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 | American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865 ISBN: 9781469653341 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Lighting -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Lighting -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Lighting -- Economic aspects; Lighting -- Political aspects; Labor -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Slave labor -- History -- 18th cent; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Beyond Hawai''i: Native Labor in the Pacific World ISBN: 9780520967960 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Indigenous labor -- History; Hawaiians -- Pacific Area -- History; Hawaii -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century; Hawaii -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Bread Or Bullets: Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850–1898 ISBN: 9780822971948 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pittsburgh Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Labor movement -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century; Social classes -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century; Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration; Working class -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century; Anarchism -; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction ISBN: 9780252093951 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Labor -- Chicago -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- Chicago -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century; Capitalism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century; Industrialization -- Chicago -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century; Ch; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America ISBN: 9780801458767 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Apprenticeship programs -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Apprenticeship programs -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Indentured servants -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Indentured servants -- United States -- History -- 1; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History ISBN: 9781469607986 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chinese -- Cuba -- History; Chinese -- Cuba -- Ethnic identity; Contract labor -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century; Community development -- Cuba -- History; Cuba -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century; Cuba -- Ethnic relations; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Concepts of Free Labor in Antebellum America ISBN: 9780300241846 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Manual work -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Public opinion; Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Manual work -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Public opinion; Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History --; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Deliver Me from Pain ISBN: 9781421403236 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Johns Hopkins University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Socioeconomic Factors; Labor Pain; Labor Pain; History 20th Century; History 19th Century; Anesthesia Obstetrical; Delivery Obstetric; Delivery Obstetric; Natural childbirth; Childbirth; Anesthesia in obstetrics; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class ISBN: 9780252097386 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Social aspects; Working class -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Labor movement -- United States -- History -- 19th century; ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Freedom''s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction ISBN: 9781469612713 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Forced labor -- California -- History -- 19th century; Slave labor -- California -- History -- 19th century; California -- Social conditions -- 19th century; California -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Slavery -- California -- History -- 19th centu; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865 ISBN: 9781469611082 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Freedmen -- Southern States -- History -- Sources; Freedmen -- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- Sources; African Americans -- History -- 1863–1877 -- Sources; African Americans -- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Sourc; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867 ISBN: 9781469611099 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Freedmen -- Southern States -- History -- Sources; Freedmen -- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- Sources; African Americans -- History -- 1863–1877 -- Sources; African Americans -- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Sourc; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country ISBN: 9780814724958 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Coal miners -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century; Trade unions -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century; Labor movement -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century; Coal mining -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century; Railroads -- Pennsylvania -; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 ISBN: 9780252093562 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Slave labor -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century; Freedmen -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century; Agricultural laborers -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century; Mason-Dixon Line; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South ISBN: 9780820336565 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Knights of Labor; Labor unions -- Southern States -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- Southern States -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century; Farmers -- Southern States -- Political activity -- History -- 19th cent; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Hirelings: African American Workers and Free Labor in Early Maryland ISBN: 9780801460678 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Free African Americans -- Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 18th century; Free African Americans -- Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 19th century; Free African Americans -- Employment -- Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 18th cent; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Horace Greeley''s @quot;New York Tribune@quot;: Civil War-Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor ISBN: 9780801460272 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Greeley Horace 1811–1872; New York tribune; Socialism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783–1865; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Hospital with a Heart: Women Doctors and the Paradox of Separatism at the New England Hospital, 1862-1969 ISBN: 9781501741791 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Women physicians -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women physicians -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American Federation of Labor -- History; New England Hospital for Women and Children -- History; Sex discrimination in medical educ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America ISBN: 9780814748916 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Labor productivity -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Leisure -- United States -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India’s Perspective ISBN: 9781003247463 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / CRC Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Social Sciences; Asian Studies; History; Sociology & Social Policy; South Asian Studies; Modern History 1750-1945; Imperial & Colonial History; Social & Cultural History; Labor History; Race & Ethnic Studies; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States ISBN: 9781400863082 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Trade-unions -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Trade-unions -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century; Labor -- United States -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Labour, Land and Capital in Ghana: From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807-1956 ISBN: 9781580466363 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Ashanti (Kingdom) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Ashanti (Kingdom) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; Land tenure -- Ashanti (Kingdom) -- History -- 19th century; Land tenure -- Ashanti (Kingdom) -- History -- 20th century; Labor -- Ashanti; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America ISBN: 9781469654348 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Labor -- Social aspects -- United States; Employment agencies -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Capitalism -- Social aspects -- United States; United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Muslim Land, Christian Labor: Transforming Ottoman Imperial Subjects into Bulgarian National Citizens, c. 1878-1939 ISBN: 9789633861622 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Central European University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Muslims -- Bulgaria -- Eastern Rumelia -- History -- 19th century; Muslims -- Bulgaria -- Eastern Rumelia -- History -- 20th century; Citizenship -- Bulgaria -- Eastern Rumelia -- History; Christians -- Bulgaria -- Rumelia -- History; Social change -- Bul; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Opium and Empire: Chinese Society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910 ISBN: 9781501746352 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Singapore -- Social conditions; Chinese -- Singapore -- History -- 19th century; Opium trade -- Singapore -- History -- 19th century; Alien labor Chinese -- Singapore -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Particular Condition in Life: Self-Employment and Social Mobility in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario ISBN: 9780773564800 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Social mobility -- Ontario -- Brantford -- History -- 19th century; Brantford (Ont.) -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century; Labor market -- Ontario -- Brantford -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Reforming Urban Labor: Routes to the City, Roots in the Country ISBN: 9780801462405 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban policy -- Belgium -- Brussels -- History -- 19th century; Urban policy -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century; Labor policy -- Belgium -- Brussels -- History -- 19th century; Labor policy -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century; Wor; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Russia''s Factory Children: State, Society, and Law, 1800–1917 ISBN: 9780822973645 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pittsburgh Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Child labor -- Russia -- History -- 19th century; Manufacturing industries -- Employees -- Supply and demand -- Russia -- History -- 19th century; Industrialization -- Russia -- History -- 19th century; Children -- Russia -- Social conditions -- 19th cent; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Social Change and the Labouring Poor: Antwerp, 1770-1860 ISBN: 9780300242065 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Antwerp (Belgium) -- Social conditions; Antwerp (Belgium) -- Economic conditions; Labor and laboring classes -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- History -- 18th century; Labor and laboring classes -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Chartists: The First National Workers Movement ISBN: 9781783711161 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Pluto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chartism; Labor movement -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853–1955 ISBN: 9781684172528 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Industrial relations -- Japan -- History -- 19th century; Industrial relations -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Labor policy -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The German Worker: Working-Class Autobiographies from the Age of Industrialization ISBN: 9780520908499 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Labor and laboring classes -- Germany -- Biography; Labor and laboring classes -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Proletariat -- History; Germany -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Germany -- Social conditions; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The History of Labour Intermediation: Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries ISBN: 9781782385516 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Berghahn Books Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Employment agencies -- History -- 19th century; Employment agencies -- History -- 20th century; Labor -- History -- 19th century; Labor -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Industrialist and the Mountaineer ISBN: 9781943665532 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / West Virginia University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: NATURE / Natural Resources.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.; Trials (Murder); ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age ISBN: 9780252090103 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Labor -- United States -- History; United States -- Social conditions -- 1865–1918; Citizenship -- United States; Democracy -- United Sta; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order ISBN: 9780812292039 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- History -- 1865–1921; Capitalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Capitalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Labor -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Labor -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Gl; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Making of a Periphery: How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor ISBN: 9780231547901 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Foreign workers Southeast Asian -- History; Labor market -- Southeast Asia -- History; Southeast Asia -- Population -- History; Southeast Asia -- Dependency on foreign countries -- History; Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Southeast; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago ISBN: 9780801455889 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Open and closed shop -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century; Labor -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century; Labor movement -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- Political activity -- Illinois -- Chicago -; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction ISBN: 9781501733444 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Social problems in literature; Politics in literature; Labor and laboring classes in literature; Women in literature; Women and literature -- Great Britain; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe: 16th to 19th Century ISBN: 9780429031588 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Humanities; History; European History; Early Modern History 1500-1750; Modern History 1750-1945; History Reference; Social & Cultural History; Labor History; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | The Social Cost of Cheap Food: Labour and the Political Economy of Food Distribution in Britain, 1830–1914 ISBN: 9780773559578 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Food industry and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Food industry and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Labor -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Labor -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Social Question and the Democratic Revolution: Marx and the Legacy of 1848 ISBN: 9780776617244 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Ottawa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Communism -- History; Socialism -- History; Labor movement -- History; Europe -- History -- 1848-1849; Revolutions -- Europe -- History -- 19th century; Marx Karl 1818-1883; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Struggle for America''s Promise ISBN: 9781626740242 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.; Industrial relations; Labor movement; Opportunity; Wealth; Income distribution; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The White Pacific: U.S. Imperalism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War ISBN: 9780824865177 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Slavery -- Oceania -- History; Forced labor -- Oceania -- History; Imperialism; Oceania -- Race relations; United States -- Territories and possessions -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- Hawaii; Hawaii -- Foreign relations -; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Uneasy Allies: Working for Labor Reform in NineteenthCentury Boston ISBN: 9781613760550 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Massachusetts Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Labor policy -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century; Labor movement -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World''s Columbian Exposition in Chicago ISBN: 9781496214867 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Indians of North America -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Indians of North America -- Employment -- History -- 19th century; Indians of North America -- Social conditions -- 19th century; World’s Columbian Exposition (1893: Chicago Ill.) -- Influe; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port ISBN: 9781611174755 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of South Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Stevedores -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century; African American stevedores -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century; Labor -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century; Charleston (S.C.) -- Race rela; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community ISBN: 9780252091698 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- Politics and government -- 1815–1861; Land reform -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century; Labor movement -- United States -- History -- 19th century; So; ■ Detailed Information |