American History Since 1877

Chapter 17
Capital and Labor in the Age of Enterprise, 1877-1900

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These resources have been selected by librarians to supplement HSTY202 classes (American History from 1877) at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

• Gale Virtual Reference Collection
• Books and eBooks in TC3 Collection
• Subject Headings
• Multimedia
• Locating Journal Articles in Databases
• Web Resources

Gale Virtual Reference Collection

TC3 students and staff have access to the Gale Virtual Reference Library which has over 250 academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This is a good place to start your research because it provides useful background information. See our tutorial for quick tips on Searching Gale Virtual Reference.

Books and eBooks in the TC3 Collection

• American Labor and the War by Samuel Gompers. "Principal addresses delivered by Mr. Gompers during the period of the great war." From the HathiTrust Digital Library.
• Andrew Carnegie by Joseph Frazier Wall [CT275.C3 W33]
• Chicago Haymarket Riot: Anarchy on Trial by Bernard R. Kogan [HX846.C4 K6]
• Death in the Haymarket: a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided gilded age America by James R. Green [HD8085.C53 G74 2006]
• Debs: his Life, Writings and Speeches - by Eugene V. Debs. Online in the HathiTrust Digital Library.
• Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist by Nick Salvatore [HX 84 .D3 S23] Also available online in ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection.
• Great Strikes of 1877 edited by David O. Stowell [HD5325.R2 1877 G74 2008]
• How We Built the Union Pacific Railway by Grenville Mellen Dodge (1831-1916) [HE2791.U55 D62 1966]. The author was the chief engineer of Union Pacific Railway from 1866-1870. Primary Source.
• Labor Conflict in the United States: an Encyclopedia edited by Ronald L. Filippelli [REF HD5324 .L32 1990]
• Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse [HG2463.M6 S77 2000]
• The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency by Robert Kanigel [T55.9 .K37 1997]
• Pioneering the Union Pacific; a Reappraisal of the Builders of the Railroad by Charles Edgar Ames [HE2791.U55 A4]
• The Pullman Strike by William H. Carwardine (1855-1929) [HD5325.R12 1894 .C533] Primary Source.
• The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s [HD5325.R12 1894 .P85 1999]
• Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America (1979) by Harold C. Livesay [HD6509.G57 L58]
• Seventy Years of Life and Labor: an Autobiography by Samuel Gompers; edited and with an introduction by Nick Salvatore [HD8073.G6 A3 1984]
• Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877 by David O. Stowell [HD5325.R2 1877 .S76 1999]
• Titan: the Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow [CT275.R75 C47 1998]
• Walls and Bars by Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) [HX84.D3 A32 1973]
• Working Americans, 1880-1999 by Scott Derks. 2 vols. [REF HD8066 .D47]

Don't hesitate to ask a reference librarian for help in locating books and media in the TC3 Library Catalog. Material not owned by our library can be located and borrowed through the SUNY Union Catalog, a single search interface for 62 SUNY library catalogs and WorldCat, a wordwide database of library books and materials.

Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on Capital and Labor in the Age of Enterprise, 1877-1900 in the TC3 Library Catalog, the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat.

• Labor movement, United States
• Labor unions, United States, History
• Strikes and lockouts, United States
• United States, Economic conditions, 1865-1918
• United States, Social conditions, 1865-1918
• Working class, United States, History, 19th century

Multimedia

• Organizing America: The History of Trade Unions (1994) - Online streaming video (Films on Demand). "Using interviews, personal accounts, and archival footage, this program investigates the major events in the history of American trade unions, from the formation of the first “friendly societies” in the 18th century, to the challenges posed by new technologies in the 1980s and 90s."(38 minutes)
• Rising from the Rails - "Author and journalist Larry Tye discusses his new book, which explores the 100 year history of the black men who worked on George Pullman's railroad sleeping cars." (Library of Congresss Webcast, August 2, 2004, 37 minutes)

Locating Journal Articles in Databases

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals, also listed by subject (History & Archaeology).

Web Resources

• Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia 1876
• Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers - Search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922.
• A Coal Miner's Work
• Women Working, 1870-1930 - Harvard University Library Open Collections Program.
  

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