American Studies 496/596 Bibliographies

Beginning Bibliography--American Social Movements: Labor Movement
-- Chris Friday

• Foster Rhea Dulles and Melvyn Dubofsky, Labor in America: A History , 5th ed., 1993).
• Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in the United States (1982).
• Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present, 2nd. ed., (1995).
• Robert H. Zieger, American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1985 (1986).
• Eileen Boris and Nelson Lichtenstein, Major Problems in the History of American Workers (1991).

• Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (1984).
• Alan Dawley, Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (1976).
• Thomas Dublin, Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (1979).
• Eric Foner, Free Labor, Free Soil, Free Men (1970).
• David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (1987).
• Leon Fink, Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (1983).
• Alexander Saxton, The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (1971).
• Joe William Trotter, Black Milwaukee (1985)
• ---. Coal, Class, and Color (1990).
• Alan Derickson, Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy (1988).
• Dana Frank, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (1994).
• Bruce Nelson, Workers on the Waterfront (1988)
• Michael Honey, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights (1993).
• Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression (1990)
• ---. Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (1994).
• Elizabeth Cohen, Making of the New Deal (1991)
• Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican American Women and the California Food Processing industry, 1930-1950 (1987).
• Chris Friday, Organizing Asian American Labor (1994).
• Juan Gomez-Quinones, Mexican American Labor, 1790-1990 (1994).
• Emilio Zamora, The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas (1993).
• Zargosa Vargas, Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933 (1993).
• Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (1982).
• Steve Rosswurm, The CIO's Left-Led Unions (1992).
• Kim Moody, An Injury to All: The Decline of American Unionism (1988).
• Richard Edwards, Contested Terrain (1979).
• Thomas Geoghegan, Which Side Are You On? How to be for Labor when it's flat on its back (1991).

• Labor History
• International Working Class and Labor History
• Labor's Heritage
• Radical America
• Radical History Review