Labor Studies

Working Detroit documents the events in the city's ongoing struggle to build an industrial society that is both prosperous and humane.

Sándor Agócs presents an intellectual and social history of the nascent Italian labor movement, exploring the conflicts between the conservative Catholic hierarchy and Catholic activists.

Collects nearly four decades’ worth of writings by Detroit political and labor activist James Boggs.

An exploration of the ideological conflicts and practical experiences of late-nineteenth-century American workers who pursued "cooperation" as an alternative to "competitive" capitalism.

A pioneering collection of studies linking the political and labor backgrounds of two distinguished and dynamic leaders of the Caribbean and the Third World.

In this firsthand account of his native Bladenboro, North Carolina, George G. Suggs, Jr., captures in rich detail the world of a thriving cotton mill town where the company was dominant but workers had forged a strong community.

Which Direction for Organized Labor? addresses critical questions facing the U.S. labor movements as it approaches the twenty-first century.

This book makes available in one source descriptions of most of the major archival collections in the field of labor history at U.S. libraries.

This study is a comprehensive history of these lumbertowns from their inception as frontier settlements to their emergence as reshaped industrial centers.