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Aldrich, Mark. "Preventing the Needless Peril of the Coal Mine: The Bureau of Mines
  and the Campaign Against Coal Mine Explosions, 1910-1940." Technology and Culture 36 (1995): 483-518.
  Hutchins Library Bound Periodicals Periodical T
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Bailey, Kenneth R. "Grim Visaged Men and the West Virginia National Guard in the
  1912-13 Paint and Cabin Creek Strike." West Virginia History 41 (1980): 111-125.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 W521
  Link to abstract

Bailey, Kenneth R. "A Judicious Mixture: Negroes and Immigrants in the West Virginia
  Virginia Mines, 1880-1917." West Virginia History 34 (1973): 141-161.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 W521
  Link to abstract

Banks, Alan. "Coal Miners and Firebrick Workers: The Structure of Work Relations in
  Two Eastern Kentucky Communities." Appalachian Journal 11 (1983-1984): 85-102.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 A6453
  Link to abstract

Banks, Alan. "The Emergence of a Capitalistic Labor Market in Eastern Kentucky."
  Appalachian Journal 7 (1980): 188-199.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 A6453
  Link to abstract

Banks, Alan. "Miners Talk Back: Labor Activists in Southeastern Kentucky in 1922."
  Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes: Back Talk from an American Region. Ed. Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman, and Katherine Ledford. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1999. 215-227.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 306.097 C748
  Special Collections & Archives Berea Collection 306.097 C748
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 306.097 C748

Barkey, Fred A. "Socialist Influence in the West Virginia State Federation of Labor:
  The John Nugent Case." West Virginia History 38 (1977): 275-290.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 W521
  Link to abstract

Bethel, Thomas N. The Hurricane Creek Massacre. New York: Harper, 1972.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 622.8 B562h
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 622.8 B562h

Black, Kate. "The Roving Picket Movement and the Appalachian Committee for Full
  Employment, 1959-1965: A Narrative." Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 2 (1990): 110-127.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 975 A6462c

Boal, William M. "Estimates of Unionism in West Virginia Coal, 1900-1935." Labor
  History 35 (1994): 429-441.
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Brattain, Michelle. "Making Friends and Enemies: Textile Workers and Political
  Action in Post World War II Georgia." Journal of Southern History 63 (1997): 91-138.
  Hutchins Library Bound Periodicals Periodical J
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Brattain, Michelle. "A Town As Small As That: Tallapoosa, Georgia, and Operation
  Operation Dixie, 1945-1950." Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (1997): 395-425.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 975.8 G3525
  Link to abstract

Brisban, Richard A. A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance During
  the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2002.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.892 B859s

Brooks, Gwen. "I Am a Union Woman." Growin’ Up Country. Ed. James R. Alexrod.
  Clintwood, VA: Council of the Southern Mountains, 1973. 221-238.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 917.5 A969g
  Special Collections & Archives Berea Collection 917.5 A969g
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 917.5 A969g

Burran, James A. "Labor Conflict in Urban Appalachia: The Knoxville Streetcar Strike
  of 1919." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 38 (1979): 62-78.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 976.8 T2975
  Link to abstract

Carr, Joe Daniel. "Labor Conflict in the Eastern Kentucky Coal Fields." Filson Club
  Club History Quarterly 42 (1973): 179-192.
  Hutchins Library Bound Periodicals Periodical F
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 976.9 F4892
  Link to abstract

Cole, Merle T. "Martial Law in West Virginia and Major Davis as Emperor of Tug River."
  West Virginia History 43 (1982): 118-144.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 W521
  Link to abstract

Corbin, David Alan. "The Socialist and Labor Star: Strike and Suppression in West
  Virginia, 1912-13." West Virginia History 34 (1973): 168-186.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 W521
  Link to abstract

Corbin, David Alan. Life, Work and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West
  Virginia Miners, 1880-1922. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1981.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 331.7622 C791L
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.7622 C791L

Couto, Richard A. "The Memory of Miners and the Conscience of Capital: Coal Miners'
  Strikes as Free Spaces." Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change. Ed. Stephen L. Fisher. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1993. 165-194.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 307.7209 F471
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 307.7209 F471

Derickson, Alan. "Participative Regulation of Hazardous Working Conditions: Safety
  Committees of the United Mine Workers of America, 1941-1969." Labor Studies Journal (1993): 25-38.
  Link to article

Dickinson, W. Calvin, and Patrick D. Reagan. "Business, Labor, and the Blue Eagle:
  The Harriman Hosiery Mills Strike, 1933-1934." Tennessee Historical Quarterly LV (1996): 240-255.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 976.8 T2975
  Link to abstract

Dix, Keith. What's a Coal Miner to Do: The Mechanization of Coal Mining. Pittsburgh:
  U of Pittsburgh P, 1988.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.25 D619w

Doherty, William T. Jr. "Berkeley's Non-Revolution: Law and Order and the Great
  Railway Strike of 1877." West Virginia History 35 (1974): 271-289.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 W521
  Link to abstract

Fishback, Price V. "An Alternative View of Violence in Labor Disputes in the Early
  1900s: The Bituminous Coal Industry, 1890-1930." Labor History 36 (1995): 426-456.
  Link to article

Fishback, Price V. "Did Coal Miners Owe Their Souls to the Company Store? Theory
  and Evidence from the Early 1900s." Journal of Economic History 46 (1986): 1011-1029.
  Link to article

Fishback, Price V. "Workplace Safety during the Progressive Era: Fatal Accidents
  in Bituminous Coal Mining, 1912-1923." Explorations in Economic History 23 (1986): 269-298.
  Link to abstract
  Interlibrary Loan Request

Flamming, Douglass. Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton,
  Georgia, 1884-1984. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1992.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 338.767 F581c

Fones-Wolf, Ken. "From Craft to Industrial Unionism in the Window-Glass Industry:
 

Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1900-1937." Labor History 37 (1995-1996): 28-49.

  Link to abstract
  Interlibrary Loan Request

Foster, Jim. "Health and Safety versus Profits in the Coal Industry: The Gateway Case
  and Class Struggle." Appalachian Journal 11 (1983-1984): 122-141.
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  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 A6453
  Link to abstract

Fry, Joseph A. "Rayon, Riot, and Repression: The Covington Sit-Down Strike of
  1937." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1976): 3-18.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 V817vm
  Link to abstract

Gartin, Edwin V. "The West Virginia Mine War of 1912-1913: The Progressive
  Response." North Dakota Quarterly 41 (1973): 13-27.
  Link to abstract
  Interlibrary Loan Request

Gorn, Elliot J. Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. New York:
  Hill, 2001.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 331.8809 J78zg
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.8809 J78zg

Graebner, William. Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political
  Economy of Reform. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1976.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 622.8 G734c
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 622.8 G734c

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, et al. Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill
  Mill World. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1987.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 305.967 L727
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 305.967 L727

Harvey, Katherine A. The Best-Dressed Miners: Life and Labor in the Maryland Coal
  Region, 1835-1910. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1969.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 301.444 H341b

Hevener, John W. Which Side Are You On? The Harlan County Coal Miners,
  1931-39. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 331.88 H596w
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.88 H596w

Hopkins, George W. "The Wheeling Convention of the Miners for Democracy: A
  Case Study of Union Reform Politics in Appalachia." Appalachia/America. Ed. Wilson Somerville. Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1981. 6-21.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 975 A6462c
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 975 A6462c

Hume, Brit. Death and the Mines: Rebellion and Murder in the United Mine Workers.
  New York: Grossman, 1971.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 331.881 H921d
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.881 H921d

Hutson, A. C. "The Coal Miners' Insurrections of 1891 in Anderson County,
  Tennessee." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 12 (1935): 103-121.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 976.8 E13p

Hutson, A. C. "The Overthrow of the Convict Lease System in Tennessee." East
  Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 51 (1979): 92-113.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 976.8 E13p

Irons, Janet. Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the
  American South. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2000.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 331.892 I71t
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.892 I71t

Jones, James B. "Class Consciousness and Worker Solidarity in Urban
  Tennessee: The Chattanooga's Carmen's Strikes of 1898-1917." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 52 (1993): 98-112.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 976.8 T2975
  Link to abstract

LaLone, Mary B., ed. Appalachian Coal Mining Memories: Life in the Coal Fields
  of Virginia's New River Valley. Blacksburg, VA: Pocahontas, 1997.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.762 A646

Laslett, John H. M., ed. The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial
  Solidarity? University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1996.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.881 U582

Latimer, Melissa. “A Contexual Analysis of the Effects of Gender and Place on
  Workers’ Incomes.” Sociological Spectrum 20 (2000): 345-356.
  Interlibrary Loan Request

Laurie, Clayton D. "The United States Army and the Return to Normalcy in Labor
  Dispute Interventions: The Case of the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars, 1920-1921." West Virginia History 50 (1991): 1-24.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 W521
  Link to abstract

Lunt, Richard D. Law and Order vs. the Miners: West Virginia, 1907-1933. Hamden, CT:
  Archon, 1979.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.881 L964L

Mayer, Henry C. "Glimpses of Union Activity Among Coal Miners in Nineteenth-
  Century Eastern Kentucky." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 86 (1988): 216-229.
  Hutchins Library Bound Periodicals Periodical R
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 976.9 K377r
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McDonald, Joseph A. "Union Attitudes and Class Consciousness: The Case of the
  Tufted Textile Industry." Appalachian Journal 9 (1981): 37-49.
  Hutchins Library Bound Periodicals Periodical A
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 A6453
  Link to abstract

Mencken, F. Carson. “Right-To-Work Laws and Local Economic Growth: Recent
  Evidence from Appalachia.” Sociological Focus 33 (2000): 79-94.
  Interlibrary Loan Request

Minchin, Timothy J. “Color Means Something: Black Pioneers, White Resistance
  and Interracial Unionism in the Southern Textile Industry, 1957-1980.” Labor History 39 (1998): 109-133.
  Link to article

Minchin, Timothy J. “Permanent Replacements, and the Breakdown of the 'Social
  Accord’ in Calera, Alabama, 1974-1999.” Labor History 42 (2001): 371-396.
  Link to article

Minchin, Timothy J. What Do We Need a Union For? The TWUA in the South,
  1945-1955. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.881 M663w
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Mooney, Jack. Printers in Appalachia: The International Printing Pressmen and
  Assistants' Union of North America, 1907-1967. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State UP, 1993.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 686.209 M818p

Patton, Randall L. "Textile Organizing in a Sunbelt Community: Northwest Georgia's
  Carpet Industry in the Early 1960s." Labor History 29 (1998): 291-310.
  Interlibrary Loan Request

Patton, Randall J. "A World of Opportunity . . . Within the Tufting Empire? Labor
  Relations in North Georgia's Carpet Industry, 1960-1975." Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (1997): 426-451.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 975.8 G3525
  Link to abstract

Puckett, Anita. Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia.
  New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 306.097 P977s

Rakes, Paul H. “Casualties on the Homefront: Scotts Run Mining Disasters During
  World War II." West Virginia History 53 (1994): 95-118.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 W521
  Link to abstract

Robertson, Thomas J., and Ronald L. Lewis. "Conflict at Coal River Collieries: The
  UMWA vs. the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers." West Virginia History 52 (1993): 73-90.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 W521
  Link to abstract

Salmond, John A. The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama.
  Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2002.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 331.892 S172ge
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.892 S172ge
  Link to eBook

Savage, Lon. Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21.
  Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1990.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.893 S264t

Seltzer, Curtis. Fire in the Hole: Miners and Managers in the American Coal Industry.
  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1985.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 331.762 S468f
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.762 S468f

Shapiro, Karin A. A New South Rebellion: The Battle Against Convict Labor in
  the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1998.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 331.51 S529n
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.51 S529n
  Link to eBook

Shifflett, Crandall A. Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of
  Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1991.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 974 S555c
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 974 S555c

Simon, Bryant. A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands,
  1910-1948. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1998.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 305.967 S594f
  Link to eBook

Simson, William. “Parades Amid the Standoff in the Old Red Scar: Interpreting
  Film Images of Striking Industrial Operatives in the East Tennessee Copper Basin, 1939-1940.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 7 (2001): 227-255.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 975 A6462cj

Sprague, Stuart S. "Unionization Struggles on Paint and Cabin Creeks, 1912-
  1913." West Virginia History 38 (1977): 185-213.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 W521
  Link to abstract

Straw, Richard A. "The Collapse of Biracial Unionism: The Alabama Coal Strike
  of 1908." Blacks in Appalachia. Ed. William H. Turner and Edward J. Cabbell. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1985. 183-198.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 974.00496 B631
  Special Collections & Archives Berea Collection 974.00496 B631
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 974.00496 B631

Supina, Philip D. "Herndon J. Evans and the Harlan County Coal Strike." Filson
  Club History Quarterly 56 (1982): 318-335.
  Hutchins Library Bound Periodicals Periodical F
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 976.9 F4892
  Link to abstract

Urwin, Cathy K. "The Coal Strike of 1943." West Virginia History 45 (1984): 91-107.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 W521
  Link to abstract

Waldrep, George Calvin. Southern Workers and the Search for Community:
  Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2000.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.767 W167s

Ward, Robert David and William Warren Rogers. Convicts, Coal, and the Banner
  Mine Tragedy. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1987.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 365.65 W262c
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 365.65 W262c

Ward, Robert David and William Warren Rogers. Labor Revolt in Alabama: The
  Great Strike of 1894. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1965.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 331.89 W262L

Weiler, Stephan. "The Economics of the Struggling Structurally Unemployed."
  Journal of Appalachian Studies 3 (1997): 71-97.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 975 A6462cj

Weiler, Stephan. “Industrial Structure and Unemployment in Regional Labor Markets."
  Industrial Relations 39 (2000): 336-359.
  Link to article

Wheeler, Hoyt N. "Mountaineer Mine Wars: An Analysis of the West Virginia
  Mine Wars of 1912-1913 and 1920-1921." Business History Review 50 (1976): 69-91.
  Link to article