Labor List

American Labor History 1850-present

Samantha Muka Examiner: Walter Licht

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Century

Political Economy

- Roy, William G. Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America,

Princeton University Press, 1997. - Perrow, Charles. Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism

Princeton University Press, 2002.

- Glickman, Lawrence B. A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer

Society Cornell University Press, 1999.

Management/ Worker Relations

- Chandler, Alfred. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977.

- Jacoby, Sanford M. Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on

American Employers. Columbia University Press, 1991.

- Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and Labor Activism, 1865-1928. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Class Formation - Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American

Bourgeoisie. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

- Blumin, Stuart Mack. The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900. Cambridge University Press, 1989.

- Dawley, Alan. Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn. Harvard University

Press, 1976.

- Haltunen, Karen. Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870. Yale University Press, 1986.

- Johnson, Paul E. A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York,

1815-1837. Hill and Wang, 1978. - Levine, Lawrence. Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Culture Hierarchy in America.

Harvard University Press, 1990.

- Ryan, Mary. Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865. Cambridge University Press, 1991.

- Stansell, Christine. American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century.

Princeton University Press, 2009.

**Stuart M. Blumin. “The Hypothesis of Middle-Class Formation in Nineteenth-Century America: A

Critique and Some Proposals” The American Historical Review, Vol. 90, No. 2 (April, 1985), pp.

299-338.**

Working Class Culture

- Gutman, Herbert. Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America; Essays in American

Working Class History. Vintage, 1977. o Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class. The New Press, 1992.

- Powers, Madeline. Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman’s Saloon, 1870-

1920. University of Chicago Press, 1999. - Roediger, David. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working



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Class. Verso, 1991. - Rogers, Daniel T. The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920. University of Chicago

Press, 1994.

- Rosenweig, Roy. Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1877-1919. Cambridge University Press, 1985.

- Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. University of

Illinois Press, 1992. - Weir, Robert. Beyond Labor’s Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor. Pennsylvania State

University Press, 1996.

- Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class,

1800-1850. Oxford University Press, 1984.

Low wage labor/Unemployment

- Licht, Walter. Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. - Keyssar, Alex. Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts. Cambridge


- Piore, Michael. Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies. Cambridge University Press, 1980.

- Rockman, Seth. Scraping By: Wage Slavery, Labor and Survival in Early Baltimore. The Johns

Hopkins University Press, 2008.

- Way, Peter. Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of the North American Canals, 1780- 1860. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Women and Labor - Blewett, Mary. Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender and Protest in the New England Shoe

Industry, 1780-1910. The University of Illinois Press, 1990.

- Boris, Eileen. Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United

States. Cambridge University Press, 1994. - Boydston, Jeanne. Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early

Republic. Oxford University Press, 1994.

- Cowan, Ruth. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household technology from the open hearth to the microwave. Basic Books, 1983.

- Dublin, Thomas. Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell,

Massachusetts, 1826-1860. Columbia University Press, 1979. - Dudden, Faye. Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth Century America. Wesleyan

Press, 1985.

- Katzman, David. Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America.

Oxford University Press, 1978. - Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework. Henry Holt and Co., 1982.

** Linda K. Kerber. “Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman’s place: The Rhetoric of Women’s

History” The Journal of American History, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Jun., 1988), pp. 9-39.**



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1900-1945 ** Jerry Lee Lembcke. “Labor History’s “Synthesis Debate”: Sociological Interventions” Science &

Society Vol. 59, no. 2 (Summer, 1995) pp. 137-173.**

Political Economy

- Kessler-Harris, Alice. In pursuit of equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship

in 20th Century America. Oxford University Press, 2001.

- Kolko, Gabriel. The Triumph of Conservativism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900- 1916. The Free Press, 1963.

- Hawley, Ellis W. The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly: A Study in Economic

Ambivalence. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1966. - Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939.Cambridge


** “A Symposium on Making a New Deal” Labor History 32 (1991) 562-598.**

Management / Worker Relations

- Benson, Susan Porter. Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940. University of Illinois Press, 1986.

- Braverman, Harry. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth

Century. Monthly Press Review, 1974. - Edwards, Richard. Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in Twentieth

Century America. Basic Books, 1980.

- Jacoby, Sanford M. Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in the 20

th Century. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

- McCartin, Joseph. Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of

Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921. University of North Carolina Press,

1997. - Meyer, Stephen. The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford

Motor Company, 1908-1921. SUNY Press, 1981.

- Nelson, Daniel. A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management since Taylor. Ohio State University Press, 1992.

- Palmer, Phyllis. Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States,

1920-1930. Temple University Press, 1989.

- Zunz, Olivier. Making American Corporate, 1870-1920. The University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Race, Class, and Labor

- Arnesen, Eric Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class and Politics, 1863-1923. Oxford University Press, 1991.

- Ruiz, Vicki. Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women,Unionization, and the California

Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950. University of New Mexico Press, 1997. - Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from

Slavery to the Present. Basic Books, 1985.

- Nelson, Bruce. Divided we Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality.

Princeton University Press, 2001. - Roediger, David R. Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants became White:

The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs. Basic Books, 2005.



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- Sucheng, Chang. This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910. The University of California Press, 1989.

Mixed Gender Occupations - Aron, Cindy. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service: Middle Class Workers in Victorian

America. Oxford University Press, 1987.

- Cooper, Patricia. Once a Cigar Maker: Men, women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919. University of Illinois Press, 1987.

- Davies, Margery. Women’s Place is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers,

1870-1930. Temple University Press, 1982.

- Milkman, Ruth. Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II. University of Illinois Press, 1987.

- Norwood, Stephen. Labor’s Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878-

1923.University of Illinois Press, 1991.

**Elizabeth H. Pleck. “Two Worlds in One: Work and Family” Journal of Social History. Vol. 10, No.

2, 10th Anniversary Issue: Social History Today and Tomorrow? (Winter, 1976), pp. 178-195. **

Women and Labor

- Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and

Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Columbia University Press, 1999. - Goldin, Claudia. Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women.

Oxford University Press, 1990.

- Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. Oxford University Press, 1982.

- Meyerowitz, Joanne. Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930.

University of Chicago Press, 1988.

- Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusement: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Temple University Press, 1986.

- Scharf, Lois. To Work and To Wed: Female Employment, Feminism and the Great Depression.

Greenwood Press, 1985. - Tentler, Leslie. Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States,

1900-1930. Oxford University Press, 1979.

Unionization

- Barry, Kathleen M. Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants. Duke University Press,

2007.

- Cobble, Dorothy Sue. Dishing it Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century. University of Illinois Press, 1992.

- Gabin, Nancy. Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935-

1970. Cornell University Press, 1990. - Greene, Julie. Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Politics, 1881-

1917. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

- Laslett, John. Labor and the Left: A Study of Socialist and Radical Influence in the American Labor Movement, 1881-1924. Basic Books, 1970.

- Zieger, Robert. The CIO, 1935-1955. University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

**Nancy F. Cott. “What’s in a Name? The Limits of ‘Social Feminism;’ or, Expanding the Vocabulary of Women’s History” The Journal of American History, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Dec., 1989), pp. 809-829.**



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1945-present

Political Economy

- Foster, John Bellamy and Fred Magdoff- The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences. Monthly Review Press, 2009.

- Collins, Robert M. More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America. Oxford


- Jacobs, Meg. Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford, 2005.

- Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar

America. Alfred A Knopf: New York, 2003.

Management/ Worker Relations

- Barley, Stephen R. and Julian E. Orr. Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in the U.S. Settings. Cornell University Press, 1997.

- Burawoy, Michael. Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly

Capitalism. University of Chicago Press, 1979.

- Guillen, Mauro F. Models of Management: Work, Authority and Organization in a Comparative Perspective. University of Chicago Press, 1994.

- Jackall, Robert. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers. Oxford University Press,

1988. - Orr, Julien E. Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job

- Whalley, Peter. “Markets, Managers, and Technical Economy” Theory and Society, Vol. 15, No.

½, Special Double Issue: Structures of Capital (Jan., 1986), pp. 223-247.

Women’s Labor

- Chang, Grace. Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy.

Southend Press, 2000. - Ensmenger, Nathan. The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics

of Expertise. MIT Press, 2010.

- Hochschild, Arlie Russell and Barbara Ehrenreich, eds. Global Women: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Henry Holt and Co., 2002.

- Orleck, Annelise. Common Sense and A Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the

United States, 1900-1965. The University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

- Reskin, Barbara and Patricia A. Roos, eds. Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women’s Inroads into Male Occupations. Temple University Press, 1990.

Deindustrialization/Urban Blight - Blewett, Mary. The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell,

Massachusetts, 1910-1960. University of Massachusetts Press, 1990.

- Cowie, Jefferson. Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. The New Press, 2001.

- Cumbler, John. A Social History of Economic Decline: Business, Politics, and Work in Trenton.

Rutgers University Press, 1989.

- Dublin, Thomas and Walter Licht. The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. Cornell University Press, 2005.

- Milkman, Ruth. Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late 20th Century. University of



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California Press, 1997. - Piore, Michael and Charles F. Sabel. The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Posterity.

Basic Books, 1984.

- Surgrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton University Press, 1996.

Unions - Goldfield, Mike. The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States. University of Chicago

Press, 1987.

- Lichtenstein, Nelson. State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. Princeton University

Press, 2002. - Milkman, Ruth. Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary

California. Cornell University Press, 2000.

- Moody, Kim. An Injury to All: The Decline of American Unionism. Verso, 1997. - Waltenburg, Eric. Choosing Where to Fight: Organized Labor and the Modern Regulatory

State, 1947-1987. SUNY press, 2000.

Working Class Culture/ Blue Collar Workers

- Durr, Kenneth D. Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980.

The University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

- Halle, David. America’s Working Man: Work, Home, and Politics among Blue-Collar Property Owners. University of Chicago Press, 1984.

- Newman, Katherine. Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence.

University of California Press, 1988. - Nicolaides, Becky M. My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los

Angeles, 1920-1965. University of Chicago Press, 2002.

- Rubin, Lillian. Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family. Basic Books, 1976.

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