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 | "If the Workers Took a Notion": The Right to Strike and American Political Development ISBN: 9781501727528 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Industrial relations -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Strikes and lockouts -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Political culture -- United State -- History -- 20th century; Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Lab; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Class by Herself ISBN: 9781400866366 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women''s Studies.; LAW / Legal History.; LAW / Labor & Employment.; LAW / Gender & the Law.; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.; Sex discrimination in employment; Women; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics, and Labor ISBN: 9780252095122 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Labor -- United States -- History; Labor unions -- United States -- History; Working class -- United States -- History; Capitalism -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Democracy That Works: How Working-Class Power Defines Liberal Democracy in the United States ISBN: 9781003322474 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Social Science Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Humanities; Politics & International Relations; U.S. Politics; History; Political Philosophy; Public Administration & Management; Political Behavior and Participation; Economic History; Labor History; Conservatism; Democracy; Liberalism; Public Policy; Social Movements; American Political Economy; American Political Development; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937 ISBN: 9781400863570 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: JUDICIAL REVIEW -- UNITED STATES -- HISTORY; JUDICIAL POWER -- UNITED STATES -- HISTORY; TRADE-UNIONS -- LAW AND LEGISLATION -- UNITED STATES -- HISTORY; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Piece of the Action: Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood ISBN: 9780231551014 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans in motion pictures; Race in motion pictures; Race relations in motion pictures; African Americans in the motion picture industry; Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South ISBN: 9780813048376 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Florida Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States; Reconstruction (U.S. history 1865–1877); Slavery -- United States -- History; African Americans -- History -- 1863–1877; African Americans -- History -- 1877–1964; United States -- Race relations; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism ISBN: 9780252099311 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Labor -- United States -- History; Industrial relations -- United States -- History; Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism ISBN: 9780814763674 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Clothing trade -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Collective bargaining -- Clothing industry -- United States; Jewish labor unions -- United States -- History; Working class -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Jews; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry ISBN: 9780801458378 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Industries -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Eugenics -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Alien labor -- United States -- History; Women -- Employment -- United States -- History; Minorities -- Employment -- United States -- Histor; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture ISBN: 9780813555058 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Labor unions -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Cold War; Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | 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 | |
 | American Railroad Labor and the Genesis of the New Deal, 1919-1935 ISBN: 9780813042954 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Florida Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Railroads -- United States -- Employees -- History -- 20th century; Railroads -- Employees -- Legal status laws etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Working; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941 ISBN: 9781400859450 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Trade-unions -- Rubber industry workers -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Trade-unions -- United States -- Organizing -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | American Workers, American Unions ISBN: 9781421413440 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Johns Hopkins University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.; HISTORY / United States / General.; Employees; Employees; Labor unions; Labor unions; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Baseball's Power Shift: How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture ISBN: 9780803288065 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Baseball players -- Labor unions -- United States -- History; Major League Baseball -- Players Association -- History; Collective bargaining -- Baseball -- United States; Baseball -- Economic aspects -- United States; Baseball -- United States -- History; ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Between a River and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War ISBN: 9780472025794 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: AFL-CIO -- History; Labor movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Vietnamese Conflict 1961–1975; Labor movement -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Beyond the Rebel Girl ISBN: 9780870719400 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Oregon State University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR WA).; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women''s Studies.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.; Women; Women; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party ISBN: 9781400837267 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Labor policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century; Democratic Party; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico ISBN: 9781469603391 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Migrant agricultural laborers -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Mexicans -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Migrant labor -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Transnationalism; United States -- Emigration; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Broken Promise: The Subversion Of U.S. Labor Relations ISBN: 9781439903704 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Labor policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Industrial relations -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Labor laws and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor ISBN: 9781501723568 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: RCA Corporation -- History; Electronics industry workers -- United States -- History; RCA Corporation -- Employees -- History; Business relocation; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Chicago Labor and the Quest for a Democratic Diplomacy, 1914-1924 ISBN: 9781501744648 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Trade-unions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; Labor movement -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; Pressure groups -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; Gompers Samuel 1850–1924; United States -- Foreign relat; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Child Labor in America: The Epic Legal Struggle to Protect Children ISBN: 9780700626328 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kansas Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Child labor -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History; Child labor -- United States -- History; ■ 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 | |
 | Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies ISBN: 9781592136292 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Labor movement -- West Indies British -- History; West Indies British -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements; United States -- Foreign relations -- West Indies British; West Indies British -- Foreign relations -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies ISBN: 9781592136292 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: 20th Century; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Latin American and Caribbean History; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Common Sense and a Little Fire, Second Edition: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 ISBN: 9781469635934 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Women in the labor movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Working-class women -- United States -- Political activity; Jewish women -- United States -- Political activity; Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Competition in the Promised Land ISBN: 9781400882977 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: HISTORY / Social History.; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.; African Americans; African Americans; Rural-urban migration; Migration Int; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets ISBN: 9781400882977 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century; Migration Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Rural-urban migration -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; Afric; ■ 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 | |
 | Congressional Committee Chairmen: Three Who Made an Evolution ISBN: 9780813159058 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor -- History; Barden Graham Arthur 1896-1967; Powell Adam Clayton 1908-1984; Perkins Carl Dewey 1912-1984; Legislators -- United States -- Biography; United States. Congress. House. Comm; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers ISBN: 9780520909670 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Labor and laboring classes -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Trade-unions -- United States -- History -- 20 century; Labor disputes -- United States -- Case studies; Class consciousnesss -- United States -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness ISBN: 9780812208771 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Hours of labor -- United States -- History; Shift systems -- United States -- History; Men -- Employment -- United States; Men -- United States -- Attitudes; Sleep deprivation -- Health aspects -- United States; Sleep deprivation -- Social aspects -- Unit; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Daughters of the Shtetl ISBN: 9780801497599 Platform/Publisher: ACLS / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time Subjects: Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- United States -- History.; Jewish women -- Europe Eastern -- Social conditions.; Women clothing workers -- United States -- History.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation ISBN: 9781501741999 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Women clothing workers -- United States -- History; Women Jewish -- Europe Eastern -- Social conditions; Women Jewish -- United States -- Social conditions; Jews East European -- United States -- Social conditions; Women immigrants -- United States --; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Disaster Citizenship ISBN: 9780252097942 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.; Power (Social sciences); Solidarity; Working class; Working class; Halifax Explosion Halifax N.S. 1917.; Fires; Disaster r; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson ISBN: 9780813171487 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Animators -- Labor unions -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Fighting for Total Person Unionism: Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and Working-Class Citizenship ISBN: 9780252097607 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Gibbons Harold J; Calloway Ernest; International Brotherhood of Teamsters Chauffeurs Stablemen and Helpers of America; Labor leaders -- United States -- Biography; Working class -- United States -- History; Equality -- United States -- History; Labor; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 ISBN: 9780813146638 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African-Americans -- Employment -- History; Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History; African American labor union members -- United States -- History; Labor unions -- United States -- History; Race discrimination -- United States -- Histo; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Forging a Laboring Race: The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination ISBN: 9781479864959 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964; African Americans -- Employment -- History -- 20th century; Working class African Americans -- History -- 20th century; Labor -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Industrialization -- United States -- His; ■ 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 | |
 | From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend : A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States ISBN: 9781595588562 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / The New Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Business/ Management; Economics; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend : An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States ISBN: 9781620974490 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / New Press, The Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Business/ Management; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement ISBN: 9780520953666 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chavez Cesar 1927–1993; United Farm Workers -- History; Labor leaders -- United States -- Biography; Migrant agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia ISBN: 9780252050503 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Political Science ; History; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia ISBN: 9780252050503 Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Economic History; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Give Us Bread but Give Us Roses: Working Women's Consciousness in the United States, 1890 to the First World War ISBN: 9780203103517 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Humanities & Media Arts Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Humanities; Social Sciences; History; Sociology & Social Policy; American History; Modern History 1750-1945; Women''s & Gender History; Social & Cultural History; Labor History; Gender Studies; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Hidden in the Heartland: The New Wave of Immigrants and the Challenge to America ISBN: 9781609171322 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Michigan State University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Migrant labor -- United States -- History -- 21st century; Human rights -- United States -- History -- 21st century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Horace Greeley's "New York Tribune": 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 |