While there is a vast amount of writing on the labor problem, there are very few works on the history of labor organizations in the United States. The main reliance for the earlier period, in the foregoing pages, has been the Documentary History of American Industrial Society, edited by John R. Commons, 10 vols. (1910). The History of Labour in the United States, 2 vols. (1918), which he published with associates, is the most convenient and complete compilation that has yet appeared and contains a large mass of historical material on the labor question.
The following works are devoted to discussions of various phases of the history of American labor and industry:
T. S. Adams 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. Hoxie, 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.