Books About Secretaries of Labor

Anderson, James R., The New Deal Career of Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, 1933-1939, Case Western Reserve Univ., Ph.D., 1968.

Atkinson, Ann J., Finding a Place at the Cabinet Table: Discovering the Rhetorical Disposition of Frances Perkins during the New Deal, Univ. of Massachusetts, Ph.D., 1996.

Babson, Roger W., Recent Labor Progress...under James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, New York, 1924.

Babson, Roger W., W. B. Wilson and the Department of Labor, New York, 1919.

Babson, Roger W., Washington and the Depression, Including the Career of W.N. Doak, New York, 1932.

Buhl, William C., Transforming Leadership in a Political Environment: A Case Study of William Brock at the Department of Labor, Univ. of Southern California, D.P.A., 1989.

Chapple, Joseph M., "Our Jim" [James J. Davis]: A Biography, Boston, 1928.

Colman, Penny, A Woman Unafraid: The Achievements of Frances Perkins, New York, 1993.

Davis, James J., The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It, Indianapolis, 1922.

Dudley, John B., James J. Davis: Secretary of Labor under Three Presidents 1921-1930, Ball State Univ., Ph.D., 1972.

Lapomarda, Vincent A., Maurice Joseph Tobin, 1901-1953: A Political Profile and an Edition of Selected Public Papers, Boston Univ., Ph.D., 1968.

Martin, George, Madam Secretary: Frances Perkins, Boston, 1976.

Mohr, Lillian H., Frances Perkins: That Woman in FDR's Cabinet!, Croton-on-Hudson, NY, 1979.

Moynihan, Daniel P., ed., The Defenses of Freedom: The Public Papers of Arthur J. Goldberg, New York, 1966.

Pasachoff, Naomi, Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal, New York, 1999.

Perkins, Frances, The Roosevelt I Knew, New York, 1946.

Pritchard, Paul W., William B. Wilson: The Evolution of a Central Pennsylvania Mine Union Leader, University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1942.

Puckett, Patty Lou, Yankee Reformer in a Man's World: Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor, Michigan State Univ., Ph.D., 1978.

Rankin, Mary C., Frances Perkins on Social Security: An Analysis of Rhetorical Themes and Strategies in Four Radio Addresses, American Univ., M.A., 1972.

Reich, Robert B., Locked in the Cabinet, Norwalk, CT, 1997.

Rubin, Eva R., The Judicial Apprenticeship of Arthur J. Goldberg, 1962-1965, Johns Hopkins Univ., Ph.D., 1967.

Severn, Bill, Frances Perkins: A Member of the Cabinet, New York, 1976.

Stebenne, David L., Arthur J. Goldberg, New Deal Liberal, Columbia Univ., Ph.D., 1991.

Thompson, Cathy R., The Pre-New Deal Career of Frances Perkins, 1880-1932, Florida Atlantic University, M.A., 1975.

Wilhelm, Clarke L., William B. Wilson: The First Secretary of Labor, Johns Hopkins Univ., Ph.D., 1967.