Topical

Books that are highly readable
Books for Children
Overviews and Surveys of Labor History
Documents Collections
Essay Collections
Biographies and Oral Histories
U.S. Labor History in Global/Transnational Perspective
Interpretations of Class in the USA
Managerial Strategies /Bourgeois Class Formation
Professionals and Class Issues
Working Class Cultures/Cultures of the Workplace
Exceptionalism (why no Labor Party/Socialism)
Labor and the State/Labor and the Law
Unemployment/Hours/Leisure
African-American Labor History/Race and Labor
Latinos/Latinas in US Labor History
Labor Rights & Civil Rights
Immigration Ethnicity and Labor History
Women/Gender/Labor and Feminism
War and the Working Class/War and Labor
Labor and the Environment
Specific trades/industries
Geographical treatments
Unions and Corruption

Chronological

Colonial thru Early Nineteenth Century
Slavery
Late 19th through early 20th
Working Class Formation/Working Class Community
Studies 1850-1950
Twentieth Century Approaches and overviews
Labor and Radicalism late 19th early 20th
IWW early 20th
World War I
Interwar Years/1930s
World War II
Cold War & Labor-Anticommunism/Red Scare
Postwar-present
Capital Disinvestment in recent years

Books that are highly readable -let me know if your favorite is not here!

• "They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration by Aviva Chomsky (2007)
• Jeff Faux The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It Back
• David Roediger, Haymarket Scrapbook (1986) and many books from Charles Kerr
• Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, Robin D.G. Kelley
• Jeremy Brecher, Strike!
• William M. Adler, Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the global Assembly Line (2000)
• Murolo/Chitty From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend
• Studs Terkel, Working (1974)
• Staughton Lynd, Rank and File
• Kingsolver, Barbara, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 (1989)
• Franklin Folsom, Impatient Armies of the Poor (1992)
• Zweig, Michael, The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret
• Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas (1998)
• Priscilla Long, Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry (1989)
• James Green, Death in the Haymarket, 2007
• Richard Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, Labor's Untold Story (1955) a classic that many trade unionists insist is their favorite introduction, even when they've read all the new academic books

Labor History Surveys and Perspectives

• Brenner, Aaron, Benjamin Day, Immanuel Ness, eds. The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History. (2009)
• Beverly J. Silver, Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 (2003)
• Philip Yale Nicholson , Labor's Story in the United States (2004)
• Murolo, Patricia From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend (2001)
• American Social History Project, Who Built America, Vols. I & II (new edition 2008)
• Ronald Filipelli, Labor in the USA: A History (1984)
• Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877-present  ( 1999)
• Daniel Jacoby Laboring For FreedomA New Look at the History of Labor in America (1998)
• Paul LeBlancA Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (1999)
• Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present (1985)·       
• Jacquelyn Jones, A Social History of the Laboring Classes in America ·       
• Jacquelyn Jones, American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor in America
• David Brody, In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker (1993)
• William Harris, The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War (1982)
• Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in America (1982)
• Teresa L. Amott and Julie A. Matthaei, Race, Gender and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States (1991)
• Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class (1986) · 
• Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon
• Montgomery, David.  Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles. 1979.
• Michael Reich, Segmented Work, Divided Workers
• Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital
• Philip Foner, 10 volume History of American Labor
• Jeremy Brecher, Strike!
• Richard Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, Labor's Untold Story (1955
• Philip Foner Labor Movement series -volume 9 (TUEL to the end of the Gompers Era)

Essay Collections

• Cassanello, Robert & Melanie Shell-Weiss (eds). Florida’s Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration.
  ( 2009)
• Stromquist, Shelton, ed. · Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context (2008)  
• The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor by Dorothy Sue Cobble, ed. (2007)
• Eric Arnesen The Black Worker (2008)
• Mercier, Laurie and Jaclyn J. Gier, eds.  Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670-2005.  2006.
• David Brody, Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights (2005)
• Robert Cherny, et.al. American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture (2004)
• Joe William Trotter, Jr., Earl Lewis, and Tera Hunter, eds. The African- American Urban Experience:  Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present,. (2005)
• Colin Davis, Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworker, 1946-1961 (2003)
• Linkon, Sherry Lee and John Russo.  Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown.  (2002)
• Boyle, Kevin, ed. Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal
  Alliance.  1998
• Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry by Marvin Bergman and Shelton Stromquist (1997)
• Buhle, Paul, From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order: Essays on Labor and Culture (Garland, 1997)
• Miller, Sally M, and Daniel A. Cornford, eds. American Labor in the Era of World War II.
  1995.
• Perusek, Glenn, and Kurt Worcester, eds.  Reade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change, 1960s-1990s 1995
• Brody, David.  Workers in Indsutrial America, 2nd ed.  1993
• Rosswurm, Steve, ed.  The CIO's Left-Led Unions 1992
• Baron, Ava, ed.  Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor (1991)
• Robert H. Zieger, ed. Organized Labor in the Twenieth-Century South, 35-59 (1991)
• Asher, Robert, and Charles Stephenson, eds.  Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States
  Labor Struggles, 1835-1960.  1990.
• Boris, Eileen, and Cynthia R. Daniels, eds.  Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home.  1989.
• Lichtenstein, Nelson, and Stephen Meyer, eds.  On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work. 1989.
• Dubofsky, Melvyn, and Warren Van Tine, eds. Labor Leaders in America  1987
• Groneman, Carol, and Mary Beth Norton, eds.  "To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at
  Work, 1780-1908  (1987)
• Gutman, Herbert G., and Donald H. Bell, eds. The New England Working Class and the New
  Labor History  (1987)
• Gutman, Herbert G.  Power and Culture:  Essays on the American Working Class ( 1987)
• Clark, Paul F., Peter Gottlieb, and Donald Kennedy, eds.  Forging a Union of Steel: Philip
  Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers  (1987)
• Hoerder, Dirk, ed.  "Struggle a Hard Battle": Essays on Working-Class Immigrants 1986
• Stephenson, Charles, and Robert Asher, eds.  Life and Labor: Dimensions of American Working-
  Class History.  1986
• Milkman, Ruth, ed.  Women's Work and Protest: A Century of Women's Labor History 1985
• Jensen, Joan M., and Sue Davidson, eds.  A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike: Women Needleworkers in
  America. (1984)
• Frisch, Michael, and Daniel Walkowitz, eds.  Working-Class America: Labor, Community, and
  American Society 1983
• Keil, Hartmut, and John B. Jentz, eds.  German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910 1983
• James C. Foster, ed. American Labor in the Southwest (1982) Bisbee Deportation, Latino workers
• Montgomery, David.  Workers' Control in America:  Studies in the History of Work, Technology,
  and Labor Struggles 1979.
• Gutman, Herbert G.  Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American
  Working Class and Social History  1976
• Cantor, Milton, and Bruce Laurie, eds.  Class, Sex, and the Woman Worker 1977
• Fink, Gary, ed.  Essays in Southern Labor History  1977
• Laslett, John H.M., and S. M. Lipsett, eds.  Failure of a Dream? Essays in the History of
  American Socialism 1974.
• Bracey, John H., Jr., August Meier, and Elliott Rudwick, eds.  Black Workers and Organized
  Labor 1971
• Jacobson, Julius, ed.  The Negro and the American Labor Movement.  1968

Biographies and Oral History Published Collections

• (see biography page for internet-based materials)

Biographies

• Simon Cordery, Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness (2010)
• Pastorello, Karen. A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. (2008)
• Jackson, Carlton. Child of the Sit-Downs: The Revolutionary Life of Genora Dollinger 2008
• Shaw, Randy Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century. (2008
• Clancy Sigal, A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) (2007)
• James Barrett, William Z. Foster  and the Tragedy of American Radicalism
• Elliott J. Gorn, Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America.  2001 see also Mother Jones Bibliography
• Robert Bussel, From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor: Powers Hapgood and the American Working Class
• Nell Irvin Painter, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson (Norton, 1993)
• Dubofsky, Melvyn, and Warren Van Tine, eds. Labor Leaders in America.  1987
• Bill Bailey, The Kid from Hoboken. An Autobiography (self-published on-line)

Oral History Published Collections

• Schwartz, Harvey. Solidarity Stories: An Oral History ofthe ILWU (2009)
• Jane Latour Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City (2008)
• Sandy Polishuk, Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila (2003)
• MichaelHoney Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle) (2002)
• Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975 by Brigid O'Farrell Joyce L. Kornbluh
• Marat Moore, Women in the Mines: Stories of Life and Work (1996).
• Stromquist, ed. Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century (1993)
• Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality (by Rick Halpern & Roger Horowitz (1999)
• Susan Eisenberg, We’ll Call You if We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction (1998)
• Talking Union by Judith Stepan-Norris Maurice Zeitlin Ford Local 600, left labor and anticommunism
• When the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times ed. Thomas Dublin (1998). anthracite region of Pennsylvania.
• Hooligans and Rebels: An Oral History of Working-Class Childood and Youth 1889-1939 by Stephen Humphries (1995)
• A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working Class Women 1890-1940 Elizabeth Roberts (1995)
• Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings : An Anthology by Janet Zandy (1990)
• Studs Terkel, Working (1972)

U.S. Labor History in Global/Comparative/
" Transnational" Perspective

• Paul Mason, Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global (2010)
• Norman Caulfield, NAFTA and Labor in North America (2010)
• Julie Greene, The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (2009)
• Daniel Sidorick, CONDENSED CAPITALISM: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century (2009)
• Lipman, Jana K. Guantanamo: A Working-Class HistoryBetween Empire & Revolution 2009.
• David Bacon, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants 2008.
• Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History (2008)
• Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis (2007)
• Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class Aviva Chomsky
• Aviva Chomsky" They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration (2007)
• Mercier, Laurie and Jaclyn J. Gier, eds.  Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670-2005.  2006.
• Marcel Van der Linden, The Globalization of Labor and Working Class History and Its Consequences, ILWCH 65 (Spring 2004) 136-156
• Donna Gabaccia. Franca Iocavetta and Fraser Ottanelli, "Laboring Across National Borders: Class, Gender and Militancy in the Proletarian Mass Migrations," ILWCH (Fall 2004) 57-77 ·   
• Colin Davis, Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworker, 1946-1961 (2003)
• William M. Adler, Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the global Assembly Line (2000)
• Beverly J. Silver, Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 (2003)
• Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta (2003)
• Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker, The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (2000)
• David Harvey, Spaces of Hope (California Studies in Critical  Human Geography, 7)
• Kevin R. Cox, Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local (1997)
• Jamie Bronstein, Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 ·      
• John H. M. Laslett  Colliers Across the Sea: A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924
• Neville Kirk, Comrades or Cousins: Globalization, Workers and Labour Movements in Britain, the USA and Australia from the 1880s to 1914 - ; (2003)
• Steinfeld, Robert, The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
• Sam Davies, et.al  Dock Workers: International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790-1970 by. (2000)

• Victor Silverman, Imagining Internationalism in American and British Labor, 1939-1949.  2000.
•   Marcel van der Linden "Transationalizing American Labor History,"Journal of American History Vol 86, no 3, (1999) ·        
• Gerald Friedman State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States, 1876-1914 (1999) · 
• Berberoglu, Berch Labor and capital in the age of globalization :   the labor process and the changing nature of work in the global  economy
• William Greider, "Why the Global Economy Needs Worker Rights" WorkingUSA May/June 1997
•  Neville Kirk Labour and Society in Britain and the USA: Capitalism, Custom and Protest, 1780-1850 (1994)
•   Guerin-Gonzalez Camille and Carl Strikwerda eds. The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in  the World Economy Since 1830 (1993)
•   Steinfeld, Robert The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 (1991)
•   Levine, Rhonda ed. Bringing Class Back In: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives (Boulder 1991).
•     Kealey, Greg and Greg Patmore eds. Canadian and Australian Labour History: Towards a Comparative Perspective    (Sydney 1990).
•    Haimson, Leopold and Charles Tilly eds. Strikes, Wars and Revolutions in an International Perspective Strike Waves in  the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge 1989).
•    Haydu, Jeffrey. Between Craft and Class: Skilled Workers and Factory Politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922 (California 1988).
•     Bergquist, Charles Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Chile, Argentina Venezuela, and Colombia.     Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986. ·      
• Bright, Charles and Susan Harding eds. Statemaking and Social Movements (Michigan 1984).
•    Cronin, James and Carmen Sirianni eds. Work, Community and Power: The Experience of Labor In Europe and America, 1900-1925 (Philadelphia 1983).  
•   Edwards, P.K. Conflict at Work (Oxford 1986).
• Katznelson, Ira and Aristide Zolberg eds. Working Class Formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe  and the U.S. (Princeton 1986).
•   Fredrickson, George. White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (1980)
• Frenkel, Stephen ed. Organized Labour in the Asia-Pacific Region: a Comparative Study of Trade Unionism in Nine Countries (Ithaca 1993).
• Laslett, John. Nature's Noblemen: The Fortunes of the Independent Collier in Scotland and the American Midwest,  1855-1889.
• Pahl, R.E. On work: historical, comparative and theoretical approaches (Oxford 1988).
• Ramirez, Bruno. On the Move: French Canadian and Italian Migrant Workers in the Atlantic Economy, 1860-1914 (Toronto 1993) ·       
• Safa, Helen and Eleanor Leacock. Women's Work: Development and the Division of Labor by Gender (South Hadley 1986).
• Skocpol, Theda et.al eds. Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge 1985). ·   
• Taylor, Andrew. Trade Unions and Politics: A Comparative Introduction (1989).
• Tolliday, Stephen and Jonathan Zeitlin eds. Shop Floor Bargaining and the State: historical and comparative perspectives     ( 1985)
• Ward, Kathryn. Women's Work and Global Restructuring (1992)
• Wrigley, Chris ed. Challenges of Labour: Central and Western Europe, 1917-1920 (1993).
• Haimson, Leopold and Charles Tilly eds. Strikes, Wars and Revolutions in an International Perspective Strike Waves in  the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge 1989).
•   Zeitlin, Jonathan ed. The automobile industry and its workers: between Fordism and Flexibility (London 1986).
• S.M. Jacoby, ed., Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Emplyers (1991)
•   S.M. Jacoby, ed., The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy
• Bergquist, Charles Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Chile, Argentina Venezuela, and Colombia.     1986.
• Bright, Charles and Susan Harding eds. Statemaking and Social Movements (1984).
• Cronin, James and Carmen Sirianni eds. Work, Community and Power: The Experience of Labor In Europe and America, 1900-1925 (Philadelphia 1983).
• Katznelson, "Working Class formation: Constructing Casess and Comparisons,"in Working Class formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe and the US (Princeton, 1986) p 3-41
• Katznelson, Ira and Aristide Zolberg eds. Working Class Formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe  and the U.S. (Princeton 1986).
• Fredrickson, George. White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (1980)
• Frenkel, Stephen ed. Organized Labour in the Asia-Pacific Region: a Comparative Study of Trade Unionism in Nine Countries (Ithaca 1993).
• Geary, Dick. European Labour Protest 1848-1939 (London 1981).
• Greenberg, Stanley. Race and State in Capitalist Development: Comparative Perspective (New Haven 1980).
• Haydu, Jeffrey. Between Craft and Class: Skilled Workers and Factory Politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922 (California 1988).
• Kealey, Greg and Greg Patmore eds. Canadian and Australian Labour History: Towards a Comparative Perspective    (Sydney 1990).
• Laslett, John. Nature's Noblemen: The Fortunes of the Independent Collier in Scotland and the American Midwest,  1855-1889.
• Ward, Kathryn. Women's Work and Global Restructuring (Ithaca 1992).
• Wrigley, Chris ed. Challenges of Labour: Central and Western Europe, 1917-1920 (London 1993).
• Zeitlin, Jonathan ed. The automobile industry and its workers: between Fordism and Flexibility (1986)

Managerial Strategies /Bourgeois Class Formation (see also capital disinvestment section)

• Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies (2010)
• Norman Caulfield, NAFTA and Labor in North America (2010)
• Daniel Sidorick, CONDENSED CAPITALISM: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century (2009)
• Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (2009)
• Delton, Jennifer. Racial Integration in Corporate America, 19401990. (2009)
• Gage, Beverly. The Day Wall Street Exploded; A Story ofAmerica in its First Age ofTerror. (2009)
• Nelson Lichtenstein, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business (2009)
• Moreton, Bethany. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. .(2009)
• Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal (2009)
• Michael Dennis, The New Economy and the Modern South (2009)
• Haydu, Jeffrey. Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor In Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870-1916. (2008)
• Nelson Lichtenstein, Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism (2006)
• Michael Yates, Naming the System (2005)
• Andrew Dawson Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class and Revolution, 1830-1890 (2004)
• Sven Beckert The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 (2003)
• Steven Fraser, Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy (2003)
• Markowitz & Rosner, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (2003)
• Robert Michael Smith, From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A Histoyr of Comercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States (2003)
• Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz, The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America (2001)
• William Millikan, A Union Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor(2001)
• Clifford Kuhn, Contesting the New South Order: The 1914-1915 Strike at Atlanta’s Fulton Mills (2001)
• Stephen Norwood, Strikebreaking and Intimidation:Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth Century America (2001)
• Venus Green Race on the Line: Gender, Labor and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980 (2001)
• Marc Linder and Ingrid Nygaard, Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right to Urinate on Company Time
• Sanford Jacoby Modern Manors
• David Brian Robertson, Capital, Labor and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal (2000)
• Howell John Harris, Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940 (2000)
• Marc Linder Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable and the Decline of Construction Unions (1999)
• Charles McCormick,  Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill District, 1917-1921 (1998)
• Theodore Kornweibel, Jr, Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns against Black Militancy, 1919-1925 (1998) some sections on labor activists
• Daniel Nelson, Managers and Workers: Origins of the New Factory System (1975, new ed. 1995)
• Gary Fink, The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914-1915:Espionage, Labor Conflict and New South Industrail Relations (1993)
• Sanford M. Jacoby, Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900-1945 (1985)
• Ruth Milkman  Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During WWII (1987)
• Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940 (1986)
• Braverman, Harry, Labor and Monopoly Capitalism: The Degradation of Work in Twentieth Century (1974)
• Gordon, Robert, Edwards, Reich, Segmented Work, Divided Workers
• Gerald Zahavi, Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism: The Shoeworkers and Tanners of Endicott Johnson, 1890-1950
• Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-1960 (1994)
• Daniel Ernst, Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (1995)
• Jay Leavitt, Confessions of A Union Buster (1980s-present)
• Stephen Meyer, The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management at the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921 (1981)
• Howell Harris, The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s(1981
• Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz, It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America  (1989)
• Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone, The Great U-Turn: Corporate Retructuring and the Polarizing of America (1988)
• John Cumbler, A Social History of Economic Decline (1988)
• Patricia Cayo Sexton, The War on Labor and The Left
• Jerry Cooper, The Army and Civil Disorder (1980)
• Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson (anti-union ideology)
• Sylvester Petro, works on unions for Right-to-Work committee (leading light)
• Frederick Hayek'schapter on unions in Constitution of Liberty (1960) (anti-union ideology)

Professionals and Class

• Jack Metzgar, Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered
• Barbara Ehrenreich Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
• Walkowitz, Daniel Working With Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle Class Identity (1999)
• Clarence Wunderlin Visions of A New Industrial Order: Social Science and Labor Theory in America’s Progressive Era (1992)
• Marjorie Murphy Blackboard Unions: The AFT and the NEA, 1900-1980 (1990)
• Michelle M. Tokarczyk , Elizabeth A. Fay eds. Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory
• This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class - C. L. Barney Dews, Carolyn Leste La

Working Class Cultures/Cultures of the Workplace

see also working class formation/community Studies, which usually address this

• On Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America by Ellen R. Baker
• Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940 (1986)
• Herbert G. Gutman, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American Working Class and Social History (1977
• Madelon Powers Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Wrokingman’s Saloon, 1870-1920
• Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940 (1986)
• Francis Couvares,                                                     
• Colette Hyman,  Staging Strikes: Workers’ Tehatre and the American Labor Movement
• Roy Rozenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will

Labor "Exceptionalism"

• Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States?by Robin Archer (2008)
• Sean Wilentz, "Against Exceptionalism: Consciousness and the American Labor Movement, 1790-1920," International Labor and Working Class History (Fall 1984) + responses
• Sanford M. Jacoby, "American Exceptionalism Revisited: The Importance of Management," in S. Jacoby, ed., Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers (1991)
• Kim Voss, The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century (1994)
• Aristide Zolberg, "How Many Exceptionalisms?" in Ira Katznelson and Zolberg, ed.s, Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States (1986)
• Patricia Sexton, The War on Labor and the Left (1993)
• John H.M Laslett and Seymour Martin Lipset Failure of a Dream? Essays in the Histoyr of American Socialism (New York, 1974)
• Marianne Debouzy, In the Shadow of the Statue of Liberty: Immigrants, Workers and Citizens in the American Republic, 1880-1920) Paris: 1988
• Eric Foner, “Why is There No Socilaism in the United States” Histoyr Workshop, 17 (Spring 1984) pp 57-80
• Selig Perlman, A Theory of the Labor Movement (1928)
• Christopher Johnson, “French Exceptionalism,” Labor History, Winter 1995

Labor and the State/Labor and the Law (American exceptionalism and the law)-

• Barbara Young Welke, Recasting American Liberty : Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (2002)
• Robert Steinfeld Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century (2003)
• Steinfeld, Robert The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
• Julie Novkov, Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years  (2001)
• Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and  Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America
• Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America (2001)
• David Brian Robertson, Labor Capital and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets\
• James Schmidt, Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1815-1880 (1999)
• Ruth O’Brien, Workers’ Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935 (1998)
• Simon, Bryant   A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948. 1998.
• Breen, W.J., Labor Market politics and the Great War: the Dept of Labor, the states and the first U.S. Employment Service, 1907-1933 (1997)
• Amy Dru Stanley From Bondage to ContractColin Gordon, New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics in America, 1920-1935 (1995)
• Ernst, Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (1995)
• Steven Fraser, Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (1994)
• Udo Sautter, Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment Before the New Deal (1991)
• James Gross, Broken Promise: The Subversion of U.S. Labor Relations Policy, 1947-1994 (1995)
• Melvyn Dubofsky The State and Labor in Modern America (1994)
• Nelson Lichtenstein and Howell John Harris, eds. Industrial Democracy in America: the Ambiguous Promise (1993)
• Victoria Hattam, Labor Visions and State Power –
• Victoria Hattam, “Economic Visions and Political Strategies: American Labor and the State, 1865-1936” in Studies in American Political Development 4 (199), 82-129
• Karen Orren Belated Feudalism: Labor the Law and Liberal Development in the United States (1991)
• Kim Voss, The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century
• William E. Forbath, Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (1991)
• Marty Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Politics (1988)
• Christoper L. Tomlins, The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880-1960 (1985)
• Christoper Tomlins, Law Labor and Ideology in the Early American Republic
• Richard Oestreicher, “Urban Working-Class Political Behavior and Theories of American Electoral Politics, 1870-1940The Journal of American History, Vol. 74, No. 4. (Mar., 1988), pp. 1257-1286.
• Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991)
• David Montgomery, Citizen Worker (1994)
• Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics (1984)—excellent section on the effects of labor’s Cold War blinders on direction of postwar state
• Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (1982)
• Karl E. Klare, "Judicial Deradicalization of the Wagner Act and the Origins of Modern Legal Consciousness, 1937-1941," Minnesota Law Review 62 (1978) 265-339 ; classic article about the way that the state dismantled radical possibilities for the Wagner Act and the labor movement
• James Gross, The National Labor Relations Board (3 vols)
• Staughton Lynd, "Ideology and Labor Law," Stanford Law Review 36 9184) 1273-1298
• Staughton Lynd and Michael Klare, articles in Industrial Relations Law Journal, 1981
• Dawley, “Workers, Capital and the State in the Twentieth Century,” in J. Carroll Moody and Alice Kessler-Harris, eds., Perspectives on American Labor History ( 1990), 152-202
• Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin. Shop Floor Bargaining and the State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (1985)
• Rick Fantasia, Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, adn Contemporary American Workers (1988)
• Barbara Garson, The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers Are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past (1988)
• Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988)
• Gerda Ray, “Strike Control and the State Police in New York, 1991-1923” Labor History Summer 1995
• Price Fishback, “An Alternative View of Violence in Labor Disputes in the early 1900s: The Bituminous Coal Industry, 1890-1930J
• Joseph McCartin, Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921Charles McCormick, Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mills District, 1917-1921Julie Greene, Pure and Simple Politics : The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917

Unemployment/Hours/Leisure

• Donna Haverty-Stacke; America's Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism, 1867-1960 (2008)
• Jonathan Cutler, Labor's time: shorter hours, the UAW, and the struggle for the American unionism 2004
• David Roediger and Philip Foner, Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (1988)
• Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (1983)
• Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt, Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work (1988)
• Gary Cross, The Quest for Time
• Juliet Schor, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (1992)
• Folsom, Franklin. Impatient Armies of the Poor: The Story of Collective Action of the Unemployed, 1808-1942.(1990)
• Breen, W.J., Labor Market politics and the Great War: the Dept of Labor, the states and the first U.S. Employment Service, 1907-1933 (1997)
• Udo Sautter, Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment Before the New Deal (1991)
• David Montgomery, Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans

African-American Workers / Race and Labor (much to be added here soon)

• Bob Zieger's bibliography on Race and Labor (basic)
• Glymph, Thavolia. Out of this House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008)
• Laurie B. Green, Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (2008)
• Frymer, Paul. Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party., 2008
• Robert Zieger, For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 (2007)
• Michael Honey Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (2007)
• Eric Arnesen, Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Quest for Equality (2001)
• Richard Iton, Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left (2000)
• Roediger, David, "Labor in White Skin": Race and Working Class History, Reshaping the U.S. Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980s: The Year Left, Volume 3 ed, Mike Davis (verso, 1988), 287-308
• Roediger, David, "What if Labor Were Not White and Male? Recentering Working Calss Histoyr and Reconstructing..." International Labor and Working Class History, NO. 51, Spring 1997 pp 72-95
• Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (New York, 1985)
• Heather Cox Richardson, Race, Labor and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
• Eric Arnesen, "Up From Exclusion: Black and White Workers, Race, and the State of Labor History," Reviews in American History 26 (1998) 1946-174
• Bruce Nelson, Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality (2001)
• Soul by Soul: Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (2001)
• Obadele-Starks, Ernest Black Unionism in the Industrial South ( 2000)
• Bates, Beth Tompkins Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925,-1945 (2000)
• Minchin, Timothy, The Color Of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980 (2000)
• Minchin, Timothy, Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980 (1999)
• Daniel Letwin The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921 (1998)
• Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis (1998)--see Labor History symposium Vol 39, No. 1, Feb 1998
• Alexander Saxton, The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in 19th Century America (Verso, 1996)
• Robin D. G. Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class (1994)
• Symposium: Bruce Nelson, "Class, Race and Democracy in the CIO: The "New" Labor History Meets the "Wages of Whiteness" International Review of Social History 41 (1996) pp. 351-374; and responses:374-420
• David Roediger, Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991)
• Walter Johnson, Soul By Soul
• Michael Honey, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (1992)
• Earl Lewis, In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth Century Norfolk(1991)
• Eric Arnesen, Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class and Politics (1990)
• Janiewski, Dolores, Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender and Class in a New South Community (Temple, 1985)
• Robert H. Zieger, ed. Organized Labor in the Twenieth-Century South, 35-59
• Thomas Sugrue The Origins of the Urban Crisis: see also symposium on the book in Labor History Feb 1998, vol 39, and Sugrue's response
• Peter Rachleff, Black Labor in Richmond (1989)
• Nell Irvin Painter, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson ( 1993)
• Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe (1990)
• Robert Asher and Charles Stephenson, eds., Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles (1990)
• Herbert Hill, Black Labor and the American Legal System: Race, Work and the Law (1985) and his numerous articles
• Joe William Trotter, Jr, Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industriaal Proletariat, 1915-45
• Susan Turner Meiklejohn, Wages, Race, Skills and Space: Lessons from Employers in Detroit’s Auto Industry (2000)
• Halpern and Horowitz: Packinghouse Unionism, see symposium in Labor History, May 1999
• Du Bois, W.E.B.  Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880.  1935  the classic work of African-Americans as a black proletariat

Latino/Latina Labor History

• Guerin-Gonzales, "CONVERSING ACROSS BOUNDARIES OF RACE, ETHNICITY, CLASS, GENDER, AND REGION: LATINO AND LATINA LABOR HISTORY" in The African- American Urban Experience:  Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present, ed. Joe William Trotter, Jr., Earl Lewis, and Tera Hunter. 2005
• On Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America by Ellen R. Baker (2007)
• Jose Alamillo, Making lemonade out of lemons: Mexican American labor and leisure in a California town, 1880-1960,2006.
• Vargas, Zaragosa, Labor Rights are Civil Rights (2005)
• Matt García. A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of GreaterLos Angeles, 1900–1970. 2001.
• Carmen Teresa Whalen, From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Work-ers and Postwar Economies. 2001.
• Mike Davis, Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City (2001)
• Guerin-Gonzales, Camille, Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 (1996)
• Zaragosa Vargas,  Proletarians of the North A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933 (1993)
• Cletus E. Daniel, Bitter Harvest  (1991)
• Cletus E. Daniel, Chicano Workers and the Politics of Fairness (1991)
• Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (1990)
• Erasmo Gamboa, Mexican Labor and World War II (1990)
• Sara Deutsch, No separate refuge: culture, class, and gender on an Anglo-Hispanic frontier, 1880-1940. 1987.
• Robin F. Scott, “Wartime Labor Problems and Mexican-Americans in the War,” in Manuel P. Servin, ed., The Mexican Americans (1974)
• Juan R. Garcia Operation Wetback (1965)
• Ernesto Galarza, Merchants of Labor (1965)
• Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives (1976)
• Selden C. Menefee and Orin C. Cassmore, The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio (1940)
• George Sanchez, Forgotten People (1996)
• Daniel T. Simon, "Mexican Repatriation in East Chicago, Indiana," Journal of Ethnic Studies 2 (Summer 1974) 11-23
• Richard Griswold del Castillo, The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890 (1979)
• James R. Kluger, The Clifton-Morenci Strike (1970)
• Mark Reisler, By the Sweat of Their Brow  (1976)
• David R. Maciel, "Mexican Migrant Workers in the United States," in James C. Foster, ed. American Labor in the Southwest (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1982)
• Ortiz, Altagracia, ed. Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in Transnational Labor (1996)
• The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas (1995)
• Open Veins of Latin America
• Juan R. Garcia Operation Wetback (1965)
• Ernesto Galarza, Merchants of Labor (1965)
• Cletus E. Daniel, Bitter Harvest  (1991)
• Cletus E. Daniel, Chicano Workers and the Politics of Fairness (1991)
• Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives (1976)
• George Sanchez, Forgotten People (1996)
• Juan Gomez-Quiñones. Mexican American Labor, 1790-1990. University of New Mexico Press. 1994.
• Barbara A. Driscoll. The Tracks North: The Railroad Bracero Program of World War II. Texas UP.

Ethnicity/Immigration

• Glen Omatsu's bibliographic list: Asian Pacific American Labor Organizing: An Annotated Bibliography, Part I: Historical Struggles, 1840s 1960s \
• David Bacon, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (2009)
• Aviva Chomsky. Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class (2008)
• Aviva Chomsky. "They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration (2007)
• Ruth Milkman, L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers And the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement (2007)
• Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (2007)
• Donna R. Gabaccia, Fraser M. Ottanelli, eds. Italian Workers of the World: Labor Migration and the Formation of Multiethnic States (2005)
• Immanuel Ness, Immigrants, Unions, & The New Us Labor Market (2005)
• Colleen O’Neill. Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century (2005)
• Cindy Hahamovitch. “Creating the Perfect Immigrants: Guestworkers of the World in Historical Perspective.” Labor History (Great Britain) 44:1 (2003): 69-94.
• Matt Garcia. A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900- 1970. (2001)
  Andrew Gyory, Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1998)
• The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy Since 1830 by Camille Guerin-Gonzales and Carl Strikwerda (1998)
• Paul Buhle and Dan Georgakas The Immigrant Left in the United States (1996)
• Mildred A. Beik, The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s (1996)
• Gwendolyn Mink. Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party and State, 1875-1920 (1990)
• Peck, Gunther. Reinventing Free Labor: Immigrant Padrones and Contract Laborers in North America, 1880-1920
• Alexander Saxton, The Indispensible Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (1971)
• *James Barrett, "Americanization from the Bottom Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working Class in the United States, 1880-1930," Journal of American History (79 (Dec 1992)
• *Gary Gerstle, Working Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960 (1989)
• Robert Asher and Charles Stephenson, eds., Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles (1990)
• David M. Emmons, The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925 (1989)
• Donna Gabaccia, Militants and Migrants: Rural Sicilians Become American Workers (1988)

Women/Gender/Labor and Feminism

• Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City by Jane Latour (2008)
• The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor by Dorothy Sue Cobble, ed. 2007
• Mercier, Laurie and Jaclyn J. Gier, eds.  Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670-2005.  2006.
• United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionismby Ileen DeVault
• Dorothy Cobble The Other Women's Movement (Princeton, 2004)
• Mary Fonow, Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America (2003)
• Ann Crittenden, The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued (2001)
• Allison Helper, Women in Labor: Mothers, Medicine and Occupation Health in the United States, 1890-1980 (2000)
• Kessler Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America (2001)
• Novkov, Julie. Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years (2001)
• Joan Williams Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do about it (2000)
• Dennis A. DeSlippe, "Rights, Not Roses:" Unions and the Rise of Worling-Class Feminism, 1945-80 (2001)
• Barbara Ehrenreich, "Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work," Harper's Magazine, vol 300, No. 1799 (April 2000)
• Susan Eisenberg, We'll Call You if We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction (1998)
• Albelda, Randy Pearl and Chris Tilly.  Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty. 1997
• Amott, Teresa and Julie Matthaei, Race, Gender and Work: A Multi-cultural Economic History of Women in the United States (1996)
• Blackwelder, Julia Kirk Now Hiring : The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995 (1997)
• Arlie Hochschild with Anne Machung, The Second Shift (1997)
• Eileen Boris, Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework (1994)
• Tera W. Hunter, To ‘Joy Our Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War
• Thomas Dublin, Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution ( 1994)
• Eileen Boris, Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More (1996)
• Amy Kesselman, Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver During World War II and Recoversion (1990)
• Lise Vogel, Mothers on the Job: Maternity Policy in the U.S. Workplace (1991)
• Zandy, Janet, ed. Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings: An Anthology.( 1990.)
• Gabin, Nancy F. Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935-1975 (1990)
• Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in America (1982)
• Karen Anderson Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women in World War II (1981)
• Elizabeth Jameson All that Glitters
• Du Bois, Ellen Carroll and Vicki Ruiz eds. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (New York 1990).
• Kingsolver, Barbara, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 (Cornell, 1989, 1996)
• Mary Blewett, Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 (1988)
• Patricia Ann Cooper, Once A Cigarmaker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919
• Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (1987)
• Sharon Hartman Strom, Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930 (1992)
• Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
• --articles in special issue of Labor History on Gender, Spring Summer 1993—Tera Hunter, Faue, Kessler-Harris esp
• Ardis Cameron, Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912 (1994)
• Vivien Hart, Bound By Our Constitution: Women, Workers and the Minimum Wage (Princeton, 1994)
• Annelise Orleck, Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women anf Working Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 (University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
• Eisenberg, Susan We’ll Call you if We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction (Cornell, 1998)
• Nancy Gabin, Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935-1975 (1990)
• Sarah Deutch, No Separate Refuge: Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier
• Johanna Brenner Women and the Politics of Class --challenges traditional Marxist and traditional feminist analysis of gender and family life-
• Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (1999)
• Tera W. Hunter, To ‘Joy Our Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War
• Nancy Folbre, The Invisible Heart (2000)—on care giving and it’s under valuation in capitalist value systems
• Kingsolver, Barbara, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 (Cornell, 1989, 1996) This is one of my favorite books
• Susan Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework
• Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology From the Open Hearth to the Microwave (1983)
• Jeanne Boydston, “The Woman Who Wasn’t There: Women’s Market Labor and the Transition to Capitalism,” Journal of the Early Republic 16, 2 (Summer 1996)
• Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
• Dolores Janiewski, Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender and Class
• Sue Levine, Labor’s True Women: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age
• Dana Frank Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1991-1929
• Patricia Cooper, Once a Cigar Maker: Men Women and …
• *Dana Frank, Purchasing Power: Gender, Consumer Organizing, and the Labor Movement of Seattle (1994)
• Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II (1987)
• Eileen Boris and Cynthia Daniels, Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home (1989)
• Ruth Milkman, ed., Women, Work and Protest (1985)—essays on WTUL, Bread and Roses strike, WWII,
• Hoffman, Nancy and How, Florence, eds Women Working: An Anthology of Stories and Poems (Feminist Press, 1979)
• Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (1979).
• Mary Blewett, Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 (1988)
• Patricia Ann Cooper, Once A Cigarmaker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919
• Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (1987)
• Sharon Hartman Strom, Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930 (1992)
• Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
• Ardis Cameron, Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912 (1994)
• Sara Deutsch, No separate refuge: culture, class, and gender on an Anglo-Hispanic frontier, 1880-1940. 1987.
• Vivien Hart, Bound By Our Constitution: Women, Workers and the Minimum Wage (Princeton, 1994)
• Annelise Orleck, Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women anf Working Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 (University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
• Eisenberg, Susan We'll Call you if We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction (Cornell, 1998)
• Johanna Brenner Women and the Politics of Class --challenges traditional Marxist and traditional feminist analysis of gender and family life-
• Nancy Folbre, The Invisible Heart (2000)—on care giving and it's under valuation in capitalist value systems
• Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in America (1982)
• Susan Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework
• Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology From the Open Hearth to the Microwave (1983)
• Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
• Dolores Janiewski, Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender and Class
• Sue Levine, Labor's True Women: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age
• Dana Frank Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1991-1929
• Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II (1987)
• Eileen Boris and Cynthia Daniels, Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home (1989)
• Ruth Milkman, ed., Women, Work and Protest (1985)—essays on WTUL, Bread and Roses strike, WWII,

War and American Labor (see also WWI and World WarII and Cold War and Labor)

• Weinberg, Carl Labor, Loyalty and Rebellion:  Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I
•   Between a River and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War by Edmund Wehrle (2005).
• Elizabeth McKillen, Chicago Labor and the Quest for a Democratic Diplomacy,  (I1995);,
• Elizabeth McKillen, "Hybrid Visions: Working-Class Internationalism in the Mexican Borderlands, Seattle, and Chicago, 1910-1920," Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 2:1 (Winter 2005): 77-107;
• Elizabeth McKillen, "Ethnicity, Class, and Wilsonian Internationalism Reconsidered: The Mexican- and Irish-American Immigrant Left and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1914-1922," Diplomatic History 25 (Fall 2001): 553-87
• Catherine Lutz, Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century ( 2001).
• Kim Phillips, "'All I wanted Was a Steady Job: The State and African American Workers," in New Working-Class Studies, eds.John Russo and Sherry Linkon (2005).
• Christian Appy's Working Class War (Vietnam)  (1993)
• Savage Acts (American Social History Project film)-Phillipines War
• Jeannette Keith
• Randolph S. Bourne,  War and the Intellectuals: Collected Essays ,1915-1919 (1999 ).
• Roger Horowitz, "It is 'the Working Class Who Fight All the Battles': Military Service, Patriotism, and the Study of American Workers," in Rick Halpern and Jonathan Morris, eds., American Exceptionalism? US Working Class Formation in An International Context (1997)
• Richard Moser's The New Winter Soliders:  GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era
• William Short and Willa Seidenberg, A Matter of Conscience:  GI Resistance During the Vietnam War (1992)

Specific trades commodities industries

the Samuel Gompers papers site has a bibiographic listing of works for the following industries:

Clothing & Textiles / Communication / Service

 Food, Alcohol & Tobacco /Graphic Arts / Manufacturing / Maritime   /Metal Trades / Mining / Railroads

Geographical

West (more to be added soon)

David Brundage, The Making of Western Labor Radicalism
Elizabeth Jameson, All That Glitters: Class, Conflict and Community in Cripple Creek (1998)
Katznelson Working Class formation: Constructing Casess and Comparisons, in Working Class formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe and the US ( 1986) p 3-41

South

• James Gregory's bibliography of the Southern diaspora-migrations of black and white southerners
• Brian Kelly's list of essential Southern Labor/Social Movement History Reading List
• Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Defyng Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (2008)
• Robert Cassanello, Melanie Shell-Weiss, eds. Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration (2009)
• Laurie B. Green, Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (2007)
• Michael Honey Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (2007)
• James Gregory The Southern Diaspora: How The Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America ( 2005)
• Robert Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism Tobacco Workers & the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (2002)
• Michelle Brattain, The Politics of Whiteness; race, Workers and Culture in the Modern South (2001)
• Carlton, David, Capital Mobilization and Southern Industry 1880-1905) JEH 49 (March 1989): 73-94
• Mohl,  Searching for the Sunbelt: Historical Perspectives on a Region, (1990)
• Daniel, Pete Breaking the Land: The transformation of Cotton, Tobacco and Rice Cultures since 1880
• Flamming, Douglas Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984 (1992)
• Flowers, Linda Throwed Away: Failures of Progress in Eastern North Carolina (1990)
• Hahamovich, Cidny, The Fruits of their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 (1997)
• Hanchett, Thomas W. Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975 1998
• Janiewski, Dolores Sisterhood Denied (1985)
• William Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930 (1992)
• Obadele-Starks, Ernest Black Unionism in the Industrial South (2000)
• Rachleff, Black Labor in the South
• Wood, Phillp J. Southern Capitalism: The Political Economy of North Carolina (1986
• Zieger, Robert H. Organized Labor in the twentieth Century South (1981)
• "O. Delight Smith's Progressive Era: Labor, Feminism and Reform in the Urban South," in Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism;
• "Private Eyes, Public Women: Class and Sex in the Urban South, Atlanta, 1913-1915," in Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor;
• William  Cohen: At Freedom's Edge: Black Mobility and the Southern White Quest for Racial Control, 1861-1915
• Pete Daniel, The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969
• Korstad, Robert and Nelson Lichtenstein, “Opportunities Lost and Found; Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement,” Journal of American History 75 (December 1988) 786-811
• Organized Labor in the Twenieth-Century South, ed Robert H. Zieger, 35-59
• Gary Fink and Merl Reed, eds Race Class and Community in Southern Labor History
• Obadele-Starks, Ernest Black Unionism in the Industrial South (2000)
• Daniel Letwin The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921
• Minchin, Timothy, The Color Of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
• Minchin, Timothy, Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980
• Nell Irvin Painter, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson (1993)
• Hall, et. al., Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Mill World
• Robin Kelley Hammer and Hoe (1990)
• Peter Rachleff, Black Labor in Richmond
• Earl Lewis, In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth Century Norfolk—discussion of class in the U.S. and U.S. working class, challenges to interpretation
• Robin D. G. Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class (1994)
• Michael Honey, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (1992)

Colonial thru Early Nineteenth Century

• Seth Rockman, Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery and Survival in Early Baltimore (2009)
• Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History (2008)
• Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker, The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (2000)
• Kenneth Morgan, Slavery and Servitude in Colonial Norht America (2001)
• Glickstein, Jonathan American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety
• The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 - Sven Beckert (2001)
• Daniel Vickers, Farmers and Fishermen; Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1830
• Michele Gillespie, Free Labor in an Unfree Worlds: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1960 (2000)
• Dublin, Thomas, Transforming Women’s Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution (1994)
• Boydston, Jeanne Home and Work: /Housework, Wages and Ideology in the Early Republic (1990);
• Bruce Laurie Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth Century America (1989)
• Rediker, Marcus, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (1987)
• David Montgomery, Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States With Democracy and the Free Market During the Nineteenth Century (1993)
• Glcikstein, Jonathan, Concepts of Free Labor in Antebellum America (1991)
• Peter Way, Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of the North American Canals, 1780-1850 (1993)
• Billy Smith, The “Lower Sort”: Philadelphia’s Laboring People, 1750-1800 (1990)
• Laurel Ulrich A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990)
• David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
• Bolster, W. Jefffrey. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the age of Sail (1997)
• Redicker, Marcus Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (1987)
• Peter Way, Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of the North Amerian Canals (Cambridge, 1993)
• Walter Licht, Industrializing America
• Bruce Levine, The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War (1992)
• Bruce Laurie, Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America (1989)
• Salinger,  Sharon To Serve Well and Faithfully: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania 1762-1800 (1987)
• Bryan Palmer, "Social Formation and Class Formation in North America, 1800-1900," in David Levine, ed Proletarianization and Family History (1984)
• Steffen, Charles G. The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politcs in the age of Revolution, 1763-1812 (1984)
• Richard White, The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment and Socail Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos (1983)
• Stansell, Christine, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York: 1789-1860 (1986)
• Susan Hirsch, Roots of the American Working Class: The Industrialization of Crafts in Newark, 1800-1860 (19
• Dublin, Thomas, Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (1979).

Slavery

• Susan Peabody's bibliography & guide
• Morgan, Kenneth, Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America (2001)
• Gillespie, Michele, Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia 1789-1860 (2000)
• Johnson, Michael Soul By Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (2000)
• Berlin, Ira, Many Thousands Gone: The first Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998)
• Brown, Kathleen Good Wives Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
• David Roediger and Martin Blatt, The Meaning of Slavery in the North (1998)
• Shane White, Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City 1770-1810 (1991)
• Betty Wood, Women’s Work, Men’s Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia (1995)
• Kolchin, Peter Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (1987)
• Deborah White, Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1986)
• Gavin Wright, The Political Economy of the Plantation South (1978)
• Eugene Genovese Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974)
• Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Virginia (1975)

Late 19th, early 20th—see community studies as well

• David O. Stowell, ed. The Great Strikes of 1877 (2008)
• Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (2008)
• Matthew Hild, Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-labor Insurgency in the Late-nineteenth-century South (2007)
• Reinventing "the People": The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem and the Origins of Modern Liberalism by Shelton Stromquist( 2006)
• Moon-Ho Jung, Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (2006)
• Joshua Brown, Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America (2006)
• Steven Hahn, A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003)
• Heather Cox Richardson. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901(2001)
• Julie Greene, Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917 (see symposium in Labor History,  May 1999)
• Shelton Stromquist, Richard Schneirov and Nick Salvatore, The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890's: Essays on Labor, Politics and the State ( 1999)
• Herbert G. Gutman, Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class (New Press, 1992)
• David Stowell, Streets, Railroads and the Great Strike of 1877 (1999)
• Tera Hunter, To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War (1998)_
• Richard Oestreicher, Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900 (1986)
• Shapiro, Karen, A New South Rebellion: The Battle Against Convict Labor in the Tennesseee Coalfields, 1971-1896 (1998)
• Kim Voss, The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the 19th Century (1994)
• Bruce Nelson, Beyond the Martyrs: A Social History of Chicago’s Anarchists, 1870-1900 (1988)
• Paul Krause, The Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, Steel (1992)
• Madelon Powers Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman’s Saloon, 1870-1920
• Shelton Stromquist, A Genderation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth Century America
• Leon Fink, Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (1982)

Twentieth Century-approaches and overviews

• Nelson Lichtenstein State of the Unions: A Century of American Labor
• Alice Kessler Harris In Pursuit of Equity
• Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor (2000)
• James Green, The World of the Worker
• Richard Edwards Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century (1979)
• David Brody, Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle (2nd ed, 1993)
• David Brody, In Labor’s Cause (20th Century)
• Zieger, Robert H.  American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1985. 1986.
• James Barrett, Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922 (1987)
• John Bodnar, Workers' World: Kinship, Community and Protest in an Industrial Society (1982)
• Jacqueline Dowd Hall, et. al., Like A Family: The Making of A Southern Cotton Mill World (1987)
• Tamara K. Hareven, Family Time and Industrial Time: The Relationship Between Family and Work in a New England Industrial Community (1982)

Working Class Formation/Working Class Community Studies 1850-1950

• Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven's Working Class, 1870-1940 by Stephen Lassonde (2008)
• Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963 (2000)
• David Corbin, Life, Work and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The South Virginian Miners, 1890-1922
• Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (1997)
• Kimberley Phillips, Alabama North: African-American Migrants, Community and Working Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945 (2000)
• Walker, Melissa, All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941 (2000)
• Cubmler, John, Working Class Community in Industrial America: Work, Leisure and Struggle in Two Industrial Cities (1979)
• Gunther Peck, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrone and Immigrant Workers int ehNorth American West, 1880-1930
• Cindy Hahamovitch, The Fruits of their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworekrs and the Making of Migrant Poverty (1997)
• Curtin, Mary Ellen, Black Prisoners and their World: Alabama, 1865-1900 (2000)
• Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community (1996)
• Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 (1987)
• Zaragosa Vargas, Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest (1993)
• Guerin-Gonzales, Camille, Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 (1996)
• Earl Lewis, In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth Century Norfolk (1991)—discussion of class in the U.S. and U.S. working class, challenges to interpretation
• Letwin, Daniel, The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921 (1998)
• Gregg Andrews, City of Dust: A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer
• Camille Guerin-Gonzales The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration  in the World Economy since 1830 (1993)-see especially Foreman-Peck article “Insiders and Outsiders”
• James Barrett, Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922 (1987)
• John Bodnar, Workers' World: Kinship, Community and Protest in an Industrial Society (1982)
• Donna Gabbacia, From Italy to Elizabeth Street (1983)
• Olivier Zunz, The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industiral Developmetn, and Immigrants in Detroit (1982)
• Michael Piore Birds of Passage; Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies (1979
• Millie Beik, The Miners of Windber
• The Butte Irish
• Jacqueline Dowd Hall, Like A Family: The Making of a Southern Mill World (1987)

Labor and Radicalism late 19th-early 20th-much more to be listed in this category

• Rebecca N. Hill, Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History (2009)
• Freeberg, Ernest. Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent. 2008.
• Victoria Johnson, How Many Machine Guns Does It Take to Cook One Meal?: The Seattle and San Francisco General Strikes (2008)
• Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs, Citizen and Socialist (1982)

IWW early 20th

• List of books found at http://www.iww.org/en/history
• Franklin Rosemont, Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture (2003)
• Sandy Polishuk, Sticking to the Union : An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila (2003)
• Green, Archie Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations 1993
• Dubofsky, Melvyn, We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (1969)   See symposium on it in Labor History, August 1999
• Preston, William, Jr. Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals,   1903-1933  1963.
• Conlin, Joseph R., ed. At the Point of Production: The Local History of the IWW ( 1981 )
• Salerno, Salvatore Red November/Black November: Culture and Community in the IWW  1989
• Foner, Phillip S., ed. Fellow Workers and Friends: IWW Free Speech Fights As Told By Participants  1981.
• Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, Walker C. Smith, & William E. Trautman [Salvatore Salerno, ed.] Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s   Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1997 --one of my favorites-best stuff on sabotage and subverting ideology (primary documents with good introduction)
• Sellars, Nigel Anthony, Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in  Oklahoma, 1905-1930
• Kimeldorf, Howard Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement ( 1999)   comparative Philadelphia and New York, 1910-39. -- argues that successful unionism depends on rank   & file workers achieving and practicing shop floor control regardless of professed ideology of the unions  involved.
• Roediger, David, ed. Covington Hall: Labor Struggles in the Deep South & Other Writings.  Chicago:  Charles Kerr Press, 2000, illustrated.

WWI era

• Robert Whitaker, On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation (2008)
• Freeberg, Ernest. Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent. 2008.
• Carl R. Weinberg, Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners & World War I (2005)
• Robert Shogan, The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising (2004)
• Joseph McCartin, Labor's Great War: The struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Oritgins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921 (1998)
• W. M. Breen, Labor Market Politics and the Great War: The Department of Labor, the States, and the First U.S. Employment Service, 1907-1933 (1997)
• Thomas Fleming Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I (2004) sections on workers
•  William J. Breen, Labor Market Politics and the Great War: The Department of Labor, The States and the first U.S. Employment Service, 1907-1933  (1997) HD 8072 B726 1997
• Charles McCormick, Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill District, 1917-1921 (1998)
• Maurine Weiner Greenwald Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States (. 1990)

Interwar period/1930s/CIO

• Labor in the 1930s bibliography  --huge list organized by subject and author, therefore, the list below is abbreviated for this period
• The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941by James J. Lorence (2009)
• Laura Hapke, Labor's Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s (2008)
• Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights 1919-1950 , 2008
• Randi Storch, Red Chicago (2007)
• Daniel J. Opler, For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City's Department Store Unions, 1934-1953 (2007)
• Susan Porter Benson, Household Accounts: Working-class Family Economies in the Interwar United States David Montgomery (Afterword) (2007)
• Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950 by Rosemary Feurer (2006)
• Bucki, Cecelia, Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915-1936 (2001)
• Sol Dolinger and Genora Johnson Dollinger, Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Worker Union (
• Michelle Brattain, The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers and Culture in the Modern South (2001)
•  Janet Irons Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South (2000)
• James D. Rose, Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism (2000)
• Simon, Bryant   A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948. 1998.
• Michael Denning, The Cutlural Front: The Laboring of American Culture, (see symposium in Labor History, August 1998
•  David F. Selvin, A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco (1996)
• Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1987)
• Staughton & Alice Lynd, "Rank and File": Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers (1973)
• David F. Selvin, A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco (1996)
• Which Side Are You On?: The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931-39
• Symposium: Bruce Nelson, "Class, Race and Democracy in the CIO: The “New” Labor History Meets the "Wages of Whiteness"International Review of Social Histiry 41 (1996) pp. 351-374;  and responses: Elizabeth Faue, “Anti-Heroes of the Working Class: A Response to Bruce NelsonIRSH 41 (1996), pp. 375-388, Thomas Sugrue, “Segmented Work, Race Conscious Workers: Structure, Agency and Division in the CIO Era, IRSH 41 (1996), pp 389-406, and Reply, Working Class Agency and Racial Inequality, IRSH 41 (1996)pp 407-420 
• Bruce Nelson, Workers on the Waterfront (see Nelson’s revisions in Divided We Stand),
• Ruth O'Brien, Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935 (1998)    
•   Robert Zieger, The CIO: 1935-1955 (1995)—see symposium in Labor History, Spring 1996
• Symposium: Bruce Nelson, "Class, Race and Democracy in the CIO: The “New” Labor History Meets theWages of Whiteness" International Review of Social Histiry 41 (1996) pp. 351-374; and responses: Elizabeth Faue, Anti-Heroes of the Working Calss: A Response to Bruce NelsonIRSH 41 (1996), pp. 375-388, Thomas Sugrue, Segmented Work, Race Conscious Workers: Structure, Agency and Division in the CIO Era, IRSH 41 (1996), pp 389-406, and Reply, Working Class Agency and Racial Inequality, IRSH 41 (1996)pp 407-420
• Staughton Lynd, ed. "We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the 1930s (1996)
• Colin Gordon, New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics in America, 1920-1935 (1995)
• ·  Steven Fraser, Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (1994)
• Elizabeth Faue, Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945 (1991)
• Joshua Freeman In Transit: The Transport Workers Union of New York City (1989)
• Benjamin Hunnicutt,  Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work (1988)
• Melvyn Dubofsky, "Not So 'Turbulent Years': A New Look at the 1930s," in Charles Stephenson and Robert Asher, Life and Labor: Dimesions of American Working Class History (1986)
• Gary Gerstle, Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960 (1989)
•   Robert Zieger, The CIO: 1935-1955 (1995)
• Irving Bernstein, Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 (1970)
•    Alice and Staughton Lynd, eds. Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working Class Organizers
• Ronald Schatz, The Electrical Workers: A History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse 1923-1960 (1983)
• David Brody Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle (1981)
• David Brody, "The CIO After Fifty Years," Dissent (Fall 1985)  

WWII, 1940s

• Daniel Kryder Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State During World War II (2000)
• Silverman, Victor, Imagining Internationalsim in American and British Labor, 1939-1949 (2000)
• Andrew Kersten Race, Jobs and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46  (2000)
• Miller, Sally M, and Daniel A. Cornford, eds. American Labor in the Era of World War II. 1995
• Maureen Honey, Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II (1999)
• Nelson Lichtenstein,  Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II (1982)
• Ruth Milkman  Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During WWII (1987)
• Maureen Honey, Creating Rosie the Riveter: Classs, Gender and Propaganda During World War II
• Michael Honey,  Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (1993)
• Barbara Griffith, The Crisis of American Labor: Operation Dixie and the Defeat of the CIO
• Nelson Lichtenstein, Class Politics and the State During World War II, International and Working Class History, Fall 2000 (no. 58)
• Erasmo Gamboa Mexican Labor and World War II (1990)
• James Atleson, Labor and the Wartime State: Labor Relations and Law During World War II
• Irving Richeter, Labor's Struggles, 1945-1950: A Participatns;’s View
• Jim Rose, The Problem Every Supervisor Dreads: Women Workers at the U.S. Steel Duquesne WorksLabor History
• Marilyn Johnson, The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay During World War II (1993)
• Steve Fraser Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (1993)
• Howell Harris, The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s (1982)

Cold War and Labor

• John Haynes list of books and articles –the most comprehensive list of books and articles on the subject,  highly searchable, therefore only a select list below
• Stromquist, Shelton, ed. · Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context 2008
• Rosemary Feurer, Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950 (2006)
• Cherny, et.al. American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture (2004)
• Thai Jones, A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience (2004)
• Robert Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism (2003)
• Stepan Norris and Zeitlin: Left Out (2002)
• Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation by Kate Weigand; (2002)
• Joshua R. Freeman Working Class New York
• Sexton, The War on Labor and the Left
• Steve Rosswurm, The CIO's Left-Led Unions (1992)
•   Meyer, Stephen Stalin Over Wisconsin (1992)
• Ellen Schrecker, “How Red is a Valley” Clinton Jencks and His Union,” Chapter 9 of  Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
• Horowitz, Daniel. Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (1998)
• Stepan-Norris, Talking Union (1995)-Ford Local 600
•   James J. Lorence, The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America
• Ellen Schrecker, McCarthyism and Organized Labor: Fifty Years of Lost Opportunities Working USA (vol 3, no. 5) 93-102highly readable summary of consequences of labor's cold war

Capital Disinvestment and Globalization of the recent era ”

•  Michael Dennis, The New Economy and the Modern South (2009)
• Gar Alperovitz, America Beyond Capitalism : Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy (2006)
•   Dimiltri Doukas Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community (2003)
•  Arlie Russell Hochschild  and  Barbara Ehrenreich ,eds. Global Woman : Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
• Rhacel Salazar Parrenas,  Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work
• Kim Moody, Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy
• Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. (2005)
• Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy Year Quest for Cheap Labor
• Andrew Herod, Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism
•  Grace Chang, Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
• Leon Fink, The Maya of Morgantown : Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
• Michael E. Gordon and Lowell Turner, eds., Transnational Cooperation Among Labor Unions. 2000.
•   William M. Adler, Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the global Assembly Line 2000)
• Berberoglu, Berch Labor and capital in the age of globalization :   the labor process and the changing nature of work in the global  economy
• Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (2001)
• McCall, Leslie. Complex Inequality: Gender, Class and Race in the New Economy (2001)
• Articles in special issue of Monthly Review “Rising from the Ashes? Labor in the Age of Global Capitalism” July-Aug 1997 Vol 49 no. 3
• Sugrue, Origins of the Urban Crisis
•   David Bensman and Roberta Lynch, Rusted Dreams: Hard Times in a Steel Community (Wisconsin Steel-Chicago)
•    Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, The Deindustrialization of America
•   Eileen Boris, Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More (1996)
•   Louise Lamphere, et. al., Newcomers in the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring of the U.S. Economy (1994)
•   Ruth Milkman, Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late 20th century (1997)
• Ortiz, Altagracia, ed. Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in Transnational Labor (1996)
• Babson Lean Work

Prescriptions/Analysis

• Steve Early Embedded with Organized Labor (2009)
• , "They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration by Aviva Chompsky (2007)
• Gerald Friedman, Reigniting the Labor Movement by (2007)
• Kate Bronfenbrenner, et al, eds. Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies (1998)
• Fletcher, Bill, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin.  Solidarity Divided:  The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice.  (2007)