LibGuide: Labor Unions

If you're looking for resources to help you explore the labor movement, you've come to the right place! Contact the Library for database login information or answers to your research questions.

Research Starters

• "Labor Unions," Research Starters: Sociology (Online Edition)

eBooks

• Hard Work Is Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace

• On Gender, Labor, and Inequality

• Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order

• Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change

• A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century

• The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America

• Labor Under Fire: A History of the AFL-CIO Since 1979

• Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers From the Jazz Age to the New Deal

• Fighting for Total Person Unionism: Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and Working-Class Citizenship

• Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class

• Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism

• The Changing Role of Unions: New Forms of Representation

Books

• Dissent in America: The Voices that Shaped a Nation

• Labor Unions: Opposing Viewpoints

• The Homestead Steel Strike of 1892

• The Pullman strike of 1894

• The Bread and Roses strike of 1912

• Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America

• American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century

• Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II

• Your Rights in the Workplace

• Employee Rights Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Fighting Back Against Firing, Harassment, Discrimination and More

• Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America

• Writings of Eugene V. Debs: A Collection of Essays

• Cesar Chavez
  

Films

• Triangle Fire

Online Videos

Databases

Read sources about labor unions from a variety of perspectives on SIRS Issues Researcher. Read about the rise of organized labor in this subject guide from U.S. History in Context.

Looking for more specific information? Customize your search with the US History Collection database.

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