Reading list
Required Books:
Eileen Boris and Nelson Lichtenstein (eds.): Major Problems in the History of American Workers, 2nd ed., Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2003 (300 pages, approximately).
Howard Zinn, Dana Frank and Robin D. G. Kelley: Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century, Boston: Beacon Press 2001 (155 pages).
Michael Keith Honey: Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle, Berkeley: University of California Press 1999 (200 pages, approximately).
Leon Fink: The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2003 (200 pages).
Selections on Reserve or in Reader:
Anzia Yezierska: Bread Givers, New York: Doubleday 1925; reprint, New York: Persea Books 1999, pp. 1-34 (34 pages).
Jorunn Bj?rgum: "Traveling on his Trade: Martin Tranm?l's Stay in the United States and the Radicalization of the Norwegian Labor Movement" in Todd W. Nichol (ed.): Interpreting the Promise: Essays in Honor of Odd Sverre Lovoll, Northfield: NAHA 2002, pp. 119-136 (17 pages).
Shelton Stromquist: "The Crucible of Class: Cleveland Politics and the Origins of Municipal Reform in the Progressive Era," in Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (ed.): Who Were the Progressives?, Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's 2002, pp. 141-168 (20 pages).
James Barrett: "Americanization from the Bottom Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working Class in the United States, 1880-1930", Journal of American History 79:3, December 1992, pp. 996-1020 (24 pages).
Lizabeth Cohen: Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, New York: Cambridge University Press 1990, pp. 213-249 (36 pages).
Joshua Freeman: Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II, New York: New Press 2000, pp. 23-39 (16 pages).
Becky M. Nicolaides: My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2002, pp. 215-271 (56 pages).
Cheri Register: Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir, St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society 2000; reprint, New York: HarperCollins 2001, pp. 3-8, 23-44 (26 pages).