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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES

George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive, University of Maryland

Illinois Blue Books, Illinois State Library

Illinois AFL-CIO Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

Reuben Soderstrom Papers, Soderstrom Family Personal Collection


NEWSPAPERS

Alton Evening Telegraph (Alton, Illinois)

Belvidere Daily Republican (Belvidere, Illinois)

Carbondale Daily Free Press (Carbondale, Illinois)

Champaign-Urbana Courier (Champaign, Illinois)

Chicago American (Chicago, Illinois)

Chicago Herald (Chicago, Illinois)

Chicago News (Chicago, Illinois)

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois)

Chicago Sun-Times (Chicago, Illinois)

Daily Chronicle (De Kalb, Illinois)

Daily Independent (Murphysboro, Illinois)

Daily Register (Harrisburg, Illinois)

Decatur Daily Review (Decatur, Illinois)

Decatur Herald (Decatur, Illinois)

Dixon Evening Telegraph (Dixon, Illinois)

Edwardsville Intelligencer (Edwardsville, Illinois)

Federation News (Chicago, Illinois)

Federationist (Chicago, Illinois)

Freeport Journal-Standard (Freeport, Illinois)

Galesburg Labor News (Galesburg, Illinois)

Illinois AFL-CIO Weekly News Letter (Chicago, Illinois)

Illinois State Federation of Labor Weekly News Letter (Chicago, Illinois)

Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois)

Jacksonville Daily Journal (Jacksonville, Illinois)

Labor Temple News (Peoria, Illinois)

LaSalle County Labor News (Joliet, Illinois)

Mattoon Journal-Gazette (Mattoon, Illinois)

Mount Vernon Register-News (Mount Vernon, Illinois)

Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois)

Peoria Journal Star (Peoria, Illinois)

Peoria Labor Gazette (Peoria, Illinois)

Southern Illinoisan (Carbondale, Illinois)

State Journal-Register (Springfield, Illinois)

Sterling Daily Gazette (Sterling, Illinois)

Streator Daily Free Press (Streator, Illinois)

Streator Daily Independent Times (Streator, Illinois)

Streator Daily Times-Press (Streator, Illinois)

Suburbanite Economist (Chicago, Illinois)

The Unionist (Chicago, Illinois)


BOOKS

Adalyn E. Tiffany, Pat Breen, Jean Kline, Scot Wrighton, Brian Blasco, Francis Kmetz, Jane Hart, et al. 1993. Streator, Illinois: 1868-1993. Streator, Illinois: Streatorland Quasqui-Centennial Commemorative Book Committee.

Akenson, Donald Harman. 2011. Ireland, Sweden, and the Great European Migration, 1815-1914. McGill-Queen’s Press - MQUP.

American Blacksmith and Motor Shop. 1901. Buffalo, New York: American Blacksmith Company. 

American Foreign Relations: Volume 2: Since 1895. 2014. 8th edition. Wadsworth Publishing.

American Printer and Lithographer. 1898. Pinckney, Michigan: Moore Publishing Company.

Angle, Paula. 1962. Biography in Black: A History of Streator, Illinois. Streator, Illinois: Weber Company.

Annuaire. 1940. Chicago, Illinois: Viatorian General Direction. 

Arnesen, Eric. 2007. Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History. New York, New York: Routledge.

Aronowitz, Stanley, and Jonathan Cutler, eds. 1998. Post-Work: The Wages of Cybernation. New York, New York: Routledge.

Astrom, Catarina Lundgren. 2003. Swedish Christmas in America. Stockholm, Sweden: Bokforlaget Arena.

Auerbach, Jerold, ed. 1969. American Labor: The Twentieth Century. Indianapolis: Macmillan General Reference.

Bailey, Lonce H., and Jerome M. Mileur. 2015. In Defense of the Founders Republic: Critics of Direct Democracy in the Progressive Era. New York, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Barton, H. Arnold. 2000. Letters From The Promised Land: Swedes in America, 1840-1914. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Univ of Minnesota Press.

Barton, Hildor Arnold. 1994. A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840-1940. Carbondale, Illinois: SIU Press.

Bernstein, Peter L. 2005. The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.

Blanck, Dag. 2006. The Creation of An Ethnic Identity: Being Swedish in the Augustana Synod, 1860-1917. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press.

Bluemer, R. G. 2008. Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime? Granville, Ill: Grand Village Press.

Blumer, R.G. 2008. Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime? Granville, Illinois: Grand Village Press.

Books, Time Life. 1975. This Fabulous Century: 1940 - 1950. New York, New York: Time Life Books.

———. 1985. This Fabulous Century, 1930-1940. New York: Time-Life Books Inc.

Bowen, Ezra. 1996. Good Old Days - America In The 40s & 50s. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-life Books.

Boyle, Kevin. 1998. The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 

Bradizza, Luigi. 2013. Richard T. Ely’s Critique of Capitalism. New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Brandon, Rodney Howe, and William S. Gray. 1920. Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Illinois Convened January 6, 1920. 5 v. Springfield: Illinois state journal co.

Bureau of Statistics, Under the Direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 1912. Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1911. Vol. 34. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. 

Burns, Joe. 2014. Strike Back: Using the Militant Tactics of Labor’s Past to Reignite Public Sector Unionism Today. New York, New York: ig Publishing.

Burrough, Bryan. 2010. The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes. New York, New York: Penguin.

Callan, Jim. 2005. America in the 1900s and 1910s. New York, New York: Facts on File, Inc.

Carew, Anthony. 1987. Labour Under the Marshall Plan: The Politics of Productivity and the Marketing of Management Science. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press.

Carnes, Mark C., and Clyde Griffen. 1990. Meanings for Manhood. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.

Caro, Robert A. 2012. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Clark, Claudia. 1997. Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935. 1 edition. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.

Cleave, Egbert. 1875. City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County: Taken from Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopaedia of the State of Ohio. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Cleave Egbert.

Cohen, Andrew Wender. 2004. The Racketeer’s Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940. Cambridge University Press.

Cohen, Lizabeth. 2008. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press. 

Colby, Gerard. 2014. Du Pont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain. Edited by Mark Crispin Miller. 1st edition. Open Road Media.

Commodities, United States Select Committee on Wages and Prices of, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Joseph Forney Johnston. 1910. Report of the Select Committee on Wages and Prices of Commodities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Company, Johnson Publishing. 1969. Jet. Johnson Publishing Company.

Cornfield, Daniel B. 1987. Workers, Managers, and Technological Change: Emerging Patterns of Labor Relations. New York, New York: Plenum Press.

Crafts, Nicholas, and Peter Fearon. 2013. The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cutler, Jonathan, and Stanley Aronowitz. 1998. “Quitting Time: An Introduction.” In Post-Work: The Wages of Cybernation. New York, New York: Routledge.

Davis, Barbara J. 2007. The National Grape Boycott: A Victory for Farmworkers. North Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone.

Dennis, Michael. 2010. The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial Democracy. New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Derber, Milton. 1987. A Brief History of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. Champaign, Illinois: Instititute of Labor and Industrial Relations.

———. 1989. Labor in Illinois: The Affluent Years, 1945-80. University of Illinois Press.

Donald, Aida. 2008. Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt. New York, New York: Basic Books.

Doren, Charles Lincoln Van, and Robert McHenry, eds. 1971. Webster’s Guide to American History: A Chronological, Geographical, and Biographical Survey and Compendium. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster.

Dray, Phillip. 2010. There Is Power in a Union. First Edition. New York, New York: Doubleday.

Dubofsky, Melvyn, and Warren Van Tine. 1986. John L. Lewis: A Biography. Abridged edition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Dyja, Thomas L. 2013. The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream. New York, New York: Penguin Books.

Executive Board. 1969. “Youth in Revolt.” In Report, 33. Chicago, Illinois: Illinois AFL-CIO.

Fogelson, R.M. 1978. “Unionism Comes to Policing.” In Police Accountability Performance Measures and Unionism, by Richard C Larson. New York, New York: Lexington Books. 

Galenson, Walter. 1960. The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1935-1941. First Edition edition. Harvard University Press.

———. 1983. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters: The First Hundred Years. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Gilman, Rhoda. 1989. The Story of Minnesota’s Past. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society Press.

Goldberg, Arthur J. 1956. AFL-CIO Labor United. New York, New York: McGraw Hill Book Co.

Goldstein, Robert Justin. 2001. Political Repression in Modern America from 1870 to 1976. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.

Gompers, Samuel. 1984. 70 Years of Life and Labor. Ithaca, New York: Industrial and Labor Relations Press, New York School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.

Green. 2000. Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915–1945: 1915-1945. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.

Green, Harvey. 1993. The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915-1945. New York, New York: Harper Perennial.

Green, Max. 1996. Epitaph for American Labor: How Union Leaders Lost Touch with America. Washington D.C.: American Enterprise Institute.

Guinchard, Axel Johan Josef. 1914. Sweden: Historical and Statistical Handbook, by Order of the Swedish Government. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Hindman, Hugh D. 2002. Child Labor: An American History. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe.

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957. 1960. Washington D.C.: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 

Hobbs, Sandy, Jim McKechnie, and Michael Lavalette. 1999. Child Labor: A World History Companion. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.

Hodgson, Olga R. 1974. Reuben G. Soderstrom. Kankakee, Illinois: Olga R. Soderstrom.

Hoffman, Dennis E. 2010. Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders: Chicago’s Private War Against Capone. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press.

Hofstadter, Richard, ed. 1955. The Age of Reform. New York, New York: Vintage.

———. , ed. 1986. The Progressive Movement: 1900-1915. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Hofstadter, Richard, and Beatrice Hofstadter, eds. 1982. Great Issues in American History, Vol. III: From Reconstruction to the Present Day, 1864-1981. New York, New York: Vintage Books.

Honeywell, Alice. 1995. La Follette and His Legacy. Madison, Wisconsin: Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs. Hoobler, Dorothy, and Thomas Hoobler. 1997. The Scandinavian American Family Album. New York, New York: Oxford University Press.

Howells, John M., and Marion Dearman. 1996. Tramp Printers. Pacific Grove, California: Discovery Press.

Hughes, Edward J., ed. 1934. Official Vote of the State of Illinois Cast at the Primary Election Held on April 10, 1934. Springfield: The State of Illinois. 

Hunnicutt, Benjamin Kline. 1996. Kellogg’s Six-Hour Day. Temple University Press.

Illinois AFL-CIO Executive Board. 1969. Executive Board Report. Chicago, Illinois: Illinois AFL-CIO.

J.E. Williams, ed. 1912. The Story of Streator. Streator, Illinois: M. Meehan and The Independent-Times.

Jelen, Ted G., Mark J. Rozell, and Michael Shally-Jensen. 2015. American Political Culture: An Encyclopedia [3 Volumes]: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.

Jones, William P. 2013. The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 

Keefe, Rose. 2003. Guns and Roses: The Untold Story of Dean O’Banion, Chicago’s Big Shot Before Al Capone. Cumberland House Publishing.

———. 2005. The Man Who Got Away: The Bugs Moran Story: A Biography. Cumberland House Publishing.

Kersten, Andrew E. 2009. Labor’s Home Front: The American Federation of Labor During World War II. New York, New York: NYU Press.

Kersten, Andrew Edmund. 2000. Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.

Kett, H.F., & co., Chicago. 1877. The Past & Present of La Salle County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County. Chicago, Illinois: H. F. Kett & Co. King, Martin Luther. 1994. Letter from the Birmingham Jail. San Francisco, California: Harper.

Kraft, Betsy Harvey. 2003. Theodore Roosevelt: Champion of the American Spirit. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Lears, Jackson. 2010. Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920. New York: Harper Perennial.

Lebergott, Stanley. 1966. Labor Force and Employment, 1800–1960. NBER Book Chapter Series, no. c1567. Cambridge, Massachusetts: National Bureau of Economic Research. Levine, Marvin J. 2003. Children for Hire: The Perils of Child Labor in the United States. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Lintelman, Joy K. 2009. I Go to America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson. Minnesota Historical Society.

Lipset, S.M., Martin Trow, and James Coleman. 1956. Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union. Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press.

Locomotive Engineers Journal. 1922. Cleveland, Ohio: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

Luff, Jennifer. 2014. Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars. Reprint edition. Place of publication not identified: The University of North Carolina Press.

Masters, Charles J. 2007. Governor Henry Horner, Chicago Politics, and the Great Depression. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press.

McCartney, John. 1992. Black Power Ideologies: An Essay in African-American Political Thought. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press.

McCullough, David. 2003. Truman. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster.

Miller, Nathan. 2004. New World Coming: The 1920s And The Making Of Modern America. 1st edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press.

Moran, William. 2002. The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove. New York, New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Mueller, Dennis C. 2012. The Oxford Handbook of Capitalism. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Myrdal, Janken, and Mats Morell. 2011. The Agrarian History of Sweden: From 4000 BC to AD 2000. Nordic Academic Press.

Ness, Immanuel. 1998. Trade Unions and the Betrayal of the Unemployed: Labor Conflicts During the 1990s. New York, New York: Garland Publishing.

Ness, Immanuel, and Stuart Eimer, eds. 2015. Central Labor Councils and the Revival of American Unionism: Organizing for Justice in Our Communities. New York, New York: Routledge.

Neumuller, Anders. 2009. God Jul: A Swedish Christmas. New York, New York: Skyhorse Publishing.

Newton-Matza, Mitchell. 2013. Intelligent and Honest Radicals: The Chicago Federation of Labor and the Politics of Progression. New York, New York: Lexington Books.

Official Vote of the State of Illinois Cast at the General Election of November 7, 1944. 1945. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Printing Company.

Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G. 2005. Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. Paperback. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Pastorello, Karen. 2008. A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.

Patterson, Robert P., and Robert Morgenthau. 2014. Arming the Nation for War: Mobilization, Supply, and the American War Effort in World War II. 1st Edition edition. Knoxville: Univ Tennessee Press.

The Roosevelt I Knew. Reprint edition. New York, New York: Penguin Classics.

Peskin, Allan. 1978. Garfield: A Biography. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press.

Phelan, Craig. 1989. William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader. New York, New York: SUNY Press.

Piott, Steven L. 2006. American Reformers, 1870-1920: Progressives in Word and Deed. New York, New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

Power, John Carroll. 1871. History of Springfield Illinois. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State 

Randall, Frank A., and John Randall. 1999. The History of Development of Building Construction in Chicago. 2nd ed. edition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Rayback, Joseph G. 1959. History of American Labor. New York, New York: The Macmillan Company.

Rentzhog, Sten. 1996. “Tidernas Kyrka.” In Jämten. Vol. 1997 (90), s. 22–32. Jämten Östersund: Jamtli/Jämtlands läns museum, 1906-.

Report of the Committee of the Senate Upon the Relations Between Labor and Capital and Testimony Taken by the Committee. 1885. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Rieser, Andrew Chamberlin. 2012. The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism, 1874-1920. Columbia University Press.

Rodgers, Daniel T. 2009. The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.

Saltzman, Gregory. 1988. “Public Sector Bargaining Laws Really Matter: Evidence from Ohio and Illinois.” In When Public Sector Workers Unionize, by Richard Freeman and Casey Ichniowski. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. 

Sami, Gholamreza. 2011. Ragged Individualism: America in the Political Drama of the 1930s. Bloomington, IN: Author House.

Schlesinger, Arthur Meier. 2003. The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-1936, the Age of Roosevelt, Volume III. New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Scobbie, Irene. 2010. The A to Z of Sweden. USA: Scarecrow Press.

Scott, Franklin Daniel. 1988. Sweden, the Nation’s History. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press.

Scott Nearing, Ph.D. 1911. Wages in the United States. New York, New York: The Macmillan Company. 

Self, Robert O. 2013. All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. New York, New York: Hill and Wang.

Sinyai, Clayton. 2006. Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.

Soderstrom, Reuben. 1968. “A Salute to Streator.” In Streator Centennial Historical Program. Streator, Illinois: City of Streator, Illinois.

Spargo, John. 1906. The Bitter Cry of the Children. New York, New York: Macmillan.

Stadler, Frances Hurd. 1989. St. Louis Day by Day. St. Louis, Missouri: Patrice Press.

Sullivan, Mark. 1930. Our Times: The United States 1900-1925: Part III, Pre-War America. Charles Scribner’s Sons.

Taft, Philip. 1959. The A.F. of L.: From the Death of Gompers to the Merger. New York, New York: Harper & Brothers.

The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events. 1862. 14 v. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 

The Carpenter. 1911. Vol. 31. Indianapolis, Indiana: Provisional Committee, Carpenters and Joiners’ National Union. The Literary Digest. 1910. Vol. 40. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

The State Board of Commissioners of Labor. 1910. Report on the Cherry Mine Disaster. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Journal Co. 

Thurber, Timothy N. 1999. The Politics of Equality: Hubert H. Humphrey and the African American Freedom Struggle. New York, New York: Columbia University Press. 

Tintori, Karen. 2003. Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster. New York: Atria Books.

Todd, Lewis Paul, and Merle Eugene Curti. 1982. Rise of the American Nation: 1865 to the Present. San Diego, California: Harcourt.

Unknown. 1845a. “Susan Miller.” In Mind Amongst the Spindles: A Selection from the Lowell Offering. London, England: Charles Knight & Co. 

———. 1845b. “The Fig Tree.” In Mind Amongst the Spindles: A Selection from the Lowell Offering. London, England: Charles Knight & Co. 

Uys, Errol Lincoln. 2014. Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression. New York, New York: Routledge.

Wagner, David. 2005. The Poorhouse: America’s Forgotten Institution. Kindle. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Watson, Aldren A. 2000. The Blacksmith: Ironworker and Farrier. New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Woloch, Nancy. 2015. A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s–1990s. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.


ARTICLES

“AFL-CIO Merger Agreement.” 1955. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 9 (1): 122–24. doi:10.2307/2519928.

Ashworth, William. 1969. “‘Referral System’ Trips Talks Between Chicago Blacks, Union.” Jet, August 21.

Clifford F. Thies, and Gary M. Pecquet. 2010. “The Shaping of a Future President’s Economic Thought: Richard T. Ely and Woodrow Wilson at ‘The Hopkins.’” The Independent Review 15 (2): 257–77.

Feurer, Rosemary. 2013. “Mother Jones: A Global History of Struggle and Remembrance, From Cork, Ireland to Illinois.” Illinois Heritage, no. May 2013 (May): 28–33.

Goldfield, Michael. 1993. “Race and the CIO: The Possibilities for Racial Egalitarianism during the 1930s and 1940s.” International Labor and Working-Class History, no. 44: 1–32.

Goldstein, Dana. 2014. “The Tough Lessons of the 1968 Teacher Strikes.” The Nation, October.

Goldstein, Jared. 2014. “The American Liberty League Add The Rise of Constitutional Nationalism.” Temple Law Review 86: 287–330.

Gorn, Elliot. 2001. “Mother Jones: The Woman.” Mother Jones, no. May/June 2001 (May).

Higgs, Robert. 2010. “America’s Depression within a Depression, 1937-39.” The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, November, 31.

Mayer, Robert. 2012. “Loan Sharks, Interest-Rate Caps, and Deregulation.” Washington and Lee Law Review 69 (2): 808–47.

McBride, Francis. 1929. “Enforce Prohibition!” Forum, September.

Mitchell, John. 1903. “Quotations.” Public Policy: A Journal for the Correct Understanding of Public Questions and the Development of Good Citizenship IX (December): 239.

Peck, Mary Gray. 1912. “Victor Olander and the Story of the Lake Seamen.” Life and Labor, January. 

“Protection of Your Health.” 1922. The Painter and Decorator 36 (September). 

Schaffer, Jonathan L. 1986. “The History of Pennsylvania’s Workmen’s Compensation: 1900-1916.” Pennsylvania History 53: 26–55.

“Section 304, Taft-Hartley Act: Validity of Restrictions on Union Political Activity.” 1948. The Yale Law Journal 57 (5): 806–27. doi:10.2307/792976.

Simpson, Bob. 2012. “Black Teachers’ Revolt of the 1960s.” CounterpunchNation, October.

Stiglitz, Joseph, and Linda Bilmes. 2012. “The Book of Jobs.” Vanity Fair, January. 

The Federation Forum. 2009. “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Labor.”

Third Way. 1980. “Jesse Jackson - Face for the Future?,” April.

Thomas, C. 1950. “Negro Workers and the CIO.” Fourth International 11 (3): 75–78.

Zells, Thomas. 2015. “The Post-2008 Lending Environment and the Need for Raising the Credit Union Member Business Lending Cap.” William & Mary Business Law Review 6 (2): 739–


DISSERTATIONS

Alfred H. Kelly. 1940. “A History of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association.” Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago. The University of Chicago Libraries.

Anthony Barger Barrette. 1967. “John H. Walker - Labor Leader of Illinois, 1905-1933.” Charleston, Illinois: Eastern Illinois University. 

Bennett, Dale Lee. 1966. “The Labor Movement of Streator, Illinois, 1868 To 1933.” Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois.

Cini, Carol Frances. 2007. “Making Women’s Rights Matter: Diverse Activists, California’s Commission on the Status of Women, and the Legislative and Social Impact of a Movement, 1962—1976.” Los Angeles, California: University of California. 

Loughran, Miriam E. 1921. “The Historical Development of Child-Labor Legislation in the United States.” Washington, DC: Catholic University of America.


PRESENTATIONS

Andrew Wender Cohen. 1995. “The Transformation of ‘Racketeering,’ 1927-35: Crime, Market Regulation, and the Rise of the New Deal Order.” presented at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, November.

Fisher, Gordon. 1993. “From Hunter to Orshansky: An Overview of (Unofficial) Poverty Lines in the United States from 1904 to 1965 — SUMMARY.” presented at the Fifteenth Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, October 28. Lincoln, Abraham. 1860. “Presidential Address.” Speech, New Haven, Connecticut, March 6.

Munson, Kim. 2009a. “100 Years Hand-in-Hand: An Analysis of the AFL-CIO Handshake Symbol.” San Francisco, California. 

———. 2009b. “Signs of Unity: Stories of the American Union Label Movement.” presented at the AFL-CIO National Convention, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 12. 

The National WWII Museum. 2016. “We Can Do It! Propaganda Posters Emphasizing War Production.” Online Poster Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana. 


INTERVIEWS

Brockmeier, Reverend John S. 1974. Interview by Barbara Herndon. Special Collections. University of Illinois Archives. 

Davis, Rennie. 1970. Testimony, US v David T. Delliger, Rennard C. Davis, Thomas E. Hayden, Abbott H. Hoffman, Jerry C. Rubin, Lee Weiner, John R. Froines, and Bobby G. Seale. Famous Trials, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. 

Gibson, Robert. 2013. Interview by Carl Soderstrom, Chris Stevens, and Cass Burt.

Keenan, Joseph. 1971. Oral History Interview. Harry S. Truman Library. 

Rogers, Taylor, Coby Smith, and Charles Cabbage. 2007. Former Sanitation Worker and Community Organizers Recall the 1968 “I Am a Man” Sanitation Worker Strike & King’s Last Hours in Memphis Interview by Amy Goodman. Democracy Now! 

Soderstrom, Carl Sr. 2008. Interview by Chris Stevens and Dr. Carl Soderstrom Jr.

Soderstrom, Carl Jr. 2016. Interview by Cass Burt. 

Soderstrom, Reuben. 1958. Interview by Milton Derber.


FILM / TELEVISION

CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. 1968. CBS. 

Chicago 1968. 1995. Documentary, History. PBS.

Grubin, David. 1998. America 1900: The Dangers of Mining. Documentary. WGBH Educational Foundation. 

Langer, Carole. 1987. Radium City. Video Documentary. Carole Langer Productions.

Mail by Rail. 1993. Smithsonian Institution, National Postal Museum. 

Smith, Prichard. 2016. The Invaders. Documentary. Pipeline Entertainment. 


ONLINE / DIGITAL 

Beitler, Stu. 2015. “Royalton, IL Gas Explosion In Coal Mine, Oct 1914.” GenDisasters.com: Events That Touched Our Ancestors’ Lives. November 22. http://www3.gendisasters.com/illinois/5451/royalton-il-gas-explosion-in-coal-mine-oct-1914.

Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2017. “Graph of U.S. Unemployment Rate, 1930-1945.” HERB: Resources for Teachers. Accessed March 11. https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1510.

“Bureau of Labor Statistics Data.” 2016. United States Department of Labor. September 16. http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNU04000000?years_option=all_years&periods_option=specific_periods&periods=Annual+Data.

Center for History and New Media. n.d. “Zotero Quick Start Guide.” http://zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide.

“Child Labor.” 2015. The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Online. October 23. http://nbk.grolier.com/ncpage?tn=/encyc/article.html&id=a2005380-h&type=0ta.

“Col. Plumb, In The Library And Beyond.” 2015. Tribunedigital-Chicagotribune. October 28. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-04-26/features/9804260097_1_plumb-coal-20th-president.

DigitalNetExpress. 2002. “Railway Post Office Cars Distribute Mail.” Rails West. http://www.railswest.com/rpo.html.

dsteffen. 2009. “How Regulation Came To Be: The Cherry Mine Disaster - Part II.” Daily Kos. May 10. https://elections.dailykos.com/app/ticker.

“Ellis Island History - The Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island.” 2015. October 22. http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/ellis-island-history.

Evans, Nicholas J. 2015. “Journeys.” October 22. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish/journeys/journeys.htm#.

“Fed U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1862-2013.” 2015. Scribd. November 20. https://www.scribd.com/doc/190499803/Fed-U-S-Federal-Individual-Income-Tax-Rates-History-1862-2013.

Gary Richardson, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. 2014. “The Great Depression.” Federal Reserve History. April 2. http://www.federalreservehistory.org/Period/Essay/10.

group, Victor Orchestra-- Musical, Ernest R. Ball-- composer, George Graff-- lyricist, and Wilfred Glenn-- bass vocal. 1912. “Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold.” Sound recording. December 24. http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/recordings/detail/id/2995/.

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