CCSF Library: Labor Studies: Home

Welcome to the Library Research Guide on Labor Studies!

This guide is intended to save you time and effort when doing research for assignments in Labor Studies and Community Services courses.

Use the navigation tabs on the side of this guide to browse through books, article databases, web resources, citation style resources, and tips on effective research.

eBooks about the history of labor, community organizing, unions and activism

A History of America in Ten Strikes

Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States

No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

Rethinking U. S. Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756-2009

We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World

Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe

Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement

Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area

This Is Not a Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education

No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements

All I Want Is a Job!: Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System

In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States

On New Terrain: How Capital Is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War

The One Percent Solution: How Corporations Are Remaking America One State at a Time

Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

Professors in the Gig Economy: Unionizing Adjunct Faculty in America

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s-2000s

The Words of César Chávez

Hard Work Is Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace

Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism

Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia

Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide

Inventing the Pinkertons, Or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs

Benevolent Barons: American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910

A Working People: A History of African American Workers Since Emancipation

A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor

The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History

The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age

Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865

Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness

The Archaeology of American Labor and Working-Class Life

Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States

Work and Labor in Early America

Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945

A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s

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An active RAM ID (student ID number) and RAM ID password is required for off-campus access to CCSF Library subscription resources and databases, including online articles, streaming video, and e-books. When accessing these resources from off-campus, users will be prompted to log in with RAM ID, then will be able to view resources as if they are on-campus.

Email reference is available Monday through Friday during the Fall and Spring semesters. We try to respond within two days.

Chat with the library 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to meet with a librarian for in-depth help with your research.

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