Labor History
- The Inside History of the Carnegie Steel Company: A Romance of Millions (Pitt Series in Social and Labor History)
- James Howard Bridge was a journalist, and personal secretary to Andrew Carnegie.
- Sugar Hill: Where The Sun Rose Over Harlem
- Terry Baker Mulligan was born and raised on Sugar Hill, in Harlem. Her short non-fiction work on the Sugar Hill area of Harlem (penned under the name Theresa Baker Mulligan) has received an award from the Heartland Writers Guild and was published in "Labor History." She is married, has two grown sons and now lives in St.
- Strike!: The Radical Insurrections of Ellen Dawson (Working in the Americas)
- "Very little has been written about the background of pre-World War II labor leaders, especially of working-class women. This book fills in the gaps by tracing the history of Ellen Dawson through Scotland, England, and the United States. Anyone interested in labor history or women's history will find this book of great use.
- Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture (Statue of Liberty Ellis Isla
- In the midst of his research on labor history, Cornell University historian Salvatore (Eugene V. Debs) accidentally came upon the nine-volume journals of a factory worker named Amos Webber (1826- 1904), an activist in the black communities of Philadelphia and Worcester, Mass.
- The Great Labor Uprising of 1877
- "An essential addition to any collection on labor history." ---- Library Journal"Foner's careful research and critical insights are evident . the book is richly narrated. [A]n important addition to the literature of late 19th-century American labor history." ---- Choice --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
- Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980
- The book is founded on solid research and is a pleasure to read.Choice "An important, provocative analysis."--###Labor History# "This book is clearly written, carefully researched, and as a result is a compelling condemnation of the power of industrial capital to shape the human and natural environment to its own end.
- Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
- Fittingly, noted the San Francisco Chronicle, the history of Hoover Dam is "just as roiling and dirty as the silt-laden Colorado." Critics felt that what could have been a dry, technical story of the creation of the dam became, in Hiltzik's hands, a fascinating social, political, and labor history.
- Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
- "Well-researched and well-written . . . A major contribution to the current scholarship on labor history."-- American Communist History.
- Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic
- "A provocative analysis of women's long-ignored economic activity in the Early Republic and the rhetorics that surrounded it. Ideal for undergraduate courses in women's and labor history and essential for graduate students in American history.
- The Ludlow Massacre of 1913-14 (American Workers)
- Grade 7-10–Laughlin describes one of the lesser-known struggles in U.S. labor history when mining employees in Colorado went out on a strike that lasted 14 months. Their demands primarily included the right to organize and be recognized by management.
- Dance Hall Days: Intimacy and Leisure Among Working-Class Immigrants in the United States
- "Brimming with human detail and adventuresome argument, Dance Hall Days is a major contribution to both labor history and immigration studies. McBee never loses sight of the fact that workers' lives were about romance, intense same-sex friendships, dance, loneliness, longing, and marriage just as surely as they were about jobs.
- Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
- "Well-researched and well-written . . . A major contribution to the current scholarship on labor history."-- American Communist History.
- Colossus
- Fittingly, noted the San Francisco Chronicle, the history of Hoover Dam is "just as roiling and dirty as the silt-laden Colorado." Critics felt that what could have been a dry, technical story of the creation of the dam became, in Hiltzik's hands, a fascinating social, political, and labor history.
- Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
- NYU law professor Jacobs further burnishes his reputation for advancing the study of organized crime in America with his latest work of scholarship, billed by the publisher as "the only book to investigate how the mob has distorted American labor history.
- The Great Labor Uprising of 1877
- "An essential addition to any collection on labor history." ---- Library Journal"Foner's careful research and critical insights are evident . the book is richly narrated. [A]n important addition to the literature of late 19th-century American labor history." ---- Choice.
