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• Can Unions Survive? The Rejuvenation of the American Labor Movement (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Charles B. Craver (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Joe Worker and the Story of Labor (New York: National Labor Service, ca. 1948), by Nathan Schachner and Jack Alderman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Jewish Labor in U.S.A.: An Industrial, Political and Cultural History of the Jewish Labor Movement (2 volumes, respectively covering 1882-1914 and 1914-1952; New York: Trade Union Sponsoring Committee, c1950-1953), by Melech Epstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Workers in American History (second edition; Terre Haute, IN: J. Oneal, 1910), by James Oneal (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Life of Albert R. Parsons; With Brief History of the Labor Movement in America (Chicago: L. E. Parsons, 1889), by Lucy E. Parsons, contrib. by Albert Richard Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revolutionary Radicalism: Its History, Purpose and Tactics; With an Exposition and Discussion of the Steps Being Taken and Required to Curb It (4 volumes; Albany: J. B. Lyon and Co., 1920), by New York (State) Legislature Joint Committee Investigating Seditious Activities
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org

• American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Détente, 1945-1970 (Edmonton; AU Press, c2018), by Anthony Carew (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Between a River and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Edmund F. Wehrle (page images at HathiTrust)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945), by Arnold Petersen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1932), by Arnold Petersen (PDF at flvc.org)

• Women and the Labor Movement (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Alice Henry (page images at HathiTrust)

• All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1998), by Carlotta R. Anderson (multiple formats at Wayne State)

• Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1984), by Steve Babson, contrib. by Ron Alpern, Dave Elsila, and John Revitte (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Chapters in the History of Organized Labor in Texas (University of Texas Publication #4143; 1941), by Ruth Alice Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Eight Men Buried Alive: The Centralia Case Calls to Every Decent Man and Woman in the State of Washington to Act Quickly, by Industrial Workers of the World
  • HTML at MSU
  • PDF page images at MSU

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• The Transitional Program: Forging a Revolutionary Agenda for the United States (1988), by Evelyn Sell, Steve Bloom, and Frank Lovell, contrib. by Paul Le Blanc (HTML at marxists.org)
• Anti-Labor Activities in the United States (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1938), by David J. Saposs and Elizabeth T. Bliss (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ten Years of Labor Defense (New York: International Labor Defense, 1935), by Sasha Small
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at pitt.edu
• Things We Want to Know (ca. 1934), by Bertram D. Wolfe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Labor Movement: Its Past, Its Present, Its Future (New York: Workers Age Publishing Association, ca. 1929), by Jay Lovestone
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at flvc.org
• Labor and Farmer Parties in the United States, 1828-1928 (New York: Rand School of Social Science, c1928), by Nathan Fine (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Labour in the United States (2-volume edition; New York: Macmillan, 1918), by John R. Commons, David J. Saposs, Helen L. Sumner, E. B. Mittelman, Henry E. Hoagland, John B. Andrews, and Selig Perlman, contrib. by Henry W. Farnam
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Labor Movement in America (third edition; New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1886), by Richard T. Ely (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Labor Movement in America (third edition; New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., ca. 1890), by Richard T. Ely (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Labor Movement in America (new edition; New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Richard T. Ely (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Labor Spy (New York: Republic Pub. Co., 1924), by Sidney Coe Howard, contrib. by Robert W. Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proletarian and Petit-Bourgeois, by Austin Lewis (HTML at Arizona)
• The Struggle Against Opportunism in the Labor Movement: For a Socialist United States (New York: New York Communications Committee, ca. 1947), by William F. Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to American Trade Unionism; With Supplement (New York: Affiliated Schools for Workers, c1937), by Elsie Glück (page images at HathiTrust)
• Change the World! (New York: International Publishers, c1936), by Michael Gold (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Labor Movement and the NRA: The Standpoint of Progressive Unionism (New York: Dressmakers Union Local 22, ca. 1934), by Charles S. Zimmerman and International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Local 22 (New York, N.Y.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• What is the I.L.D.? (New York: International Labor Defense, 1934), by International Labor Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)
• What Next for American Labor? (ca. 1934), by Jay Lovestone
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Documentary History of American Industrial Society (10 volumes plus 1 supplementary volume; Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1910-1911), ed. by John R. Commons, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Eugene Allen Gilmore, Helen L. Sumner, and John B. Andrews
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV supplement: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X: multiple formats at archive.org
• Labor Defense: Manifesto, Resolutions, Constitution: Adopted by the First National Conference, Held in Ashland Auditorium, Chicago, June 28, 1925 (Chicago: International Labor Defense, ca. 1925), by International Labor Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Recent Progress of the Socialist and Labor Movements in the United States (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Co., 1907), by Morris Hillquit
  • page images at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood (New York: International Publishers, 1969), by Big Bill Haywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Contribution to America's Victory and to Italy's Freedom (first annual report of the council, in English and Italian; ca. 1942), by Italian-American Labor Council (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood (New York: International Publishers, 1958), by Big Bill Haywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Labor Faces the Future: The Problems of Trade Unionism in the Light of the San Francisco General Strike (New York: Dressmakers Union Local 22, ca. 1934), by William Green and Charles S. Zimmerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Marx and America (John Day pamphlets #38; New York: The John Day Co., c1934), by Bertram D. Wolfe
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Seventy Years of Life And Labor: An Autobiography (1 volume edition, with new introduction by Woll and appendix by Thorne; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1948), by Samuel Gompers, contrib. by Matthew Woll and Florence Calvert Thorne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Double Edge of Labor's Sword: Discussion and Testimony on Socialism and Trade-Unionism Before the Commission on Industrial Relations (Chicago: Socialist Party, ca. 1914), by Morris Hillquit, Samuel Gompers, and Max S. Hayes
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The I.W.W.: Its History, Structure, and Methods, by Vincent St. John (HTML at Arizona)
• The Tramp at Home (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1889), by Lee Meriwether (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Thirty-Five Years of Educational Pioneering: L.I.D. Celebrates Past Achievements and Asks "Where Do We Go From Here?" (1941), by League for Industrial Democracy, contrib. by John Dewey, Jonathan Daniels, Norman Thomas, and Harry W. Laidler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Don't Tread on Me: A Study of Aggressive Legal Tactics for Labor (New York: Vanguard Press, c1928), by Clement Wood and McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Arthur Garfield Hays (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British Revolution and the American Democracy: An Interpretation of British Labour Programmes (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Seventy Years of Life And Labor: An Autobiography (2 volumes, with an appendix by Thorne on Gompers's last year; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1925), by Samuel Gompers, contrib. by Florence Calvert Thorne
  • Volume One: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume Two: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Venture (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1927), by Max Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Damned Agitator; Free!; The Coal Breaker (Little Red Library #7; Chicago: Daily Worker Pub. Co., ca. 1926), by Michael Gold
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at marxists.org

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