Birmingham Public Library Archives-Labor and Industry

Suggested Reading

Industry, Business and the Labor Movement

in Birmingham

Alabama Blast Furnaces. Woodward, Alabama: Woodward Iron Company,

1940.

Armes, Ethel. The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama. Birmingham: The Book-

Keepers Press, 1972 (reprint of original 1910 edition).

Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XXVIII, No. 1 (January 1975)

Atkins, Leah Rawls. John M. Harbert III: Marching to the Beat of a Different

Drummer. Birmingham: Tarva House, 1999.

Atkins, Leah Rawls. Developed for the Service of Alabama: The Centennial History

of the Alabama Power Company, 1906-2006. Birmingham: Alabama Power

Company, 2006.

Brewer, David M. “Blount County Mineral Industry: Its Growth and Role in the

Development of the Birmingham District.” The Vulcan Historical Review,

Volume One (Spring 1997).

Burney, Robert T. and Ronald G. Mele. Birmingham Southern Railroad Company:

The First Century. Blue Springs, Missouri: The Print House, 1999.

Childers, James Saxon. Erskine Ramsay: His Life and Achievements. New York:

Cartwright and Ewing, 1942.

Draper, Alan. “The New Southern Labor History Revisited: The Success of the

Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union in Birmingham, 1934-1938.”

The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXII, No. 1 (February 1996).

Fisher, Virginia E. The History of United States Pipe and Foundry Company:

A Centennial Celebration. Birmingham: United States Pipe and Foundry

Company, 1999.

Fuller, Justin. “Henry F. DeBardeleben, Industrialist of the New South.”

The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1 (January 1986).

Fuller, Justin. “History of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company,

1852-1907.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill, 1966.

Gaston, A. G. Green Power: The Successful Way of A. G. Gaston. Birmingham:

A. G. Gaston Boys’ Club, 1968.

Huntley, Horace. “The Rise and Fall of Mine Mill in Alabama: The Status Quo

Against Interracial Unionism.” The JOURNAL of the Birmingham

Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 1 (January 1979).

Housch-Collins, Linda Gail. “Selling Bread and Freedom: The Aircraft Organizing

Drives of the United Automobile Workers in Birmingham, Alabama, 1943

to 1952.” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Michigan, 1998.

Lennox, Tim. “Rosa Zinszer: Birmingham Entrepreneuse Extraordinary.” The

JOURNAL of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 3

(January 1980).

Letwin, Daniel. “Interracial Unionism, Gender, and ‘Social Equality’ in the

Alabama Coalfields, 1878-1908.” The Journal of Southern History,

Vol. LXI, No. 3 (August 1995).

Lewis, W. David. Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District: An

Industrial Epic. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1994.

Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 51, No. 2 (April 1998)

The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXII, No. 3 (August 1996)

Like It Ain’t Never Passed: Remembering Life in Sloss Quarters. Birmingham:

Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, 1985.

McKiven, Henry M. Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham,

Alabama, 1875-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,

1995.

Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 50, No. 3 (July 1997)

The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXII, No. 3 (August 1996)

Menzer, Mitch and Mike Williams. “Images of Work: Birmingham, 1894-1937.”

The JOURNAL of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 7, No. 1

(June 1981).

Murray, William M., Jr. Thomas W. Martin—A Biography. Birmingham: Southern

Research Institute, 1978.

Norrell, Robert J. “Caste in Steel: Jim Crow Careers in Birmingham, Alabama.”

The Journal of American History, Vol. 73, No. 3 (December 1986).

Norrell, Robert J. James Bowron: The Autobiography of a New South Industrialist.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. LIX, No. 2 (May 1993)

The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LIX, No. 2 (May 1993)

Rikard, Marlene Hunt. “An Experiment in Welfare Capitalism: The Health Care

Services of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company.” Ph.D.

Dissertation, The University of Alabama, 1983.

Rikard, Marlene Hunt. “George Gordon Crawford: Man of the New South.”

The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXI, No. 3 (July 1978).

Rikard, Marlene Hunt. “’Take Everything You Are ... And Give It Away’:

Pioneer Industrial Workers at TCI.” The JOURNAL of the Birmingham

Historical Society, Vol. 7, No. 2 (November 1981).

Rikard, Marlene Hunt. “Wenonah: The Magic Word.” The JOURNAL of the

Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 7, No. 1 (June 1981).

Stein, Judith. “Southern Workers in National Unions: Birmingham Steelworkers,

1936-1951” in Robert H. Zieger (ed), Organized Labor in the Twentieth-

Century South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.

Straw, Richard A. “Birmingham Miners Struggle for Power, 1894-1908.”

Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Missouri—Columbia, 1980.

Straw, Richard A. “Soldiers and Miners in a Strike Zone: Birmingham, 1908.”

The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4 (October 1985).

Straw, Richard A. “The United Mine Workers of America and the 1920 Coal Strike

in Alabama.” The Alabama Review, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2 (April 1975).

Thomas, Rebecca L. “John J. Egan and Industrial Democracy at ACIPCO.” The

Alabama Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 4 (October 1990).

Walker, Anne Kendrick. Life and Achievements of Alfred Montgomery Shook.

Birmingham: Birmingham Publishing Company, 1952.

Ward, Robert David and William Warren Rogers. Convicts, Coal, and the Banner

Mine Tragedy. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987.

Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLI, No. 3 (July 1988)

The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LIV, No. 3 (August 1988)

White, Marjorie Longenecker. The Birmingham District: An Industrial History

and Guide. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society, 1981.

Woodrum, Robert H. “The Rebirth of the UMWA and Racial Anxiety in Alabama,

1933-1942.” The Alabama Review, Vol. 58, No. 4 (October 2005).

Woodrum, Robert H. “Everybody was Black Down There”: Race and Industrial

Change in the Alabama Coalfields. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,

2007.