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Books are listed alphabetically by author's name:
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| Berg, Janine, ed. | Labour Markets, Institutions and Inequality: Building Just Societies in the 21st Century | Edward Elgar Publishing | 2015 | 294 pages |
| Bender, Daniel E. and Jana K. Lipman | Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism | New York University | 2015 | 284 pages |
| Blitz, Brad K. | Migration and Freedom: Mobility, Citizenship and Exclusion | Edward Elgar Publishing | 2014 | 215 pages |
| Bonds, Eric | Social Problems: A Human Rights Perspective | Routledge | 2015 | 94 pages |
| Bowen, William M., ed. | The Road Through the Rust Belt: From Preeminence to Decline to Prosperity | W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research | 2014 | 329 pages |
| Brennan, Denise | Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States | Duke University Press | 2014 | 304 pages |
| Burns, Joe | Strike Back: Using the Militant Tactics of Labor's Past to Reignite Public Sector Unionism Today | Ig Publishing | 2014 | 208 pages |
| Cahuc, Pierre, Stephane Carcillo and Andre Zylberberg | Labor Economics, second edition | The MIT Press | 2014 | 368 pages |
| Caraway, Teri L.; Maria Lorena Cook; Stephen Crowley, eds. | Working Through the Past: Labor and Authoritarian Legacies in Comparative Literature | Cornell University Press | 2015 | 296 pages |
| Carnes, Matthew | Continuity Despite Change: The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America | Stanford University Press | 2014 | 238 pages |
| Chan, Anita | Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective | Cornell University Press | 2015 | 296 pages |
| Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel; Dan Brooks; Martin Mulloy | Inside the Ford-UAW Transformation: Pivotal Events in Valuing Work and Delivering Results | The MIT Press | 2015 | 408 pages |
| de Leon, Cedric | The Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago | Cornell University Press | 2015 | 184 pages |
| Drinot, Paulo and Alan Knight, eds. | The Great Depression Latin America | Duke University Press | 2014 | 343 pages |
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| Fones-Wolf, Elizabeith and Ken Fones-Wolf | Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie | University of Illinois Press | 2015 | 288 pages |
| Frolich, Markus; David Kaplan; Carmen Pages; Jamele Rigolini; David Robalino, eds. | Social Insurance, Informality, and Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers While Creating Good Jobs | Oxford University Press | 2014 | 507 pages |
| Garwood, Shae; Sky Croeser; and Christalla Yakinthou, Eds. | Lessons for Social Change in the Global Economy: Voices from the Field | Rowman & Littlefield | 2014 | 170 pages |
| Goods, Caleb | Greening Auto Jobs: A Critical Analysis of the Green Job Situation | Rowman & Littlefield | 2014 | 247 pages |
| Gottlieb, Liz | We Are One: Stories of Life, Love and Work, 2 volume set | Hard Ball Press | 2015 | 380 total |
| Hamalainen, Timo J. and Juliet Michaelson, Eds. | Well-being and Beyond: Broadening the Public and Policy Discourse | Edward Elgar Publishing | 2014 | 343 pages |
| Hobson, Barbera, Ed. | Worklife Balance: The Agency and Capabilities Gap | Oxford University Press | 2014 | 285 pages |
| Houseman, Susan N. and Michael Mandel, eds. | Measuring Globalization: Better Trade Statistics for Better Policy, 2 volume set | W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research | 2015 | 645 total |
| Huws, Ursula | Labor in the Global Digital Economy | Monthly Review Press | 2014 | 208 pages |
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| Kasmir, Sharryn and August Carbonella, eds. | Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor | Berghahn Books | 2014 | 306 pages |
| Klandersman, Bert and Cornelis van Stralen, eds. | Movements in Times of Democratic Transition | Temple University Press | 2015 | 382 pages |
| Kramer, Jacob | The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Violence | Temple University Press | 2015 | 236 pages |
| Leadbeater, David | Resouces, Empire and Labour: Crises, Lessons and Alternatives | Fernwood Publishing | 2014 | 400 pages |
| Loomis, Erik | Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe | The New Press | 2015 | 256 pages |
| Lordon, Frederic | Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire | Verso | 2014 | 162 pages |
| Lynd, Staughton | Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below, 2nd Edition | PM Press | 2015 | 128 pages |
| Mack, Adam | Sensing Chicago: Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers | University of Illinois Press | 2015 | 184 pages |
| Majic, Samantha | Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2014 | 216 pages |
| McQuillan, Lawrence J. | California Dreaming: Lessons on How to REsolve America's Public Pension Crisis | Independet Institute | 2015 | 130 pages |
| Miller, Karen R. | Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit | New York University Press | 2014 | 352 pages |
| Moody, Kim | In Solidarity: Essays on Working-class Organization in the United States | Haymarket Books | 2014 | 382 pages |
| Mutari, Ellen and Deborah M. Figart | Just One More Hand: Life in the Casino Economy | Rowman & Littlefield | 2015 | 250 pages |
| Ordonez, Juan Thomas | Jornalero: Being a Day Laborer in the USA | University of California Press | 2015 | 280 pages |
| Osborne, Elizabeth A. and Christine Woodworth | Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor | Southern Illinois University Press | 2015 | 264 pages |
| Oyelere, Michael A. | The Impact of Political Action on Labour Movement Strength: Trade Union Revitalisation in Africa | Palgrave Macmillan | 2014 | 207 pages |
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| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | Length |
| Pawel, Miriam |
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography |
Bloomsbury | 2014 | 550 pages |
| Poblete, Joanna |
Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i |
University of Illinois Press | 2014 | 227 pages |
| Prins, Nomi |
All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power |
Perseus Books Group | 2014 | 544 pages |
| Quigley, Fran | If We Can Win Here: The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement | Cornell University Press | 2015 | 224 pages |
| Rathzel, Nora, Diana Mulinari, and Aina Tollefsen |
Transnational Corporations from the Standpoint of Workers |
Palgrave Macmillian | 2014 | 300 pages |
| Razzu, Giovanni, ed. |
Gender Inequality in the Labour Market in the UK |
Oxford University Press | 2014 | 147 pages |
| Reed, T.V. |
Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left |
University of Washington Press | 2014 | 233 pages |
| Reshef, Yonatan and Charles Keim | Bad Time Stories: Government-Union Conflicts and the Rhetoric of Legitimation Strategies | University of Toronto Press | 2014 | 222 pages |
| Sass, Steven A. | Privatizing Railroad Retirement | W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research | 2015 | 109 pages |
| Sheard, Timothy, ed. | With Our Loving Hands: 1199 Nursing Home Workers Tell Their Story | Hard Ball Press | 2014 | 144 pages |
| Showden, Carisa R. and Samantha Majic, Eds. | Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism | University of Minnesota Press | 2014 | 376 pages |
| Smith, Andrew and Dimitry Anastakis, eds. | Smart Globalization: The Canadian Business and Economic History Experience | University of Toronto Press | 2014 | 230 pages |
| Sczpanski, Marek and John A. Turner, Eds. | Social Security and Pension Reform: International Perspectives | W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research | 2014 | 345 pages |
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| Washington, Haydn | Demystifying Sustainability: Towards Real Solutions | Routledge | 2015 | 211 pages |
| Wilkinson, Adrian; Jimmy Donaghey; Tony Dundon; and Richard B. Freeman, Eds. | Handbook of Research on Employee Voice | Edward Elgar Publishing | 2014 | 487 pages |
| Willcocks, Leslie P., and Mary C. Lacity | The Economics of Outsourcing | Edward Elgar Publishing | 2014 | 788 pages |
| Zimmermann, Klaus F. and Alexander S. Kritikos | Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics: The IZA World of Labor Guide | Bloomsbury | 2015 | 237 pages |