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Selected Books and Resources from Booth Library Collections
A Contest of Ideas: capital, politics and labor
by
Nelson Lichtenstein
Call Number: HD8066 .L527 2013
ISBN: 9780252037856
Publication Date: 2013
A New American Labor Movement: the decline of collective bargaining and the rise of direct action
by
WILLIAM E SCHEUERMAN
Call Number: HD6510 .S34 2021
ISBN: 9781438485492
Publication Date: 2021
American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1985
by
Robert H. Zieger
Call Number: HG83 Z66a
ISBN: 0801831261
Publication Date: 1986
Between a River and a Mountain
by
Edmund F. Wehrle
Call Number: HD8055.A6 W44 2005
ISBN: 9780472099009
Publication Date: 2006
Black workers remember : an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle
by
Michael Keith Honey
Call Number: HD8081.A65 H66 1999
ISBN: 0520217748
Publication Date: 2000
Brewing a boycott : how a grassroots coalition fought Coors and remade American consumer activism
by
Allyson P. Brantley
Call Number: HD9397.U52 B73 2021
ISBN: 9781469661025
Publication Date: 2021
Chants democratic : New York City & the rise of the American working class, 1788-1850
by
Sean Wilentz
Call Number: HD8085.N53 W54 1984
ISBN: 0195033426
Publication Date: 1984
Divided we stand : American workers and the struggle for Black equality
by
Bruce Nelson
Call Number: HD8081.A65 N45 2001
ISBN: 0691017328
Publication Date: 2001
Essential : how the pandemic transformed the long fight for worker justice
by
Jamie K. McCallum
Call Number: HD8072.5 .M388 2022
ISBN: 9781541619913
Publication Date: 2022
Eugene V. Debs : citizen and socialist
by
Nick Salvatore
Call Number: ED288s 1984
ISBN: 0252009673
Publication Date: 1982
Eyes on labor : news photography and America's working class
by
Carol Quirke
Call Number: HD6508 .Q57 2012
ISBN: 9780199768226
Publication Date: 2012
For jobs and freedom : race and labor in America since 1865
by
Robert H. Zieger
Call Number: HD8081.A65 Z54 2007
ISBN: 9780813124605
Publication Date: 2007-10-26
Forbidden workers : illegal Chinese immigrants and American labor
by
Peter Kwong
Call Number: HD8081.C5 K85 1997
ISBN: 9781565843554
Publication Date: 1998
From the folks who brought you the weekend : a short, illustrated history of labor in the United States
by
Priscilla Murolo; A. B. Chitty; Joe Sacco (Illustrator)
Call Number: HD8066 .M86 2001
ISBN: 1565844440
Publication Date: 2001
Labor rights are civil rights : Mexican American workers in twentieth-century America
by
Zaragosa Vargas
Call Number: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1400849284
Publication Date: 2013
Labor rising : the past and future of working people in America
by
Richard Greenwald; Daniel Katz
Call Number: HD8066 .L327 2012
ISBN: 9781595585189
Publication Date: 2012-07-03
Labor's mind : a history of working-class intellectual life
by
Tobias Higbie
Call Number: HD8072 .H65 2019
ISBN: 9780252042263
Publication Date: 2018
Labor's war at home : the CIO in World War II
by
Nelson Lichtenstein
Call Number: HD8055.C75 L51982
ISBN: 0521234727
Publication Date: 1983
Making a new deal : industrial workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
by
Lizabeth Cohen
Call Number: HD8085.C53 C64 1990
ISBN: 0521381347
Publication Date: 1990
On the line : essays in the history of auto work
by
Nelson Lichtenstein (Editor); Stephen Meyer (Editor)
Call Number: HD6515.A8 O51989
ISBN: 0252060156
Publication Date: 1988
Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945
by
Beth Tompkins Bates
Call Number: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0807875368
Publication Date: 2003
State of the union : a century of American labor
by
Nelson Lichtenstein
Call Number: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0691057680
Publication Date: 2002
The crusades of Cesar Chavez : a biography
by
Miriam Pawel
Call Number: HD6509.C48 P38 2014
ISBN: 9781608197101
Publication Date: 2014
The fall of the house of labor : the workplace, the state, and American labor activism, 1865-1925
by
David Montgomery
Call Number: HD8072 .M731987
ISBN: 9780521225793
Publication Date: 1987
The next shift : the fall of industry and the rise of health care in Rust Belt America
by
Gabriel Winant
Call Number: RA410.54.U6 W56 2021
ISBN: 9780674238091
Publication Date: 2021
There is power in a union : the epic story of labor in America
by
Philip Dray
Call Number: HD6508 .D73 2010
ISBN: 9780385526296
Publication Date: 2010
Union made : working people and the rise of social Christianity in Chicago
by
Heath W. Carter
Call Number: HD6338.2.U52 C553 2015
ISBN: 9780199385959
Publication Date: 2015
Union-free America : workers and antiunion culture
by
Lawrence Richards
Call Number: HD6508 .R488 2008
ISBN: 9780252032714
Publication Date: 2008
Wal-Mart : the face of twenty-first-century capitalism
by
Nelson Lichtenstein (Editor)
Call Number: HF5429.215.U6 W35 2006
ISBN: 1595580352
Publication Date: 2006
Working hard for the American dream : workers and their unions, World War I to the present
by
Randi Storch
Call Number: HD6508 .S697 2013
ISBN: 9781118541401
Publication Date: 2013
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