David Galenson, White Servitude in Colonial America. Cambridge, Harvard University Press: 1981.
Allan Kulikoff, The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism. Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia Press: 1992.
Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism in Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1990.
R. Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York, Norton: 2005.
4. Economics
of Early Republic: Property
*Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press: 1977.
*Gerald
Friedman, “The Sanctity of Property in American Economic History,” in James
Boyce, ed., Natural Assets
Terry L. Anderson and P. J. Hill, “The Evolution of Property Rights: A Study of the American West,” Journal of Law and Economics 18:1 (1975), 163-79.
Frank P. Bourgin, The Great Challenge: The Myth of Laissez Faire in the Early Republic (New York, 1989).
John R. Commons, The Legal Institutions of Capitalism (New York, 1924).
James
W. Ely, Jr., The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of
Property
Rights (New York, Oxford, 1998).
Richard T. Ely, Property and Contract in their Relation to the Distribution of Wealth (New York, 1914).
Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought since the Revolution (New York, 1955).
William J. Novak, The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution. New York, Harper Collins: 2006.
Robert Steinfeld, Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 2001).
Christopher Tomlins, Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993).
5. Economics
of Early Republic: Technological Change
*Paul
David, “Technology, History, and Growth,” in Paul David, Technical Choice,
Innovation
and Economic Growth (Cambridge, 1975).
*__________,
“Learning by Doing and Tariff Protection: A Reconsideration of the Case of the
Ante-Bellum United States Cotton Textile Industry,”in David, Technical
Choice
*___________,
“The Horndal effect’ in Lowell, 1834-56,” in David, Technical Choice
*William Lazonick and Thomas Brush, “The ‘Horndal Effect’ in Early U. S. Manufacturing,”
Explorations in Economic History 22 (1985), 53-96.
*Ken Sokoloff, “Was the Shift from the Artisanal Shop Associated with Gains in Efficiency?”
Explorations in Economic History 21 (October 1984), 351-82.
*Robert W. Fogel, Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History (Baltimore, 1964).
_______________, “Notes on the Social Savings Controversy,” Journal of Economic History 39 (1979), 1-54.
Robert
W. Fogel, “The Specification Problem in Economic History,” Journal of
Economic
History 27 (1967), 283-308.
William
J. Baumol, The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle
of
Capitalism (Princeton, 2002).
Mary
H. Blewett, Men Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New
England Shoe
Industry, 1780-1910 (Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1988).
Robert W. Fogel and Stanley Engerman, “A Model for the Explanation of Industrial Expansion during the 19th Century: With an Application to the American Iron Industry,” Journal of Political Economy 77 (1969), 306-28.
H. J. Habakkuk, American and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 1962).
David R. Meyer, “Midwestern Industrialization and the American Manufacturing Belt in the Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Economic History 49 (1989), 921-38.
Nathan Rosenberg, Technology and American Economic Growth (New York, 1972).
Philip Scranton, Proprietary Capitalism The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800-1885 (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1982).
Peter Temin, “Labor Scarcity and the Problem of American Industrial Efficiency in the 1850s,”
Journal of Economic History 26 (1966), 277-98.
Angus Maddison, Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development (Oxford, 1991).
Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin, “Historical Alternatives to Mass Production: Politics, Markets and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Industrialization,” Past and Present 108 (August 1985), 133-76.
6. Economics
of Early Republic: Proletarianization
*David Montgomery, Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 1992).
*Alexander James Field, “Sectoral Shifts in Antebellum Massachusetts: A Reconsideration,”
Explorations in Economic History 15 (1978), 146-71.
*Gordon, Edwards, and Reich, Segmented Work, Divided Workers, ch. 3.
*Ken
Sokoloff and Claudia Goldin, “Women, Children, and Industrialization,” Journal
of
Economic History 42 (1982), 741-774.
*Herbert Gutman, “Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, 1815-1919,” in Gutman, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America (New York, 1977), 3-78.
Herbert Gutman and Ira Berlin, “Class Composition and the Development of the American Working Class, 1840-1890,” in Gutman, Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class (New York, 1987), 380-94.
Sam
Bowles and Herb Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform
and the
Contradictions of Economic Life (New York, 1976).
Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (New York, 1986).
Alan Dawley, Class and Community: the Industrial Revolution in Lynn (Cambridge, Mass. 1976).
Eric Foner, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (Oxford, 1976).
John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (Rutgers, New Jersey, 1955).
Alice Kessler Harris, Out to Work: The History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (New York, 1982).
Paul
Johnson, A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New
York, 1815-
1837 (New York, 1978).
Harvey J. Kaye, Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. New York, Hill and Wang: 2005.
Bruce Laurie, The Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850 (Philadelphia, 1980).
David Montgomery, Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872 (New York, 1967).
Robert
Steinfels, The Invention of Free Labor: the Employment Relation in English
and
American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 (Chapel Hill, 1991).
Sean
Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City athe Rise of the American Working
Class, 1788-1850 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1984).
7. Slavery
and Revolution: Economics of Slavery and Civil War
*Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, Time on the Cross (Boston, Little Brown, 1974).
*Adam
Rothman, “The ‘Slave Power’ in the United States, 1783-1865,” pp. 64-91 in
Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., Ruling America
*Bruce
Laurie, Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform Cambridge: 2005.
Barrington
Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the
Making of the Modern World Boston, Beacon Press: 1966; ch. 3.
Herbert Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts New York, Columbia University Press: 1943.
Paul
David, et al., Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative
History of
American Negro Slavery New York, Oxford University Press: 1976.
David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2006.
_______________, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution. Ithaca, Cornell University Press: 1975.
_______________, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. Oxford, Oxford University
University Press: 1986.
Carl
Degler, “Slavery in the U.S. and Brazil: An Essay in Comparative History,” American
Historical Review, April, 1970.
Carl
Degler, Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and
the United
States. New York, MacMillan: 1971.
Seymour Drescher, Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press: 1977.
Seymour Drescher, Abolition : a history of slavery and antislavery. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2009.
W .E. B. Dubois, Black Reconstruction in America New York, Atheneum: 1935.
Robert Fogel, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery New York, Norton: 1989.
Eric
Foner, Free soil, Free Labor, Free Men: the Ideology of the Republican Party
before the
Civil War New York, Oxford University Press: 1970.
Eugene
Genovese, The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and
Society of the
Slave South New York, Pantheon: 1965.
______________, The World the Slaveholders Made New York, Vintage Books: 1969.
______________, Roll, Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made New York, Pantheon: 1974.
Claudia Goldin, Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820-1860: A Quantitative History Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1976.
Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Cambridge, Harvard
University Press: 1982.
Ulrich Phillips, American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1918.
Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Antebellum South New York, Alfred Knopf: 1956.
Frank Tannenbaum, Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas New York, Vintage: 1946.
Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery New York, Capricorn Books: 1944.
Gavin
Wright, Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and
Wealth in the
Nineteenth Century New York, Norton: 1978.
8. Slavery
and Southern Reconstruction
*Roger
Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of
Emancipation Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1977.
*Lee Alston and Robert Higgs, “Contractual Mix in Southern Agriculture since the Civil War: Facts, Hypothesis and Tests,” Journal of Economic History 42 (1982), 327-53.
*Gavin Wright, “Cotton Competition and the Post Bellum Recovery of the American South,”
Journal of Economic History 34 (1974), 610-35.
_____________ and Howard Kunreuther, “Cotton Corn and Risk in the 19th Century,” Journal of Economic History 35 (1975), 526-51.
*Gerald Friedman, “The Political Economy of Early Southern Unionism: Race, Politics, and Labor in the South, 1880-1953,” Journal of Economic History 60 (June 2000), 384-413.
Stanley L. Engerman, “Introduction,” pp. 1-25 in Stanley L. Engerman, ed., Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor.
Seymour Drescher, “Free Labor vs. Slave Labor: The British and Caribbean Cases,” pp. 50-86 in Stanley L. Engerman, ed., Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor.
William
Cohen, At Freedom's Edge: Black Mobility and the Southern White Quest for
Racial
Control, 1861-1915 (Baton Rouge, 1991).
W. E. B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction, chs. 1, 2, 4, 5, 9.
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877. New York, Perennial Library: 1990.
Steven Hahn, A Nation U nder Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Cambridge, Harvard University Press: 2002.
Claudia Goldin, “‘N’ Kinds of Freedom,” Explorations in Economic History 16 (1979), 8-30.
Robert Higgs, Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865-1914. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1977.
Gerald
Jaynes, Branches Without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the
American
South, 1862-1882. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1986.
Jay Mandle, The Roots of Black Poverty: The Southern Plantation After the Civil War. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press: 1978.
Robert Margo, Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950. Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1990.
Joseph Reid, “Sharecropping as an Understandable Market Response: The Postbellum South,”
Journal of Economic History 33 (1973), 106-30.
Heather
Cox Richardson, 
The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor,
and Politics in the post-Civil War North, 1865-1901. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press,
2000.
___________________, The Greatest Nation on Earth: Republic Economic Policies During the Civil War. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press, 1997.
Amy
Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market
in the
Age of Slave Emancipation. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Richard
Franklin Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: the Origins of Central State Authority in
America,
1859-1877 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1990.
Jonathan Wiener, Social Origins of the New South: Alabama, 1860-1885. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1978.
C. Vann Woodward, Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel. New York, Macmillan: 1938.
________________, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1951.
________________, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. New York, Oxford University Press: 1955.
Gavin Wright, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War New York, Basic Books: 1986.
J. Morgan Kousser, The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage, Restructuring and the Establishment of the One Party south, 1880-1920 New Haven, Yale University Press: 1974.
9. Corporate
Capitalism: Technology and Proletarianization
*Harry
Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the
Twentieth
Century New York, 1974. Chs. 4-10.
*John Buttrick, “The Inside Contract System” Journal of Economic History 12 (1952), 205-21.
*Gordon, Edwards, and Reich, Segmented Work, Divided Workers, ch. 4.
*Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2005. Chs. 4-6.
Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice : a saga of race, civil
rights, and murder in the Jazz Age. New York, Henry Holt: 2004.
Thomas Sugrue, The origins of
the urban crisis : race and inequality in postwar Detroit. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996.
Hugh G. J. Aitken, Scientific Management in action : Taylorism at Watertown Arsenal, 1908-1915. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press: 1985.
Warren Devine, “From Shafts to Wires: Historical Perspective on Electrification,” Journal of Economic History 43 (1983), 347-72.
Alexander Keyssar, Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press: 1986.
David Montgomery, Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1979.
David Noble, America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1979.
Daniel Raff, “Wage Determination Theory and the Five-Dollar Day at Ford,” Journal of Economic History 48 (1988), 387-400.
Joshua Rosenbloom, Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets During Industrialization Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2002.
William Sundstrom, “Was There a Golden Age of Flexible Wages? Evidence from Ohio Manufacturing, 1892-1910,” Journal of Economic History 50 (1990), 309-20.
Warren
Whatley, “Labor for the Picking: The New Deal in the South,” Journal of
Economic
History 43 (1983), 905-30.
Jeffrey Williamson and Peter Lindert, American Inequality: A Macroeconomic Perspective. New York, Academic Press, 1980.
David Brody, Steelworkers in America: The Nonunion Era. New York, Basic Books: 1960.
10. Corporate
Capitalism: Monopoly Capitalism
*Naomi
Lamoreaux, The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904
*Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press: 1977.
*Jeremy Atack, “Industrial Structure and the Size Distribution of Firms in American Industry in the Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Economic History 46 (1986), 463-76.
Richard Bensel, Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980. Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press: 1984.
____________, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2000.
David Brody, “The Rise and Decline of Welfare Capitalism” pp. 48-81 in Brody, Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle. New York, Oxford University Press: 1985.
Alexander Field, “The Magnetic Telegraph, Price and Quantity Data and the New Management of Capital,” Journal of Economic History 52 (1992), 401-13.
Sanford
Jacoby, Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions and the Transformation of
Work in
American Industry, 1900-1945. New York, Columbia University Press: 1985.
T.
Navin and Marion Sears, “The Rise of a Market in Industrial Securities,” Business
History
Review (1955), 105-38.
Ralph Nelson, Merger Movements in American Industry, 1895-1956 Princeton, Princeton University Press: 1959.
Anthony P. O’Brien, “Factory Size, Economies of Scale, and the Great Merger Wave of 1898-1902,” Journal of Economic History 48 (1988), 639-50.
Kevin
H. O’Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and History: the
Evolution of a
Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press: 1999.
Gavin
Wright, “The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940,” American
Economic
Review 80 (1990), 651-68.
11. Class, Socialism, Unions, and American Exceptionalism
*Gerald Friedman, State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States, 1876-1914 Ithaca, Cornell University Press: 1998.
*Sean Wilentz, "Against Exceptionalism: Class Consciousness and the American Labor Movement," International Labor and Working Class History (Fall 1984), 1-37
*Gerald Friedman, “Success and Failure in Third Party Politics: The Knights of Labor and the Union Labor Coalition in Massachusetts, 1884-88” International Labor and Working Class History 62 (Fall 2002), 169-189.
*Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism? A Double-Edged Sword. New York, Norton: 1996.
Robin Archer, Why is there
no labor party in the United States?
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2007.
Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary
Marks, It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States. New York, Norton, 2000.
Nelson
Lichtenstein and Howell J. Harris, ed., Industrial democracy in America : the ambiguous promise. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1993.
Susan Pennybacker, From Scottsboro to Munich: race
and political culture in 1930s Britain. Princeton University Press, 2009.
Eric Arnesen, Waterfront workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923. New York, Oxford University Press: 1991.
__________, Brotherhoods of color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press: 2001.
Beth Bates, Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945. Chapel Hill [N.C.], University of North Carolina Press: 2001.
Jeremy Brecher, Strike! (Boston, 1972).
Melvyn Dubofsky, The Sate and Labor in Modern America (Chapel Hill, 1994).
Leon Fink, Workingmen’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (Urbana, 1983).
Dana
Frank, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor
Movement, 1919-1929 (Cambridge, 1994).
Howell
John Harris, Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the
Philadelphia
Metal Trades, 1890-1940 (Cambridge, 2000).
Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America (New York, 1955).
Victoria
C. Hattam, Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism
in the
United States (Princeton, 1993).
Ira Katznelson and Ari Zolberg, eds., Working-Class Formations: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press:
1986.
John
Laslett, Labor and the Left: A Study of Socialist and Radical Influences in
the American
Labor Movement, 1881-1924 New York, Basic Books: 1970.
John Laslett and Seymour Martin Lipset, eds., Failure of a dream? Essays in the History of American Socialism Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press: 1974.
Gwendolyn
Mink, Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union,
Party, and State, 1875-1920 Ithaca, Cornell University Press: 1986.
David
Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and
American
Labor Activism, 1865-1925 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1987.
Richard
Oestreicher, Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class
Consciousness
in Detroit, 1875-1900 Urbana, University of Illinois Press: 1986.
Richard Oestreicher, “Urban Working-Class Political Behavior and Theories of American Electoral Politics” Journal of American History (1988) 1257-86.
Selig Perlman, Theory of the Labor Movement (New York, Macmillan, 1928).
Christopher Rhomberg, No There There: Race, Class and Political Community in Oakland. Berkeley, University of California Press: 2004.
Alexander Saxton, The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (Berkeley, 1971).
Werner Sombart, Why is there No Socialism in the United States? tr. by Patricia M. Hocking and C. T. Husbands (White Plains, N.Y., International Arts and Sciences Press, 1976).
Charles Tilly and Leopold H. Haimson, eds., Strikes, Wars, and Revolutions in an International Perspective: Strike Waves in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Kim
Voss, The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class
Formation
in the Nineteenth Century Ithaca, Cornell University Press: 1993.
________, “The Collapse of a Social Movement: The Interplay of Mobilizing Structures, Framing, and Political Opportunities in the Knights of Labor.” In Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings. Doug McAdam, John McCarthy, and Mayer Zald, eds. New York, Cambridge University Press: 1996
12. An
American Welfare State?
*Alice Kessler Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2001.
*David Von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire that Changed America (New York, 2004), chs. 7-9.
Michael K. Brown, Race, Money, and the American Welfare State (Ithaca, New York, 1999).
Gosta Esping-Anderson, Politics Against Markets: The Social Democratic Road to Power Princeton, Princeton University Press: 1985.
Gosta Esping-Anderson, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism Princeton, Princeton University Press: 1990.
Claudia Goldin, Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women New York, Oxford University Press, 1990.
Richard Greenwald, The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York. Philadelphia, Temple University Press: 2005.
Michael B. Katz, In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: a Social History of Welfare in America. New York, Basic Books: 1996.
Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White. New York, Knopf: 2005.
T. H. Marshall, Class, Citizenship, and Social Development. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday: 1964.
Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II Urbana, University of Illinois Press: 1987.
Theda
Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social
Policy in the
United States Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press: 1992.
John Stephens, Transition from Capitalism to Socialism London, MacMillan: 1979.
Margaret Weir, et al., eds., The Politics of Social Policy in the United States. Princeton, Princeton University Press: 1988.
13. State Policy, Regulation, and Progressivism.
*James Weinstein, The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State, 1900-1918. Boston, Beacon Press: 1968.
Elizabeth Sanders, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917. Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1977.
Michael Sandel, Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press: 1996.
Leon Fink, Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment. Cambridge, Mass.: 1997.
Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor, A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers’ Compensation. Chicago, 2000.
Barbara Fried, The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement. Cambridge, Harvard University Press: 1998.
William Forbath, Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press: 1991.
Claudia Goldin, “Maximum Hours Legislation and Female Employment: A Reassessment,” Journal of Political Economy 96 (1988), 189-205.
Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1976.
Julie Greene, Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917 (Cambridge, 1998).
Rosanne Currarino, “'The
Revolution now in progress': social economics and the labor question,” Labor
History 50:1 (2009), 1-17.
Price Fishback, Rebecca Holmes
and Samuel Allen, “Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Measures of the Labor
Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era,” Labor History 50:3 (2009), 313-46.
Howell Harris, “Between
Convergence and Exceptionalism: Americans and the British Model of Labor
Relations, c. 1867-1920,” Labor
History 48:2 (2007), 141-173.
Samuel Hays, “Municipal Reform in the Progressive Era: Whose Class Interest?” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 60 (1964), 157-69.
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR. New York, Knopf: 1955.
Morton Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960 (New York, 1992).
Gabriel Kolko, Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916 New York, Free Press: 1963.
Georg Leidenberger, Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars. Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, Illinois: 2006.
Gary Marks, Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Princeton, 1989.
Kevin Phillips, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich. New York, Broadway Books: 2002.
Richard Schneirov, Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97. Urbana, Illinois: 1998.
Francis
Fox Pivan and Richard A. Cloward, Poor People’s Movements: Why they Succeed,
How
they Fail. New York, Vantage Books: 1979.
Francis Fox Pivan and Richard A. Cloward, Regulating the Poor; the Functions of Public Welfare. New York, Pantheon Books: 1971.
Stephen
Skowronek, Building A New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative
Capacities, 1877-1920. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1982.
Peter Swenson, Capitalists Against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare State in the United States and Sweden. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2002.
14. Great Depression
*Peter Temin, Lessons from the Great Depression Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press: 1989.
Ben Bernanke, Essays on the Great Depression. Princeton, Princeton University Press: 2000.
Michael
Bernstein, The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in
America,
1929-1939 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Milton Friedman and Anne Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 Princeton, Princeton University Press: 1963. Ch. 7.
John K. Galbraith, The Great Crash London, Hamish Hamilton: 1955.
Charles Kindleberger, The World in Depression, 1929-1939 Berkeley, University of California Press: 1986.
Anne Mayhew, “Ideology and the Great Depression: Monetary History Rewritten,” Journal of Economic Issues, June 1983.
Romer, Christina D. 1986. “Is Stabilization of the Postwar Economy a Figment of the Data?” American Economic Review 76(3): 314–34.
Romer, Christina D. 1986. “Spurious Volatility in Historical Unemployment Data.” Journal of Political Economy 94(1): 1–37.
Peter Temin, Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? New York, Norton: 1976.
Watson, Mark W. “Business-Cycle Durations and Postwar Stabilization of the U.S. Economy.” American Economic Review 84:1 (1994): 24–46.
Weir, David. 1986. “The Reliability of Historical Macroeconomic Data for Comparing Cyclical Stability.” Journal of Economic History 46(2): 353–65.
Weir, David. 1992. “A Century of U.S. Unemployment, 1890–1990: Revised Estimates and Evidence for Stabilization.” Research in Economic History 14(1): 301–46.
15.Unions and a New Deal Labor Accord?
*Gordon, Edwards, and Reich, Segmented Work, Divided Workers, ch. 5.
*Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Princeton, 2002).
*Janet Irons, Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South Urbana, 2000.
Margaret Weir and Theda Skocpol, “State Structures and the Possibilities for ‘Keynesian’ Responses to the Great Depression in Sweden, Britain, and the United States,” pp. 107-68 in Peter Evans, et al., eds., Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1985.
Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order New York, Monthly Review Press: 1966. Chs. 3, 4, 8.
Fred Block, Revising State Theory: Essays in Politics and Postindustrialism (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1987), ch. 1.
Derek C. Bok and John T. Dunlop, Labor and the American Community New York, Simon and Schuster: 1970.
Liz Cohn, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Rosemary Feurer, Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950. Urbana, University of Illinois Press: 2006.
Richard Freeman and James Medoff, What do Unions Do? New York, Basic Books: 1986.
Gilbert Gall, Pursuing Justice: Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO (Albany, State University of New York Press, 1999).
Andrew Glyn, Capitalism
Unleashed: Finance, Globalization, and Welfare. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Andrew Glyn, Philip Armstrong,
John Harrison, Capitalism since 1945.
Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1991.
Robert Brenner, The
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