John L. Lewis/Bibliography

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• Baratz, Morton S. The Union and the Coal Industry (Yale University Press, 1955)
• Bernstein, Irving. The Lean Years: a History of the American Worker 1920-1933 (1966), best coverage of the era
• Bernstein, Irving. Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 (1970), best coverage of the era
• Clapp, Thomas C. "The Bituminous Coal Strike of 1943." PhD dissertation U. of Toledo 1974. 278 pp. DAI 1974 35(6): 3626-3627-A., not online
• Dublin, Thomas and Walter Licht. The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century (2005) excerpt and text search
• Dubofsky, Melvyn, and Warren Van Tine. John L. Lewis: A Biography (1977), the standard scholarly biography excerpt and text search
• Dubofsky, Melvyn, and Warren Van Tine. "John L. Lewis " in Dubofsky and Van Tine, eds. Labor Leaders in America (1990)
• Fishback, Price V. Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930 (1992) online edition
• Galenson; Walter. The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1935-1941, (1960) online edition
• Hinrichs, A. F. The United Mine Workers of America, and the Non-Union Coal Fields (1923) online edition
• Laslett, John H.M. ed. The United Mine Workers: A Model of Industrial Solidarity? 1996.
• Lynch, Edward A., and David J. McDonald. Coal and Unionism: A History of the American Coal Miners' Unions (1939) online edition
• Seltzer, Curtis. Fire in the Hole: Miners and Managers in the American Coal Industry University Press of Kentucky, 1985, conflict in the coal industry to the 1980s.
• Singer, Alan Jay. "`Which Side Are You On?': Ideological Conflict in the United Mine Workers of America, 1919-1928." PhD dissertation Rutgers U., New Brunswick 1982. 304 pp. DAI 1982 43(4): 1268-A. DA8221709 Fulltext: [ProQuest Dissertations & Theses]
• Zieger, Robert H. "Lewis, John L." American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. online edition
• Zieger, Robert H. John L. Lewis: Labor Leader (1988), 220pp short biography by scholar
• Zieger, Robert H. The CIO 1935-1955. 1995. online edition