Documenting Labor Inside and Out
Selected Bibliography

Capital District Specific

• Antonelli, Henry, and Helen Quirini. The Story of Local 301 IUE-AFL-CIO: Reflections. Schenectady, N.Y., 1987. For information regarding women electrical workers see: Kannenberg, Lisa A. From World War to Cold War: Women Electrical Workers and Their Unions, 1940-1955. Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1990. For information regarding the Congress of Industrial Organization's dealings with left-led unions, see Rosswurm, Steve, ed. The CIO's Left-Led Unions. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
• Breiner, Charles L. A Study of the Troy Collar Starchers' Union in the Early Twentieth Century: And the Impact of the 1905 Collar Starchers' Strike on the Troy Working-Class Community and the Collar Industry. Albany: C. L. Breiner, 1991.
• DiSanto, Victor J. The Streetcar Workers of Albany, 1900-1921: The Union Era [Ph.D. dissertation]. State University of New York at Binghamton, 1994. Describes the formation and development of the local streetcar workers' union in North Albany, one of the most powerful in the nation at the time.
• Greenberg, Brian. Worker and Community: Response to Industrialization in a Nineteenth-Century American City, Albany, New York, 1850-1884. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985.
• Marchione, Mollie T. Happy-go-lucky days: General Electric Working Women and the French Point Camp Vacation. Thesis (M.A.) -- The University at Albany, Department of History, 1996.
• Parker, Joseph A. Looking Back: A History of Troy and Rensselaer County, 1925-1980. Troy: Alchar Printing Company, 1982.
• Procter, Mary and William Matuszeski. Gritty Cities: A Second Look at Allentown, Bethlehem, Bridgeport, Hoboken, Lancaster, Norwich, Paterson, Reading, Trenton, Troy, Waterbury, Wilmington. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978.
• Turbin, Carole. And We Are Nothing But Women: Irish Working Women in Troy. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1978. Also available in Women of America: A History. Edited by Carol Berkin and Mary Beth Norton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Describes early efforts of women to organize into labor unions in Troy.
• Turbin, Carole. "Reconceptualizing Family, Work and Labor Organizing: Working Women in Troy, 1860-1890." Review of Radical Political Economics 16 (Spring 1984): 1-16. Describes the factors that contributed to the organization of women textile workers in Troy.
• Turbin, Carole. Working Women of Collar City: Gender, Class, and Community in Troy, New York, 1864-86. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
• Walkowitz, Daniel J. Statistics and the Writing of Working Class Culture: A Statistical Portrait of the Iron Workers in Troy, New York, 1860-1880. Reprinted from Labor History 15 (Summer 1974).
• Walkowitz, Daniel J. Worker City, Company Town: Iron and Cotton Worker Protests in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855-84. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, The Working Class in American History Series, 1978.
• Walkowitz, Daniel J. Working-Class Culture in the Gilded Age: The Iron Workers of Troy, New York, and the Cotton Workers of Cohoes, New York, 1855-1884. Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester, 1971.
• Whiteman, Elizabeth D. Women's Work: The Work Patterns of Italian Immigrant Women in the Third Ward of Schenectady, N.Y. in 1910. Thesis (M.A.) -- The University at Albany, Department of History, 1999.
• WHMT-TV, Schenectady, New York. Molders of Troy. Washington, D.C.: PBS Video, 1979.
• Williams, Matthew N. Redefining the Apprentice: Continuity and Change in the Apprentice Community at the General Electric, Schenectady Works, 1901-1986. Thesis (M.A.) -- The University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of History, 1994.
• Zahavi, Gerald. "Passionate Commitments: Race, Sex, and Communism at Schenectady General Electric, 1932-1954," The Journal of American History 83 (September 1996).

New York State

• Crossett, John Patrick. Associated Industries of New York State and the Rise of Interest Group Conservatism in Empire State Politics, 19th Century - 1920. Thesis (M.A.) -- The University at Albany, Department of History, 1996.
• Dubnau, Timothy G. A History of Graduate Student Employees and Their Effort to Unionize at the State University of New York. Thesis (M.A.) -- The University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of History, 1993.
• Greenberg, Charles J. New York State Local History: A Checklist of Selected Resources. [Albany?]: Reference Committee, Reference and Adult Services Section, New York Library Association, 1984.
• "History of Labor in New York State, The", poster map, New York Labor History Association, 1998.
• New York State AFL-CIO. A Tradition of Leadership: A History of the New York State AFL-CIO. New York: New York State AFL-CIO, 1990.
• Padula, Ferdinand F. Stand Fast!: A Chronicle of the Workers' Movement in New York State. Albany: New York State Department of Labor, Office of Communications, 1993.
• Scimé, Joy A. Buffalo Labor History: A Preliminary Bibliography. Buffalo: State University of New York at Buffalo, 1978.
• Wechsler, Robert. New York Labor Heritage: A Selected Bibliography of New York City Labor History. New York: Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Tamiment Institute Library, New York University, 1981.
• Yellowitz, Irwin. Labor and the Progressive Movement in New York State, 1897-1916. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, [1965].

This bibliography was last updated May 31, 2001.