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John A. Salmond (author) - Miss Lucy of the CIO: The Life and Times of Lucy Randolph Mason, 1882-1959 (1988)
https://archive.org/details/misslucyofciolif00salm (Borrowable for 14 days)
John A. Salmond (author) - Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike (1995)
https://archive.org/details/gastonia1929stor0000salm (Borrowable for 14 days)
John A. Salmond (author) - The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama (2002)
https://archive.org/details/generaltextilest00salm (Borrowable for 14 days)
John A. Salmond (author) - Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle (2004)
https://archive.org/details/southernstruggle0000salm (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Bernie Sanders (author) - Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (2017)
https://archive.org/details/ourrevolutionfut0000sand_z4d0 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Bernie Sanders, Huck Gutman - Outsider in the White House (2015)
https://archive.org/details/outsiderinwhiteh0000sand (Borrowable for 14 days)
Alexander Saxton - The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (1971)
https://archive.org/details/indispensableene0000saxt_k0b4 (Borrowable for 14 days)
James D. Schmidt (author) - Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor (2010)
https://archive.org/details/industrialviolen0000schm (Borrowable for 14 days)
Dorothee Schneider - Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900 (1994)
https://archive.org/details/isbn_025202057 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, Nick Salvatore - The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics (1999)
https://archive.org/details/pullmanstrikecri0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Richard Schneirov, Thomas J. Suhrbur - Union Brotherhood, Union Town: The History of the Carpenters' Union of Chicago, 1863-1987 (1988)
https://archive.org/details/unionbrotherhood0000schn (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert Schrank - Wasn't That a Time?: Growing up Radical and Red in America (1998)
https://archive.org/details/wasntthattimegro00schr (Borrowable for 14 days)
George E. Schultze - Strangers in a Foreign Land: The Organizing of Catholic Latinos in the United States (2007)
https://archive.org/details/strangersinforei0000schu (Borrowable for 14 days)
Carlos A. Schwantes - Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917 (1979)
https://archive.org/details/radicalheritagel0000schw (Borrowable for 14 days)
Jack Scott (author) - Sweat and Struggle: Working Class Struggles in Canada: Vol. 1: 1789-1899 (1974)
https://archive.org/details/sweatstrugglewor00scot (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Jack Scott (author) - Trade Unions and Imperialism in America: Volume I: Yankee Unions, Go Home!: How the AFL Helped the U.S. Build an Empire in Latin America (1978)
https://archive.org/details/yankeeunionsgoho0001scot (Borrowable for 14 days)
Jack Scott (author) - Trade Unions and Imperialism in America: Volume II: Canadian Workers, American Unions (1978)
https://archive.org/details/canadianworkersa00scot (Borrowable for 14 days)
Douglas P. Seaton - Catholics and Radicals: The Association of Catholic Trade Unionists and the American Labor Movement, from Depression to Cold War (1981)
https://archive.org/details/catholicsradical0000seat (Borrowable for 14 days)
Kerry Segrave (author) -Actors Organize: A History of Union Formation Efforts in America, 1880-1919 (2008)
https://archive.org/details/actorsorganizehi0000segr (Borrowable for 14 days)
Kerry Segrave (author) - Film Actors Organize: Union Formation Efforts in America, 1912-1937 (2009)
https://archive.org/details/filmactorsorgani0000segr (Borrowable for 14 days)
Nigel Anthony Sellars - Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930 (1998)
https://archive.org/details/oilwheatwobblies0000sell (Borrowable for 14 days)
David F. Selvin - Sam Gompers: Labor's Pioneer (1964)
https://archive.org/details/samgomperslabors00davi (Borrowable for 1 hour)
David F. Selvin - Eugene Debs: Rebel, Labor Leader, Prophet (1966)
https://archive.org/details/eugenedebsrebell00selv (Borrowable for 1 hour)
David F. Selvin - Champions of Labor (1967)
https://archive.org/details/championsoflabor00selv (Borrowable for 14 days)
L. Glen Seretan - Daniel DeLeon: The Odyssey of an American Marxist (1979)
https://archive.org/details/danieldeleonodys00sere (Borrowable for 14 days)
Vivian Shalla (editor) - Working in a Global Era: Canadian Perspectives (Second Edition; 2011)
https://archive.org/details/workinginglobale0000unse_t4e0 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
David A. Shannon - The Socialist Party of America: A History (1955)
https://archive.org/details/socialistpartyof0000davi (Borrowable for 1 hour)
David A. Shannon - The Decline of American Communism: A History of the Communist Party of the United States since 1945 (1959)
https://archive.org/details/declineofamerica0000shan (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Randy Shaw (author) - Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century (2008)
https://archive.org/details/beyondfieldscesa0000shaw_p2f2 (Borrowable for 14 days)
George William Shea - Spoiled Silk: The Red Mayor and the Great Paterson Textile Strike (2001)
https://archive.org/details/spoiledsilkredma0000shea (Borrowable for 14 days)
David K. Shipler - The Working Poor: Invisible in America (2005)
https://archive.org/details/workingpoor00davi (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Robert Shogan (author) - The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising (2004)
https://archive.org/details/battleofblairmou00shog (Borrowable for 14 days)
Elliott Shore, Ken Fones-Wolf, James P. Danky - The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850-1940 (1992)
https://archive.org/details/germanamericanra0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Gregg Shotwell - Autoworkers Under the Gun: A Shop-Floor View of the End of the American Dream (2011)
https://archive.org/details/autoworkersunder0000shot (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Beth Shulman (author) - The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families (2005)
https://archive.org/details/betrayalofworkho00shul (Borrowable for 14 days)
A. M. Simons - Class Struggles in America (Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged) (1906)
https://archive.org/details/classstrugglesi00simo (Public domain)
Manisha Sinha - The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016)
https://archive.org/details/slavescausehisto0000sinh (Borrowable for 14 days)
Clayton Sinyai (author) - Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement (2006)
https://archive.org/details/schoolsofdemocra00siny (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert Michael Smith (author) - From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States (2003)
https://archive.org/details/fromblackjacksto0000smit (Borrowable for 14 days)
Sharon Smith - Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (2006)
https://archive.org/details/isbn_2901931859232 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Walker C. Smith - The Everett Massacre: A History of the Class Struggle in the Lumber Industry (1920?)
https://archive.org/details/everettmassacreh00smituoft (Public domain)
Mark Solomon - The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-36 (1998)
https://archive.org/details/crywasunitycommu0000solo (Borrowable for 14 days)
John Spargo (author) - The Bitter Cry of the Children (1906)
https://archive.org/details/bittercryofchild00spar (Public domain)
Eugene Staley - History of the Illinois State Federation of Labor (1930)
https://archive.org/details/historyofillinoi00stal (Shared by publisher)
Joseph R. Starobin - American Communism in Crisis, 1943-1957 (1972)
https://archive.org/details/americancommunis0000star (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert S. Starobin - Industrial Slavery in the Old South (1970)
https://archive.org/details/industrialslaver00star (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Gerald Emanuel Stearn - Gompers (1971)
https://archive.org/details/gompers0000stea (Borrowable for 14 days)
Jason Stein, Patrick Marley - More Than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin (2013)
https://archive.org/details/morethantheybarg0000stei_y7v1 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Leon Stein - Out of the Sweatshop: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy (1977)
https://archive.org/details/outofsweatshopst0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Grace Heilman Stimson - Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles (1955)
https://archive.org/details/riseoflabormovem0000grac (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Benjamin Stolberg - The Story of the CIO (1938)
https://archive.org/details/storyofcio0000benj (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Benjamin Stolberg - Tailor's Progress: The Story of a Famous Union and the Men Who Made It (1944)
https://archive.org/details/tailorsprogresss0000benj (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Ben Stone - Memoirs of a Radical Rank & Filer (1986)
https://archive.org/details/memoirsofradical00stonrich (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Randi Storch - Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-35 (2007)
https://archive.org/details/redchicagoameric0000stor (Borrowable for 14 days)
Mike Stout - Homestead Steel Mill: The Final Ten Years: Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy (2020)
https://archive.org/details/homesteadsteelmi0000stou (Borrowable for 14 days)
David O. Stowell - The Great Strikes of 1877 (2008)
https://archive.org/details/greatstrikesof180000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Richard Steven Street (author) - Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 (2004)
https://archive.org/details/beastsoffieldnar0000stre (Borrowable for 14 days)
Shelton Stromquist - Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century (1993)
https://archive.org/details/solidaritysurviv0000stro (Borrowable for 1 hour)
W. A. Swanberg - Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist (1976)
https://archive.org/details/normanthomaslast00swan (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Philip Taft - The A.F. of L. in the Time of Gompers (1957)
https://archive.org/details/afoflintimeofgom0000taft_m6c3 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Philip Taft - The A. F. of L. From the Death of Gompers to the Merger (1959)
https://archive.org/details/afoflfromdeathof0000taft (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Philip Taft - Organized Labor in American History (1964)
https://archive.org/details/organizedlaborin00phil (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Philip Taft - Labor Politics American Style: The California State Federation of Labor (1968)
https://archive.org/details/laborpoliticsame0000taft (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Philip Taft - United They Teach: The Story of the United Federation of Teachers (1974)
https://archive.org/details/unitedtheyteachs0000taft (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip Taft, Gary M. Fink - Organizing Dixie: Alabama Workers in the Industrial Era (1981)
https://archive.org/details/organizingdixiea0000taft (Borrowable for 14 days)
Vanessa Tait (author) - Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below (2005)
https://archive.org/details/poorworkersunion0000tait (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Stuart Tannock - Youth at Work: The Unionized Fast-food and Grocery Workplace (2001)
https://archive.org/details/youthatworkunion0000tann (Borrowable for 14 days)
Norman Thomas - A Socialist's Faith (1951)
https://archive.org/details/socialistsfaith0000norm (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Charles D. Thompson Jr., Melinda F. Wiggins - The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy (2002)
https://archive.org/details/humancostoffoodf0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Fred Thompson - The I. W. W.: Its First Seventy Years (1905-1975): The History of an Effort to Organize the Working Class (1976)
https://archive.org/details/iwwitsfirstseven0000thom (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Gabriel Thompson (author) - Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do (2010)
https://archive.org/details/isbn_2901568586389 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Florence Calvert Thorne - Samuel Gompers-American Statesman (1957)
https://archive.org/details/samuelgompersame0000flor_w7n9 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Charlotte Todes - Labor and Lumber (1931)
https://archive.org/details/laborlumber0000tode (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Anne Huber Tripp - The I.W.W. and the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 (1987)
https://archive.org/details/iwwpatersonsilks0000trip (Borrowable for 14 days)
Leo Troy - Organized Labor in New Jersey (1965)
https://archive.org/details/organizedlaborin0000troy (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Louis Uchitelle - The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences (2007)
https://archive.org/details/disposableameric0000uchi_t7h0 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Donna L. Van Raaphorst - Union Maids Not Wanted: Organizing Domestic Workers, 1870-1940 (1988)
https://archive.org/details/unionmaidsnotwan0000vanr (Borrowable for 14 days)
Warren Van Tine, C. J. Slanicka, Sandra Jordan, Michael Pierce - In the Workers' Interest: A History of the Ohio AFL-CIO, 1958-1998 (1998)
https://archive.org/details/inworkersinteres0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Zaragosa Vargas (author) - Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America (2005)
https://archive.org/details/laborrightsareci0000varg (Borrowable for 14 days)
David Von Drehle (author) - Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (2003)
https://archive.org/details/trianglefirethat00vond (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Bill Waiser - All Hell Can't Stop Us: The On-to-Ottowa Trek and Regina Riot (2003)
https://archive.org/details/allhellcantstopu0000wais (Borrowable for 14 days)
Louis Waldman - Albany: The Crisis in Government: The History of the Suspension, Trial and Expulsion from the New York State Legislature in 1920 of the Five Socialist Assemblymen by Their Political Opponents (1920)
https://archive.org/details/albanycrisisin00wald (Public domain)
Louis Waldman (author) - Labor Lawyer (1944)
https://archive.org/details/laborlawyer00wald (Borrowable for 1 hour)
G. C. Waldrep III - Southern Workers and the Search for Community: Spartanburg County, South Carolina (2000)
https://archive.org/details/southernworkerss0000wald (Borrowable for 14 days)
Marcia Walker-McWilliams - Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality (2016)
https://archive.org/details/reverendaddiewya0000walk (Borrowable for 14 days)
Norman J. Ware - The Labor Movement in the United States, 1860-1895: A Study in Democracy (1929)
https://archive.org/details/labormovementinu0000norm (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Jim Warren, Kathleen Carlisle (authors) - On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan (2005)
https://archive.org/details/onsideofpeoplehi0000warr (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Alan J. Watt - Farm Workers and the Churches: The Movement in California and Texas (2010)
https://archive.org/details/farmworkerschurc0000watt (Borrowable for 14 days)
John Weber - From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century (2015)
https://archive.org/details/fromsouthtexasto0000webe (Borrowable for 14 days)
Edmund F. Wehrle (author) - Between a River & a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War (2005)
https://archive.org/details/betweenrivermoun0000wehr (Borrowable for 1 hour)
James Weinstein - The Decline of Socialism in America, 1912-1925 (1967)
https://archive.org/details/declineofsociali00weinrich (Borrowable for 1 hour)
James Weinstein - Ambiguous Legacy: The Left in American Politics (1975)
https://archive.org/details/ambiguouslegacyl0000wein (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert E. Weir, James P. Hanlan - Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor: Volume 1: A-O (2004)
https://archive.org/details/historicalencycl0001unse_h1d4 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert E. Weir, James P. Hanlan - Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor: Volume 2: P-Z (2004)
https://archive.org/details/historicalencycl0002unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Vera Buch Weisbord - A Radical Life (1977)
https://archive.org/details/radicallife00weis (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ahmed White - The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America (2016)
https://archive.org/details/lastgreatstrikel0000whit_e2f9 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Charles M. White - The Socialist Labor Party, 1890-1903 (1959)
https://archive.org/details/59-white-socialistlaborparty (Dissertation)
Lynn Williams - One Day Longer: A Memoir (2011)
https://archive.org/details/onedaylongermemo0000will (Borrowable for 14 days)
John Williamson - Dangerous Scot: The Life and Work of an American "Undesirable" (1969)
https://archive.org/details/dangerousscot0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Cal Winslow (author) - Labor's Civil War in California: The NUHW Healthcare Workers' Rebellion (2010)
https://archive.org/details/laborscivilwarin0000wins (Borrowable for 14 days)
Donald E. Winters Jr. - The Soul of the Wobblies: The I.W.W., Religion, and American Culture in the Progressive Era, 1905-1917 (1985)
https://archive.org/details/soulofwobblies00wint (Borrowable for 14 days)
Kenneth C. Wolensky, Nicole H. Wolensky, Robert P. Wolensky (authors) - Fighting for the Union Label: The Women's Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania (2002)
https://archive.org/details/fightingforunion0000wole (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Leon Wolff - Lockout: The Story of the Homestead Strike of 1892: A Study of Violence, Unionism, and the Carnegie Steel Empire (1965)
https://archive.org/details/lockoutstoryofho0000wolf (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Darren Cushman Wood (author) - Blue Collar Jesus: How Christianity Supports Workers' Rights (2004)
https://archive.org/details/bluecollarjesush0000wood (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert H. Woodrum (author) - "Everybody Was Black Down There": Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields (2007)
https://archive.org/details/everybodywasblac0000wood (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Roy T. Wortman - From Syndicalism to Trade Unionism: The IWW in Ohio, 1905-1950 (1985)
https://archive.org/details/fromsyndicalismt0000wort (Borrowable for 14 days)
Michael D. Yates (author) - Why Unions Matter (Second Edition; 2009)
https://archive.org/details/whyunionsmatter02edyate (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Samuel Yellen - American Labor Struggles (1936)
https://archive.org/details/trent_0116301936195 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Robert H. Zieger (author) - Republicans and Labor, 1919-1929 (1969)
https://archive.org/details/republicanslabor0000zieg (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert H. Zieger - John L. Lewis: Labor Leader (1988)
https://archive.org/details/johnllewislaborl00zieg_4 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert H. Zieger (editor) - Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South (1991)
https://archive.org/details/organizedlaborin00robe (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert H. Zieger (author) - The CIO, 1935-1955 (1995)
https://archive.org/details/cio193519550000zieg (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert H. Zieger (editor) - Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995 (1997)
https://archive.org/details/southernlaborint0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert H. Zieger, Gilbert J. Gall - American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century (Third Edition) (2002)
https://archive.org/details/americanworkersa0000zieg (Borrowable for 14 days)
Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, Robin D. G. Kelley - Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (2001)
https://archive.org/details/threestrikesmine0000zinn_c7g3 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Arthur Zipser, Pearl Zipser - Fire and Grace: The Life of Rose Pastor Stokes (1989)
https://archive.org/details/firegracelifeofr0000zips (Borrowable for 14 days)
Growing up I was a small kid living in a run down neighborhood. It was My Father, Brother and I living in the same house my Dad was 46, my brother was 20 and I was 7. Growing up I had this bully who I went to school with. He constantly beat on me because I was smaller than him and I didn’t know how to fight, the bullying also happened when I was outside playing. He would throw rocks at me and always left bruises. One time I decided to play in my back yard instead of my driveway, I was sitting by the fire pit playing with my toys when I heard my fence gate open, I thought it was my dad so I thought nothing. Seconds later I’m hit in the back of the head with a plastic baseball hat and my head gets slammed into the rock-made fire pit. My dog ran after the kid and chomped down on his arm and pulled him to the ground, my nose was covered in blood and I was dizzy from the impact. My dog continued to bite the kid and left him with bite marks all over his legs, arm and torso. The kid is screaming and crying as he runs out the yard with my dog chasing him, she comes back over to me and licks my face. I get up and run inside with my dog to tell my brother. My brother comes outside with my dog and I’m watching through the patio window. My brother was in the army for a short while and he knew how to fight. The boy comes back with his dad, who’s carrying a wood chopping axe and begins yelling at my brother, my brother tried to deescalate the situation but gets jabbed in the stomach with the handle of the axe. My brother catches it after he was hit and headbutt the man in the nose before kicking his kid against the concrete patio. The dad gets back up and tries to hit my brother again, my dog gets behind him and bites him on the ass, he screams and falls, dropping the axe. My brother calls my dog off and begins punching the dad. I was still watching from the house when the dad gets my brother off of him and grabs the axe again. He hits my dog in the head and she yelps, he kept hitting the dog until she was dead. I ran out the door crying and grabbed a rock from the patio and threw it at the dad’ head screaming. He gets pissed and starts walking towards me, my brother grabs a rock from the fireplace and hits him in the spine. The man fell and my brother continued to beat him, I ran inside after that and now all I can tell you is what he told me. Apparently the dad had become paralyzed while my brother was beating him, the neighbors saw what happened and called the police, the kid who had hit me tried to fight my brother and my brother threw the same rock at the kid and it broke one of his ribs. The police arrived later and tased my brother, I was also arrested and they took us to the police station where we were both interrogated in separate rooms. That’s all I can remember, my brother got sentenced to 17 Years in prison.