Mary Anderson

• Woman at Work: the Autobiography of Mary Anderson, as told to Mary N. Winslow, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1951.

Joseph A. Beirne

• Beirne, Joseph A. Challenge to labor: new roles for American trade unions. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1969] 224 p.
• Beirne, Joseph A. Communism is a criminal conspiracy: statement of Joseph A. Beirne, Pres. of Communications Workers of America-CIO, to the task force of the Senate Sub-committee on Internal Security. [n.p., 1954?] 15 p.
• Beirne, Joseph A. Company paternalism today. [Washington: Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, 1957] 15 p.
• Beirne, Joseph A. Delegate selection : a report to the Democratic Party Commission on Delegate Selection and Party Structure. [Washington: The Commission, 1973] 36 p.
• Beirne, Joseph A. The job revolution in telephones. [Washington] Communications Workers of America, [1957?] 9 p.
• Beirne, Joseph A. Labor views collective bargaining. [Washington: Communication Workers of America, CIO, 1952?] 22 p.
• Beirne, Joseph A. Labor's priorities for the Americas in the seventies: an address by Joseph A. Beirne delivered at graduation ceremonies for the IV Labor Economists Training Program of the American Institute for Free Labor Development, Tuesday, September 29, 1970, Georgetown University, Washington, [Washington. AIFLD, 1970?] 16 p.
• Beirne, Joseph A. New horizons for American labor. Washington: Public Affairs Press, [1962] 89 p.
• Beirne, Joseph A. Novos horizontes paro o trçabalhismo Americano. Rio de Janeiro: Editãora Lidador, [c1962, 1964] 102 p.
• Beirne, Joseph A. Report on PTT trade union educational activities. Brussels : [s.n.], 1966.
• Beirne, Joseph A. Reto a la clase obrera : polâitica y desarrollo del movimiento obrero norteamericano. Mâexico: Editores Asociados, 1972. 187 p.
• Beirne, Joseph A. Union's role in helping productivity [microform] [Washington]: Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, [1958] 13 p.
• Beirne, Joseph A. Wages as a factor in inflation [microform]. [Washington]: Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, [1959?] 9, [1] p.
• Beirne, Joseph A. Why we welcome automation. [Washington: Communications Workers of America, Education Dept., 1959?] 11 p.
• Brooks, Thomas R. Communications Workers of America: the story of a union. New York : Mason/Charter, 1977. xiii, 257 p.
• Communications Workers of America. The communications worker and the economy : prepared for CWA 1960 Collective Bargaining Policy Committee. Washington, Communications Workers of America, 1960. 30, [1] p.
• Miller, Jeffery M., ed. CWA at fifty: a pictorial history of the Communications Workers of America, 1938-1988. Washington: Communications Workers of America, 1988. 64 p.
• Lovinger, King Frederick. Role of Communication Workers of America Union public relations in the 1968 nationwide telephone strike. 1971. iii, 115 leaves Thesis (M.A.) — The American University, 1971
• United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations. Labor-management relations in the Bell Telephone System: hearings before the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, second session, on labor management relations in the Bell Telephone System, August 10 ... September 12, 1950. Washington, D.C. : U.S. GPO, 1950. iv, 1015 p.

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Cesar Chavez

• Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa, by Jacques E. Levy, Norton, New York, 1975.
• Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement, by Susan Ferriss and Ricardo Sandoval, (Companion to the PBS documentary), Harcourt & Brace, San Diego, 1997.Cesar Chavez: a Triumph of Spirit, by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 1995. Conquering Goliath: Cesar Chavez at the Beginning, by Fred Ross, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1989.

Cyrus S. Ching

• Review and Reflection: a Half Century of Labor Relations, by Cyrus S. Ching, B.C. Forbes, New York, 1953.
• "Cyrus S. Ching: Pioneer in Industrial Peacemaking," by A.H. Raskin, in The Monthly Labor Review, August 1989.

John R. Commons

• Myself, an Autobiography, by John R. Commons, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1964.
• "John R. Commons: Pioneer in Labor Economics," by Jack Barbash, in The Monthly Labor Review, May, 1989.

Eugene V. Debs

• Eugene V. Debs: Citizen & Socialist, by Nick Salvatore, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1984.
• The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs, by Ray Ginger, Russell & Russell, New York, 1949.
• "Eugene V. Debs: An American Paradox," by Robert Constantine in The Monthly Labor Review, August, 1991.
• Ideology of the Socialist Party: 1901-1917, by Anthony Esposito, Garland Publishing, New York, 1997.

David Dubinsky

• David Dubinsky: A Life with Labor, by David Dubinsky and A.H. Raskin, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1997.
• "David Dubinsky: A Life with Social Significance" by Gus Tyler in The Monthly Labor Review, October, 1994.

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Arthur J. Goldberg

• The Defense of Freedom: the Public Papers of Arthur J. Goldberg, edited by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Harper & Row, New York, 1966.
• A Private View of a Public Life, by Dorothy Kurgans Goldberg, Charterhouse, New York, 1975.
• Arthur Goldberg: New Deal Liberal, by David Stebenne, Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.
• "Arthur Goldberg: Proof of the American Dream" by Edward Shills in The Monthly Labor Review, January, 1997.

Samuel Gompers

• Seventy Years of Life and Labor: An Autobiography, by Samuel Gompers, introduction by Nick Salvatore; Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1984.
• Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor: 1848-1896, by Stuart Kaufman, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1973.
• Samuel Gompers: Leader of American Labor, by Will Chasen, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1971.
• "Samuel Gompers: a Half-Century in Labor's Front Rank," by Irwin Yellowitz in The Monthly Labor Review, July, 1989.

William Green

• William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader, by Craig Phelan, SUNY Press, New York, 1989.
• See also: Bibliographic Holdings of the Wirtz Labor Library on Willaim Green.

Sidney Hillman

• Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor,by Steven Fraser,Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1993.
• Sidney Hillman: Statesman of American Labor, by Mathew Josephson, Doubleday, New York, 1952.

Mother (Mary Harris) Jones

• The Autobiography of Mother Jones, ed. By Mary Field Parton, Forward by Clarence Darrow, Illinois Labor History Society, Chicago, 1972
• Mother Jones: Labor Crusader, by Joan Hawxhurst, Gallin House Press, Austin, Texas, 1992
• Mother Jones, The Miners' Angel, by Dale Fetherling, Southern Illinois Univ. Press, Carbondale, Illinois, 1979.

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Henry J. Kaiser

• Henry J. Kaiser: American Empire Builder, by Albert P. Heiner, P. Lang, New York, 1989.
• Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West, by Mark Foster, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1989.

John L. Lewis

• John L. Lewis: Labor Leader, by Robert Zieger, in Twayne's 20th Century American Biography Series #20, Macmillan, New York, 1994.
• John L. Lewis: A Biography, by Melvyn Dubofsky & Warren Van Tine, Quadrangle Books, New York, 1977.
• John L. Lewis: An Unauthorized Biography, by Saul D. Alinsky, Putnam's & Sons, New York, 1949.
• United We Stand: The United Mine Workers of America, 1890-1990, by Maier Fox, UMWA, Washington, 1990.

George Meany

• "George Meany and His Times," by Archie Robinson, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1981.
• Meany, by Joseph Goulden, Atheneum, New York, 1972.

James P. Mitchell

• "James P. Mitchell," in Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement #7, Scribners, 1981.
• "James Mitchell: Social Conscience of the Cabinet," By Henry P. Guzda in The Monthly Labor Review, August, 1991.

David A. Morse

• The Origin and Evolution of the ILO and Its Role in the World Community, by David A. Morse, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1969.

Philip Murray

• Philip Murray and the Subordination of the Industrial Unions to the U.S. Government," by Ronald Schatz in Labor Leaders in America, edited by Melvyn Dubofsky, University of Illinois Press, Champaign, 1987.
• Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC & the United Steelworkers, edited by Paul F. Clark, Peter Gottleib and Donald Kennedy, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1987.
• And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry, by John Hoerr, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988.

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Frances Perkins

• Madame Secretary, Frances Perkins, by George Martin, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1976.
• Frances Perkins: That Woman in FDR's Cabinet!, by Lillian Mohr, North River Press, Croton on the Hudson, NY, 1979.
• "Frances Perkins, Isador Lubin, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics," by Joseph P. Goldberg, in The Monthly Labor Review, April, 1980.
• "Frances Perkins Interest in a New Deal for Blacks," by Henry P. Guzda, in The Monthly Labor Review, April, 1980.
• "Frances Perkins and the Flowering of Socioeconomic Policies," by Gordon Berg, in The Monthly Labor Review, June, 1989.

***In 1980, a ceremony led by President Jimmy Carter and Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall commemorated the U.S. Department of Labor building in honor of Frances Perkins. Scrapbooks with articles, pamphlets, and photos are in the Historian's Office in the DOL Library.

Terence V. Powderly

• Thirty Years of Labor, 1859–1889 by Terence V. Powderly, Augustus M. Kelley, New York, 1967.
• Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor, by Craig Phelan, Greenwood Press, Ct. 2000.
• Path 1 Trod, by Terence Powderly, AMS Press, New York, 1940. (Out of Print)
• Terence V. Powderly, Middle Class reformer, by Vincent J. Falzone, University Press, Washington, c1978. (Out of Print).

A. Philip Randolph

• Mr. Black Labor: The Story of A. Philip Randolph, by Daniel S. Davis, with an introduction by Bayard Rustin, E.P. Dutton, 1972.
• A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait, by Jervis Anderson, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1974.
• A. Philip Randolph: Messenger for the Masses, by Lillie Patterson, Facts on File, New York, 1996.

Walter P. Reuther

• Walter Reuther and the Rise of the Auto Workers, by John Barnard, Little Brown, Boston, 1983.
• The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor, by Nelson Lichtenstein, Basic Books, 1995.
• The Brothers Reuther and the Story of the UAW, by Victor Reuther, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1976.
• Reuther, by Frank Comier & William Eaton, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1970.

George Taylor

• "George Taylor: Industrial Peacemaker," by Edward Shills in The Monthly Labor Review, December, 1995.
• Industrial Peacemaker: Collective Bargaining under George Taylor, by Shills, Gershenfeld, Ingster & Weinberg, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1979.

Robert F. Wagner

• Senator Robert F. Wagner and the Rise of Urban Liberalism, by Joseph Huthmacher, Atheneum, New York, 1968.

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