO on YouTube
The United Federation of Indentured Servants [est. 2010]
Fiction Related to Union Struggles
 | "Wide Open Town: A Novel" [Farrar & Rinehart 1931] by Myron Brinig, Illustrated by Earl Ganz A story of labor strife and love set in 1910 in fictional Silver Bow, representing Butte, Montana. A lover of fresh air works deep in the mines, his powerful uncle faces a crisis, and a girl from the 'dark side' of town in love with the miner tries to reform herself. Sweetgrass / Farcountry Press 9x6 pb [6/93] for $12.95 Spirit of America Bookstore's Myron Brinig [1896-1991] Page |
 | "In Dubious Battle" [Viking Press 1936] by John Steinbeck [1902-68]
Written before "Grapes of Wrath", this story of a strike among migrant workers in apple orchards of California tells how Jim Nolan becomes a leader of the workers and then suffers crushing defeat. Penguin Classics 7¾x5 pb [5/2006] for $10.88 Penguin Classics 7¾x5 pb [10/92] out of print/used Bantam mass pb [6/76] out of print/used Viking Press hardcover [10/36] out of print/many used BooksOnTape audio [11/94] 7 tapes read by Michael Keenan - out of prodn/scarce |
 | "Lonely Crusade" [Knopf 1947] by Chester Himes A young Negro man becomes a union organizer in the Los Angeles aircraft industry during World War II. Thunder's Mouth Press 8¼x5½ pb [6/97] out of print/used Thunder's Mouth Press 8½x5½ pb [11/86] out of print/used Knopf/Chatham/TMP hardcovers: out of print/used |
 | "Boulder Dam" [1963 novel] by Zane Grey [1872-1939]
Novel based on the real-life labor strife during the mid-1930s construction of the hydroelectric dam across Black Canyon on the Colorado River. Harper mass pb [12/90] out of print/used Story House hardcover [1963] out of print/used |
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"Storming Heaven: A Novel" [1987] by Denise Giardina A compelling novel of Appalachian labor strife in the 1920s. Ivy Books pb [5/94] for $6.99 Ballantine 8½x5½ pb [2/99] out of print/used W.W. Norton hardcover [8/87] out of print/used |
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"The Unquiet Earth: A Novel" [1992] by Denise Giardina sequel to "Storming Heaven" above. Ivy Books pb [5/94] for $6.99 W.W. Norton 9½x6½ hardcover [5/92] out of print/used |
 | "Tennessee's Coal Creek War: Another Fight For Freedom" [1995] by Chris Cawood Workers stand up to coal mine owners and the State Militia, in 1891-92. Magnolia Hill 9x6 pb [10/95] for $11.66 |
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"Thunder On The Mountain: A Novel of 1936" [1999] by David Poyer A tale of labor strife in the Pennsylvania oilfields. Forge pb [8/2000] out of print/used St. Martin 9¾x6½ hardcover [3/99] out of print/used Chivers UNABR audio [1/2000] for $86.94 author website |
 | "Labor's Text: The Worker In American Fiction" [2000] by Laura Hapke Rutgers Univ Press 10x7 pb [2/2001] for $32.95 Rutgers Univ Press 10¼x7¼ hardcover [2/2000] for $0.00 |
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"The Coal King's Slaves: A Coal Miner's Story" [2002] by William G. Williams A tale of Scranton, Pennsylvania coal-miners, circa 1890. Burd Street Press 9x6 pb [11/2002] for $10.47 |
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"The Sunnyside War" [2003] by Fred Civish Young Dan Cook grows up fast in the coal mines of Sunnyside, Utah, in the 1920s. Cedar Fort 9x6 pb [4/2003] out of print/used |
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"Haymarket: A Novel" [2003] by Martin B. Duberman A fictional account of the Haymarket Massacre of 1886, centering on labor martyr Albert Parsons. Seven Stories Press 9¼x6.3 hardcover [12/2003] for $17.47 |
 | "Bucket of Blood: The Ragman's War" [2003] by R.S. Sukle A fictional account of the 1927-28 strikes in the coalfields of Pennsylvania, based on family stories. iUniverse 9x6 pb [12/2003] for $17.95 iUniverse 9¼x6½ hardcover [12/2003] for $27.95 author's booksite |
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"Labor Days: An Anthology of Fiction About Work" [2004] 5 stories, 16 novel excerpts; edited by David Gates Random House 8x5 pb [8/2004] for $11.16 |
 | "Coal Camp Justice: Two Wrongs Make A Right" [2005] by Ricardo L. García Univ NM Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2005] for $16.47 sequel "Coal Camp Days: A Boy's Remembrance" [2001] Univ NM Press 8½x5½ hardcover [10/2001] for $24.95 |
 | "Triangle: A Novel" [2006] by Katharine Weber A woman in a nursing home who survived the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire tells her story to her granddaughter. After the woman's death, a feminist scholar notices inconsistencies in the story and sets out to uncover the woman's secrets. FS&G 8¼x5¾ hardcover [6/2006] for $15.64 |
 | "Work Song: A Novel" [2010] by Ivan Doig Sequel to "The Whistling Season" [2006 non-labor novel], ten years later (circa 1919). Morrie lands in copper town Butte, Montana and gets a job at the public library while hiding from Chicago gamblers, courting the alluring widow who runs the boarding house, and choosing sides in the local labor dispute. Kindle Edition from Riverhead/Penguin [6/2010] for $12.99 Riverhead Trade 7¾x5 pb [7/2011] for $11.25 Riverhead 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2010] out of print/100+ used author's official website |
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Labor Novels by Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair catalog at Amazon
Spirit of America Bookstore's Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] Page
Labor-Related Non-Fiction - General
"Child Labor In America" [] by Juliet H. Mofford 1-878668-98-6
"Children At Work" [] by JoAnne Weisman Deitch 1-57960-065-4
http://www.amazon.com/Building-unions-Past-present-future/dp/1891843095/
http://www.amazon.com/Labor-History-Reader-Working-American/dp/0252011988/
http://www.amazon.com/Pullman-Strike-Crisis-1890s-POLITICS/dp/025206755X/
http://www.amazon.com/Epitaph-American-Labor-Leaders-America/dp/0844739960/
http://www.amazon.com/Labor-Question-America-Economic-Democracy/dp/0252077865/
http://www.amazon.com/Schools-Democracy-Political-American-Movement/dp/0801472997/
http://www.amazon.com/Unions-Beginners-David-Cogswell/dp/1934389773/
http://www.amazon.com/There-Power-Union-Story-America/dp/0307389766/
http://www.amazon.com/Sweat-Blood-History-Unions-Peoples/dp/0822575949/
http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Work-HISTORY-Working-American/dp/0252068688/
http://www.amazon.com/Battling-American-Labor-Wobblies-Movement/dp/0520218337/
http://www.amazon.com/History-Trade-Unionism-United-States/dp/1406911712/
http://www.amazon.com/Chronology-United-States-Russell-Wright/dp/0786414448/
http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Master-Workman-Powderly-Contributions/dp/0313309485/
http://www.amazon.com/Haymarket-Scrapbook-Dave-Roediger/dp/0882861220/
http://www.amazon.com/John-L-Lewis-Leader-Labor/dp/1408636026/
http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Seattle-Memoir-Harvey-OConnor/dp/1931859744/
 | "Punching Out: One Year In A Closing Auto Plant" [2011] by Paul Clemens Doubleday 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1/2011] for $17.13 |
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"America On Strike: A Survey of Labor Strikes In America" [2010] by Richard Edward Noble Author was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and yet found out only by accident and as an adult about the 'Bread and Roses Strike' in Lawrence in 1912, the largest strike action in American history. He decided to find out what happened then and why labor history is hidden from view in America. Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [4/2011] for $7.99 CreateSpace 9x6 pb [3/2010] for $17.50 |
 | "Can They Do That?: Retaking Our Fundamental Rights In The Workplace" [2009] by Lewis Maltby Portfolio 9x6¼ hardcover [12/2009] for $17.13 |
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"Solidarity Divided: The Crisis In Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice" [2008] by Bill Fletcher, Jr. & Fernando Gapasin Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [10/2009] for $12.21 Univ CA Press 9x6¼ hardcover [6/2008] for $40.00 |
 | "Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression In The American Workplace" [2007] by Bruce Barry Berrett–Koehler 9¼x6¼ pb [6/2007] for $18.45 official booksite |
 | "The State of Working America" [2006] by Lawrence Mishel & Jared Bernstein & Sylvia Allegretto Cornell Univ Press 11th edition 9x6 pb [6/2009] for $15.69 I.L.R. Press 11th edition 9x6 hardcover [6/2009] for $55.92 I.L.R. Press 10th edition pb [12/2006] for $16.47 I.L.R. Press 10th edition hardcover [12/2006] for $68.95 official book-series site • Economic Policy Institute [est. 1986] |
 | "Drawing The Line: The Untold Story of The Animation Unions From Bosko To Bart Simpson" [2006] by Tom Sito Univ Press of KY 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $24.32 |
 | "Death In The Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, The First Labor Movement & The Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America" [2006] by James Green Anchor 7¾x5¼ pb [3/2007] for $10.85 Pantheon 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2006] for $18.60 |
 | "Taking Back The Workers' Law: How To Fight The Assault On Labor Rights" [2006] by Ellen Dannin I.L.R. Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2006] for $35.00 |
 | "Solidarity For Sale: How Corruption Destroyed The Labor Movement & Undermined America's Promise" [2006] by Robert Fitch PublicAffairs 9½x7 hardcover [2/2006] for $18.81 |
 | "Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism In The United States" [2006] by Sharon Smith Haymarket Books pb [2/2006] for $10.40 |
 | "Mobsters, Unions and Feds: The Mafia & The American Labor Movement" [2006] by James B. Jacobs NY Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [1/2006] for $20.76 |
 | "Fired!: Tales of The Canned, Canceled, Downsized & Dismissed" [2006] Book & film edited by Annabelle Gurwitch Touchstone 8¾x5¾ pb [2/2006] for $12.97 L.A. Theatre Works audio CD of the play [7/2005] for $25.95 author's book, play & film site • official movie site Shout Factory Theatre color DVD [6/2007] for $4.28 film credits [aired March 2007] |
 | "Restoring The American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda For America" [2005] by Thomas A. Kochan
M.I.T. Press 9x6 pb [10/2006] for $11.16 M.I.T. Press 9x6 hardcover [9/2005] for $21.24 publisher's bookpage |
 | "Slaves To Fashion: Poverty & Abuse In The New Sweatshops" [2004] by Robert J.S. Ross U.M.P. pb [10/2004] for $12.97 U.M.P. 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2004] for $65.00 |
 | "Which Side Are You On?: Trying To Be For Labor When It's Flat On Its Back" [orig 1991, rev 2004] by Thomas Geoghegan The New Press 8x5¼ pb [7/2004] for $15.95 Plume 8x5¼ pb [8/92] out of print/many, many used Farrar, Straus & Giroux 9½x6¾ hardcover [8/91] out of print/many, many used |
 | "Beasts of The Field: A Narrative History of California Farm Workers, 1769-1913" [2004] by Richard Steven Street listed as Los Angeles Times Book Review Best of 2004 Stanford Univ Press 10x7 pb [4/2004] for $19.77 Stanford Univ Press 10¼x7 hardcover [3/2004] for $75.00 |
 | "Corruption and Reform In The Teamsters Union" [2003] by David Witwer Univ IL Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/2003] for $41.94 |
 | "Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy & Working People In American Film" [2003] by John Bodnar Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6 pb [8/2006] for $25.00 Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [4/2003] for $45.00 |
 | "The Union Member's Complete Guide: Everything You Want – And Need – To Know About Working Union" [2001] by Michael Mauer Union Comm'n Service 9x7¾ pb [11/2001] for $10.36 |
 | "From The Folks Who Brought You The Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor In The United States" [2001] by Priscilla Murolo & A. B. Chitty; illustrations by Joe Sacco "[an] extraordinarily fine addition to U.S. history and labor literature" New Press 9.4x6¼ pb [2/2003] for $12.57 New Press hardcover [9/2001] out of print/used |
 | "Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On The Global Factory" [2001] by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
South End Press 8½x5¼ pb [7/2001] for $12.70 South End Press 9x5¾ hardcover [7/2001] for $40.00 Women of Color Resource Center [est. 1990] in Oakland, California La Fuerza Unida of San Antonio, Texas |
 | "White Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioriation of Work & Its Rewards In Corporate America" [2001] by Jill Andresky Fraser W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [6/2002] for $11.17 W.W. Norton hardcover [2/2001] for $26.95 |
 | "The New Rank and File" [2000] Edited by Staughton & Alice Lynd I.L.R. Press 9¼x6 pb [12/2000] out of print/many used I.L.R. Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [12/2000] for $66.95 |
 | "The Great Labor Quotations: Sourcebook & Reader" [2000] by Peter Bollen Red Eye Press 9x6 pb [8/2000] for $13.97 |
 | "Kids On Strike!" [ages 9-12; 1999] by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Houghton Mifflin 10x7½ pb [8/2003] for $9.95 Houghton Mifflin 10¼x7¾ hardcover [10/99] for $16.00 |
 | "A Short History of The U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times To The Twenty-First Century" [1999] by Paul Le Blanc Humanity Books 9x6 pb [7/99] for $24.00 Humanity Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/99] for $52.00 |
 | "Why Unions Matter" [1998] by Michael D. Yates "particularly successful in the chapters that focus on the nuts & bolts of union activities" Monthly Rvw Press 9x6 pb [12/98] for $17.00 Monthly Rvw Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [12/98] out of print/used |
 | "When The Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles In Hard Times" [1998] by Thomas Dublin, photographs by George Harvan Cornell Univ Press 9½x6¼ pb [9/98] for $23.95 Cornell Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [9/98] out of print/used |
 | "From The Ashes of The Old: American Labor & America's Future" [1998] by Stanley Aronowitz Basic Books pb [2/2000] out of print/used Houghton Mifflin hardcover [9/98] for $25.00 |
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"The Union Steward's Complete Guide" [1997] Edited by David Prosten Union Comm'n Service 10x8 pb [11/97] for $13.97 |
 | "Negotiating Hollywood: The Cultural Politics of Actors' Labor" [1995] by Danae Clark A pioneering study of labor struggles in 1930s Hollywood Univ MN Press 9x6 pb [10/95] for $22.00 Univ MN Press 9¼x6 hardcover [10/95] for $44.95 |
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"The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure" [1992] by Juliet B. Schor Basic Books 7¾x5¼ pb [2/93] for $11.20 Basic Books hardcover [2/92] out of print/used |
 | "The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers Are Turning The Office of The Future Into The Factory of The Past" [1988] by Barbara Garson Penguin pb [10/89] out of print/used S&S hardcover [5/88] out of print/used |
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"The Rights of Employees & Union Members: The Basic A.C.L.U. Guide To The Rights of Employees & Union Members" [1984] by Wayne N. Outten, Robert J. Rabin & Lisa R. Lipman SoIL Univ Press 6¾x6½ pb [2nd edition 3/94] for $14.35 |
 | "Dynamite: A Century of Class Violence In America, 1830-1930" [1984] by Louis Adamic A.K./Rebel Press 8¼x6 pb [6/84] for $12.99 |
 | "American Labor Struggles, 1877-1934" [1982] by Samuel Yellen Pathfinder Press 8¼x5½ pb [2/84] for $23.94 Ayer hardcover [10/82] out of print/used |
 | "Out of The Sweatshop: The Struggle For Industrial Democracy" [1977] Edited by Leon Stein Quadrangle/New York Times Books pb [6/77] out of print/used Quadrangle/New York Times Books 9½x6 hardcover [6/77] out of print/many used |
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"Strike!" [1974] by Jeremy Brecher an examination of the mass strike South End Press 8½x5.4 pb [10/97] for $22.00 South End Press 8½x5½ hardcover [1/98] for $40.00 |
 | "Rank and File: Personal Histories By Working-Class Organizers" [1973] Edited by Alice & Staughton Lynd Haymarket Books 2nd edition 8x5½ pb [1/2012] for $14.60 Monthly Review Press 8x5¼ pb [1973] out of print/many used Beacon Press 8x5¼ hardcover [1973] out of print/used |
 | "Talkin' Union: The American Labor Movement" [1970] Edited by Juliet Haines Mofford Discovery Enterprises 7¼x5 pb [1970] for $7.95 |
 | "A History of American Labor" [1961] by Joseph G. Rayback Free Press 8¼x5½ pb [1/66] for $23.95 |
 | "Labor's Untold Story" [1955] by Richard O. Boyer & Herbert M. Morais recommended by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007] UERMWA pb [12/55] out of print/used via Amazon available from UERMWA [24th printing] |
Labor-Related Non-Fiction - Historical Events
 | "TV On Strike: Why Hollywood Went To War Over The Internet"  [2013] by Cynthia Littleton Kindle Edition from Syracuse Univ Press [1/2013] for $16.47 Syracuse Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [1/2013] for $19.77 |
 | "Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, The Air Traffic Controllers, and The Strike That Changed America" [2011] by Joseph A. McCartin Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [10/2011] for $12.07 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½hardcover [10/2011] for $18.53 see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Ronald Reagan [1911-2004] Page |
 | "Hollywood On Strike!: An Industry At War In The Internet Age" [2011] by Jonathan Handel Kindle Edition from Hollywood Analytics [2/2011] for $7.99 CreateSpace 9x6 pb [2/2011] for $22.95 |
 | "Killing For Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War" [2008] by Thomas G. Andrews Harvard Univ Press 9½x6¼ pb [9/2010] for $12.53 Harvard Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2008] for $18.01 |
 | "Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre & Class War In The American West" [2007] by Scott Martelle Rutgers Univ Press 8½c5¼ pb [9/2008] for $15.56 Rutgers Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [8/2007] for $25.95 see also Ludlow, Colorado info on the Southeast Colorado Travel & Business Links Page |
 | "Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters" [2006] by Robert E. Hartley & David Kenney Explosions killed 111 men at the Centralia No. 5 mine in 1947 and 119 men at the New Orient No. 2 mine in West Frankfort in 1951 – the two southern Illinois towns were only forty miles apart. Authors identify and document the cover-ups by industry & government, including the blaming of whistle-blowers who came forward, that uncannily resemble the situation in American coal mines sixty years later. Southern Illinois Univ Press 9¼x6½ pb [7/2006] for $17.52 Southern Illinois Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2006] out of print/used |
 | "Pullman Strike of 1894" [for ages 9-12; 2006] by Rosemary Laughlin Morgan Reynolds Publng YA hardcover [4/2006] for $26.95 |
 | "Slaughter In Serene: The Columbine Coal Strike Reader" [2005] by Eric Margolis, Joanna Sampson, Phil Goodstein & Richard Myers purchase online at Bread & Roses Workers' Cultural Center publisher's bookpage |
 | "Labor, Civil Rights and The Hughes Tool Company" [2005] by Michael R. Botson, Jr. The National Labor Relations Board unanimously ended Jim Crow unionism & segregated labor unions at the giant Hughes Tool factory in Houston, Texas in July, 1964 - a victory for both the labor movement and the civil rights movement. Texas A&M Univ Press 9¼x6 hardcover [9/2005] for $18.06 see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Howard Hughes [1905-76] Page |
 | "Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants & The Struggle For The American Dream" [2005] by Bruce Watson Penguin 7½x5½ pb [7/2006] for $10.88 Viking 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/2005] for $18.96 |
 | "Triangle: The Fire That Changed America" [2003] by David von Drehle Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover [9/2003] for $18.20 |
 | "Hollywood Noir: Featuring Ronald Reagan" [2001] by Richard Olsen Xlibris 8½x5½ pb [10/2001] for $21.99 Xlibris 8¾x6 hardcover [10/2001] for $31.99 see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Ronald Reagan [1911-2004] Page |
 | "The Pullman Strike and The Labor Movement In American History" [for ages 9-12; 2001] by R. Conrad Stein Enslow Publrs 9¼x6¼ YA hardcover [3/2001] for $26.60 |
 | "Hard-Pressed In The Heartland: The Hormel Strike & The Future of The Labor Movement" [1999] by Peter Rachleff
South End Press 8½x5½ pb [7/99] for $12.53 South End Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [7/99] out of print/used Hormel 1985 Strike entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor & Capital In Industrial American Society" [1999] by David Ray Papke Univ Press of KS 8½x5½ pb [4/99] for $12.95 Univ Press of KS 9x6 hardcover [4/99] out of print/used |
 | "Pullman Strike of 1894: Turning Point For American Labor" [for ages 9-12; 1994] by Linda Jacobs Altman Millbrook Press YA hardcover [3/94] for $26.89 |
 | "Thunder In The Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21" [1990] by Lon Savage a journalist's account of the miners' strike in Matewan, West Virginia Univ of Pittsburgh Press pb [10/90] for $14.95 Univ of Pittsburgh Press hardcover [10/90] out of print/used |
 | "On Strike At Hormel: The Struggle For A Democratic Labor Movement" [1990] by Hardy Green Temple Univ Press 8x5½ pb [5/91] out of print/used Temple Univ Press 9x6¼ pb [2/90] out of print/used Hormel 1985 Strike entry at Wikipedia |
 | "No Retreat, No Surrender: Labor's War At Hormel" [1989] by Dave Hage & Paul Klauda Wm. Morrow 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/89] out of print/many used Hormel 1985 Strike entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Triangle Fire" [1985] by Leon Stein I.L.R./Cornell 8½x5½ pb [4/2001] for $16.95 Carroll & Graf hardcover [7/85] out of print/used |
 | "Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas & The Ludlow Massacre" [1982] by Zeese Papanikolas; Foreward by Wallace Stegner Univ NE Press 9x6 pb [6/91] for $24.95 Univ UT Press hardcover [10/82] out of print/used |
 | "The Autobiographies of The Haymarket Martyrs" [1978] Edited by Philip S. Foner Pathfinder Press pb [8/2001] for $20.94 |
 | "The Great Labor Uprising of 1877" [1977] by Philip S. Foner Pathfinder Press 8¼x5¼ pb [1/2002] for $21.94 Pathfinder Press hardcover [6/77] out of print/used |
 | "The Great Coalfield War" [1972] by George S. McGovern & Leonard F. Guttridge Univ Press of CO 8¾x6 pb [9/96] for $23.95 Houghton Mifflin hardcover [1972] out of print/used |
 | "The Pullman Strike: The Classic First-Hand Account of An Epoch-Making Struggle In U.S. Labor History" [orig 1894] by Rev. William H. Carwardine Charles H. Kerr Publng 11x5 pb [1/94] for $12.00 |
Labor Leaders
 | "The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders" [Harcourt Brace 1948] by C. Wright Mills Univ IL Press pb [9/2001] for $17.95 Univ IL Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/2001] for $40.00 A.M. Kelley hardcover [1/71] for $46.99 C. Wright Mills [1916-62] Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore |
 | "Labor Leaders In America" [1987] Edited and with an Introduction by Melvyn Dubofsky & Warren Van Tine chapters/topics include César Chávez, Eugene V. Debs, Samuel Gompers, William Green, William D. Haywood, Sidney Hillman, Jimmy Hoffa, John L. Lewis, George Meany, Philip Murray, Terrence V. Powderly, A. Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther, Rose Schneiderman & William H. Sylvis Univ Illinois Press 9x6 pb [1987] out of print/many used Univ Illinois Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/90] out of print/used Dubofsky's faculty homepage • Van Tine's faculty homepage |
Spirit of America Bookstore's Cesar E. Chavez [1927-93] Page
labor leader Eugene V. Debs [1855-1926]
Spirit of America Bookstore's Samuel Gompers [1850-1924] Page
Sidney Hillman [1887–1946]
"Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and The Rise of American Labor" [] by Steve Fraser
Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers
leaders of the International Workers of The World [est. 1905] aka the I.W.W. or 'Wobblies'
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn [1890-1964]
'Big Bill' Haywood [1869-1928]
Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones [1837-1930]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harris_Jones
"The Autobiography of Mother Jones" [1925]
"Mother Jones Speaks" [Millbrook Press, 1994] Edited by Penny Colman
"Mother Jones, America's Most Dangerous Woman" video [2007] /tt1493006/
 | "Strike! Mother Jones and The Colorado Coal Field War" [2012] by Lois Ruby Kindle Edition from Filter Press [9/2012] for $6.99 Filter Press 8½x5½ pb [9/2012] for $8.95 Filter Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/2012] for $17.95 |
Florence Kelley [1859–1932]
John L. Lewis [1880–1969]
"Labor and The Nation" [] by John L. Lewis
"John L. Lewis: A Biography" [] by Melvyn Dubofsky & Warren Van Tine
George Meany [1894-1980]
sociologist C. Wright Mills [1916-62] Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
Terence V. Powderly [1849-1924]
autobiography "The Path I Trod" []
Jackie Presser [1925-88] entry at Wikipedia
A. Philip Randolph [1889–1979]
"A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait" [] by Jervis Anderson
Walter Reuther [1907–70]
"Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit" [] by Nelson Lichtenstein
Lech Walesa of Poland
http://www.amazon.com/Lech-Walesa-Biography/dp/B000VSCEZA/
Music, Other Media
 | "Carry It On: Songs of America's Working People" [1992] by Pete Seeger, Si Kahn & Jane Sapp Flying Fish audio CD [9/92] for $14.99 |
 | "Dust Bowl Ballads" [1994] by Woody Guthrie
B.M.G. Intl. audio CD [12/99] 14 tracks for $10.27 Buddha / BMG audio CD [7/2000] out of prodn/used |
 | "Classic Labor Songs From Smithsonian Folkways" [2006]
Smithsonian Folkways audio CD [5/2006] for $11.98 |
 | "Harlan County USA: Songs of The Coal Miners's Struggle" [2006]
Rounder Records Umgd soundtrack CD [5/2006] 22 tracks for $14.99 featuring seven songs by Hazel Dickens, plus artists & groups Norman Blake, Phyllis Boyens (2), Connie & Babe featuring Red Roberts, Country Cooking band, J.P. Fraley, Jim Garland, Sarah Gunning (2), the Johnson Mountain Boys, the Old Home String Band, Florence Reece, Merle Travis, Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton, and Nimrod Workman |
Labor Film Festival
Labor Movement Film Festival at Spirit of America
"A Brief History of Unions" [1.5 minute short] from PA-AFLCIO on YouTube
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