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Emmons, David M. The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1873-1925. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

An ethnic and social history of Butte, Montana.

Sanchez, George.  Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

An account of the work and community lives of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles..

Ichioka, Yuji.  The Issei : The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924.  New York: Free Press, 1988.

A detailed social history of first-generation Japanese immigrants.

	Daniels, Roger. The Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement in California, and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.
	Green, James R.. Grass-Roots Socialism: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1978.

A study of the radical responses to the social problems of workers during the first half of the 20th century..

Friday, Chris. Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned Salmon Industry. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.

A fine study of Asian American workers in the Pacific Northwest.

Dubofsky, Melvin. We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World, 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

A history of the IWW.

Lukas, J. Anthony.  Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

A fascinating account of Big Bill Haywood's trial for the murder of Idaho Governor Frank  Steunenberg.

Takaki, Ronald. Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983.

A study of Japanese laborers in Hawaii.

Carlson, Peter. Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1983.

A biography of IWW leader Bill Haywood.

Northern Lights. Directed by John Hanson. 90m. 1979. Videorecording.

Story of pre-World War I North Dakota and the attempt to organize a Nonpartisan League. Available in video stores.

Picture Bride. Directed by Kayo Hatta. 95m. 1994. Videorecording.

Fictionalized account of a Japanese woman who comes to Hawaii as a picture bride in the early 1900s. Available in video stores.

Los Mineros. Narrated by Luis Valdez. 58m. 1991. Videorecording.

Shows and tells the history, spanning nearly fifty years, of the Mexican American miners in the Morenci and Clifton region, Arizona, and their union's battle for non-discriminatory, fair labor practices in the copper industry. A PBS-American Experience production. Available in Knight Library.

Immigration History Research Center

Web page of a Research Center at the University of Minnesota with links to its online databases. http://www1.umn.edu/ihrc/

Famous Trials: Bill Haywood

A webpage that compiles descriptions, photos, timelines, background information, and transcripts for several famous trials, including Bill Haywood's 1907 trial. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

Industrial Workers of the World

The IWW’s home page with many links to other labor-related pages. http://iww.org/

Labor History Bibliography

A detailed list of scholarly work on US labor history, with descriptions. http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/labor/labor-bib.html

Graham, John, ed. "Yours for the Revolution": The Appeal to Reason, 1895-1922. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

Selections from the Appeal to Reason, the leading Socialist newspaper in the United States from 1895-1917, with articles, illustrations, letters, fiction and poetry.

Korman, Gerd, ed. Labor History Documents. Ithaca: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1974.

Includes congressional testimony on labor issues and the writings of Eugene Debs.

National Nonpartisan League. The National Nonpartisan League Debate. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

Reprint of three pamphlets issued to farmers by the League in 1917-19, including the League’s general handbook.

Ramp, Cleveland Floyd. Papers 1874-1973.

Consists of diaries of student days at the University of Oregon, 1905-1909, and his visit to Russia; letters from Leavenworth, journal notes and other documents relating to his arrest, trial and incarceration; general and family correspondence, including that of his father, Benjamin F. Ramp from Alaska, 1897-1898; Socialist and Communist Party materials; speeches; audio tapes of interviews with Ramp; and photographs of Russia. In Special Collections.