dams and Helen L. Sumner, "Labor Problems" (1905). Contains
several refreshing chapters on labor organizations.

F. T. Carlton, "The History and Problem of Organized Labor" (1911). A
succinct discussion of union problems.

R. T. Ely, "The Labor Movement in America" (1886). Though one of the
earliest American works on the subject, it remains indispensable.

G. G. Groat, "An Introduction to the Study of Organized Labor in
America" (1916). A useful and up-to-date compendium. R. F. Hosie,
"Trade Unionism in the United States" (1917). A suggestive study of the
philosophy of unionism.

J. R. Commons (Ed.), "Trade Unionism and Labor Problems" (1905).

J. H. Hollander and G. E. Barnett (Eds.), "Studies in American Trade
Unionism" (1905). These two volumes are collections of contemporary
studies of many phases of organized labor by numerous scholars. They are
not historical.

The "Report of the Industrial Commission," vol. XVII (1901) provides
the most complete analysis of trade union policies and also contains
valuable historical summaries of many unions.

G. E. McNeill (Ed.), "The Labor Movement: the Problem of Today" (1899.).
This collection contains historical sketches of the organizations of the
greater labor groups and of the development of the more important
issues espoused by them. For many years it was the most comprehensive
historical work on American unionism, and it remains a necessary source
of information to the student of trades union history.

J. G. Brissenden, "The Launching of the Industrial Workers of the World"
(1913). An account of the origin of the I.W.W.

J. G. Brooks, "American Syndicalism: the I.W.W." (1913).

John Mitchell, "Organized Labor" (1903). A suggestive exposition of the
principles of Unionism by a distinguished labor leader. It contains only
a limited amount of historical matter.

T. V. Powderly, "Thirty Years of Labor" (1889.) A history of the Knights
of Labor from a personal viewpoint.

E. L. Bogart, "The Economic History of the United States" (rev. ed.,
1918). A concise and clear account of our economic development.

R. T. Ely, "Evolution of Industrial Society" (1903).

Carroll D. Wright, "The Industrial Evolution of the United States"
(1895).

G. S. Callender, "Selections from the Economic History of the United
States" (1909). A collection of readings. The brief introductory
essays to each chapter give a succinct account of American industrial
development to 1860.