Books in the Working Class in American History series

Explores how unionized wage-earning women led the struggle to place women's employment rights on the national agenda, decisively influencing both the contemporary labor movement and second-wave feminism. This title unravels a complex history of how labor leaders accommodated and resisted working women's demands for change.

A detailed account of labor corruption in the 1930s and the zealous journalist who railed against it

The transformation of slavery and free labour in the Upper South

A study of James P Cannon's early years (1890-1928) that details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era.

A book at the intersection of business, labor, and women's history.

The rise and fall of America's first truly inter-racial labour union

Railroad brotherhoods' dynamic impact on American labor relations and national politics

A cogent analysis of North American trade unions' precipitous decline in recent decades

Mary H. Blewett's award-winning look at the men and women working in the shoe factories of Lynn, Massachusetts, explores the sexual division of labor and gender relationships in the workplace.