Political Economy Bibliography - Business, Labor, and Corporatism

Political Economy Bibliography
Business, Labor, & Corporatism

by Dave Robertson, University of Missouri-St. Louis / Last Updated April 24, 2007

This bibliography part of the Political Economy Bibliography and supplements the Political Economy Syllabus

("UP" indicates University Press)

INDEX:

Business & the Corporation * Antitrust & Cartels (see also sectors in the Political Economy Bibliography)

Labor: * Texts and Overviews * Workers and Labor Markets * Unions and Unionization * Strikes and Strikebreaking * Regional, State & Local * Individual Unions and Labor Leaders * Unions and Unionization: Cross-National Comparison * Labor, Politics & Social Movements * Labor Market Policy * Policy Experts and Entrepreneurs * Labor Market Regulation: Hours and Factory Laws / Gender / Race & Fair Employment Practices / Child Labor / Prison Labor / Wages / Occupational Safety and Health / Immigration * Active Labor Market Policy: Public Employment Offices / Job Training and Public Jobs * Work Insurance

Collective Bargaining & Trade Union Law

Corporatism

Globalization and Labor

Business & the Corporation (see also Antitrust )

· Mansel Blackford and K. Austin Kerr, Business Enterprise in American History, 3rd ed. (Houghton-Mifflin, 1994).

· Mansel G. Blackford, The Rise of Modern Business in Great Britain, the United States, and Japan. Second ed., rev. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998).

· Henrietta Larson's Guide to Business History (Harvard, 1948)

· Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business History around the World (Cambridge UP, 2003)

· James M. O'Toole, ed., The Records of American Business (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1997).

· E. Mason, "Corporations," International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

· Thomas DiBacco, Made in the U.S.A.: The History of American Business (Harper and Row, 1988).

· Dow Vowta, Modern Corporations (Prentice-Hall, 1965)

· Randall K. Morck, A History of Corporate Governance Around the World (U of Chicago Press, 2005).

· Louis Galambos and Joseph Pratt, The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth: U.S. Business and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (New York: Basic Books).

· Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand (Harvard, 1977) and The Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (Belknap/Harvard, 1990).

· James Oliver Robertson, America’s Business (Hill and Wang, 1985)

· Louis Galambos, The Public Image of Big Business in America (Johns Hopkins, 1975)

· Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904; New York, Menot, 1958).

· Philip Scranton, Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925 (Princeton University Press, 1997)

· Mansell Blackford, A History of Small Business in America (U of North Carolina Press, 2003).

· Andrea Colli, The History of Family Business, 1850-2000 (Cambridge UP, 2003).

· Alfred D. Chandler and Richard S. Tedlow, The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: A Casebook on the History of American Economic Institutions (Irwin, 1985).

· J. Leander Bishop, A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 (Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1868)

· Pauline Maier,"The Revolutionary Origins of the American Corporation," William and Mary Quarterly 3rd series, v. 50 (January, 1993)

· Ronald E. Seavoy, The Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1784-1855 (Greenwood Press, 1982).

· Robert J. Dalzell, Jr., Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World They Made (Harvard University Press, 1987).

· John W. Cadman, The Corporation in New Jersey: Business and Politics, 1791-1875 (Harvard UP, 1949).

· Edwin Merrick Dodd, American Business Corporations Until 1860, with Special Reference to Massachusetts (Harvard UP, 1954)

· James Willard Hurst, The Legitimacy of the Business Corporation in the Laws of the United States, 1780-1970 (Virginia, 1970).

· G.H. Evans, Business Incorporations in the United States, 1800-1943 (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1948).

· Naomi R. Lamoreaux, The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 (Cambridge, 1985).

· Thomas K. McCraw, ed. Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998)

· David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten, The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive and Industrial Enterprise (Praeger Publishing, 2005).

· William L. Cary, "Federalism and Corporate Law: Reflections Upon Delaware," Yale Law Review 83 (1974), pp. 663 ff.

· Robert Sobel, The Age of Giant Corporations: A Microeconomic History of American Business, 1914-1984 2nd ed. (Greenwood, 1984).

· Richard S. Tedlow, The Rise of the American Business Corporation (Harwood: 1991).

· William G. Roy, Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America (Princeton, 1997)

· Charles R. Geisst, Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates (Oxford UP, 2000)

· Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means, The Modern Corporation and Private Property (Macmillan, 1937)

· Edward S. Herman, Corporate Control, Corporate Power (Cambridge, 1981)

· David Sciulli. 1998. Corporations vs. the Court: Private Power, Public Interests. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.

· Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone, The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America (Basic, 1988)

· Mark J. Roe, Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance (Princeton, 1994)

· Randall K. Morck, ed. Concentrated Corporate Ownership (U of Chicago Press, 2000)

· Jonathan Barton Baskin and Paul J. Baranti, Jr. A History of Corporate Finance (Cambridge, 1997).

· Walter Adams and James W. Brock, The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy (Pantheon, 1987).

· Edward Greenberg, Serving the Few

· Scott R. Bowman, The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought: Law, Power, and Ideology (Penn State, 1996)

· Wolfgang Streek and Philippe C. Schmitter, Private Interest Government: Beyond Market and State (Sage, 1985)

· Marc Schneiberg and J. Rogers Hollingsworth, "Can Transaction Cost Economics Explain Trade Associations?," in Masahiko Aoki, Bo Gustafsson and Oliver E. Williamson, The Firm as a Nexus of Treaties (London: Sage Publications, 1990), pp. 320-346

· Clarence E. Bonnett, History of Employers' Associations in the United States (Vantage, 1956)

· U.S. Commissioner of Labor, Regulation and Restriction of Output, 11th Special Report (Washington: GPO, 1904)

· Mark S. Mizruchi, The Structure of Corporate Political Action: Interfirm Relations and their Consequences (Harvard, 1992)

· Benjamin Gomes-Casseres, The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry (Harvard UP, 1996)

· John P. Windmuller, "Employers Associations in Comparative Perspective: Organization, Structure, Administration." In John P. Windmuller and Alan Gladstone, eds. Employers Associations and Industrial Relations: A Comparative Study (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).

· Alan Gladstone, "Employers Associations in Comparative Perspective: Functions and Activities." In John P. Windmuller and Alan Gladstone, eds. Employers Associations and Industrial Relations: A Comparative Study (Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1984): 24-43

· Angel Kwolek-Folland, Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States (New York: Twayne, 1998)

· Juliet E.K. Walker. 1998. The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. New York: Macmillan

· Allan Cox, The Cox Report on the American Corporation (Delacorte Press, 1982).

· Handler, Michael Useem, Executive Defense: Shareholder Power and Corporate Reorganization (Harvard, 1993)

· Walter Adams and James Brock, Dangerous Pursuits: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Age of Wall Street (Random House).

· Robert Collins, The Business Response to Keynes, 1929-1964 (1981)

· Ellis Hawley, The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly (Princeton, 1966)

· Hobart Rowen, The Free Enterprisers: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Business Establishment (Putnam, 1964)

· Mark Nadel, Corporations and Political Accountability (1976)

· Marshall B. Clinard, Corporate Corruption: The Abuse of Power (Greenwood, 1990).

· Bennett Harrison, Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power (Basic, 1994).

· Roland Marchand, Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)

· Sanford M. Jacoby, Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)

· Andrea Tone, The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America (Cornell University Press, 1997)

· David Vogel, Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America (Basic, 1989)

· Graham K. Wilson, Business and Politics: A Comparative Introduction second ed. (Chatham House, 1995).

· Mark A. Smith, American Business and Political Power: Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy (U of Chicago Press, 2000)

· Neil J. Mitchell, The Conspicuous Corporation: Business, Public Policy, and Representative Democracy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997) and The Generous Corporation (Yale, 1989)

· Cathie Jo Martin, Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Capital Investment Policy (Princeton UP, 1999)

· Kim McQuaid, Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics, 1945-1990 (Johns Hopkins, 1993)

· David Truman, The Governmental Process (1951)

· Kim McQuaid, Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics, 1945-1990 (Johns Hopkins, 1993)

· H.F. Liebhafsky, American Government and Business (1971)

· Louis Galambos and Joseph Pratt, The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth: U.S. Business and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (Basic Books, 1988).

· Herbert Hovenkamp, Enterprise And American Law, 1836-1937 (Harvard, 1991)

· Martin J. Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics (Cambridge, 1988)

· Robert F. Burk, The Corporate State and the Broker State: The Du Ponts and American National Politics, 1925-1940 (Harvard UP, 1990).

· Charles Perrow, Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism (Princeton UP, 2002)

· Jonathan J. Bean, Beyond the Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961, (U of North Carolina Press, 1996)

· MargeryM. Ambrosius and Susan Welch, "State Legislators' Perceptions of Business Interests, Legislative Studies Quarterly 13:2 (May, 1988), 199-209.

· Edward Epstein, The Corporation in American Politics (1969)

· Edward Handler and John J. Mulkern, Business in Politics (Lexington, 1982)

· Daniel R. Ernst, Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (University of Illinois, 1995).

· Robert Gilpin, U.S. Power and the Multinational Corporation

· Robert Hessen, ed., Does Big Business Rule America? (Articles by de Sola Pool, JQ Wilson, E. Bardach), Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1981.

· Michael Useem, The Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and the U.K. (Oxford, 1984).

· Rebecca Starr. 1998. A School for Politics: Commercial Lobbying and Political Culture in Early South Carolina. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

· Ronald W. Cox, Business and the State in International Relations (Westview, 1996)

· Robert A. Kagan and Lee Axelrad, eds. 2000. Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism. Berkeley: University of California Press

· Yousef Cassis, Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 1997)

· David Granick, Managerial Comparisons of Four Developed Countries: France, Britain, United States and Russia (MIT Press, 1972).

· E.J. Hobsbawn, Industry and Empire

· G.C. Allen, The Structure of Industry in Britain: A Study of Economic Change (London, 1966).

· Leslie Hannah, The Rise of the Corporate Economy: The British Experience (Johns Hopkins, 1976)

· Jonathan Boswell and James Peters, Capitalism in Contention: Business Leaders and Political Economy in Modern Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1997)

· Prais, S.J. (1981) The Evolution of Giant Firms in Britain: A Study of the Growth of Concentration in Manufacturing Industry in Britain, 1909-70 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

· Richard Whitley, Business Systems in East Asia: Firms, Markets, and Societies (Sage, 1992)

· Richard Whitley, ed., European Business Systems: Firms and Markets in their National Contexts (Sage, 1993)

Antitrust and Cartels

· Hans B. Thorelli, The Federal Antitrust Policy (Johns Hopkins, 1955).

· Herbert Hovenkamp, The Antitrust Enterprise: Principle and Execution (Harvard UP, 2006)

· Tony Freyer, Regulating Big Business : Antitrust in Great Britain and America, 1880-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

· Marc Allen Eisner, Antitrust and the Triumph of Economics: Institutions, Expertise, and Policy Change (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991).

· Rudolph J.R. Peritz, Competition Policy In America, 1888-1992: History, Rhetoric, Law (Oxford, 1996)

· William Letwin, Law and Economic Policy in America: The Evolution of the Sherman Antitrust Act (Chicago: 1965).

· Jeremiah W. Jencks, The Trust Problem (New York: McClure, Philips, 1900)

· Henry R. Seager and Charles A. Gulick, Trust and Corporation Problems (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929).

· John R. Bowman, Capitalist Collective Action: Competition, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Coal Industry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 1-31.

· Gretchen Ritter, Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865-1896 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

· E. Thomas Sullivan, ed., The Political Economy of the Sherman Act: The First One Hundred Years (Oxford, 1991)

· Eliot Jones, The Trust Problem in the United States. Macmillan, 1922.

· Martin J. Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, The Law, and Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

· Steven L. Piott, The Anti-Monopoly Persuasion: Popular Resistance to the Rise of Big Business in the Midwest (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985)

· Christopher Grandy, New Jersey and the Fiscal Origins of Modern American Corporation Law (New York: Garland, 1993)

· Richard A. Posner, Antitrust Law: An Economic Perspective (Chicago, 1976).

· Fred S. McChesney and William F. Shughart III, The Causes and Consequences of Antitrust: The Public-Choice Perspective. (University of Chicago Press, 1994).

· George E. Garvey and Gerald J. Garvey, Economic Law and Economic Growth: Antitrust, Regulation ,and the American Growth System (Praeger, 1990).

· Alan D. Neale and D.G. Goyder, The Anti-Trust Laws of the United States of America (Cambridge UP, 1980).

· Robert L. Wills, Julie A. Caswell. and John C. Culbertson, eds., Issues after a Century of Federal Competition Policy (Lexington, 1987).

· Guhan Subramanian, "The Influence of Antitakeover Statutes on Incorporation Choice: Evidence on the "Race" Debate and Antitakeover Overreaching," University of Pennsylvania Law Review 150:6 (June 2002): 1795-1874

· Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism. Free Press, 1963.

· George Symeonidis, The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and Structure in British Industry (MIT Press, 2002)

· Corwin D. Edwards, Control of Cartels and Monopolies: An International Comparison (Oceana, 1967)

· Peter Z. Grossman, ed., How Cartels Endure and How They Fail: Studies of Industrial Collusion (Edward Elgar, 2004)

Labor

· U.S. Department of Labor / U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,& Monthly Labor Review / History @ DOL

· Reference Sources on Labor / International Labor Organization Statistics (LABORSTA)

· The State of Working America (various years)

Texts and Overviews

· Nelson Lichtenstein, ed., Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture and Society, 2 vols (Worth Publishers, 2000)

· Daniel Nelson, Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, from the 1820s to the Present (Ivan R. Dee, 1997)

· Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877-Present (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999)

· Melvyn Dubofsky and Foster Rhea Dulles, Labor in America: A History, 7th ed. (Harlan, Davidson, 2004)

· Daniel Jacoby, Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in America (M.E. Sharpe, 1998)

· Jacqueline Jones, A Social History of the Laboring Classes: From Colonial Times to the Present (Blackwell, 1999)

· Robert E. Weir and James P. Hanlan, eds., Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor (2 vols.) (Greenwood Press, 2004).

· Paul Le Blanc, A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century, (Humanity Books, 1999)

· Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States (New Press, 2001)

· J. Carroll Moody and Alice Kessler-Harris, eds., Perspectives on American Labor History (Northern Illinois University Press, 1990)

· Derek C. Bok, "Reflections on the Distinctive Character of American Labor Laws," Harvard Law Review 84:6 (April, 1971), pp. 1394-1463.

· Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (Monthly Review Press, 1974)

· David Gordon, Richard Edwards, and Michael Reich, Segmented Work, Divided WorkersThe Historical Transformation of Labor in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 1982)

· Richard Edwards, Contested Terrain: Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century (Basic Books, 1979)

· John R. Commons et al, ed., A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, (New York: Russell and Russell, 1958)

· Rick Halpern and Jonathan Morris, American Exceptionalism? US Working-class Formation in an International Context (St. Martin's, 1997)

Workers & Labor Markets

· Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Employment Outlook (annual)

· Chris Tilly and Charles Tilly, Work Under Capitalism (Westview Press, 1998)

· Richard B. Freeman, Joni Hersch, and Lawrence Mishel, eds., Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century (U of Chicago Press, 2004).

· Peter Scholliers, ed. Real Wages in 19th and 20th Century Europe: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Berg,1989).

· Robert H. Haveman, Human Capital In The United States From 1975 To 2000: Patterns Of Growth And Utilization (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003)

· Harry C. Katz and Owen Darbishire, Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems (Cornell UP, 1999)

· Russell Muirhead, Just Work (Harvard UP, 2004)

· Robert M. Solow, The Labor Market as a Social Institution (Blackwell, 1990)

· Nancy MacLean, Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Harvard UP, 2005)

· Marcus Wilson Jernegan, Laboring and Dependent Classes in Colonial America, 1607-1783 (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1931/1965)

· Charles G. Steffen, The Mechanics of Baltimore (U of Illinois Press, 1984).

· Howard B. Rock, Mechanics of the New Republic: The Tradesmen of New York City in the Age of Jefferson (1979)

· Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization (Cambridge UP, 2002)

· Robert Max Jackson, The Formation of Craft Labor Markets (Orlando: Academic Press, 1984)

· Jackie Krasas Rogers, Temps: The Many Faces of the Changing Workforce (Cornell UP, 2000)

· John Bezís-Selfa, Forging America: Adventurers, Ironworkers, and America’s Industrious Revolution (Cornell UP, 2003).

· Jonathan A. Glickstein, American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States (U of Virginia Press, 2002)

· Steven Leiken, The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age (Wayne State University Press, 2005).

· Ton Korver, The Fictitious Commodity: A Study of the U.S. Labor Market, 1880-1940 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990)

· U.S. Industrial Commission, Final Report, vol. 19 (Washington: GPO, 1902)

· Louis Uchitelle, The Disposable American: Layoffs and their Consequences (Knopf, 2006)

Unions & Unionization

· State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Princeton UP, 2002)

· Michael D. Yates, Why Unions Matter (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998)

· Robert E. Weir and James P. Hanlan, eds., Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor, 2 vols. (Greenwood Press, 2003)

· Ray M. Tillman and Michael S. Cummings, The Transformation of U.S. Unions: Voices, Visions, and Strategies from the Grassroots (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1999)

· Gerald Friedman, "New Estimates of Union Membership: The United States, 1880-1914," Historical Methods 32:2 (Spring, 1999): 70-86.

· George Sayers Bain and Robert Price, Profiles of Union Growth: A Comparative Statistical Portrait of Eight Countries (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980)

· John R. Commons and Associates, History of Labor in the United States (Macmillan, 1918, 1935).

· Karen Orren, "The Primacy of Labor in American Constitutional Development," APSR 89:3 (June, 1995): 377-388

· David Montgomery, Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century (New York: Cambridge U Press, 1994); The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Cambridge, 1987); Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967)

· Ira Katznelson and A. Zolberg, eds., Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States (Princeton UP, 1986).

· Philip Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States (1947-1983).

· Herbert G. Gutman, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American Working-Class and Social History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976)

· David Brody, Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle (Oxford, 1980)

· Robert J. Steinfeld, The Invention of Free Labor (U of North Carolina Press, 1991)

· Lloyd Ulman, The Rise of the National Trade Union: The Development and Significance of its Structure, Governing Institutions, and Economic Policies (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955)

· Gwendolyn Mink, Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920 (Cornell UP, 1986).

· Leon Fink, Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983)

· Kim Voss, The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993)

· Robert E. Weir, Beyond Labor’s Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor (Penn State University Press, 1996).

· Norman J. Ware, The Labor Movement in the United States, 1860-1895: A Study in Democracy (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1959)

· Terence V. Powderly, The Path I Trod (New York: AMS, 1968; Orig. 1940)

· Samuel Gompers, Seventy Years of Life and Labour, 2 vols. (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1925)

· The Samuel Gompers Papers, ed. Stuart B. Kaufman et al., (Urbana: University of Illinois Press)

· Stuart Bruce Kaufman, Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor, 1848-1896 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1973).

· John Mitchell, Organized Labor: Its Problems, Purposes and Ideals and the Present and Future of American Wage Earners (Philadelphia: American Book and Bible House, 1903)

· Michael Rogin, "Volunteerism: The Political Functions of an Antipolitical Doctrine," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 15 (July, 1962): 521-535

· Frank T. Stockton, The Closed Shop in American Trade Unions (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1911)

· Ruth L. Horowitz, Political Ideologies of Organized Labor (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1978)

· Selig Perlman, Theory of the Labor Movement (1928)

· Philip Taft, Organized Labor in American History (New York: Harper and Row, 1964) and The A.F. of L. in the Time of Gompers (New York: Octagon Books, 1970)

· Ileen A. DeVault, United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism (Cornell UP, 2004)

· Clyde Summers, "Admission Policies of Labor Unions," Quarterly Journal of Economics 61 (1946): 66-107

· Richard B. Freedman and James L. Medoff, What Do Unions Do? (Basic, 1984)

· Thomas A. Kochan, ed., Challenges and Choices Facing American Labor (MIT, 1985)

· Seymour Martin Lipset, ed., Unions in Transition: Entering the Second Century (1986)

· Michael Goldfield, The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States (Chicago, 1987)

· Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss, Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement (Cornell UP, 2004)

· Bruce Western, Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionism in the Capitalist Democracies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)

· Seymour Martin Lipset, The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions more than Canadians Do, but Join Much Less (ILR Press, 2004).

Strikes & Strikebreaking

· P.K. Edwards, Strikes in the United States, 1881-1974 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981)

· Edwin E. Witte, The Government in Labor Disputes (New York: 1932)

· Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore, eds. The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999)

· Bruno Ramirez, When Workers Fight: The Politics of Industrial Relations in the Progressive Era, 1898-1916 (Westport, CN, 1978)

· Jerry M. Cooper, The Army and Civil Disorder: Federal Military Intervention in Labor Disputes, 1870-1900 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980)

· Colin J. Davis, Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen’s Strike (University of Illinois Press, 1997)

· Link to exhibit on The Flint Sit-Down Strike

· Richard A. Brisbin, Jr. A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2002).

· Deepa Kumar, Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike (U of Illinois Press, 2007).

· Robert Michael Smith, From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking in the United States (Ohio University Press, 2003)

· Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America (U of North Carolina Press, 2002)

Regional, State and Local

· George Gorham Groat, Trade Unions and the Law in New York: A Study of Some Legal Phases of Labor Organizations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1903)

· Ronald Mendel, "A Broad and Ennobling Spirit:” Workers and Their Unions in Late Gilded Age New York and Brooklyn, 1886-1898 (Greenwood Press, 2003)

· Doris B. McLaughlin, Michigan Labor: A Brief History from 1818 to the Present (Ann Arbor: Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, 1970)

· Steven J. Ross, Workers on the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788-1890 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985)

· Eugene Staley, History of the Illinois State Federation of Labor (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1930)

· Richard Schneirov, Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-1897 (University of Illinois Press, 1998)

· Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (Cambridge, 1990)

· Susan Eleanor Hirsch, After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman (U of Illinois Press, 2003).

· David Thelen, Paths of Resistance: Tradition and Democracy in Industrializing Missouri (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986)

· Melton McLaurin. The Knights of Labor in the South (Greenwood Press, 1978).

· Robert Zieger. Organized Labor in the Twentieth Century South (U of Tennessee Press, 1991) and Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995 (U of Tennessee Press, 1997)

· Gary Fink and Merl Reed, eds. Essays in Southern Labor History (Greenwood, 1977)

· Gerald Friedman, "The Political Economy of Early Southern Unionism: Race, Politics, and Labor in the South, 1880-1953" Journal of Economic History 60:2 (June 2000), 384-413

· Ray Marshall, Labor in the South (Harvard UP, 1967)

· Ira B. Cross, History of the Labor Movement in California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1935)

· Neil Larry Shumsky, The Evolution of Political Protest and the Workingmen's Party of California (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991)

· Philip Taft, Labor Politics American Style: The California State Federation of Labor (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968)

· Robert Edward Lee Knight, Industrial Relations in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1900-1918 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960)

Individual Unions and Labor Leaders

· Hyman Weintraub, Andrew Furuseth: Emancipator of the Seamen, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959)

· Mark Perlman, The Machinists: A New Study in American Trade Unionism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962)

· Grace Palladino, Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History (IRL/Cornell UP, 2005)

· Walter Galenson, The United Brotherhood of Carpenters: The First Hundred Years (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983)

· Daniel Letwin, The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998)