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Roger Daniels, Coming to America (2002). A sweeping overview of immigration to the United States from colonial times to the 1980s.
Walter Friedman, Birth of a Salesman (2004). A lively treatment of the rise of salesmanship.
Erika Lee, At America’s Gates (2003). One of several superb recent treatments of Chinese immigration and exclusion.
Harold Livesay, Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America (1978). A classic biography of the AFL’s founder.
David Montgomery, Citizen Worker (1993). A brief exploration of workers’ experiences with government, electoral politics, and the marketplace in the late nineteenth century.
Richard White, Railroaded (2011). A recent reassessment of big business and its impact, focusing on the railroad industry.