LibGuide: Labor Unions
Labor Unions
On November 15, the Library is hosting renowned folk musician Adam Miller, who will present the program "Folksongs of the American Labor Movement." If you're looking for resources to help you explore the labor movement, you've come to the right place! Contact the Library for database login information or answers to your research questions.
Research Starters
"Labor Unions," Research Starters: Sociology (Online Edition) |
| Photograph shows the annual trade union May Day parade passing the corner of 13th and University Place, New York City. The parade paid special tribute to the victims of the recent Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (March 11, 1911). One sign in Yiddish notes "146" the number of fire victims. By The Library of Congress [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons. |
eBooks
Hard Work Is Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace
On Gender, Labor, and Inequality
Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century
The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America
Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers From the Jazz Age to the New Deal
Fighting for Total Person Unionism: Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and Working-Class Citizenship
Fighting for Total Person Unionism: Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and Working-Class Citizenship
Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class
The Changing Role of Unions: New Forms of Representation : New Forms of Representation
Labor Unions: Opposing Viewpoints
"labor union" and "United States"
"organized labor"
"triangle fire" and strike
"workplace safety" and union
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America
American workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century
Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War IIAmerican workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century
Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Writings of Eugene V. Debs: A Collection of Essays
Writings of Eugene V. Debs: A Collection of Essays
Films
Triangle FireOnline Videos
Databases
Read sources about labor unions from a variety of perspectives on SIRS Issues Researcher.
Read about the rise of organized labor in this subject guide from U.S. History in Context.
Looking for more specific information? Customize your search with the US History Collection database.
To help narrow down your results during your search, use Boolean operators to connect search terms and quotation marks to search for multi-word phrases, like these examples:
Read about the rise of organized labor in this subject guide from U.S. History in Context.
Looking for more specific information? Customize your search with the US History Collection database.
To help narrow down your results during your search, use Boolean operators to connect search terms and quotation marks to search for multi-word phrases, like these examples:
"labor union" and "United States"
"organized labor"
"triangle fire" and strike
"workplace safety" and union
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