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United States Labor History

Selected Primary Sources

The Famous and the Infamous

Adolp Strasser on "Pure and Simple Unionism" (1884)
Albert Parsons, Challenge to the Free Market
Andrew Carnegie
Bill Haywood Trial, 1097
Chicago Anarchists on Trial/Evidence from the Haymarket Affair 1886-1887
Daniel De Leon
Internet Archive De Leon devoted himself to the cause of working-class emancipation from capitalist exploitation.
Edward Bellamy (1850-1898)
The Emma Goldman Papers
Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive
One of the greatest and most articulate advocates of workers' power to have ever lived.
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
George Pullman Answers His Strikers (1892)
"I am Sorry Not to be Hung"
Oscar Neebe and His Statement on Haymarket (1886)
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Molly Maguires
The Samuel Gompers Papers

Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919

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