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Books on Historical Periods of the Department of Labor

DiTomaso, Nancy K., The Department of Labor: Class Politics and Public Bureaucracy, Univ. of Wisconsin, Ph.D., 1977.

Gilbert, Hilda, K., The United States Department of Labor in the New Deal Period, Univ. of Wisconsin, Ph.D., 1943.

Grossman, Jonathan, The Department of Labor, New York, 1973.

Karlsrud, Robert A., The Hoover Labor Department: A Study in Bureaucratic Divisiveness, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, Ph.D., 1972.

Lombardi, John, Labor's Voice in the Cabinet: A History of the Department of Labor from Its Origin to 1921, New York, 1942.

MacEachron, David W., The Role of the United States Department of Labor, Harvard Univ., Ph.D., 1953.

Rourke, Francis, E., Reorganization of the Labor Department, Univ. of Minnesota, Ph.D., 1952.

Shor, Edgar L., The Role of the Secretary of Labor, Univ. of Chicago, Ph.D., 1955.

Terrell, John U., The United States Department of Labor: A Story of Workers, Unions, and the Economy, New York, 1968.

U.S. Dept. of Labor, The Anvil and the Plow: A History of the United States Department of Labor, 1913-1963, Washington (GPO), 1963.

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