📚 Labor Unions

Organized work: the trade unions, the strikes, the bargaining, and the movements that won the weekend.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject labor unions in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Die Entwicklung des Sozialismus von der Utopie zur Wissenschaft	Friedrich Engels	1880	163
	Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy	Joseph Alois Schumpeter	1942	78
	The world of labour	G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard) Cole	1913	25
	Sozialgeschichte der europäischen Arbeiterbewegung	Wolfgang Abendroth	1965	25
	The history of trade unionism	Sidney Webb	1894	21
	China	C. P. Fitzgerald	1935	21
	Rebel voices	Joyce L. Kornbluh	1964	20
	POLITICAL MAN	Seymour Martin Lipset	1960	17
	A History of Trade Unionism in the United States	Selig Perlman	1922	16
	Labor relations	John A. Fossum	1979	16
	Attempts at general union	G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard) Cole	1953	14
	Trade unions	Allan Flanders	1952	12
	Trade union democracy in Western Europe	Walter Galenson	1961	12
	Bread and Roses	Milton Meltzer	1967	12
	El nuevo derecho mexicano del trabajo	Mario de la Cueva	1972	12
	The last words of Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Carlyle	1882	11
	Rank and file	Alice Lynd	1973	11
	The mistress of the manse	Josiah Gilbert Holland	1874	9
	As Unions Mature	Richard Allen Lester	1958	9
	Military unionism in the post Cold War era	Richard Bartle	2006	9
	Studies in American trade unionism	Jacob Harry Hollander	1905	8
	Le syndicalisme en France	Georges Lefranc	1953	8
	Labor, democratization and development in India and Pakistan	Christopher Candland	2007	8
	Trade unionism new and old	George Howell	1891	7
	Die deutsche Gewerkschaftsbewegung	Hans Limmer	1966	7
	Workers, unions and the state	Graham Wootton	1966	7
	Historia del anarcosindicalismo español	Juan Gómez Casas	1968	7
	Comparative uniondemocracy	J. David Edelstein	1975	7
	The Economics of the Trade Union	Alison L. Booth	1995	7
	Harvesting Hope	Kathleen Krull	2003	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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