This page brings together free online books, topic searches and Open Access resources related to labor, occupations, and working life, including trades, industries, labor movements, working conditions, and economic history. The materials range from older public domain works to modern scholarly studies.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
The section below Topics provides links to related modern Open Access books. See that section for more information.
Topics – Books about Work PDF – Labor History Books PDF
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to labor history and work. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable books, periodicals, and other documents. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by year, language, or related subjects.
- Absenteeism
- Agricultural laborers
- Alien labor
- Child labor
- Collective bargaining
- Collective labor agreements
- Employee rights
- Employees
- Employment
- Employment agencies
- Employment forecasting
- Forced labor
- Foreign workers
- Guilds
- Hours of labor
- Household employees
- Industrial accidents
- Industrial Arbitration
- Industrial relations
- Job stress
- Labor Compensation
- Labor contract
- Labor disputes
- Labor economics
- Labor laws and legislation
- Labor mobility
- Labor movement
- Labor policy
- Labor productivity
- Labor supply
- Labor unions
- Labor United States
- Machinery in the workplace
- Management-Employee participation
- Manpower policy
- Migrant labor
- Open and closed shop
- Part-time employment
- Peasantry
- Performance standards
- Production standards
- Proletariat
- Quality of Work Life
- Skilled labor
- Strikes and lockouts
- Teams in the workplace
- Telecommuting
- U.S. Working Class History
- Unemployment
- Unskilled labor
- Wages
- Women Working
- Work and family
- Work environment
- Workers’ compensation
- Working class
- Workplace Culture
- Workplace Discrimination
- Workplace Diversity
- Workplace Harassment Books
Open Access Labor Books PDF Free Download
The Open Access books and other materials below are modern works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other organizations. Many reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can also be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
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