Instructors: Future Reading

Below are future reading sources for your lesson plan. These texts were used in developing our exhibit and web site.

Auerbach, Jerald S. Labor and Liberty: The La Follette Committee and the New Deal. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966


“The La Follette Committee: Labor and Civil Liberties in the New Deal.”
Journal of American History, 51 (1964): 435-59


Bernstein, Irving. Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker 1933-1941. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971


Dulles, Foster Rhea, and Melvyn Dubofsky. Labor in America: A History. 4th ed. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, 1984


Fine, Sidney. Frank Murphy: The New Deal Years. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979


Galenson, Walter. The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1935- 1941. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960


Sofchalk, Donald G. “The Little Steel Strike.” Diss. Ohio State University, 1961

Turrini, Joseph M. “The Newton Steel Strike.” Labor History. 38 (1997): 229-65