- Babson, Roger W. William B. Wilson and the Department of Labor. New York: Brentano's, 1919.
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- Jones, Dallas L. "Organized Labor and the Wilson Administration." Ph.D., Cornell University, 1954.
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- Pritchard, Paul W. "William B. Wilson: The Evolution of a Central Pennsylvania Mine Union Leader." Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1941.
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- Wilson, Woodrow. Papers, 1826-1961 [mircoform]. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1969.
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Wilson Administration World War I Labor Policy
Periodicals
- "Arbitration Ends Shipping Strike." The New York Times, 21 Sep 1917, 5.
- "Asks Vote on Funds for Labor Program." The New York Times, 19 Feb 1918, 4.
- "Business Pledges All to the Nation." The New York Times, 22 Sep 1917, 1,3.
- "Capitalist Give Pledge of Unity With Labor in War." The New York Times, 16 May 1917, 1,5.
- "Finds Many Causes for Labor Unrest." The New York Times, 10 Feb 1918, 6.
- "For Anti-Strike Board." The New York Times, 20 May 1917, I-3.
- "I.W.W.'s Threaten Tie up." The New York Times, 1 Aug 1917, 9.
- "Labor and Capital to Meet in Council." The New York Times, 25 Feb 1918, 6.
- "Labor Commission Ready for Action." The New York Times, 22 Sep 1917, 7.
- "Nation-wide Plans to Avert Strikes." The New York Times, 19 May 1917, 8.
- "National Board of Labor Named." The New York Times, 18 Feb 1918, 2.
- "No War Strikes, Labor's Pledge." The New York Times, 9 April 1917, 1.
- "President Takes Control of War's Strike Problems." The New York Times, 21 Sep 1917, 1, 5.
- "Redfield Lauds Aid of Manufacturers." The New York Times, 17 May 1917, 9.
- "Wants 2,000,000 Boys in a Working Reserve." The New York Times, 6 May 1917, I-3.
- "Wants Labor Men on Draft Boards." The New York Times, 20 May 1917, I-3.
- "Warns the Nation to End Profiteering." The New York Times, 21 Sep 1917, 7.
- "Will Mobilize Labor for War." The New York Times, 30 Jan 1918, 7.
- "Wilson Wants Light on All Labor Unrest." The New York Times, 28 Sep 1917, 2.
- "Would Qualify Labor Draft." The New York Times, 17 Feb 1918, I-4.
- Bing, Alexander M. War-Time Strikes and Their Adjustment. Edited by Leon Stein and Phillip Taft. Reprint, New York: Arno & The New York Times, 1971 ed, American Labor: From Conspiracy to Collective Bargaining. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1921.
- Breen, William J. "The Mobilization of Skilled Labor in World War I: "Voluntarism,: the U.S. Public Service Reserve, and the Department of Labor, 1917-1918." Labor History 32, no. 2 (Spring) (1991): 253-272.
- Brody, David. Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
- Conner, Valerie J. The National War Labor Board: Stability, Social Justice, and the Voluntary State in World War I. Edited by Arthur S. Link, Supplementary Volumes to The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
- Cuff, Robert D. "The Politics of Labor Administration During World War I." Labor History 21, no. 4 (Fall) (1983): 546-569.
- Dubofsky, Melvyn. "Abortive Reform: The Wilson Administration and Organized Labor, 1913-1920." In Work, Community and Power: The Experience of Labor in Europe and America, 1900-1925, edited by James E. Cronin and Carmen Sirianni, 197-220. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.
- Dubofsky, Melvyn. We Shall All Be: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1969.
- Gerber, Larry G. "Corporatism in Comparative Perspective: The Impact of the First World War on American and British Labor Relations." Business History Review 62, no. Spring (1988): 93-127.
- Grubbs, Frank L. The Struggle for Labor Loyalty: Gompers, the A.F. of L., and the Pacifists, 1917-1920. Durham: Duke University Press, 1968.
- Harris, Howell. "The Snares of Liberalism? Politicians, bureaucrats, and the shaping of federal labour relations policy in the United States, ca. 1915-1947." In Shop floor bargaining and the state: Historical and comparative perspectives, edited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin, 148-191. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
- Haydu, Jeffrey. ""No Change in Existing Standards'? Production, Employee Representation and Government Policy in the United States, 1917-1919." Journal of Social History 25, no. 1 (1991).
- Krivy, Leonard P. "American Organized Labor and the First World War, 1917-1918: A History of Labor Problems and the Development of a Government War Labor Program." Ph.D., New York University, 1965.
- Marshall, L.C. "The War Labor Program and Its Administration." The Journal of Political Economy 26, no. 5 May (1918): 425-460.
- McCartin, Joseph A. ""An American feeling": workers, managers, and the struggle over industrial democracy in the World War I era." In Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise, edited by Nelson Lichtenstein and Howell John Harris, 67-86. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
- McCartin, Joseph A. "Using "The Gun Act": Federal Regulation and the Politics of the Strike Threat during World War I." Labor History 33, no. 4 (Fall) (1992): 519-528.
- Nash, Gerald D. "Franklin D. Roosevelt and Labor: The World War I Origins of Early New Deal Policy." Labor History 1, no. 1 (Winter) (1960): 39-52.
- Papers of the Presidential Mediation Commission, 1917-1919. University Publications of America, Frederick, MD.
- Schipper, Martin, and Robert Lester. The President's Mediation Commission, 1917-1919. Edited by Melvyn Dubofsky, A Guide to Research Collections in Labor Studies. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1985.
- Wehle, Louis B. "The Adjustment of Labor Disputes Incident to Production For War in the United States." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 32 (1918): 122-141.
- Wehle, Louis B. Hidden Threads of History: Wilson Through Roosevelt. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953.
- Wehle, Louis B. "Labor Problems in the United States During the War." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 32 (1918): 333-392.
- Wehle, Louis B. "War Labor Policies and Their Outcome in Peace." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 33 (1919): 321-343.
Of Related Interest
- Dawley, Alan. Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Pres, 1991.
- Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
- Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State and Labor Activism, 1987.
- Taft, Philip. The A.F. of L. in the Time of Gompers. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.
- Terrell, John U. The United States Department of Labor: A Story of Workers, Unions, and the Economy, History of the United States Government Series. New York: Meredith Press, 1968.
- Weinstein, James. The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State: 1900-1918. Boston: Beacon Press, 1968.
