General
  1. Babson, Roger W. William B. Wilson and the Department of Labor. New York: Brentano's, 1919.
  2. Grossman, Johnathan. The Department of Labor. Edited by Ernest S. Griffith and Hugh L. Elsbree, Praeger Library of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973.
  3. Jones, Dallas L. "Organized Labor and the Wilson Administration." Ph.D., Cornell University, 1954.
  4. Lombardi, John. Labor's Voice in the Cabinet: A History of the Department of Labor From Its Origin to 1921, Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences. New York: Columbia University Press, 1942.
  5. Pritchard, Paul W. "William B. Wilson, Master Workman." Pennsylvania History 12, no. 2 April (1945): 81-108.
  6. Pritchard, Paul W. "William B. Wilson: The Evolution of a Central Pennsylvania Mine Union Leader." Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1941.
  7. Smith, John S. "Organized Labor and Government in The Wilson Era; 1913-1921: Some Conclusions." Labor History 3, no. 3 Fall (1962): 265-286.
  8. Wilson, Woodrow. Papers, 1826-1961 [mircoform]. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1969.
  9. Wilson, William B. "The Efficiency of Labor." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 78 (1918).
  10. Wilhelm, Clark L. "William B. Wilson: The First Secretary of Labor." Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1967.
 
Wilson Administration World War I Labor Policy
Periodicals
  1. "Arbitration Ends Shipping Strike." The New York Times, 21 Sep 1917, 5.
  2. "Asks Vote on Funds for Labor Program." The New York Times, 19 Feb 1918, 4.
  3. "Business Pledges All to the Nation." The New York Times, 22 Sep 1917, 1,3.
  4. "Capitalist Give Pledge of Unity With Labor in War." The New York Times, 16 May 1917, 1,5.
  5. "Finds Many Causes for Labor Unrest." The New York Times, 10 Feb 1918, 6.
  6. "For Anti-Strike Board." The New York Times, 20 May 1917, I-3.
  7. "I.W.W.'s Threaten Tie up." The New York Times, 1 Aug 1917, 9.
  8. "Labor and Capital to Meet in Council." The New York Times, 25 Feb 1918, 6.
  9. "Labor Commission Ready for Action." The New York Times, 22 Sep 1917, 7.
  10. "Nation-wide Plans to Avert Strikes." The New York Times, 19 May 1917, 8.
  11. "National Board of Labor Named." The New York Times, 18 Feb 1918, 2.
  12. "No War Strikes, Labor's Pledge." The New York Times, 9 April 1917, 1.
  13. "President Takes Control of War's Strike Problems." The New York Times, 21 Sep 1917, 1, 5.
  14. "Redfield Lauds Aid of Manufacturers." The New York Times, 17 May 1917, 9.
  15. "Wants 2,000,000 Boys in a Working Reserve." The New York Times, 6 May 1917, I-3.
  16. "Wants Labor Men on Draft Boards." The New York Times, 20 May 1917, I-3.
  17. "Warns the Nation to End Profiteering." The New York Times, 21 Sep 1917, 7.
  18. "Will Mobilize Labor for War." The New York Times, 30 Jan 1918, 7.
  19. "Wilson Wants Light on All Labor Unrest." The New York Times, 28 Sep 1917, 2.
  20. "Would Qualify Labor Draft." The New York Times, 17 Feb 1918, I-4.
Other
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Brody, David. Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
  4. 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.
  5. Cuff, Robert D. "The Politics of Labor Administration During World War I." Labor History 21, no. 4 (Fall) (1983): 546-569.
  6. 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.
  7. Dubofsky, Melvyn. We Shall All Be: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1969.
  8. 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.
  9. Grubbs, Frank L. The Struggle for Labor Loyalty: Gompers, the A.F. of L., and the Pacifists, 1917-1920. Durham: Duke University Press, 1968.
  10. 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.
  11. 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).
  12. 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.
  13. Marshall, L.C. "The War Labor Program and Its Administration." The Journal of Political Economy 26, no. 5 May (1918): 425-460.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Papers of the Presidential Mediation Commission, 1917-1919. University Publications of America, Frederick, MD.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Wehle, Louis B. Hidden Threads of History: Wilson Through Roosevelt. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953.
  21. Wehle, Louis B. "Labor Problems in the United States During the War." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 32 (1918): 333-392.
  22. Wehle, Louis B. "War Labor Policies and Their Outcome in Peace." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 33 (1919): 321-343.
 
Of Related Interest
  1. Dawley, Alan. Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Pres, 1991.
  2. Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
  3. Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State and Labor Activism, 1987.
  4. Taft, Philip. The A.F. of L. in the Time of Gompers. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.
  5. 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.
  6. Weinstein, James. The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State: 1900-1918. Boston: Beacon Press, 1968.