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United States Labor History

Selected Primary Sources

Strikes and Uprisings

"Commit No Rash Act": Albert Parsons' Last Words to His Wife (1886)
"His Act is Doublely Despicable"
Albert Parsons Responds to His Condemnation by Terence V. Powderly by Albert Parsons
"I am Sorry Not to be Hung"
Oscar Neebe and the Haymarket Affair (1886).
African-American Odyssey - Reconstruction and Its Aftermath
American Rhetorical Movements since 1900
The Anthracite Coal Strike
Bill Haywood Trial, 1097
Chicago Teamsters' Strike of 1905
Chronology of Emancipation During the Civil War
Coal Mining, Mine Fires & The Molly Maguires
The Drama's of Haymarket
George Pullman Answers His Strikers (1892)
Haymarket Affair: Topics in Chronicling America
In 1886, a national strike for 8-hour workdays led to clashes, deaths, and a bomb in Haymarket Square, Chicago.
Haymarket Affair Collection/Archives at Yale
The Haymarket Massacre Archive
The Homestead and Pullman Strikes
International Workingmen's Association General Rules, 1871
The Lawrence Strike of 1912
The Lawrence Strike of 1912, google book
by John Bruce McPherson
Mary Harris "Mother Jones"
Mine War in Pennsylvania
Mitchell Palmer/The Case Against the "Reds"
The Molly Maguires

Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) demonstration, New York City, April 11, 1914

(Image from Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA)

The Molly Maguires
The Homestead Strike
The Overthrow of the Molly Macguires
The Palmer Raids
Portraits of a Ladies' Strike: Perspectives of the Uprising of the 20,000
Pullman Strike, 1894
The Strike at Homestead, 1892
Strike at the Pressed Steel Car Company, 1909
Squabbling Socialists in Washington State
A Guide to Factions and Newspapers 1900-1917
by Gary Siebel.
Testimony of Samuel Gompers (1883)
Uprising of the 20,000, 1909