SeriesThe Working Class in American History

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Worker City, Company Town: Iron and Cotton-Worker Protest in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855-84 by Daniel J. Walkowitz 18 copies1978
Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 by David Alan Corbin 31 copies, 3 reviews1981
Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist by Nick Salvatore 182 copies, 4 reviews1982
The electrical workers : a history of labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923-1960 by Ronald W. Schatz 13 copies1983
Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960 by John E. Bodnar 28 copies1983
Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 by Mari Jo Buhle 42 copies, 1 review1983
Working-Class America: Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society by Michael Frisch 12 copies1983
Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics by Leon Fink 32 copies, 1 review1983
The Labor History Reader by Daniel J. Leab 24 copies1985
Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940 by Susan Porter Benson 39 copies1986
Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II by Ruth Milkman 43 copies, 1 review1986
Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900 by Richard Oestreicher 14 copies, 1 review1986
Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era by Michael Kazin 26 copies1987
A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America by Shelton Stromquist 22 copies1987
Labor Leaders in America by Melvyn Dubofsky 23 copies1987
The New England working class and the new labor history by Herbert G. Gutman 15 copies1987
Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919 by Patricia A. Cooper 20 copies1987
Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922 by James R. Barrett 33 copies1987
German Workers in Chicago: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I by Hartmut Keil 9 copies1988
Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 by Mary H. Blewett 27 copies1988
Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s by Bruce Nelson 32 copies1988
On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work by Nelson Lichtenstein 10 copies1989
Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: A History of Hospital Workers' Union, Local 1199 by Leon Fink 31 copies1989
Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878-1923 by Stephen H. Norwood 14 copies1990
Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century by Dorothy Sue Cobble 25 copies1991
The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War by Bruce Levine 7 copies1992
Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912 by Ardis Cameron 38 copies1993
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers by Michael K. Honey 37 copies1993
In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture by Leon Fink 5 copies1994
The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905 by David Brundage 8 copies1994
The New Left and Labor in the 1960s by Peter B. Levy 9 copies1994
Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900 by Dorothee Schneider 4 copies1994
We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s by Staughton Lynd 35 copies1996
The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1884-1928 by Priscilla Murolo 4 copies1997
Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54 by Rick Halpern 14 copies1997
The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930 by Wendy Gamber 12 copies1997
Negro and White, Unite and Fight!: A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90 by Roger Horowitz 15 copies1997
Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike (Working Class in American History) by Colin J. Davis 9 copies1997
All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek by Elizabeth Jameson 16 copies1998
Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97 by Richard Schneirov 18 copies1998
Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience by Eric Arnesen 8 copies1998
Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters by Melinda Chateauvert 13 copies1998
Waterfront Workers: New Perspectives on Race and Class by Calvin Winslow 5 copies1998
AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945 by Kimberley L. Phillips 14 copies1999
The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics by Richard Schneirov 11 copies1999
William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism (Working Class in American History) by James R. Barrett 13 copies1999
Colliers across the Sea: A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924 by John H. M. Laslett 7 copies2000
Hard Work: The Making of Labor History by Melvyn Dubofsky 13 copies2000
Imagining internationalism in American and British labor, 1939-49 by Victor Silverman 4 copies2000
Rights, Not Roses: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80 by Dennis A. Deslippe 13 copies2000
Southern Workers and the Search for Community : Spartanburg County, South Carolina by G.C. Waldrep III 11 copies2000
Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South by Janet Christine Irons 10 copies2000
Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City by Laurie Mercier 7 copies2001
Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915-36 by Cecelia Bucki 5 copies2001
Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism by James D. Rose 2 copies2001
Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 by Brian Kelly 16 copies2001
After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman by Susan Eleanor Hirsch 5 copies2003
Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union by David Witwer 5 copies, 1 review2003
Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 by Frank Tobias Higbie 22 copies2003
Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946-61 by Colin J. Davis 3 copies2003
Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham by Horace Huntley 8 copies2004
City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920 by Jerome P. Bjelopera 6 copies2005
Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights by David Brody 10 copies2005
The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South by William P. Jones 12 copies2005
Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950 by Rosemary Feurer 9 copies2006
Reinventing "The People": The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism by Shelton Stromquist 14 copies2006
Gendering Labor History by Alice Kessler-Harris 18 copies2007
Glass towns : industry, labor and political economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s by Ken Fones-Wolf 7 copies2007
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 by Bryan D. Palmer 15 copies2007
A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America by Karen Pastorello 3 copies2007
Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots, 1928-35 by Randi Storch 15 copies2007
Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia by Peter Cole 16 copies2007
Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30 by Lawrence M. Lipin 2 copies2007
The Great Strikes of 1877 by David O. Stowell 14 copies, 1 review2008
Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context (Working Class in American History) by Shelton Stromquist 7 copies2008
Race Against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit by David M. Lewis-Colman 6 copies2008
Union-free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture by Lawrence Richards 9 copies, 1 review2008
Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917 by Paul Michel Taillon 8 copies2009
On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry (Working Class in American History) by Liesl Miller Orenic 0 copies2009
Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor by David Witwer 6 copies2009
Sojourner Truth's America by Margaret Washington 34 copies2009
Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement by Steven K. Ashby 11 copies2009
Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics by Kathleen Mapes 5 copies2009
Making Capitalism Safe: Workplace Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940 by Donald W. Rogers 2 copies2010
NAFTA and Labor in North America by Norman Caulfield 9 copies2010
Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South by Jarod Roll 13 copies2010
Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley (Working Class in American History) by Jeremy Brecher 5 copies2011
Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 (Working Class in American History) by Max Grivno 5 copies2011
The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America by Erik S. Gellman 15 copies2011
Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism by Immanuel Ness 9 copies2011
The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age by Rosanne Currarino 3 copies2011
Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction by John B. Jentz 10 copies2012
Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages by Jessie B. Ramey 7 copies2012
The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks by Timothy Messer-Kruse 8 copies2012
A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor (Working Class in American History) by Nelson Lichtenstein 10 copies2013
Detroit's Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism by Colleen Doody 6 copies2013
Latin American migrations to the U.S. Heartland : changing social landscapes in Middle America by Linda Allegro 6 copies2013
Making the world safe for workers labor, the Left, and Wilsonian internationalism by Elizabeth McKillen 4 copies2013
Man of Fire: Selected Writings, Ernesto Galarza by Ernesto Galarza 5 copies2013
Palomino : Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American unionism in the American Southwest by James J. Lorence 3 copies2013
A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism (Working Class in American History) by Lisa Ann Wunderlich Phillips 3 copies2013
We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World [abridged] by Melvyn Dubofsky 46 copies2013
The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894 (The Working Class in American History) by Sam Mitrani 4 copies2014
Workers in Hard Times A Long View of Economic Crises by Leon Fink 2 copies2014
Death and Dying in the Working Class, 1865-1920 (Working Class in American History) by Michael K. Rosenow 2 copies2015
Fighting for Total Person Unionism: Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and Working-Class Citizenship (Working Class in American History) by Robert Bussel 6 copies2015
Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class by Mark A. Lause 7 copies2015
Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America (Working Class in American History) by Kenyon Zimmer 22 copies2015
Redeeming Time: Protestantism and Chicago's Eight-Hour Movement, 1866-1912 (Working Class in American History) by William A. Mirola 1 copy2015
Smokestacks in the Hills: Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia (Working Class in American History) by Lou Martin 4 copies2015
Struggle for the soul of the postwar South : white evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf 7 copies2015
Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies (Working Class in American History) by Dennis A. Deslippe 5 copies2016
Conservative Counterrevolution: Challenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee (Working Class in American History) by Tula A Connell 3 copies2016
Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era (Working Class in American History) by Jacob A. C. Remes 10 copies2016
The Making of Working-Class Religion (Working Class in American History) by Matthew Pehl 6 copies2016
Manhood on the Line: Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland by Stephen Meyer 9 copies2016
On Gender, Labor, and Inequality (Working Class in American History) by Ruth Milkman 4 copies2016
The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class by Christopher D. Cantwell 6 copies2016
Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism by Rosemary Feurer 10 copies2017
Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks (Working Class in American History) by J. Blake Perkins 13 copies, 1 review2017
Sewing the fabric of statehood : garment unions, American labor, and the establishment of the state of Israel by Adam M. Howard 3 copies2017
Teacher Strike!: Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order by Jon Shelton 5 copies2017
Victor Arnautoff and the politics of art by Robert W. Cherny 6 copies2017
Labor Justice Across the Americas by Leon Fink 3 copies2018
American Labor and Immigration History, 1877–1920s: Recent European Research by Dirk Hoerder 1 copy
Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-68 by Grace Palladino 20 copies
Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32 by Joe W. Trotter 20 copies
The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Theory by David Norman Rodowick 11 copies
Death to Fascism: Louis Adamic’s Fight for Democracy by John P. Enyeart 6 copies
Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area by Peter Cole 8 copies
For Democracy, Workers, and God: Labor Song-Poems and Labor Protest, 1865–95 by Bucky Halker 3 copies
Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia (Working Class in American History) by Greg Patmore 1 copy
Labor’s Mind: A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life by Frank Tobias Higbie 8 copies
Lawyers against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism by Daniel R. Ernst 8 copies
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763–1812 by Charles G. Steffen 11 copies
The Practice of Solidarity: American Hat Finishers in the Nineteenth Century by David Bensman 9 copies
Remembering Lattimer: Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country by Paul A. Shackel 2 copies
To Live Here, You Have to Fight by Jessica Wilkerson 18 copies, 1 review
Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism: The Shoeworkers and Tanners of Endicott Johnson, 1890–1950 by Gerald Zahavi 3 copies
Working Women of Collar City: Gender, Class, and Community in Troy, 1864-86 by Carole Turbin 11 copies

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