Suggested Reading - Birmingham Industry And The Labor Movement

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)

Brewer, David M., “Blount County Mineral Industry: Its Growth and Role in the Development of the Birmingham Industrial District.” The Vulcan Historical Review, Volume One (Spring 1997).

Brown, Edwin L. and Colin J. Davis (eds), It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners, 1898-1998. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1999.

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).

Fuller, Justin, “History of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company, 1852-1907.” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1966.

Fuller, Justin, “Henry F. DeBardeleben, Industrialist of the New South.” The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1 (January 1986).

Fuller, Justin, “Boom Towns and Blast Furnaces: Town Promotion in Alabama, 1885-1893.” The Alabama Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 1 (January 1976).

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.

Hudgins, Carter Lee, “A Natural History of Village Creek.” The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 9, No. 1 (December 1985).

Hudson, Alvin W. and Harold E. Cox, Street Railways of Birmingham. Forty Fort, Pennsylvania: Harold E. Cox, 1976.

Huntley, Horace, “The Rise and Fall of Mine Mill in Alabama: The Status Quo Against Interracial Unionism, 1933-1949.” The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 1 (January 1979).

Kulik, Gary, "Black Workers and Technological Change in the Birmingham Iron Industry, 1881-1931."Southern Workers and Their Unions, 1880-1975. Edited by Merl E. Reed, Leslie S. Hough, and Gary M. Fink. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981.

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.

McDowell, Deborah E., Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin. New York: Scribner, 1997.

        Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 51, No. 3 (July 1998)

McKiven, Henry M., Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920. Chapel Hill: The 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).

Norrell, Robert J., James Bowron: The Autobiography of a New South Industrialist. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

        Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 2 (April 1993) The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LIX, No. 2 (May 1993)

Norrell, Robert J., “Caste in Steel: Jim Crow Careers in Birmingham, Alabama.” The Journal of American History, Vol. 73, No. 3 (December 1986).

Painter, Nell Irvin, “Hosea Hudson and the Progressive Party in Birmingham,” in Black, Merle and John Shelton Reed (eds), Perspectives on the American South, Volume 1. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1981.

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, “Wenonah: The Magic Word.” The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 7, No. 1 (June 1981).

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, “George Gordon Crawford: Man of the New South.”
        The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXI, No. 3 (July 1978).

Slaughter, Ellen, “DeBardeleben, Bessemer, and the Montezuma Hotel.” The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1987).

Stein, Judith, “Southern Workers in National Unions: Birmingham Steelworkers, 1936-1951,” in Zieger, Robert H. (ed), Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.

Straw, Richard Alan, “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 American and the 1920 Coal Strike in Alabama.” The Alabama Review, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2 (April 1975).

Thomas, Mary Martha, Riveting and Rationing in Dixie: Alabama Women and the Second World War. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1987.

       Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLI, No. 3 (July 1988) The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LIV, No. 4 (November 1988)

Thomas, Rebecca L., “John J. Egan and Industrial Democracy at ACIPCO.” The Alabama Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 4 (October 1990).

Ward, Robert David and William Warren Rogers, Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy. Tuscaloosa: The 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)

Weiner, Jonathan M., Social Origins of the New South: Alabama, 1860-1885. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.

        Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXIII, No. 1 (January 1980) The Journal of Southern History, Vol. XLV, No. 3 (August 1979)

White, Marjorie Longenecker, The Birmingham District: An Industrial History and Guide. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society, 1981.

Woodward Iron Company, Alabama Blast Furnaces. Woodward, Alabama: Woodward Iron Company, 1940.