Links & Resources
List of Online Resources
- Illinois Labor History
Society
(http://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/) - Labor History Links (Northern Illinois University)
(http://www.laborhistorylinks.niu.edu/~rfeurer/labor/indexpage.html) - U.S. Labor History
Curriculum
(http://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/education/curriculum.html) - Roosevelt University Oral
Labor History Project
(http://www2.roosevelt.edu/library/oralhistory/oralhistory.htm) - Chicago Labor History
Online
(http://chicagohistoryonline.wordpress.com/chicago-labor-history/) - The Labor Trail
(http://www.labortrail.org/) - The Haymarket Affair
Digital Collection (Chicago Historical Society)
(http://www.chicagohistory.org/hadc/) - The Encyclopedia of
Chicago
(http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/) - Labor History
Bibliographies
(http://www.niu.edu/~rfeurer/labor/reference_websites.html) - Chicago: City of the Century (Web site for the PBS Documentary
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/index.html) - Eugene V. Debs Foundation
(http://www.eugenevdebs.com/) - Women’s Labor History
Links (AFSCME)
(http://www.afscme.org/publications/10404.cfm) - Center for New Deal
Studies
(http://legacy.roosevelt.edu/newdeal/) - Labor Unions and the Middle Class
- Income Gap in the US
- Gap between wages and productivity: the root of the economic crisis.
Books Available Online
- A People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
(http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html) - Urban Revolt: Ethnic Politics in the
Nineteenth-Century Chicago Labor Movement (Eric
Hirsch)
(http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft40000586 ) - Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
(http://www.online-literature.com/upton_sinclair/jungle/)