General Histories and Bibliographies
Dubofsky, Melvyn and Foster Rhea Dulles. Labor in America: A History, 6th edition. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1999.
- General history of labor from Colonial America to the 1990s, with a descriptive bibliography.
Zieger, Robert H. American Workers, American Unions, 2nd edition. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
- General history of twentieth-century labor, with a descriptive bibliography.
Neufeld, Maurice F., Daniel J. Leab, and Dorothy Swanson. American Working Class History: A Representative Bibliography. New York, NY: R.R. Bowker, 1983.
- Bibliography of labor history monographs, articles, dissertations, and other works.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Buhle, Mari Jo, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas, eds. Encyclopedia of the American Left, 2nd edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Encyclopedia of individuals, organizations, events, and ideas of the American Left.
Filippelli, Ronald L., ed. Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia. New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 1990.
- Encyclopedia of strikes, lockouts, boycotts, and other types of labor conflict in the U.S.
Fink, Gary M., ed. Biographical Dictionary of American Labor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
- Biographical sketches of approximately 734 American labor figures.
Fink, Gary M., ed. Labor Unions. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977.
- Historical sketches of more than 200 national unions and labor federations.
Taylor, Paul F. The ABC-CLIO Companion to the American Labor Movement. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1993.
- Encyclopedia of the U.S. labor movement, with a chronology of events.
Union Periodicals
Naas, Bernard G. and Carmelita S. Sakr, comps. American Labor Union Periodicals: A Guide to Their Location. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1956.
- Compilation of major union periodicals and libraries at which they can be located. The most complete collections of union publications are held by the W. Willard Wirtz Library at the United States Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in Madison. University Publications of America has created microfilm collections of some union periodicals: Labor Union Periodicals, Part 1: The Metal Trades, Part 2: The Printing Trades, Part 3: Food and Agricultural Industries.
Archival Collections
Leab, Daniel J. and Philip P. Mason, eds. Labor History Archives in the United States: A Guide for Researching and Teaching. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1992.
- Descriptions of the labor-related holdings of 40 libraries, archives, and historical societies.
Labor Historical Periodicals
Labor History (1962-present)
- Contains a yearly bibliography of labor books and articles.
Labor's Heritage (1989-present)
- Click here for a complete list of back issues.
Other
Bollen, Peter. Great Labor Quotations: Sourcebook and Reader. Los Angeles, CA: Red Eye Press, Inc., 2000.
- A collection of 1371 labor quotations, divided into 17 categories.
