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Labor Films, Books, Documentaries

Labor Films:  

• Life and Debt (80 min, 2001) 
• Brothers on the Line (80 min, 2012) 
• Locked Out (60 min, 2010) 
• Inquality for All (89 min, 2013) 
• The Take (87 min, 2004) 
• Struggles in Steel (58 min, 1996) 
• American Dream (1990) 
• Gandy Dancers (30 min, 1994) 
• Modern Times (87 min, 1936) 
• The Corporation (145 min, 2004)   
• Wal-Mart, the High Cost of Low Price (98 min, 2005) 
• Salt of the Earth (94 min, 1953) 
• A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs & Freedom (87 min, 1996) 
• At the River I Stand (56 min, 1993)  
• The Stone Carvers (29 min, 1988)  
• The Yes Men (83 minutes, 2003) 
• Songs in Stone (45 min, 1999)  
• Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle (58 min, 1982) 
• The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers' Struggle (115 min, 1996) 
• The Uprising of '34 (90 min, 1995) 
• Fast Food Women (29 min, 1992) 
• Rosie the Riveter:  the Life and Times of (60 min, 1980)  
• With Babies and Banners (45 min,1978) 
• The Forgotten Americans (60 min, 2000)  
• Union Maids (50 min, 1976) 
• Globalization & Human Rights (57 min, 1998) 
• Justice on the Table (24 min, 2003) 
• Eugene Debs and the American Movement (44 min, 1977) 
• Sewing Woman (14 min, 1982) 
• Behind the Labels, Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan (45 min, 2001)  
• Harlan County, U.S.A. (103 min,1976) 
• The New Rulers of the World (54 min, 2001) 
• Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union (58 min, 1992) 
• Norma Rae (93 min, 1979) 
• Roger and Me (1989)

Labor Books: 

• Labor In America, A History- Foster Rhea Dulles and Melvyn Dubofksy (8th ed.)[Harlan Davidson, Inc.] 
• There is Power in Union, the Epic Story of Labor In America– Philip Dray [Anchor Books]    
• Beaten Down, Worked Up-- The Past, Present and Future of American Labor- Steven Greenhouse [Penguin Random House Books]

Focused Labor History/Commentary

• We Shall Be All– Melvyn Dubofsky (a history of the IWW and radical labor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries) [University of Illinois Press] 
• Rising From the Rails, Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class– Larry Tye [Henry Holt & Co.] 
• Shameful Business, the Case for Human Rights In the American Workplace – James A. Gross [Cornell University Press]  
•  Triangle, The Fire That Changed America– David Von Drehle [Atlantic Monthly Press]
 
Railroad History

• Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow–Dee Brown (the story of the western railroads) [Chatto & Windus publishing] 
• Railroaded, The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America–Richard White [Norton Publishing] 
• Chapters of Erie - Charles Francis Adams (development of the eastern railroads and early corporate stock manipulation Commodore Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Damile Drew, James Fisk etc.)  [Cornell University Press] 
• The Interstate Commerce Commission/Surface Transportation Board As Regulator of Labor’s Rights and Deregulator of Railroads Obligations: The Contrived Collision of the Interstate Commerce Act With the Railway Labor Act, William G. Mahoney (ICC/STB-Judicial  suppression of the RLA) [Transportation Law Journal, University of Denver College of Law]