AMERICAN
WORKING CLASS HISTORY-select list
This is
very uneven, some areas are well-covered, others are sorely in need of update
or organization. Most are books, and organized from most recent to oldest
Key Journals in the field of
labor history
Background for
interpretations of Class/consciousness
Recent Directions in
the field of labor history
Surveys (see also popular
works listing below)
Readers with
primary source documents
Bibliographies and
Archival Information:
Colonial thru
Nineteenth Century
Late 19th, early
20th—see community studies as well
Working Class Culture/Cultures of the
Workplace (see all community studies)
Managerial Strategies/ Bourgeois Class
Formation
1930s/Interwar/CIO interpretations
Labor and the Left/Radicalism/Anticommunism/Cold
War and Labor
Capital Disinvestment, Mobility,
Globalization
Labor and the State/Labor and the Law (American
exceptionalism and the law)
Labor Exceptionalism
(this refers to the question of whether U.S. labor was class conscious, and
how/why labor-state relations are different from other countries)
Bringing Race Back in/Exceptionalism
Biographies
of Workers/Radicals in the Movement/Labor Leaders
Agricultural/Sharecropping/Tenant
Farmers/Migrant Farmworkres
Comparative Labour
History - Preliminary Bibliography
Working-Class Bibliography from the Website for Working
Class Studies http://www.as.ysu.edu/~cwcs/BIB.html
including links to working class and geography lists, and
lots more
Michael Gordon’s Bibliography
on American Labor History since 1865
REFERENCE SOURCES IN
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/resources/
Other websites—reference source material -useful information for researching labor
history
Labor:
Studies in Working Class History of the
International
Labor and Working Class History
Labor
History
Labor's
Heritage
Labour/LeTravail
--because
labor history is now considered an essential part of understanding American
history in general, there are lots of key labor history articles are in the mainstream
journals, such as Journal of American History, American Hist Review; also International
Review of Social History, Journal of American Ethnic History. Thus a
JSTOR search is essential to consider any subject.
Zweig, Michael.
The Working Class Majority:
Jack Metzgar Striking Steel: solidarity remembered
chapter on class consciousness; working in capitalism article
Leon Fink, excerpt on American Labor History, in New
American History
Introduction to Labor Histories by Arnesan, etal
Peter Calvert, The Concept of Class: An Historical
Introduction (NY: St. Martin/s Press, 1982)
Aronowitz, Stanley. False Promises: The Shaping of
American Working Class Consciousness, (1973, 1993).
Berberoglu, Berch. The Legacy of Empire: Economic
Decline and Class Polarization in the
Praeger, 1992.
Zandy, Janet, ed. Liberating Memory: Our Work and Our
Working-Class Consciousness. (1994.)
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Fear of Falling: The Inner Life
of the Middle Class.
Cheri Register, Packinghouse Daughter –musing
about academics and their separation from the working class
Linkon, Sherry Lee and John Russo. Steeltown
Kazin, “Struggling with Class Struggle: Marxism and the
Search for a Synthesis of
Maurice Isserman,
“God Bless Our American Institutions: The Labor History of John R. Commons,” Labor
History
Ira Katznelson “Working Class formation: Constructing
Cases and Comparisons, “ in Working Class formation: Nineteenth Century
Patterns in
Albelda, Randy Pearl and Chris Tilly. Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits:
Women's Work, Women's Poverty. 1997.
Sennett, Richard and Jonathan Cobb. The Hidden
Injuries of Class.
Rubin, Lillian B. Worlds
of Pain: Life in the Working-class Family.