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History : Labor: Books & eBooks

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for labor history.

Selected eBooks

Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
Purple Power : The History and Global Impact of SEIU
The Seattle General Strike
Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea's Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee
Capitalist Family Values: Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing
Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor
The Root and the Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860
Harry Bridges : Labor Radical, Labor Legend
Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State
Seattle in Coalition: Multiracial Alliances, Labor Politics, and Transnational Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1970–1999
The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement
Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power
Union Renegades: Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age
The Labor Board Crew : Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era
Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation
Rebel Imaginaries: Labor, Culture, and Politics in Depression-Era California
Upon the Altar of Work : Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism
Making Choices, Making Do : Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women During the Great Depression

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History eBook Collections

 Additional collections of eBooks can be found on eBook Collections guide. The following collections have strong history content:

Finding Books Beyond the UW

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Browsing Labor History

The UW Libraries arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. Though labor history is covered in every regional history section (e.g., there may be labor history in the Chinese history call numbers, the American history call numbers, etc.) the major section for labor studies (historical and contemporary) is listed below.

HC10-HC1085 Economic History Allen N. 3
HD4801-HD8943 Labor, Working Classes Allen N. 3


For a more specific breakdown of the call numbers see the Library of Congress Classification Online.

Subjects: History