The Education Trap

Bibliography

 

Manuscripts & Archives

University Archives

University of Massachusetts, Boston, Archives: Boston, MA

  • Boston Normal School: records, 1872-1942 (bulk 1872-1924)

  • Boston State College collection, 1900-1982 (bulk 1952-1982)

  • Boston State College Yearbooks (1917-1982)

  • Boot & Shoe Workers Union , Edgemakers and Heelers Local (1895-1930)

  • Boston Children's Service Association, Annual reports, 1819 - 1994

  • Boston Female Asylum: records, 1800-1946 (bulk 1800-1923)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Archives: Cambridge, MA.

  • School of Mechanic Arts, Records, 1876-1886

  • Sloan School of Management, Student records, 1917-[ongoing]

  • Placement Bureau Records, 1920-1968

  • The Tech, Records, 1885-1886

  • Undergraduate Employment Bureau, Annual report, 1931-1932

  • Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology records

  • Class of 1885 records

  • Class of 1873 records

  • Class of 1897 correspondence and memorabilia

  • Class of 1907, scrapbooks

  • Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology records

  • Ellen Swallow Richards Collection

  • Women's Laboratory, Collection on the, 1867-1922

  • Collection on Student Life at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Football Association, Records, 1889-1891

  • Technology Christian Organization, Undergraduate Employment Bureau, Annual report, 1931-1932

     

Simmons College Archives: Boston, MA.

  • Overseers of the Public Welfare of the City of Boston

  • Industrial School for Girls (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.) records

  • The South End House Association Records

  • New York Society for the Suppression of Vice Records

  • University Yearbooks

  • Digital Scrapbook Collection

 

Northeastern University Collections: Boston, MA.

  • Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston, Records, 1833-2003.

  • School of Commerce and Finance Records, 1910-1927

  • College of Business Administration records (1927-2011)

  • College of Engineering, Records, 1911-1996

  • Division of Cooperative Education records (1922-1972)

  • Office of the President (Frank Palmer Speare), Records, 1896-1951

  • Lowell Institute School, Records, 1883-1999

  • NU Office of Alumni Relations Records, 1926-2005

  • NU Alumni Directory, 1929-1983

        

Boston University Archives: Boston, MA.       

  • University Yearbooks (Catalogues)

  • The Beacon, Student Journal (1876-1951)

  • Scrapbooks (General)

  • Eleanor Collier Collection

 

Harvard University Archives: Cambridge, MA.

  • Records of the Office of Career Services, 1913-1985

  • Appointment Office Reports of placement, 1897-1956 (inclusive)

  • Records of the Secretary for Appointments, 1905-1951

  • Records of the Associate Dean of Harvard College in Charge of Alumni Placement and Student Employment, 1934-1942

  • Student records, 1876-1982 (inclusive)

  • Harvard Student and Alumni Organization Records

Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Collections: Cambridge, MA.

  • Women's Educational and Industrial Union Records,1894-1955Additional records of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 1877-2004

  • Inter-Municipal Committee on Household Research., Records, 1904-1906

  • Records of the Bureau of Vocational Information, 1908-1932

  • Records of the North Bennet Street Industrial School, 1880-1973

  • Woman’s Education Association Records, 1872-1951  

  • Records of the Consumers' League of Massachusetts, 1891-1955

  • Louise Marion Bosworth Papers, 1890-1946

  • South End House (Boston, Mass.). Records

  • Denison House Records

  • Records of the South Boston Neighborhood House, 1861-1996

  • Records of Fernside, 1878-1998

  • Boston Young Women's Christian Association (Massachusetts). Records, 1858-1988

  • New England Women's Club Records, 1843-1970

  • Records of Franklin Square House, 1882-2012

  • Records of the American Association of University Women. Boston Branch, 1886-1978

  • Records of the Saturday Morning Club, 1871-1983

 

Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Special Collections: Cambridge, MA.

Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Historical Collections: Boston, MA

  • Boston Chamber of Commerce Collection

  • Massachusetts Research Association Collection

  • Dennison Manufacturing Company Records (1815-1990)

  • Henry Sturgis Dennison Collection

  • Walter Baker Collection (1812-1945)

  • Ball and Fobes, Fobes and Hayward Collection (1850-1895)

  • Boston Edison Company (1884-1986)

  • A. Lincoln Filene Collection

  • Louis E. Kirstein Collection

  • R. H. Macy and Company (1858-1965)

  • Allen Lane Company (1853-1941) 

  • Dwight Manufacturing Company (1832-1927)

  • Scovill Manufacturing Company (1790-1956)

  • Plymouth Cordage Company (1824-1960)

  • Elton Mayo Papers (1909-1960)        

  • Melvin T. Copeland Papers

  • R. G. Dun & Co. / Dun & Bradstreet Collection

  • Harvard Business School University Records                   

  • Historic Corporate Reports

Public Archives

City of Boston Archives: West Roxbury, Massachusetts

  • School History collection (1820-1989)

  • Student Records (1847-2000)

  • Manuals of the Public Schools of the City of Boston (1869-1973) 

  • School Department publications (circa 1916-2000)

  • Board of Superintendents circulars (1907-1948)

  • Elementary Principals Association records (1919-1938)

  • Dorchester High School collection (1852-2003)

  • Dudley School publications (1911-1915)

  • Girls' High School records (circa 1860s to 1970s)

  • Girls' Latin School records (1880-1976)

  • Girls' Trade School lantern slides (circa 1914)

  • High School of Commerce records (1913-1940)

  • High School of Practical Arts Alumnae Association records (1911-2010)

  • Hyde Park High School records (1886-2002)

  • Boston Technical High School records (1893-1991)

 

Massachusetts Archives at Columbia Point: Boston, MA

Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth:

  • Passed resolves, 1777-2014

  • Passed acts, 1775-2014

  • House unpassed legislation, 1775-2014

  • Senate unpassed legislation, 1780-2014

Department of Education, Board minutes, 1837-1944

        

Boston Public Library: Boston, MA.

  • Boston Latin School records

  • Massachusetts Charitable Societies Records, 1876

  • North End Union Records 

  • Bentley, Harry C.

  • Erskine School Collection

Historical Societies and Private Libraries

Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA

  • Massachusetts Mechanics Charitable Association Records, 1791-1995

  • Boston Central Labor Union (Mass.) records, 1885-1917

  • James J. Walworth Papers

Books: 

  • Official year book of the trade unions of Massachusetts (Boston, Mass. : Allied Printing Trades Council, 1895)

New England Genealogical Society, Boston, MA

  • Union Club of Boston records, 1863-1976

  • Records of the Charlestown Training Field School Association, 1881-1912

  • Register of pupils in young ladies private school conducted by Henry Williams, Washington Street near Union Park, Boston, 1856-1881

  • Thomas E. McLaughlin Collection, 1857-1963

  • Clifton A. Blanchard certificate of good character, 1870

  • United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America quarterly working card for Gabrielle De Franza, 1919

Books: 

  • Harry C. Bentley, 1959, Bentley genealogy 1066 to 1959 : an American family from about 1066-1960

  • International Typographical Union. Local 13, Leaves of history from the archives of Boston Typographical Union no. XIII Boston, Wright & Potter Printing Company] 1923

  • Boston Edison Company., A war-time record : an illustrated account of the war-time activities of the Edison electric illuminating company of Boston during the great world war, 1914-1918.

  • Somerville fifty years ago: boyhood memories of the early 'eighties / by William Preble Jones. Somerville, Mass: The author, 1933.

  • Bradford, Gamaliel. Early days in Wellesley : being casual recollections of boyhood and later years - 1867 to 1881. Wellesley, Mass. : Wellesley National Bank, 1929.

Boston Athenaeum

  • Margaret Urann Family papers, 1828-1966    

  • John Watterson Smith, 1833-1913

  • Joseph Lee Papers, 1912-1991

  • Shattuck, Eleanor Anne Brune, Diary and miscellaneous family papers, 1867-1913

Books:

  • Robert C. Brooks, Businessmen in Civic Service: The Merchants' Municipal Committee of Boston (Reprinted from "Municipal Affairs," September 1897)

  • The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston (Boston, MA: Old Colony Trust Company, 1921)

  • A Condensed Record of the National Union Bank of Boston, Massachusetts: Covering Its History from 1792 to 1904 (Boston, MA: National Union Bank of Boston, 1904)

New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH

  • Augustus D. Ayling Papers    

  • Philias Dubuc Papers

  • James Allison Papers

  • Dorothy M. Vaughan Collection  

  • Deerfield Families Collection

  • New Hampshire Manufacturers Association Records

  • New Hampton Institute

  • Barron Hotel Corporation

Books:

  • Catalogues of the Plymouth Normal School (1872-1937)

  • The business monitor: a journal of commercial education (1866)

  • Fifty years, class of 1896, Concord High School : report of the fiftieth reunion, June 22, 1946.

  • The Belfry, New Hampton, N.H. : Junior Class of New Hampton School (Yearbook)


Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME

  • Maine school broadsides    

  • 19th century college catalogs (1807-1882)

  • Kent's Hill Seminary scrapbook

  • Nasson Institute 1912  comp. by Martina E. Green (Scrapbook)

  • Gray's Business College

  • Jones family collection    

  • Circular of the Kent's Hill Commercial College and Short-Hand Institute 1885-6 (Lewiston, ME: The Journal Office, 1885)

  • William S. Brawn, A brief history of a century of progress in commercial education in the state of Maine (1941)

Books:

  • Northeastern Business College : a school devoted to the principals of modern commercial education. (1940)

  • Catalogue and circular of the Commercial College of the Edward Little Institute, Auburn, Maine (1868)

Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT

  • YMCA of Greater Hartford records,1878-2004

  • Will C. Hills college exercises,1895-1896

  • Mary Parsons School Scrapbooks (1903-1909)

  • Connecticut Personnel and Guidance Association records, 1927-1962

  • Cornwall Iron Company records, 1852-1901

  • Merrow Machine Company Records, 1841-1972

Ephemera:

  • Schools Ephemera (1837-1998)

  • Rewards-of-merit collection (1796-1922)

  • Universities and colleges ephemera (1811-2003)

Broadsides:

  • New Haven Collegiate and Commercial Institute

  • Canterbury School. A collegiate and commercial school  

Books:

  • Catalogue of the Elm Park Commercial, Agricultural and Collegiate Institute, located in Litchfield, Connecticut. With a prospectus. 1857

  • Catalogue of the officers and students in the Collegiate and Commercial Institute, New Haven, Conn. for the term ending July 30th, 1862

  • Huntsinger's Business College, You can do what they have done (Hartford, Conn. : The College) 1899.

  • Huntsinger Business School , This book shows the penmanship progress at Huntsinger's : you can do the same (Hartford, Conn. :The School,[1912?]

  • Annual catalogue of Hannum's Hartford Business College,Hannum & Stedman, proprietors ... 1887-8

  • Hannum's Business College, The business review Hartford, Conn. : Hannum & Stedman, 1886

Government Documents

National

  • US Commission on Industrial Relations. Industrial Relations: Final Report and Testimony. Vol. 3. Washington, GPO, 1916.

  • Reports of the Immigration Commission: Volume II. Washington: GPO, 1911.

  • Blair, Henry William. Report of the Committee of the Senate Upon the Relations Between Labor and Capital. Vol. 4. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1885.

  • Bonner, H. R. Private Commercial and Business Schools, 1917-1918. Bulletin No. 47, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920.

  • Rockwell, Julius Ensign. The Teaching, Practice, and Literature of Shorthand. Bureau of Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893.

  • Bush, George Gary. History of Higher Education in Massachusetts. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891.

  • Wright, Carroll Davidson. The Apprenticeship System in Its Relation to Industrial Education. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908.

  • Koren, John. The Padrone System and Padrone Banks. Bulletin of the Department of Labor. Washington D.C.: GPO, 1897.

  • United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unemployment Among Women in Department and Other Retail Stores of Boston. January, 1916. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916.

  • Claxton, P. P. Negro Education: A Study of the Private and Higher Schools for Colored People in the United States. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education, Bulletin No. 39. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917.

State

  • Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts

  • Annual Report of the Board of Education, 1837-1918

  • Annual Report of the Department of Education, 1919-1940

  • Census of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

  • “United States District Court.” In Department Reports of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Vol. 4. Bureau of Department Reports, 1917.

  • Hopkins, Louisa Parsons Stone, et. al. Report of the Commission Appointed to Investigate the Existing Systems of Manual Training and Industrial Education. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1893.

  • Morse, Charles Henry. Some Representative American Industrial and Manual Training Schools. Boston, MA: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1908.

  • Wright, Carroll Davidson. The Results of the Massachusetts Public School System. Rand, Avery & Company, printers to the commonwealth, 1879.

  • Charles Felton Pidgin. History of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor of Massachusetts. Boston, MA: Wright & Potter, State Printer, 1876.

  • Waldin, Horace G. “Social Conditions in Domestic Service.” Massachusetts Labor Bulletin No. 13 (February 1900): 1–17.

City 

  • Reports of Proceedings of the City Council of Boston

  • Annual Report of the City Auditor

  • Annual Report of the Chief of Police / Board of Police Commissioners

  • Boston Municipal Registers 

  • Ordinances and Rules and Orders of the City of Boston

School Committee 

  • Reports of the Proceedings of the School Committee

  • Documents of the School Committee:

    • Annual Report of the School Committee

    • Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools

    • Rules and Regulations 

    • Course of Study/ Catalogues (for specific schools, varies by year)

    • Annual Report of the Business Agent

    • Annual Report of the Auditor

    • Report of the Committee on Salaries

Newspapers & Periodicals

 

Newspapers

The Boston Daily Globe

The Boston Herald

The Boston Pilot

The Boston Post

School Newspapers: 

Harvard Crimson

The Tech (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Education Journals

The Education Review

The Massachusetts Teacher 

Popular Educator

The School Journal 

Manual Training and Vocational Education

Manual Training Magazine

Trade Journals

Bulletin of the National Metal Trades Association / The Open Shop

Shoe and Leather Reporter

The Carpenter

The Iron Age

Engineering Review

Steam

Metal Trades Digest

Mixer and Server

Spatula

American Printer and Lithographer

The Stenographer / The Stenographer and Phonographic World

The American short-hand writer

Boot and Shoe Recorder

Building Age

The Builder’s Journal

The Manufacturer & Builder

Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers

The American Machinist

The American Employer

Hunt’s Merchants Magazine

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

System: The Magazine of Business

The Bookkeeper: A Magazine for Men (and related titles)

Salesmanship: A Monthly Magazine

Dry Goods Economist

The Journal of Home Economics

Banker’s Magazine

Engineering Review

The Bar Bulletin

Union / Labor Journals

Labor Leader

The Labor World

The Wage Earner

Shoe Workers Journal

The Railway Clerk

The Retail Clerks Advocate

The American Federationist

Published Primary Sources

 Institutional Sources (by School or School Type)

  • UMass Boston/ Boston State College / Boston Teachers College / Boston Normal School

  • Harvard University

    • Reports of the Class Secretary / Anniversary Reports / Class Directories

  • Boston University

    The Boston University Year Book

  • Boston College

  • Northeastern University

    • School Catalogues

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    • Annual Report of the President and Treasurer

    • Annual Catalogues (Directory of Officers and Students)

    • Annual Handbooks

    • Register of Graduates / Former Students

    • The Technique (Yearbook)

    • Technology Review (Alumni Magazine)

    • History of the Class of 1874, 1874-1914 (Boston, MA: Stanhope Press, 1914

    • Class of '84 MIT, 1884-1909 (Boston: Everett Press, 1909)

    • Class of '84 MIT, Forty-Fifth Anniversary Booklet (Cambridge, 1929)

    • 1897 MIT Class Book 1914 (Concord, NH: The Rumford Press, 1914)

    • MIT Class of 1917: Thirtieth Anniversary Report (Cambrige, MA: Cosmo Press, 1918)

    • 1923 Twenty Five Year Class in 1948 (MIT, 1948)

    • A Great History of The Great Class of 1923 (Arthur Winthrop Davenport, 1973)

  • Commercial Schools

    • Comer’s Commercial School, Boston. Annual Catalogue. Comer’s Mercantile and Nautical Institute., 1852.

  • Boston Public Schools

  • Boston Private Academies/Secondary Schools

    • Philips Academy, Andover. Catalogue of Philips Andover Academy, 1882.

    • Massachusetts charitable mechanic association. Official Catalogue & Journal of the 11th Exhibition : Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1869.

Serial Publications / Proceedings

Boston Directories 

  • Boston Almanac and Business Directory. Boston: Sampson, Davenport & Co., 1880-1893

  • The Boston Directory Supplement & Business Directory. Boston: Sampson, Murdock & Co., 1903

  • Boston Register and Business Directory. Boston: Sampson, Murdock & Co., 1921

  • Associated Charities of Boston. A Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Boston. Boston, MA: A. Williams & Co, 1880.

  • Sadliers' Catholic Directory, Almanac, and Ordo. New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Company, 1880-1891.

College and Private School Directories

  • Sargent, Porter. The Handbook of American Private Schools. Boston, MA: Porter Sargent Pub. Inc., 1915-1922

  • Patterson, Homer L. Patterson’s American Educational Directory. Chicago, IL: American Educational Co., 1904-1920

  • Thomas, Grace Powers. Where to Educate, 1898-1899: A Guide to the Best Private Schools, Higher Institutions of Learning, Etc., in the United States. Boston, MA: Brown & Company, 1898.

  • Robertson, David Allan, ed. American Universities and Colleges. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 1928.

Other

  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Transactions of the ASME. New York City: The  Society, 1880-1924.

  • Association, New England Shorthand Reporters’. Proceedings of the New England Shorthand Reporters’ Association 1889-1892. Boston: Geo. H. Ellis, 1892.

  • Ayer, N.W. N.W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual Catalogue. Philadelphia, PA: N. W. Ayer & Son, 1882-1921

  • Boris, J.J., ed. Who’s Who in Colored America. New York: Who’s Who in Colored America Corp, 1927.

  • Educational Opportunities of Greater Boston: Day and Evening Courses for Working Men and Women. Cambridge: Prospect Union Educational Exchange, 1923.

  • Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of the City of Boston: And a Review of the Prominent Exchanges. Boston: International Publishing Co., 1885.

  • Leonard, John William. Who's Who in America: A Biographic Dictionary of Living Men and Women in the United States. Chicago, IL: A. N. Marquis & Co., 1899

  • National Education Association of the United States. Addresses and Journal of Proceedings of the National Education Association. The Association., 1857.

  • Workers Education in the United States: Report of Proceedings First National Conference. New York: Workers’ Education Bureau of America, 1921.

  • Workers Education in the United States: Report of Proceedings Second National Conference. New York: Workers Education Bureau of America, 1922.

Education

  • Allinson, May. The Public Schools and Women in Office Service. Boston, MA: WEIU, 1914.

  • Archer, Gleason Leonard. Is a College Monopoly of the Legal Profession Desirable? Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1927.

  • ———. The Educational Octopus: A Fearless Portrayal of Men and Events in the Old Bay State, 1906-1915. Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1915.

  • Ballou, Frank. The Appointment of Teachers in Cities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1915.

  • Barnard, Frederick A. P. Two Papers on Academic Degrees. New York: Macgowan & Slipper, 1880.

  • Bedford, James Hiram. Vocational Interests of High School Students. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1930.

  • Bloomfield, Meyer. The Vocational Guidance of Youth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911.

  • Bossard, James, and J. Dewhurst. University Education for Business: A Study of Existing Needs and Practices. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1931.

  • Bradford, Gamaliel. Early Days in Wellesley: Being Casual Recollections of Boyhood and Later Years, 1867 to 1881. Wellesley, MA: Wellesley Historical Society, 1928.

  • Breed, C. “Why Do Not College Men Go Into Railroading?” Railway Age (1918-1988) 68, no. 13 (1920): 1049.

  • Briggs, Le Baron Russell, and William James. The Transition from School to College. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904.

  • C. M. Woodward. The Manual Training School. Boston, MA: D.C. Heath & Co., 1887.

  • Caliver, Ambrose. A Personnel Study of Negro College Students. NYC: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1931.

  • Carlton, Frank Tracy. Education and Industrial Evolution. NY: Macmillan, 1908.

  • Converse, Florence. The Story of Wellesley. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1919.

  • Counts, George S. The Selective Character of American Secondary Education. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago, 1922.

  • Cross, Charles R. Early History of the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA: Technology Press, 1920.

  • Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson. Public Education in the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919.

  • Dean, Arthur Davis. Just between Ourselves: Practical Talks to Industrial and Vocational Teachers. Peoria, IL: The Manual Arts Press, 1923.

  • ———. The Worker and the State: A Study of Education for Industrial Workers. New York: The Century Company, 1910.

  • Dewey, John. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education. New York: Free Press, 1916.

  • ———. “The Need of an Industrial Education in an Industrial Democracy.” Manual Training and Vocational Education 17, no. 6 (February 1916).

  • Eaves, Lucile. Old-Age Support of Women Teachers. Boston, MA: Spartan Press Incorporated, 1921.

  • ———. Training for Store Service. Boston: The Gorham Press, 1920.

  • Eggleston, George Cary. How to Educate Yourself: With Or Without Masters. New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1872.

  • Eliot, Charles. “Commercial Education.” Educational Review 18, no. 5 (December 1899): 417–25.

  • Fickett, Edward W. The History of Teacher Placement. Boston: National Association of Teachers Agencies, 1931.

  • Flexner, Abraham. Medical Education in the United States and Canada. New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910.

  • Franklin, Edward Earle. The Permanence of the Vocational Interests of Junior High School Pupils. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1924.

  • Franklin Foundation. From No-Man’s-Land to Leadership. Boston, MA: Franklin Union, 1931.

  • Gleason, Arthur, 1878-1923. Workers’ Education: American and Foreign Experiments. New York: Bureau of Industrial Research, 1921.

  • Goodloe, Abbe Carter. College Girls. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1895.

  • Greene, J. Evarts. The Roxbury Latin School - An Outline of Its History. Worcester, MA: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1887.

  • H. E. Hibbard. Twenty Years’ Progress in Education. Boston: Bryant & Stratton Commercial School, 1890.

  • Herrick, Cheesman Abiah. Meaning and Practice of Commercial Education. New York: The Macmillan company, 1904.

  • Hopkins, Levi Thomas. The Intelligence of Continuation-School Children in Massachusetts,. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924.

  • International Correspondence Schools. The I.C.S. System of Instruction by Mail and the Results Achieved. Scranton, PA: International Textbook Co., 1905.

  • James E. Downey. “‘Education For Business:’ The Boston High School of Commerce.” Journal of Political Economy 21, no. 3 (1913): 221–42.

  • James, Edmund J. Relation of the College and University to Higher Commercial Education. Publications of the American Economic Association, 1901.

  • James, Edmund J. Commercial Education. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Co., 1904.

  • Johnson, Catherine F. Progressive Lessons in the Art and Practice of Needlework for Use in Schools. Boston, MA: D.C. Heath & Company, 1893.

  • Jones, Arthur Julius. The Continuation School in the United States. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907.

  • Keller, Franklin J. Day Schools for Young Workers: The Organization and Management of Part-Time and Continuation Schools. New York: The Century Co., 1924.

  • Kelly, Frederick James. The Influence of Standardizing Agencies in Education. St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota, 1928.

  • Kelly, Roy Willmarth. Training Industrial Workers. NY: Ronald Press, 1920.

  • Kleeck, Mary Van. Working Girls in Evening Schools: A Statistical Study. NY: Survey Associates, Inc., 1914.

  • Lapp, John Augustus, and Carl Henry Mote. Learning to Earn: A Plea and a Plan for Vocational Education. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915.

  • Leake, Albert H. The Vocational Education of Girls and Women. NY: Macmillan, 1918.

  • Lyon, Leverett S. A Survey of Commercial Education in the Public High Schools of the United States,. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago, 1919.

  • Lyon, Leverett Samuel. Education for Business. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1922.

  • Marshall, Leon Carroll. The Collegiate School of Business: Its Status at the Close of the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1928.

  • Martin, Edward S. “Undergraduate Life at Harvard.” Scribner’s Magazine XXI, no. 5 (May 1897): 531–33.

  • Marvin, Cloyd Heck. Commercial Education in Secondary Schools. NY: H. Holt, 1922.

  • Maverick, Lewis A. The Vocational Guidance of College Students. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926.

  • McNeill, George Edwin. Factory Children: Report Upon the Schooling and Hours of Labor of Children Employed in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Establishments of Massachusetts. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1875.

  • Mead, George. A Report on Vocational Training in Chicago and in Other Cities. Chicago: City Club of Chicago, 1912.

  • Mills, John. Selecting and Placing College Graduates in Business. New York: American Management Association, 1925.

  • Moore, George A. Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1888 English High School. Boston: George A. Moore, 1941.

  • Morris, John Van Liew. Employee Training: A Study of Education and Training Departments in Various Corporations. NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1921.

  • National Metal Trades Association. The School, The Boy, and Industrial Employment. Chicago: NMTA, 1937.

  • Noffsinger, John Samuel. Correspondence Schools, Lyceums, Chautauquas. NY: Macmillan Co., 1926.

  • “Massachusetts College.” The Outlook, March 19, 1910.

  • North Bennet Street School. The Work of the North Bennet Street Industrial School from 1881 to 1887. Boston: Rand Avery Company, 1887.

  • Norton, Helen Rich. Department-Store Education. Washington: G. P. O., 1917.

  • Park, Charles F. A History of the Lowell Institute School, 1903-1928. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931.

  • Post, Waldron Kintzing. Harvard Stories: Sketches of the Undergraduate. NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1901.

  • Prosser, Charles Allen, and Charles Ricketson Allen. Vocational Education in a Democracy. NY: Century Company, 1925.

  • Prosser, Charles Allen, and Walter Irving Hamilton. The Teacher and Old Age. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913.

  • Reed, Alfred Zantzinger. Training for the Public Profession of the Law. NY: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1921.

  • Reed, Anna Y. Newsboy Service: A Study in Educational and Vocational Guidance. NY: World Book Company, 1917.

  • Reynolds, Ora Edgar. The Social and Economic Status of College Students. NY: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1927.

  • Ritchie, John. One Hundred Years of the English High School of Boston. Boston: Centenary Committee of the English High School Association, 1924.

  • Rogers, William B. Scope and Plan of the School of Industrial Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MA: J. Wilson and Son, 1864.

  • Runkle, John Daniel. The Russian System of Shop-Work Instruction for Engineers and Machinists. Boston, MA: Press of A.A. Kingman, 1876.

  • Sinclair, Upton. The Goose-Step: A Study of American Education. Pasadena, CA. The Author, 1923.

  • Smith, Harriette. The History of the Lowell Institute. Boston, MA: Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1898.

  • Start, Alaric, ed. History of Tufts College. Cambridge, MA: Tufts College, 1896.

  • Stevens, Bertha Morton. Private Commercial Schools: Manhattan and the Bronx. New York: Public Education Association, 1918.

  • Thomas, Flavel Shurtleff. A Dictionary of University Degrees. Syracuse, N.Y.: C. W. Bardeen, 1898.

  • Thompson, Frank Victor. Commercial Education in Public Secondary Schools. Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Company, 1915.

  • ———. Schooling of the Immigrant. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1920.

  • Thwing, Charles Franklin. American Colleges: Their Students and Work. NY: G. P. Putnam’s, 1878.

  • Vanderlip, Frank Arthur. Business and Education. NY: Duffield  & Co., 1907.

  • Veblen, Thorstein. The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918.

  • Voorhees, Helen MacMurtrie. History of the Eastern College Personnel Officers, 1926-1952. Boston: T. Todd Co., 1952.

  • Walker, Francis Amasa. A Plea for Industrial Education in the Public Schools: Addressed to the Conference of Associated Charities of the City of Boston, February 10, 1887. Cupples, Upham & Company, 1887.

  • Walker, William H. “The Technology Plan.” Science 51, no. 1319 (1920): 357–59.

  • Wilkes, Frederick A., George Morell York, and Chester J. Terrill. Elementary Training for Business. NY: Ronald Press, 1929.

  • Walsh, Louis S. Historical Sketch of the Growth of Catholic Parochial Schools in the Archdiocese of Boston. Newton Highlands: Press of St. John’s industrial school, 1901.

  • Winslow, Charles Henry. Industrial Education: Report of Committee on Industrial Education of the American Federation of Labor. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912.

  • Woods, Lucy Rae. A History of the Girls’ High School of Boston, 1852-1902. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1904.

  • Woods, Robert A. “Does the Present Trend toward Vocational Education Threaten Liberal Culture?” The School Review 19, no. 7 (September 1, 1911): 466–88.

  • Wooton, Edwin. A Guide to Degrees in Arts, Science, Literature, Law, Music, and Divinity. London, UK: L. Upcott Gill, 1883.

Urban / Economic

  • Abbott, Edith. Women in Industry: A Study in American Economic History. Boston, MA: D. Appleton and Company, 1909.

  • Abel, Mary Hinman. The Story of the New England Kitchen. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1890.

  • Adams, Charles Francis. Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915: An Autobiography. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1916.

  • Adams, Elizabdeth Kemper. Women Professional Workers. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1921.

  • Allen, George E. History of the American Institute of Banking. 1900-1919. Boston, 1919.

  • Allinson, May. Dressmaking as a Trade for Women in Massachusetts. Washington: GPO, 1916.

  • Altman, Elizabeth. A History of Baker Library at the Harvard Business School of Business Administration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 1981.

  • Amory, Cleveland. The Proper Bostonians. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1947.

  • Antin, Mary. The Promised Land. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1912.

  • Archer, Gleason Leonard. The Impossible Task: The Story of Present Day Boston. Boston: Suffolk Law School Press, 1926.

  • Associated Charities of Boston. A Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Boston. Boston: A. Williams & Co, 1880.

  • Bacon, Edwin Monroe. Boston of To-Day: A Glance at Its History and Characteristics. Boston, MA: Post Publishing Company, 1892.

  • ———. The Book of Boston: Fifty Years’ Recollections of the New England Metropolis. Boston: Book of Boston Company, 1916.

  • Banks, Louis Albert. White Slaves: Or the Oppression of the Worthy Poor. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1893.

  • Barron, Clarence Walker, and Joseph Gregory Martin. The Boston Stock Exchange: With Brief Sketches of Prominent Brokers, Bankers, Banks and Moneyed Institutions of Boston. Boston, MA: Hunt & Bell, 1893.

  • Basset, William Rupert. The Organization of Modern Business. NY: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1921.

  • Baxter, Sylvester. “Boston’s Fenway as an Educational Center.” New Outlook 86, no. 17 (August 14, 1907): 15.

  • Bayles, George James, Sallie Elizabeth Joy White, and William Herbert Carruth. American Women’s Legal Status, Letters to American Girls, Letters to American Boys. NY: P.F. Collier, 1905.

  • Bentley, Harry C. A Brief Treatise on the Origin and Development of Accounting. Boston, MA: Bentley School of Accounting and Finance, 1929.

  • Berkley, George E. The Filenes. Boston: Branden Books, 1998.

  • Biddle, George. An American Artist’s Story. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1939.

  • Boyden, Merrill. The Old School Boys of Boston: Organized 1880. Boston, MA: The Association, 1903.

  • Bosworth, Louise Marion. The Living Wage of Women Workers. New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1911.

  • Bowen, Louise de Koven. Safeguards for City Youth at Work and at Play. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1914.

  • Brandeis, Louis D. Business: A Profession. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1914.

  • Brooks, Robert C. “Business Men in Civic Service: The Merchants’ Municipal Committee of Boston.” Municipal Affairs 1 (September 1897): 491–508.

  • Bryner, Edna. Dressmaking and Millinery. Cleveland, OH: Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, 1916.

  • Bushee, Frederick Alexander. Ethnic Factors in the Population of Boston. New York: American Economic Association, 1903.

  • Campbell, Helen. Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1893.

  • Cannon, Cornelia James. The History of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union: A Civic Laboratory, 1877-1927. Boston: Thomas Todd Co., 1927.

  • Collier, Virginia MacMakin. Marriage and Careers: A Study of One Hundred Women Who Are Wives, Mothers, Homemakers and Professional Workers. New York: Channel Bookshop, 1926.

  • Comer, George Nixon. Book-Keeping Rationalized: Adapted to All Kinds of Business. Comer’s Commercial College, 1873.

  • Commons, John Rogers. History of Labour in the United States. Vol. 3. New York: Macmillan, 1918.

  • Cowdrick, Edward. Manpower in Industry. NY: H. Holt & Company, 1924.

  • Crawford, Mary Caroline. Romantic Days in Old Boston: The Story of the City and of Its People During the Nineteenth Century. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910.

  • Cushing, Thomas. Historical Sketch of Chauncy-Hall School with Catalogue of Teachers and Pupils: And Appendix. 1828-1894. Boston, MA: Press of D. Clapp & Son, 1895.

  • Daniels, John. In Freedom’s Birthplace: A Study of the Boston Negroes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914.

  • Davis, William Thomas. Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston, MA: Boston History Company, 1895.

  • ———. Professional and Industrial History of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Boston, MA: Boston History Company, 1894.

  • De Schweinitz, Dorothea. How Workers Find Jobs; a Study of Four Thousand Hosiery Workers in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932.

  • Depew, Chauncey Mitchell. One Hundred Years of American Commerce. Vol. 1. New York: D.O. Haynes, 1895.

  • Dodge, Harriet Hazen. Survey of Occupations Open to the Girl of Fourteen to Sixteen Years. Boston, MA: Girls Trade Education League, 1912.

  • Branch Alliance of the Christ Church. The Dorchester Book. Boston, MA: G. H. Ellis, 1899.

  • Dorr, Rheta Childe. What Eight Million Women Want. Boston, MA: Small, Maynard & Company, 1910.

  • Douglas, Paul Howard. American Apprenticeship and Industrial Education. New York: Columbia University, 1921.

  • Ellis, John. Deterioration of the Puritan Stock and Its Causes. New York: J. Ellis, 1884.

  • Estabrook, Harold Kelsey. Some Slums in Boston. Boston: Twentieth Century Club, 1898.

  • Fernald, Walter Elmore. Report of the Commission for the Investigation of the White Slave Traffic, So Called. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1914.

  • Filene Co-operative Association, Paul Terry Cherington, Harold H Burbank, A. Lincoln Filene, Edmund Ezra Day, J. R Simpson, T. K Cory, et al. The Filene Co-Operative Association Business Course. Boston, MA: s.n., 1916.

  • Filene Co-operative Association, T. B Johnston, B. Seebohm Rowntree, and David Lloyd Davies. Industrial Councils Pamphlets: Including The F.C.A. in a Nutshell. Boston, MA, 1908.

  • Foster, Frank K. Trades Unionism: A Reply to the Criticism of Trades Union Methods Contained in the Address of President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard in Faneuil Hall, Feb. 7, 1904. Boston, MA: Liberator Union Job Print, 1904.

  • Foster, Frank Keyes. The Evolution of a Trade Unionist. Boston: Allied Printing Trades Council, 1901.

  • Committee of Fourteen. Department Store Investigation: Report of the Sub-Committee. New York, 1915.

  • George, Henry. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; the Remedy. NY. Sterling Publishing Company, 1879.

  • Gillespie, C. Bancroft, ed. Illustrated History of South Boston. Boston: Inquirer Publishing Company, 1900.

  • Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Home: Its Work and Influence. NY: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1903.

  • Gowin, Enoch Burton, William Alonzo Wheatley, and John Marks Brewer. Occupations: A Textbook for the Educational, Civic, and Vocational Guidance of Boys and Girls. Boston, MA: Ginn and Company, 1923.

  • Hale, Edward Everett. Historic Boston and Its Neighborhood: An Historical Pilgrimage Personally Conducted. New York: D. Appleton, 1898.

  • Henry, Alice. The Trade Union Woman. NY: D. Appleton, 1915.

  • Herlihy, Elisabeth May, and William Augustine Leahy, eds. Fifty Years of Boston; a Memorial Volume Issued in Commemoration of the Tercentenary of 1930. Boston: Boston Tercentenary Committee, 1932.

  • Herndon, Richard. Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston: New England Magazine, 1896.

  • Hewes, Amy. Industrial Home Work in Massachusetts. Boston: WEIU, 1915.

  • Horner, Warren Murdock. Will the White Collar Turn Red? Los Angeles, CA: Watson Publishing Company, 1931.

  • International, Typographical Union. Leaves of History from the Archives of Boston Typographical Union No. XIII. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1923.

  • Jenks, Henry Fitch. “Historical Sketch.” In Catalogue of the Boston Public Latin School. Boston: Boston Latin School Association, 1886.

  • Kellor, Frances. Out of Work: A Study of Unemployment. NY: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1904.

  • Kelso, Robert Wilson. The History of Public Poor Relief in Massachusetts, 1620-1920. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1922.

  • Kleeck, Mary Van. Artificial Flower Makers. NY: Survey Associates, Inc., 1913.

  • Kober, George Martin, and William Clinton Hanson. Diseases of Occupation and Vocational Hygiene. Philadelphia, PA: P. Blakiston’s Son & Company, 1916.

  • La Dame, Mary. The Filene Store: A Study of Employes’ Relation to Management in a Retail Store. NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1930.

  • Laughlin, Clara Elizabeth. The Work-a-Day Girl: A Study of Some Present Day Conditions. NY: Fleming H. Revell, 1913.

  • Lee, Frederic Schiller. The Human Machine & Industrial Efficiency. NY: Longmans, Green and Company, 1919.

  • Lodge, Henry Cabot. Boston. NY: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1891.

  • Lovett, James d’Wolf. Old Boston Boys and the Games They Played. Boston: Riverside Press, 1907.

  • Lynch, Edmund C. Meyer Bloomfield and Employment Management. Austin, TX: Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas at Austin, 1970.

  • Mann, Horace. A Few Thoughts on the Powers and Duties of Woman: Two Lectures. Syracuse: Hall, Mills, and Co., 1853.

  • Massachusetts Association of Women Workers. The Work, the Method, the Result. Boston, MA, 1902.

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Society of Arts. Abstract of the Proceedings of the Society of Arts. Boston, MA: Baily Combination Type & Printing Co., 1880.

  • McKenzie, Alexander. Cambridge Sketches by Cambridge Authors. Boston, MA: Cambridge Young Women’s Christian Association, 1896.

  • McKinsey, James Oscar. Organization and Methods of the Walworth Manufacturing Company,. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1922.

  • McNeil, George E. “The Democracy of Labor Organization.” The Arena 1 (1889): 69–81.

  • McNeill, George Edwin, ed. The Labor Movement: The Problem of to-Day. Boston, MA: A.M. Bridgman & Co., 1887.

  • Murphy, John Allen. Walworth, 1842-1942. New York: Walworth Co., 1945.

  • Myrick, O. H. “Statutory Regulation of Trades and Professions.” Lawyer and Banker 3 (1910): 174–87.

  • National Industrial Conference Board. Clerical Salaries in the United States, 1926. New York: National Industrial Conference Board, 1926.

  • Nearing, Scott. Wages in the United States, 1908-1910: A Study of State and Federal Wage Statistics. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1914.

  • O’Sullivan, Mary Blanche. “The Sacrifice of the Shop-Girl.” In Immortelles of Catholic Columbian Literature: Compiled from the Work of American Catholic Women Writers, 224–32. Akron, Ohio: D. H. McBride & Co., 1897.

  • Peabody, Marian Lawrence. To Be Young Was Very Heaven. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1967.

  • Perlman, Selig. A History of Trade Unionism in the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1922.

  • Perry, Edwin A. The Boston Herald and Its History. Boston, MA: The Herald, 1878.

  • Phelps, Roswell F. South End Factory Operatives: Employment and Residence. Boston, MA: South End House Association, 1903.

  • Pinanski, Abraham Edward. The Street Railway System of Metropolitan Boston. NY: McGraw Publishing Company, 1908.

  • Powell, Aaron Macy. “Social Vice and National Decay.” In The National Purity Congress: Its Papers, Addresses, Portraits, 42–57. NY: American Purity Alliance, 1896.

  • Quimby, George Francis. Americanization in Industry: How to Organize English and Citizenship Classes. Boston: Associated Industries of Massachusetts, 1919.

  • Quincy, Josiah Phillips. Double Taxation in Massachusetts: Its Injustice as Between Towns and as Between Citizens: Its Abolition : The First Step Towards an Equitable Assessment of Wealth. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1889.

  • Rand, John Clark. One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A. D. 1888-’89. Boston: First National Publishing Company, 1890.

  • Reno, Conrad, and Leonard Augustus Jones. Memoirs of the Judiciary and Bar. Boston, MA: The Century Memorial Publishing Co., 1901.

  • Richards, Ellen Henrietta. Euthenics, the Science of Controllable Environment. Boston: Whitcomb & Barrows, 1910.

  • Riis, Jacob August. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1914.

  • Rosen, Ben. The Trend of the Jewish Population in Boston. Boston, MA: Federated Jewish Charities, 1921.

  • Russell, Thomas Herbert. The Girl’s Fight for a Living: How to Protect Working Women from Dangers Due to Low Wages. Chicago, IL: M. A. Donohue, 1913.

  • Salmon, Lucy Maynard. Domestic Service. New York: Macmillan, 1897.

  • Sanger, Margaret. Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentano’s, 1920.

  • Sawyer, Timothy Thompson. Old Charlestown: Historical, Biographical, Reminiscent. Boston, MA: J.H. West Company, 1902.

  • Slichter, Sumner H. The Turnover of Factory Labor. NY: D. Appleton, 1919.

  • Smith, Mary Gove. Immigration as a Source of Supply for Domestic Workers: Based upon a Study of Conditions in Boston. Boston: Women’s Educational and Industrial Union, 1906.

  • Smith, Reginald Heber. Justice and the Poor. New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1919.

  • Smith, Zilpha Drew. Deserted Wives and Deserting Husbands : A Study of 234 Families Based on the Experience of the District Committees and Agents of the Associated Charities of Boston. Boston: George H. Ellis, 1901.

  • Spahr, Charles B. An Essay on the Present Distribution of Wealth in the United States. Library of Economics and Politics. No. 12. Boston, MA: TY Crowell & Company, 1896.

  • Stevens, Bertha Morton. Boys and Girls in Commercial Work. Cleveland, OH: Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, 1916.

  • Stockton, Frank Tenney. The Closed Shop in American Trade Unions. Lancaster, PA: New Era Printing Company, 1911.

  • Stoddard, William Leavitt. The Shop Committee: A Handbook for Employer and Employee. NY: Macmillan Company, 1919.

  • Stone, Orra Laville. History of Massachusetts Industries: Their Inception, Growth, and Success. Boston, MA: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1930.

  • Taylor, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1913.

  • The Clubs of Boston: Containing a Complete List of Members and Addresses of All Boston Clubs of Social and Business Prominence. Boston: N. Wilson & Co., 1891.

  • “The First Woman Typewriter.” The School Journal, February 4, 1905, 138–39.

  • Warren, William Fairfield. The Origin and Progress of Boston University. Boston, MA: Boston University Offices, 1893.

  • Walker, Francis A. The Wages Question: A Treatise on Wages and the Wages Class. London: Macmillan Company, 1876.

  • Wall, Hugo. Occupational Restrictions: A Study of the Laws of Eighteen Selected States, Covering the Requirement for Entering Occupations Therein. San Francisco, CA: The Club, 1929.

  • Walworth, Clarence Augustus. Walworths of America: Comprising Five Chapters of Family History, with Additional Chapters of Genealogy. Albany, NY: Weed-Parsons Printing Co., 1897.

  • Wendell, Barrett. History of Lee, Higginson & Company, 1848-1918. Boston: Privately printed, DB Updike, The Merrymount Press, 1921.

  • Whitney, Nathaniel Ruggles. Jurisdiction in American Building-Trades Unions. Lancaster, PA: New Era Printing Company, 1914.

  • Whittelsey, Sarah Scovill. Massachusetts Labor Legislation: An Historical and Critical Study. Philadelphia, PA: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1900.

  • Wilkinson, Laura S. “Household Economics.” In The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman’s Building, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, USA, 1893, edited by Mary Kavanaugh Oldham Eagle, 233–36. Philadelphia: International Publishing Company, 1895.

  • Williams, Elmira. Directory and Valuable Information of the Negro Business and Professional Men and Women of Boston and Vicinity. Boston, MA, 1914.

  • Wilson, Elizabeth. Fifty Years of Association Work among Young Women, 1866-1916: A History of Young Women’s Christian Associations in the United States of America. NY: National Board of the YWCA, 1916.

  • Wilson, Henry W. Report of the Committee of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association: On the Subject of the Relations of Apprentices to Their Employers. Boston, MA: Wright & Potter, 1869.

  • Winsor, Justin, ed. The Memorial History of Boston: Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880. Boston, MA: Ticknor and Company, 1881.

  • Wolfe, Albert Benedict. The Lodging House Problem in Boston. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906.

  • Woods, Robert. “Settlement Houses and City Politics.” Municipal Affairs, 1900, 394-.

  • Woods, Robert Archey. Americans in Process: A Settlement Study. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1902.

  • ———. The City Wilderness: A Settlement Study. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1898.

  • ———. The Settlement Horizon. New York: Russell Sage foundation, 1922.

  • ———. “University Settlements: Their Point and Drift.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 14, no. 1 (1899): 67–86.

  • Woods, Robert Archey, and Albert Joseph Kennedy. Handbook of Settlements. Boston: Charities Publication Committee, 1911.

  • ———. Young Working Girls: A Summary of Evidence from Two Thousand Social Workers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.

  • Woolston, Howard Brown. Prostitution in the United States. Vol. 1. New York: The Century Co., 1921.

Occupational Guides

  • Allen, Frederick James. Advertising as a Vocation. NY: Macmillan Company, 1919.

  • ———. Business Employments. Boston, MA: Ginn and Company, 1916.

  • ———. The Law as a Vocation. Vocation Bureau, 1913.

  • Barker, Clara Hélène. Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework: Business Principles Applied to Housework. NY: Moffat, Yard, and Company, 1917.

  • Barker, Lewellys Franklin. The Young Man and Medicine. NY: Macmillan Company, 1928.

  • Basset, William Rupert. When the Workmen Help You Manage. NY: The Century Co., 1919.

  • Beecher, Catharine Esther, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The American Woman’s Home, Or, Principles of Domestic Science. NY: J.B. Ford and Company, 1869.

  • Bloomfield, Meyer. Management and Men: A Record of New Steps in Industrial Relations. NY: Century Company, 1919.

  • Brandeis, Louis D. Business: A Profession. Boston, MA: Small, Maynard & Co., 1914.

  • Campbell, Helen. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking: Adapted to Domestic Use Or Study in Classes. NY: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1881.

  • Clark, Francis Edward, and Sallie Joy White. A Book for Boys and Girls Consisting Of Our Business Boys, Art of Good Manners, and Business Openings for Girls. Akron, Ohio: The Werner Company, 1895.

  • Clark, Rev. Francis Edward. Our Business Boys: What Eighty-Three Business Men Say. Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1884.

  • Comer, George N. Writing without a Master: Six Lessons on Writing. Boston, MA: G. N. Comer, 1850.

  • Comer, George Nixon. Book-Keeping Rationalized: Adapted to All Kinds of Business, Personal and Partnership Commission and Corporate. Boston, MA: Fred’k. A. Brown & Company, 1865.

  • Crussell, Edward H. Jobbing Work for the Carpenter. NY: David Williams Company, 1914.

  • Dean, Amos. Bryant and Stratton’s Commercial Law for Business Men. NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1861.

  • Dooley, William Henry. Applied Science for Metal Workers. NY: Ronald Press Company, 1919.

  • ———. Applied Science for Wood-Workers. NY: Ronald Press Company, 1919.

  • ———. Principles and Methods of Industrial Education for Use in Teacher Training Classes. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1919.

  • Dukesmith, Frank Hutchinson, and Charles W. Mitchell. Salesmanship Analyzed: Being an Analytical Treatise on the Science of Salesmanship Demonstrated by Diagramatic Charts. Pittsburgh, PA: American College of Salesmanship, 1905.

  • Eaton, Jeannette, and Bertha Morton Stevens. Commercial Work and Training for Girls. NY: The Macmillan company, 1915.

  • Eaves, Lucile. Training for Store Service. Boston: The Gorham Press, 1920.

  • Filene, A. Lincoln. A Merchant’s Horizon. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924.

  • Friedel, J. H. Training for Librarianship: Library Work as a Career. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott company, 1921.

  • Galloway, Lee. Office Management, Its Principles and Practice: Covering Organization, Arrangement, and Operation, with Special Consideration of the Employment, Training, and Payment of Office Workers. NY: Ronald Press Company, 1918.

  • Gowin, Enoch Burton. The Selection and Training of the Business Executive. NY: Macmillan Company, 1918.

  • Grimshaw, Robert. “Shop Kinks”: A Book Entirely Different From Any Other on Machine-Shop Practice. New York: N.W. Henley & Co., 1896.

  • ———. The Miller, Millwright, and Millfurnisher: A Practical Treatise. New York: H. Lockwood, 1882.

  • ———. The Modern Foreman. NY: Biddle Business Publications, 1921.

  • ———. The Steam-Boiler Catechism: A Practical Book for Steam Engineers, and for Firemen, Owners and Makers of Boilers of Any Kind. New York: Woolfall, Clark & Zugalla, 1888.

  • Hapgood, Olive C. School Needlework. A Course of Study in Sewing Designed for Use in Schools. Boston, MA: Ginn and Company, 1893.

  • Harland, Marion. Home Making. Boston, MA: Hall and Locke Company, 1911.

  • Hill, Janet McKenxie. The Up-To-Date Waitress. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company, 1912.

  • Hirth, Emma. Statistical Work: A Study of Opportunities for Women. NY: The Bureau of vocational information, 1921.

  • Hough, Benjamin Olney. Practical Exporting: A Handbook for Manufacturers and Merchants. NY: American Exporter, 1920.

  • Huntington, Emily. The Kitchen Garden; Or, Object Lessons in Household Work. NY: J. W. Schermerhorn and Company, 1878.

  • John Coapman. How to Systematize Your Factory. NY: A.W. Shaw company, 1918.

  • Johnson, Catherine F. Progressive Lessons in the Art and Practice of Needlework for Use in Schools. Boston, MA: D.C. Heath & Company, 1893.

  • Kelly, Roy Willmarth. Hiring the Worker. NY: Engineering Magazine Company, 1918.

  • Kennard, Beulah Elfreth. The Educational Director. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1918.

  • Kilduff, Edward Jones. The Private Secretary,His Duties and Opportunities. NY: The Century Co., 1919.

  • Kinne, Helen. Equipment for Teaching Domestic Science. Boston, MA: Whitcomb & Barrows, 1914.

  • Larsson, Gustaf. A Text Book of Working Drawings of Models in Sloyd: Adapted to American Schools. The Sloyd Training School, 1893.

  • Leffingwell, William Henry. Office Management: Principles and Practice. NY: A. W. Shaw company, 1926.

  • Library Bureau. Filing as a Profession for Women. Boston, MA: Library Bureau, 1919.

  • Lincoln, Mary Johnson. The School Kitchen Textbook: Lessons in Cooking and Domestic Science for the Use of Elementary Schools. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1915.

  • Marden, Orison Swett. The Exceptional Employee. Santa Fe, NM: Sun Publishing Company, 1913.

  • ———. The Young Man Entering Business. New York: T. Y. Crowell and Company, 1903.

  • Maxwell, William Morey. Salesmanship. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1914.

  • McClelland, Frank C. Office Training and Standards. NY: A. W. Shaw company, 1919.

  • Opdycke, John Baker. Advertising and Selling Practice. NY: A. W. Shaw Company, 1918.

  • Packard, Silas Sadler, and Henry Beadman Bryant. The New Bryant and Stratton Common School Book-Keeping: Embracing Single and Double Entry, and Adapted to Individual and Class Instruction in Schools and Academies. NY: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company, 1878.

  • Patton, Frances. Home and School Sewing. NY: Newson and Company, 1901.

  • Perrigo, Charles Oscar Eugene. Modern Machine Shop Construction, Equipment and Management. NY: The N.W. Henley Company, 1905.

  • Plunkett, Harriette Merrick. Women, Plumbers, and Doctors: Or, Household Sanitation. NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1885.

  • Richards, Ellen Henrietta, and Sophronia Maria Elliott. The Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning: A Manual for House Keepers. Boston, MA: Whitcomb and Barrows, 1907.

  • Ripley, Charles M. Life in a Large Manufacturing Plant. Schenectady, NY: General Electric Company Publication bureau, 1919.

  • Rockwell, Julius Ensign. The Teaching, Practice, and Literature of Shorthand. Bureau of Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893.

  • Rose, Robert F. How to Become a Private Secretary. NY: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1917.

  • Scrimshaw, Stewart. Bricklaying in Modern Practice. NY: Macmillan Company, 1920.

  • Sheldon, Arthur Frederick. The Art of Selling: For Business Colleges, High Schools of Commerce, Y.M.C.A. Classes and Private Students. Libertyville, IL: Sheldon University Press, 1911.

  • Spencer, Ellen Lane. The Efficient Secretary. NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1916.

  • Usher, John T. The Modern Machinist: A Practical Treatise on Modern Machine Shop Methods. NY: N. W. Henley and Company, 1896.

  • Vocation Bureau of Boston. The Department Store and Its Opportunities for Boys and Young Men. Boston: Vocation Bureau of Boston, 1912.

  • White, Sallie Elizabeth Joy. Housekeepers and Home-Makers. Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Company, 1888.

  • White, Sally Elizabeth Joy. Business Openings for Girls. Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1891.

  • Whitehead, Harold. How to Run a Store. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1921.

  • ———. Principles of Salesmanship. NY: Ronald Press Company, 1918.

  • Wilbur, Mary Aronetta. Every-Day Business for Women: A Manual for the Uninitiated. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin company, 1910.

  • Worman, H. A. Building up the Force: How to Get Help, Handle Applicants, and Fit Men into the Organization. NY: A. W. Shaw Company, 1913. 

  • Wright, Henry Parks. The Young Man and Teaching. NY: Macmillan Company, 1920.

Self-Help, Etiquette, and Employment Guides

  • Abbott, Rev. Lyman. How to Succeed: In Public Life, as a Minister, as a Physician, as a Musician, as an Engineer, as an Artist, in Mercantile Life, as a Farmer, as an Inventor, and in Literature. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1882.

  • Bloomfield, Meyer. Youth, School, and Vocation. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin company, 1915.

  • Bok, Edward William. The Young Man in Business. Boston, MA: L. C. Page & company, 1900.

  • Bourne, Randolph Silliman. Youth and Life. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.

  • C. M. Burdett. How to Achieve Success. Boston: Burdett College, 1893.

  • Clark, Rev. Francis Edward. Danger Signals: The Enemies of Youth. Boston: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, 1885.

  • ———. Looking Out on Life: A Book for Girls on Practical Subjects Based on Many Letters From Wise Mothers. Boston: D. Lothrop, 1892.

  • Dean, Arthur Davis. Just between Ourselves: Practical Talks to Industrial and Vocational Teachers. Peoria, IL: The Manual Arts Press, 1923.

  • Deshon, Rev. George. Guide for Catholic Young Women: Especially For Those Who Earn Their Own Living. 25th ed. New York: The Columbus Press, 1892.

  • Donnelly, Harold I. What Shall I Do with My Life?: A Study Course for Pupils of Junior and Senior High School Age. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press, 1924.

  • Drysdale, William. Helps for Ambitious Boys. New York: T.Y. Crowell, 1899.

  • ———. Helps for Ambitious Girls. NY: T.Y. Crowell, 1900.

  • Eggleston, George Cary. How to Educate Yourself: With Or Without Masters. New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1872.

  • ———. How to Make a Living: Suggestions Upon the Art of Making, Saving, and Using Money. New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1875.

  • Ernst, Clayton Holt. What Shall I Be? Open Roads for Young Men. New York: D. Appleton and company, 1924.

  • Filene, Catherine. Careers for Women. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920.

  • Fowler, Nathaniel C. (Nathaniel Clark). Starting in Life: What Each Calling Offers Ambitious Boys and Young Men. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and company, 1906.

  • Fowler, Nathaniel Clark. Getting a Start: First Aids to Success. NY: Sully and Kleinteich, 1915.

  • ———. How to Get and Keep a Job. Boston, MA: Oakwood Company, 1907.

  • ———. The Boy, How to Help Him Succeed: A Symposium of Successful Experiences. NY: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1902.

  • Geikie, Cunningham. Entering on Life: A Book for Young Men. New York: J. Pott & Company, 1888.

  • Gordon, Maria M. Ogilvie. A Handbook of Employments: Specially Prepared for the Use of Boys and Girls on Entering The Trades, Industries, and Professions. Aberdeen: Rosemount Press, 1908.

  • Hale, Edward Everett. Boys’ Heroes. Boston, MA: D. Lothrop and company, 1885.

  • Hoerle, Helen Christene, and Florence B. Saltzberg. The Girl and the Job. NY: H. Holt and Company, 1919.

  • Ketling, Elizabeth. Helpful Talks with Girls. NY: Christian Herald, 1910.

  • Lorimer, George Horace. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co, 1902.

  • Marden, Orison Swett. Architects of Fate: Or, Steps to Success and Power, a Book Designed to Inspire Youth to Character Building, Self-Culture and Noble Achievement. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1896.

  • ———. Choosing a Career. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905.

  • ———. How to Succeed: Or, Stepping Stones to Fame and Fortune. New York: The Christian Herald, 1896.

  • ———. Pushing to the Front: Or, Success Under Difficulties. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1894.

  • ———. Winning Out: A Book for Young People on Character Building by Habit Forming. Boston, MA: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1900.

  • McKeever, William Arch. Training the Boy. NY: Macmillan Company, 1913.

  • Moran, Selby Albert. Over 100 Ways to Work One’s Way Through College. Ann Arbor, MI: University Press, 1906.

  • Mowry, William Augustus. Talks with My Boys. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892.

  • Orcutt, Hiram. The Parents’ Manual:  Or, Home and School Training. Boston: Thompson, Brown & Co., 1874.

  • O’Reilly, Bernard. The Mirror of True Womanhood: A Book of Instruction for Women in the World. New York: P. J. Kennedy, Excelsior Publishing Company, 1886.

  • Parsons, Frank. Choosing a Vocation. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909.

  • Perkins, Agnes Frances. Vocations for the Trained Woman: Opportunities Other Than Teaching. Boston, MA: Women’s Educational and Industrial Union, 1910.

  • Reid, Whitelaw. Careers for the Coming Men: Practical and Authoritative Discussions of the Professions and Callings Open to Young Americans. Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1904.

  • Rollins, Frank West. What Can a Young Man Do? Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907.

  • Savage, Minot Judson. Man, Woman and Child. Boston: G. H. Ellis, 1884.

  • Smiles, Samuel. Life and Labor, Or Characteristics of Men of Industry, Culture and Genius. Chicago, IL: Donohue, Henneberry & Company, 1891.

  • Stoddard, John Sidney, and Lucy A. Yendes. What Shall I Do?: Fifty Profitable Occupations for Boys and Girls Who Are Undecided as to How to Earn Their Own Living. New York: Hinds & Noble, Publishers, 1899.

  • Thayer, William Makepeace. Aim High: Hints and Helps for Young Men. New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1895.

  • Weaver, Eli Witwer. Choosing an Occupation. NY: Association Press, 1920.

  • ———. Profitable Vocations for Girls. NY: A.S. Barnes Company, 1915.

  • Whitehead, Harold. Your Job: How to Choose a Job, How to Get a Job, How to Grow in a Job. NY: Biddle Business Publications, Inc., 1920.

  • Willard, Frances Elizabeth. Occupations for Women: A Book of Practical Suggestions for the Material Advancement, the Mental and Physical Development, and the Moral and Spiritual Uplift of Women. NY: Success Company, 1897.

  • Wingate, Charles Frederick. What Shall Our Boys Do for a Living ? NY: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1898.

Historical Fiction

  • Baldwin, Faith. Office Wife. Amereon Ltd, 1929.

  • Bartlett, Frederick Orin. One Way Out: A Middle-Class New-Englander Emigrates to America. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1911.

  • Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward, 2000-1887. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1888.

  • Bonner, Geraldine. Miss Maitland, Private Secretary. Appleton, 1919.

  • Dreiser, Theodore. The Financier. A.L. Burt, 1912.

  • Drysdale, William. The Young Reporter; a Story of Printing House Square. Brain and Brawn Series. Boston, WAWilde & company 1895, 1895. 

  • Ferber, Edna. The Girls. 2. Kessinger Publishing, n.d.

  • Flandrau, Charles Macomb. The Diary of a Freshman. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1901.

  • Greene, Asa. The Perils of Pearl Street: Including a Taste of the Dangers of Wall Street. Betts & Anstice, 1834.

  • Grimshaw, Robert. Fifty Years Hence, or, What May Be in 1943: A Prophecy Supposed to Be Based on Scientific Deductions by an Improved Graphical Method. New York : Practical Publishing, 1892. 

  • Hale, Edward Everett, and Lucretia Peabody Hale. The New Harry and Lucy: A Story of Boston in the Summer of 1891. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892.

  • Henry, O. The Four Million. Doubleday, Page, 1906.

  • Howells, William Dean. A Hazard of New Fortunes. Boni and Liveright, Incorporated, 1889.

  • ———. Annie Kilburn: A Novel. Harper & Brothers, 1889.

  • ———. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Ticknor & Company, 1885.

  • Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, 2002.

  • ———. If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis. Edited by Anthony Di Renzo. 1st edition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.

  • ———. Main Street, 2006. 

  • ———. The Job: An American Novel, 2008. 

  • McCaffery, Michael J. A. The Worst Boy in the School. G. W. Dillingham, 1897.

  • Morgan, Henry. Boston Inside Out: A Story of Real Life. American Citizen, 1895.

  • ———. Ned Nevins, the News Boy: Or, Street Life in Boston. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867.

  • Morley, Christopher. Kitty Foyle. Grosset & Dunlap, 1939.

  • Optic, Oliver. Breaking Away: Or, The Fortunes of a Student. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1868.

  • ———. Desk and Debit: Or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk. Boston : Lee and Shepard, 1871.

  • ———. Plane and Plank: Or, The Mishaps of a Mechanic. Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1874.

  • ———. Square and Compasses : Or, Building the House. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1884.

  • ———. Through by Daylight: Or, The Young Engineer of the Lake Shore Railroad. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1870.

  • Optic, Oliver, and Samuel Smith Kilburn. Seek and Find: Or, The Adventures of a Smart Boy. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1868.

  • Otis, James. The Boys’ Revolt: A Story of the Street Arabs of New York. Estes and Lauriat, 1894.

  • Pool, Maria Louise. Roweny in Boston: A Novel. Harper & Brothers, 1892.

  • Rice, Elmer. The Adding Machine: A Play in Seven Scenes. Samuel French, Inc., 1956.

  • Scudder, Vida Dutton. A Listener in Babel: Being a Series of Imaginary Conversations Held at the Close of the Last Century and Reported by Vida D. Scudder. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903.

  • Tarkington, Booth. Alice Adams. Doubleday, Page, 1921.

  • The Imitators: A Poem of Boston Life. Cupples, Upham & Company, 1886.

  • The Youth’s Companion. Perry Mason Company, 1879.

Secondary Sources

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History of Education and Youth

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  • Bailyn, Bernard. Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study. University of North Carolina Press, 1960.

  • Beadie, Nancy. Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

  • ———. “Toward a History of Education Markets in the United States: An Introduction.” Social Science History 32, no. 1 (2008): 47–73.

  • Beatty, Barbara. Preschool Education in America: The Culture of Young Children from the Colonial Era to the Present. Yale University Press, 1995.

  • Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life. NY: Basic Books, 1976.

  • Cohen, Miriam. “Reconsidering Schools and the American Welfare State.” History of Education Quarterly 45, no. 04 (2005): 511–37.

  • Costello, Michele R. Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of Microfinance. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015.

  • Curran, Karen Mastrobattista. Her Greatness Proclaim: The History of Girls’ Latin School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1878-1976. Karen D. Curran, 2014.

  • DiGaetano, Alan. “The Longue Durée of School Governance in Boston.” Journal of Urban History 45, no. 4 (July 2019): 711–46.

  • Eurich, Nell. Corporate Classrooms: The Learning Business. Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1985.

  • Fass, Paula S. The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. Oxford University Press, 1977.

  • Gagen, Elizabeth A. “Making America Flesh: Physicality and Nationhood in Early Twentieth-Century Physical Education Reform.” Cultural Geographies 11, no. 4 (October 2004): 417–42.

  • Graham, Patricia Albjerg. Community and Class in American Education, 1865-1918. NY: Wiley, 1974.

  • Gross, Robert N. Public vs. Private: The Early History of School Choice in America. Oxford University Press, 2018.

  • Grubb, W. Norton, and Marvin Lazerson. The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling. Harvard University Press, 2004.

  • Hoffman, Nancy. Schooling in the Workplace: How Six of the World’s Best Vocational Education Systems Prepare Young People for Jobs and Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Education Press, 2011.

  • Hogan, David. Class and Reform: School and Society in Chicago, 1880-1930. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.

  • ———. “‘To Better Our Condition’: Educational Credentialing and ‘The Silent Compulsion of Economic Relations’ in the United States, 1830 to the Present.” History of Education Quarterly 36, no. 3 (1996): 243.

  • Holloran, Peter C. Boston’s Wayward Children: Social Services for Homeless Children, 1830-1930. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1989.

  • Kaestle, Carl F. Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860. New York: Macmillan, 1983.

  • Kantor, Harvey A. Learning to Earn: School, Work, and Vocational Reform in California, 1880-1930. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

  • Kantor, Harvey, and Robert Lowe. “Educationalizing the Welfare State and Privatizing Education: The Evolution of Social Policy since the New Deal.” In Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance, edited by Prudence L. Carter and Kevin G. Welner, 25–39. Oxford University Press, 2013.

  • Kantor, Harvey, and David B. Tyack, eds. Work, Youth, and Schooling: Historical Perspectives on Vocationalism in American Education. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982.

  • Katz, Michael B. “Public Education as Welfare.” Dissent 57, no. 3 (2010): 52–56.

  • ———. Reconstructing American Education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.

  • ———. The Irony of Early School Reform: Educational Innovation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts. New York: Teachers College Press, 1968.

  • Katznelson, Ira. Schooling for All: Class, Race, and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal. New York: Basic Books, 1985.

  • Kett, Joseph F. Rites of Passage: Adolescence in America, 1790 to the Present. New York: Basic Books, 1977.

  • ———. The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: From Self-Improvement to Adult Education in America, 1750-1990. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

  • ———. “‘Theory Run Mad’: John Dewey and ‘Real’ Vocational Education.” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 16, no. 4 (October 2017): 500–514.

  • Kliebard, Herbert M. Schooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum, 1876-1946. New York: Teachers College Press, 1999.

  • Knepper, Edwin Garfield. History of Business Education in United States. Bowling Green, Ohio: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1941.

  • Labaree, David F. “Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle over Educational Goals.” American Educational Research Journal 34, no. 1 (1997): 44.

  • Labaree, David F. Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling. Harvard University Press, 2010.

  • ———. The Making of an American High School: The Credentials Market and the Central High School of Philadelphia, 1838-1939. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

  • Labaree, David F. “The Winning Ways of a Losing Strategy: Educationalizing Social Problems in the United States.” Educational Theory 58, no. 4 (November 2008): 447–60.

  • Lazerson, Marvin. Origins of the Urban School: Public Education in Massachusetts, 1870-1915. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.

  • Levine, Steven B. “The Rise of American Boarding Schools and the Development of a National Upper Class.” Social Problems 28, no. 1 (October 1980): 63–94.

  • Mason, Mary Ann. From Father’s Property to Children’s Rights: The History of Child Custody in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

  • Meyer, John W., David Tyack, Joane Nagel, and Audri Gordon. “Public Education as Nation-Building in America: Enrollments and Bureaucratization in the American States, 1870-1930.” American Journal of Sociology 85, no. 3 (November 1, 1979): 591–613.

  • Mirel, Jeffrey. Patriotic Pluralism: Americanization Education and European Immigrants. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

  • Nelson, Adam R. The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s Public Schools, 1950-1985. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

  • Odem, Mary E. Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

  • Ogren, Christine A., and Marc A. VanOverbeke. Rethinking Campus Life: New Perspectives on the History of College Students in the United States. Springer, 2018.

  • Osgood, Robert L. For “Children Who Vary from the Normal Type”: Special Education in Boston, 1838-1930. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2000.

  • Perkinson, Henry J. The Imperfect Panacea: American Faith in Education, 1865-1976. New York: Random House, 1977.

  • Ravitch, Diane. Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform. Simon & Schuster, 2000.

  • Reese, William J. Power and the Promise of School Reform: Grassroots Movements During the Progressive Era. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002.

  • –––––. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.

  • –––––. The Origins of the American High School. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

  • Reese, William J., and John L. Rury. Rethinking the History of American Education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

  • Rury, John L. Education and Women’s Work: Female Schooling and the Division of Labor in Urban America, 1870-1930. New York: State University of NY Press, 1991.

  • Russell, John Dale. Vocational Education. Advisory Committee on Education. Washington: GPO, 1938.

  • Savickas, Mark L. “Meyer Bloomfield: Organizer of the Vocational Guidance Movement (1907-1917).” Career Development Quarterly 57, no. 3 (March 2009): 259–73.

  • Snyder, Thomas D. 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait. DC: National Center for Education Statistics, 1993.

  • Spring, Joel H. Education and the Rise of the Corporate State. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1973.

  • Steffes, Tracy L. School, Society, and State: A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

  • Stratton, Clif. Education for Empire: American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship. Oakland: Univ of California Press, 2016.

  • Tyack, David B. The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.

  • Tyack, David B., Robert Lowe, and Elisabeth Hansot. Public Schools in Hard Times: The Great Depression and Recent Years. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.

  • Ueda, Reed. Avenues to Adulthood: The Origins of the High School and Social Mobility in an American Suburb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

  • VanOverbeke, Marc A. The Standardization of American Schooling: Linking Secondary and Higher Education, 1870-1910. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

  • Walters, Pamela B., and Philip J. O’Connell. “The Family Economy, Work, and Educational Participation in the United States, 1890-1940.” American Journal of Sociology 93, no. 5 (1988): 1116–52.

  • Wirth, Arthur G. Education in the Technological Society: The Vocational-Liberal Studies Controversy in the Early Twentieth Century. Scranton, PA: Intext Educational Publishers, 1972.

  • Zelizer, Viviana A. Rotman. Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Teachers and the Education Profession

  • Clifford, Geraldine J. Those Good Gertrudes : A Social History of Women Teachers in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

  • Eaves, Lucile. Old-Age Support of Women Teachers. Boston, MA: Spartan Press Incorporated, 1921.

  • Herbst, Jurgen. And Sadly Teach: Teacher Education and Professionalization in American Culture. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

  • Kaufman, Polly. “Julia Harrington Duff: An Irish Woman Confronts the Boston Power Structure, 1900-1905.” Historical Journal of Massachusetts 18, no. 2 (1990): 113.

  • Kaufman, Polly Welts. Boston Women and City School Politics, 1872-1905. New York: Garland Publishers, 1994.

  • Labaree, David F. The Trouble with Ed Schools. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.

  • Leroux, Karen. “‘Lady Teachers’ and the Genteel Roots of Teacher Organization in Gilded Age Cities.” History of Education Quarterly 46, no. 2 (2006): 164–91.

  • Mattingly, Paul H. The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in the Nineteenth Century. NY: NYU Press, 1975.

  • Powell, Arthur G. The Uncertain Profession: Harvard and the Search for Educational Authority. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

History of Higher Education / Academic Knowledge

  • Anderson, R. D. European Universities from the Enlightenment to 1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

  • Angulo, A. J. Diploma Mills: How for-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

  • Berman, Elizabeth Popp. Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.

  • Bernstein, Mark F. Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

  • Bok, Derek. Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education. Princeton University Press, 2009.

  • Brint, Steven G., and Jerome Karabel. The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1989.

  • Burke, Colin. American Collegiate Populations: A Test of the Traditional View. New York: NYU Press, 1982.

  • Carnevale, Anthony P., Peter Schmidt, and Jeff Strohl. The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America. The New Press, 2020.

  • Carson, John. The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.

  • Contreras, Alan L. The Legal Basis for Degree-Granting Authority in the United States. Boulder, CO: State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2009.

  • Cottom, Tressie McMillan. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of for-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. New York: The New Press, 2017.

  • Donovan, Charles Francis. History of Boston College: From the Beginnings to 1990. Chestnut Hill: University Press of Boston College, 1990.

  • Eells, Walter Crosby. Academic Degrees: Earned and Honorary Degrees Conferred by Institutions of Higher Education in the United States. Bulletin 1960, No. 28 Y. Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Education, 1960.

  • Everett A. Teal, and Robert F. Herrick, eds. The Fundamentals of College Placement. Bethlehem, PA: The College Placement Council, Inc., 1962.

  • Fabricant, Michael, and Stephen Brier. Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education. JHU Press, 2016.

  • Ferrall, Victor E. Liberal Arts at the Brink. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011.

  • Freeland, Richard. Academia’s Golden Age: Universities in Massachusetts, 1945-1970. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

  • Frye, John H. The Vision of the Public Junior College, 1900-1940: Professional Goals and Popular Aspirations. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.

  • Gal, Allon. Brandeis of Boston. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1980.

  • Geiger, Roger L. The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II. Princeton University Press, 2014.

  • Geiger, Roger L. To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

  • Gordon, Lynn Dorothy. Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.

  • Hawkins, Hugh. Banding Together: The Rise of National Associations in American Higher Education, 1887-1950. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1992.

  • ———.  Between Harvard and America: The Educational Leadership of Charles W. Eliot. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

  • Heller, Henry. The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States, 1945-2016. Pluto Press, 2016.

  • Horn, Max. The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921: Origins Of The Modern American Student Movement. Routledge, 2019.

  • Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present. New York: Knopf, 1987.

  • Kaiser, David. Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. 

  • Karabel, Jerome. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 2006.

  • Keller, Morton. Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

  • Kett, Joseph F. Merit: The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.

  • Kilgore, Kathleen. Transformations: A History of Boston University. Boston: Boston University, 1991.

  • Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe. Private Power for the Public Good: A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983.

  • ———. The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy. University of Chicago Press, 1992.

  • Leslie, William Bruce. Gentlemen and Scholars: College and Community in the “Age of the University,” 1865-1917. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.

  • Levine, David O. The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915-1940. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.

  • Loss, Christopher P. Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012.

  • Malkiel, Nancy Weiss. “Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation. Princeton University Press, 2018.

  • Markovits, Daniel. The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite. New York: Penguin Press, 2019.

  • Martin, Edward S. “Undergraduate Life at Harvard.” Scribner’s Magazine XXI, no. 5 (May 1897): 531–33.

  • Moore, Patricia A. The First Hundred Years: 1885-1985. Winchester, MA: New England Association of Schools and Colleges, 1986.

  • Morison, Samuel Eliot. Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936.

  • Nelson, Daniel. A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management Since Taylor. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992.

  • Nemec, Mark R. Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds: Universities, Leadership, and the Development of the American State. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006.

  • Newfield, Christopher. The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them. JHU Press, 2016.

  • Noble, David F. America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.

  • Norwood, Stephen H. “The Student as Strikebreaker: College Youth and the Crisis of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century.” Journal of Social History 28, no. 2 (December 1, 1994): 331–49.

  • O’Connor, Alice. Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History. Princeton University Press, 2009.

  • Rae, John B. “Engineering Education as Preparation for Management: A Study of M.I.T. Alumni.” The Business History Review 29, no. 1 (March 1, 1955): 64–74.

  • Reuben, Julie A. The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

  • Savitt, Todd, and North Carolina. “Abraham Flexner and the Black Medical Schools.” Journal of the National Medical Association 98, no. 9 (2006): 10.

  • Schrum, Ethan. The Instrumental University: Education in Service of the National Agenda after World War II. Ithaca New York: Cornell University Press, 2019.

  • Selden, William K. Accreditation: A Struggle over Standards in Higher Education. New York: Harper, 1960.

  • Servos, John W. “The Industrial Relations of Science: Chemical Engineering at MIT, 1900-1939.” Isis 71, no. 4 (1980): 531–49.

  • Slaughter, Sheila. Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

  • Solomon, Barbara Miller. In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America. Yale University Press, 1985.

  • Spurr, Stephen Hopkins. Academic Degree Structures: Innovative Approaches. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.

  • Story, Ronald. The Forging of an Aristocracy: Harvard & the Boston Upper Class, 1800-1870. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1980.

  • Stratton, Julius Adams, and Loretta H. Mannix. Mind and Hand: The Birth of MIT. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.

  • Synnott, Marcia Graham. The Half-Opened Door: Discrimination and Admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1900-1970. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.

  • Syrett, Nicholas L. The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities. University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

  • Veblen, Thorstein. The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918.

  • Wildes, Karl L. A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985.

  • Zook, George, and M. E. Haggerty, The Evaluation of Higher Institutions: Principles of Accrediting Higher Institutions. University of Chicago Press, 1936.

History of the Professions and Professionalization

  • Auerbach, Jerold S. Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

  • Batlan, Felice. Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

  • Bledstein, Burton J. The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America. New York: W. W. Norton, Inc., 1976.

  • Bossard, James, and J. Dewhurst. University Education for Business: A Study of Existing Needs and Practices. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1931.

  • Chester, Ronald. Unequal Access: Women Lawyers in a Changing America. South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1985.

  • Copeland, Melvin. And Mark an Era: The Story of the Harvard Business School. Boston: Little, Brown, 1958.

  • Coquillette, Daniel R. On the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard Law School, the First Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.

  • Cruikshank, Jeffrey L. A Delicate Experiment: The Harvard Business School, 1908-1945. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987.

  • Drachman, Virginia G. Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

  • Etzioni, Amitai. The Semi-Professions and Their Organization: Teachers, Nurses, Social Workers. New York: Free Press, 1969.

  • Goebel, T. “The Uneven Rewards of Professional Labor: Wealth and Income in the Chicago Professions, 1870-1920.” Journal of Social History 29, no. 4 (June 1, 1996): 749–77.

  • Haber, Samuel. The Quest for Authority and Honor in the American Professions, 1750-1900. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

  • Hobson, Wayne. “Symbol of the New Profession: Emergence of the Large Law Firm, 1870-1915.” In The New High Priests: Lawyers in Post-Civil War America, edited by Gerard W. Gawalt. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.

  • Johnson, William R. Schooled Lawyers: A Study in the Clash of Professional Cultures. New York: New York University Press, 1978.

  • Jones, Douglas Lamar. Discovering the Public Interest: A History of the Boston Bar Association. Canoga Park, CA.: Boston Bar Association and CCA Publications, 1993.

  • Khurana, Rakesh. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

  • Koenig, Thomas, and Michael Rustad. “The Challenge to Hierarchy in Legal Education: Suffolk and the Night Law School Movement.” Research in Law, Deviance & Social Control 7 (1985): 189–212.

  • Raub, Benjamin D. “Placement Work in Law Schools.” Duke Bar Association Journal 5 (1940): 13–22.

  • Robbins, David L. Suffolk University. Arcadia Publishing, 2006.

  • Silverman, Robert A. Law and Urban Growth: Civil Litigation in the Boston Trial Courts, 1880-1900. Princeton University Press, 2014.

  • Smith, Jr., J. Clay. Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

  • Stage, Sarah, and Virginia Bramble Vincenti. Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

  • Stevens, Robert Bocking. Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

Labor / Economic History / History of Capitalism

  • Amsterdam, Daniel. Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.

  • Anderson, Margo J. The United States Census and Labor Force Change: A History of Occupation Statistics, 1870-1940. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980.

  • Baltzell, E. Digby. Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class. Free Press, 1958.

  • Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

  • Bedford, Henry F. Socialism and the Workers in Massachusetts, 1886-1912. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1966.

  • Bjelopera, Jerome P. City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.

  • Calvert, Monte A. The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910: Professional Cultures in Conflict. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967.

  • Chandler, Jr., Alfred D. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977.

  • Cook, Eli. “Why We Might Just Be Living in a Second ‘Progressive’ Era.” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, March 11, 2020, 1–11.

  • Douglas, Paul Howard. American Apprenticeship and Industrial Education. New York: Columbia University, 1921.

  • Edwards, James Don. History of Public Accounting in the United States. East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1960.

  • Erlich, Mark. With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

  • Estey, Marten. “The Grocery Clerks: Center of Retail Unionism.” Industrial Relations 7, no. 3 (May 1968): 249–61.

  • Faue, Elizabeth. “Retooling the Class Factory: United States Labour History after Marx, Montgomery, and Postmodernism.” Labour History, no. 82 (2002): 109.

  • Fink, L. “The Great Escape: How a Field Survived Hard Times.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 8, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 109–15.

  • Green, James R., and Hugh Carter Donahue. Boston’s Workers: A Labor History. Boston: Boston Public Library, 1979.

  • Hall, Peter Dobkin. “Rediscovering the Bourgeoisie: Higher Education and Governing-Class Formation in the United States, 1870–1914.” In The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Sven Beckert and Julia B. Rosenbaum. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

  • ———. The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900: Private Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality. NY: NYU Press, 1984.

  • ———. “What the Merchants Did With Their Money: Charitable and Testamentary Trusts in Massachusetts, 1780-1880.” In Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business Community, 1700-1850, edited by Conrad Wright and Katheryn P. Viens. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1997.

  • Higbie, Tobias. Labor’s Mind: A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life. University of Illinois Press, 2018.

  • Hotel & Restaurant Employees International Alliance and Bartenders International League of America. Fifty Years of Progress, 1890-1941. Cincinnati, Ohio: American Federation of Labor, 1941.

  • Hower, Ralph M. The History of an Advertising Agency: N. W. Ayer & Son at Work, 1869-1939. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939.

  • Jacoby, Dan. “Plumbing the Origins of American Vocationalism.” Labor History 37, no. 2 (March 1, 1996): 235–72.

  • Jacoby, Sanford M. Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900 - 1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.

  • Juravich, Tom. Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

  • Katz, Michael B. The Undeserving Poor: America’s Enduring Confrontation with Poverty. NY: Pantheon Books, 1989.

  • Klein, Jennifer. For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State. Princeton University Press, 2003.

  • Kocka, Jürgen. White Collar Workers in America, 1890-1940: A Social-Political History in International Perspective. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1980.

  • Laird, Pamela Walker. Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.

  • Lamoreaux, Naomi R. The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

  • Licht, Walter. Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

  • Luskey, Brian P. “‘What Is My Prospects?’: The Contours of Mercantile Apprenticeship, Ambition, and Advancement in the Early American Economy.” Business History Review 78, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 665–702.

  • Maggor, Noam. Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017.

  • Mayo, Anthony J. Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2006.

  • Mercey, Arch A. The Laborers’ Story, 1903-1953: The First Fifty Years of the International Hod Carriers’, Building and Common Laborers’ Union of America (AFL). Washington: Ransdell, 1954.

  • Miller Jr., Spencer. Labor and Education. Washington D.C.: American Federation of Labor, 1939.

  • Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

  • Northrup, Herbert Roof. Organized Labor and the Negro. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944.

  • Pak, Susie. Gentlemen Bankers: The World of J. P. Morgan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.

  • Pearson, Chad. “Making the ‘City of Prosperity’: Engineers, Open‐shoppers, Americanizers, and Propagandists in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1900–1925.” Labor History 45, no. 1 (February 1, 2004): 9–36.

  • ———. Reform or Repression: Organizing America’s Anti-Union Movement. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.

  • Peck, Gunther. Reinventing Free Labor : Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

  • Reich, Michael. “The Ups and Downs of Minimum Wage Policy: The Fair Labor Standards Act in Historical Perspective.” Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 54, no. 4 (October 2015): 538–46.

  • Roboff, Sari. Boston’s Labor Movement: An Oral History of Work and Union Organizing. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1977.

  • Rodgers, Daniel T. The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920. University of Chicago Press, 2009.

  • Rosenbloom, Joshua L. Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets During Industrialization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

  • Selvin, David F. Union Profile: The Fifty Years of Grocery Clerks Union, Local 648. San Francisco: Grocery Clerks Union, 1960.

  • Sklansky, J. “Labor, Money, and the Financial Turn in the History of Capitalism.” Labor Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 11, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 23–46.

  • Soltow, James H. “Origins of Small Business Metal Fabricators and Machinery Makers in New England, 1890-1957.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 55, no. 10 (1965): 1–58.

  • Stockton, Frank Tenney. The Closed Shop in American Trade Unions. Lancaster, PA: New Era Printing Company, 1911.

  • Stone, Orra Laville. History of Massachusetts Industries: Their Inception, Growth, and Success. Boston, MA: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1930.

  • Tedlow, Richard S. The American CEO in the Twentieth Century: Demography and Career Path. Working Paper 03-097. Boston: Division of Research, Harvard Business School, 2003.

  • Wadlin, Horace Greeley. “The Sweating System in Massachusetts.” Journal of Social Science; New York 30 (October 1, 1892): 86–100.

  • Wills, Jocelyn. “Respectable Mediocrity: The Everyday Life of an Ordinary American Striver, 1876-1890.” Journal of Social History 37, no. 2 (2003): 323–49.

  • Wright, Gavin. “The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879–1940.” The American Economic Review 80, no. 2 (1990): 651–68.

  • Wuest, Robert. “Industrial Betterment Activities of the National Metal Trades Association.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 44 (1912): 85.

  • Zunz, Olivier. Making America Corporate, 1870-1920. University of Chicago Press, 1990.

  • Zonderman, David A. Uneasy Allies: Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century Boston. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.

Women and Gender Labor History

  • Baron, Ava. Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor. Cornell University Press, 1991.

  • Benson, Susan Porter. Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

  • Boris, Eileen. Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

  • Bose, Christine E., Philip L. Bereano, and Mary Malloy. “Household Technology and the Social Construction of Housework.” Technology and Culture 25, no. 1 (January 1984): 53.

  • Cohen, Miriam. Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City, 1900-1950. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993.

  • Davies, Margery W. Woman’s Place Is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers, 1870-1930. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.

  • Devault, Ileen. “Family Wages: The Roles of Wives and Mothers in U.S. Working-Class Survival Strategies, 1880–1930.” Labor History 54, no. 1 (2013): 1–20.

  • DeVault, Ileen A. Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-Of-The-Century Pittsburgh. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990.

  • Erickson, Ethel. The Employment of Women in Offices. Washington: GPO, 1934.

  • Fine, Lisa M. The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

  • Gamber, Wendy. The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

  • Hart, Vivien. Bound by Our Constitution: Women, Workers, and the Minimum Wage. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994.

  • Hobson, Barbara Meil. Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

  • Iarocci, Louisa. The Urban Department Store in America, 1850-1930. NY: Routledge, 2017.

  • Kessler-Harris, Alice. “Where Are the Organized Women Workers?” Feminist Studies 3, no. 1/2 (1975): 92–110.

  • Kwolek-Folland, Angel. Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

  • La Dame, Mary. The Filene Store: A Study of Employes’ Relation to Management in a Retail Store. NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1930.

  • Mandell, Nikki. The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

  • McCreesh, Carolyn D. Women in the Campaign to Organize Garment Workers, 1880-1917. New York: Garland Pub, 1985.

  • Mink, Gwendolyn. The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.

  • Norwood, Stephen Harlan. Labor’s Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy 1878-1923. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

  • Orleck, Annelise. Common Sense & a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

  • Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

  • Perry, Lorinda. The Millinery Trade in Boston and Philadelphia: A Study of Women in Industry. Binghamton, NY: Vail-Ballou Co., 1916.

  • Rosen, Ruth. The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

  • Srole, Carol. Transcribing Class and Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices. University of Michigan Press, 2010.

  • Stage, Sarah, and Virginia Bramble Vincenti. Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

  • Strom, Sharon Hartman. Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

  • Trotter, Latonya J. “Making A Career: Reproducing Gender within a Predominately Female Profession.” Gender & Society 31, no. 4 (August 2017): 503–25.

  • Vapnek, Lara. Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

Urban History 

  • Abrams, Richard M. Conservatism in a Progressive Era: Massachusetts Politics, 1900-1912. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.

  • Blodgett, Geoffrey T. “Josiah Quincy, Brahmin Democrat.” The New England Quarterly 38, no. 4 (December 1, 1965): 435–53.

  • Carson, Mina. Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

  • Connolly, James J. The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.

  • Deutsch, Sarah. Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

  • Dimaggio, Paul. “Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America.” Media, Culture & Society 4, no. 1 (January 1982): 33–50.

  • Duis, Perry. The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

  • Firey, Walter Irving. Land Use in Central Boston. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947.

  • Formisano, Ronald P. Boston, 1700-1980: The Evolution of Urban Politics. Greenwood Press, 1984.

  • Gamm, Gerald H. The Making of the New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

  • Gamson, David A. The Importance of Being Urban: Designing the Progressive School District, 1890-1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

  • Gilfoyle, Timothy J. “‘America’s Greatest Criminal Barracks’: The Tombs and the Experience of Criminal Justice in New York City, 1838-1897.” Journal of Urban History 29, no. 5 (July 2003): 525–54.

  • ———. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. New York: Norton, 1992.

  • Green, Eugene, and Katie Kenneally. Jamaica Plain. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1976.

  • Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Protestants Against Poverty: Boston’s Charities, 1870-1900. Greenwood Pub. Corp., 1971.

  • Huyssen, David. Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890-1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.

  • Johnson, Violet M. The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950. Indiana University Press, 2006.

  • Kane, Paula M. Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

  • Kenneally, Katie. Brighton. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1975. http://archive.org/details/brighton00bost.

  • ———. Charlestown. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1976. http://archive.org/details/charlestown00kenn.

  • ———. Chinatown. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1976.

  • ———. Dorchester. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1976.

  • ———. East Boston. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1976.

  • ———. Roslindale. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1975.

  • ———. South Boston. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1976.

  • ———. The South End. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1975.

  • ———. West Roxbury. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1976.

  • Kenneally, Katie, Anne Millet, and Susan Wick. Hyde Park. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1976.

  • Mann, Arthur. Yankee Reformers in the Urban Age. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1954.

  • Merwick, Donna. Boston Priests, 1848-1910: A Study of Social and Intellectual Change. Harvard University Press, 1973.

  • O’Connor, Thomas H. Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.

  • ———. The Boston Irish: A Political History. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995.

  • Overbea, Luix, and Katie Kenneally. Black Bostonia. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1976.

  • Putney, Clifford. Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920. Harvard University Press, 2009.

  • Roboff, Sari, and Katie Kenneally. Mission Hill. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1976.

  • ———. The Fenway. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1976.

  • ———. The North End. Boston: The Boston 200 Corporation, 1975.

  • Rodwin, Lloyd. Housing and Economic Progress: A Study of the Housing Experiences of Boston’s Middle-Income Families. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961.

  • Teaford, Jon C. The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870-1900. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.

  • Thernstrom, Stephan. The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1870. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1973.

  • Tonn, Joan C. Mary P. Follett: Creating Democracy, Transforming Management. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2003.

  • Traverso, Susan. Welfare Politics in Boston, 1910-1940. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.

  • Trout, Charles H. Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal. Oxford University Press, 1977.

  • Warner, Sam Bass. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.

  • Weinstein, Asha. “Congestion as a Cultural Construct: The ‘Congestion Evil’ in Boston in the 1890s and 1920s.” The Journal of Transport History 27, no. 2 (September 2006): 97–115.

  • Woods, Robert A., and Albert J. Kennedy. The Zone of Emergence: Observations of the Lower Middle and Upper Working Class Communities of Boston, 1905-1914. Boston: MIT Press, 1969.

History of Immigration / Race / Ethnicity 

  • Bederman, Gail. Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917. University of Chicago Press, 1995.

  • Douglas, Davison. Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865-1954. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

  • Gordon, Leah. From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury American. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

  • Gratton, Brian, and Jon Roger Moen. “Immigration, Culture, and Child Labor in the United States, 1880-1920.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34, no. 3 (2004): 355–391.

  • Handlin, Oscar. Boston’s Immigrants, 1790-1880: A Study in Acculturation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.

  • Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. Harvard University Press, 2016.

  • Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917. New York: Hill and Wang, 2000.

  • Johnson, Violet M. The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.

  • Keeling, Drew. The Business of Transatlantic Migration between Europe and the United States, 1900-1914. Zurich: Chronos, 2012.

  • Kendrick, Stephen, and Paul Kendrick. Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America. Beacon Press, 2004.

  • King, Desmond S. Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.

  • Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth. Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

  • Leonard, Thomas C. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

  • Model, Suzanne. “Work and Family: Blacks and Immigrants from South and East Europe.” In Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics, edited by Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, 130–59. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

  • Model, Suzanne W. “Italian and Jewish Intergenerational Mobility: New York, 1910.” Social Science History 12, no. 1 (1988): 31–48.

  • Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010.

  • O’Connor, Thomas H. The Boston Irish: A Political History. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995.

  • Pleck, Elizabeth Hafkin. Black Migration and Poverty: Boston 1865-1900. New York: Academic Press, 1979.

  • Ryan, Dennis P. Beyond the Ballot Box: A Social History of the Boston Irish, 1845-1917. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983.

  • Sanders, James W. Irish vs. Yankees: A Social History of the Boston Schools. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

  • Sarna, Jonathan D., Ellen Smith, and Scott-Martin Kosofsky. The Jews of Boston. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

  • Solomon, Barbara Miller. Ancestors and Immigrants: A Changing New England Tradition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956.

  • Val Marie Johnson. “‘Look for the Moral and Sex Sides of the Problem’: Investigating Jewishness, Desire, and Discipline at Macy’s Department Store, New York City, 1913.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 18, no. 3 (2009): 457–85.

  • Ziegler-McPherson, Christina A. Americanization in the States: Immigrant Social Welfare Policy, Citizenship, and National Identity in the United States, 1908-1929. University Press of Florida, 2010.

Economics

  • Autor, David. “The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market: Implications for Employment and Earnings.” Discussion Paper Series (Hamilton Project), 2010, 1–40.

  • Autor, David, and David Dorn. “The Growth Of Low Skill Service Jobs And The Polarization Of The U.S. Labor Market.” NBER Working Paper 15150 (July 2009).

  • Autor, David H. “Skills, Education, and the Rise of Earnings Inequality among the ‘Other 99 Percent.’” Science 344, no. 6186 (May 23, 2014): 843–51.

  • Becker, Gary Stanley. Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

  • Bemis, Edward W. “Relation of Trades-Unions to Apprentices.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 6, no. 1 (1891): 76–93.

  • Boustan, Leah Platt, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo. Human Capital in History: The American Record. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

  • Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life. NY: Basic Books, 1976.

  • Caldwell, Sydnee, and Suresh Naidu. “Wage and Employment Implications of U.S. Labor Market Monopsony and Possible Policy Solutions.” In Vision 2020: Evidence for a Stronger Economy, edited by Washington Center for Equitable Growth, 33–43, 2020.

  • Carnevale, Anthony P., Peter Schmidt, and Jeff Strohl. The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America. The New Press, 2020.

  • Christenko, Aleksandr, Žilvinas Martinaitis, and Simonas Gaušas. “Specific and General Skills: Concepts, Dimensions, and Measurements.” Competition & Change 24, no. 1 (January 2020): 44–69.

  • Corak, Miles. “Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 27, no. 3 (August 2013): 79–102.

  • Derenoncourt, Ellora, and Claire Montialoux. “Minimum Wages and Racial Inequality.” Washington Center for Equitable Growth, January 2020.

  • Drucker, Peter F. The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1969.

  • Farber, Henry, Daniel Herbst, Ilyana Kuziemko, and Suresh Naidu. “Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data.” Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2018.

  • Freeman, Richard B., and James L. Medoff. What Do Unions Do? NY: Basic Books, 1984.

  • Glaeser, Edward L. “Reinventing Boston: 1630–2003.” Journal of Economic Geography 5, no. 2 (2005): 119–153.

  • Goldin, Claudia. “America’s Graduation from High School: The Evolution and Spread of Secondary Schooling in the Twentieth Century.” Journal of Economic History 58 (1998): 345–374.

  • ———. “The Quiet Revolution That Transformed Women’s Employment, Education, and Family.” American Economic Review 96, no. 2 (2006): 1–21.

  • Goldin, Claudia Dale. Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

  • Goldin, Claudia, and Lawrence F Katz. The Race Between Education and Technology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.

  • Goldin, Claudia, and Robert A. Margo. “The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid-Century.” Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, August 1991.

  • Hirsch, Barry T. “Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 22, no. 1 (February 2008): 153–76.

  • Levy, Frank, and Peter Temin. “Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America.” Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2007.

  • Lindert, Peter H. Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

  • Osterman, Paul. “The Promise, Performance, and Policies of Community Colleges.” In Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation, by Ben Wildavsky, Andrew P. Kelly, and Kevin Carey. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2011.

  • Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.

  • Piketty, Thomas, and Emmanuel Saez. “Income Inequality In The United States, 1913-1998.” Quarterly Journal Of Economics 118, no. 1 (February 2003): 39.

  • Reeves, Richard V. Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2017.

  • Rothstein, Jesse. “Inequality of Educational Opportunity? Schools as Mediators of the Intergenerational Transmission of Income.” IRLE Working Paper, no. 105–17 (April 1, 2017): 66.

  • Spence, Michael. “Job Market Signaling.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 87, no. 3 (August 1973): 355.

  • Stigler, George J. “Domestic Servants in the United States, 1900-1940.” New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, April 1946.

  • Stiglitz, Joseph E. The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future. W. W. Norton & Company, 2012.

  • Thurow, Lester C. Generating Inequality: Mechanisms of Distribution in the U.S. Economy. NY: Basic Books, 1975.

  • Weiss, Andrew. “Human Capital vs. Signalling Explanations of Wages.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 9, no. 4 (November 1995): 133–54.

Sociology

  • Abbott, Andrew. The System of Professions: And Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

  • Attewell, Paul. “What Is Skill?” Work and Occupations 17, no. 4 (November 1, 1990): 422–48.

  • Baker, David P. “Forward and Backward, Horizontal and Vertical: Transformation of Occupational Credentialing in the Schooled Society.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 29, no. 1 (January 2011): 5–29.

  • ———. The Schooled Society: The Educational Transformation of Global Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.

  • Berg, Ivar. Education and Jobs: The Great Training Robbery. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970.

  • Bernhardt, Annette D. The Gloves-off Economy: Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America’s Labor Market. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois, 2008.

  • Bills, David B. “Credentials, Signals, and Screens: Explaining the Relationship Between Schooling and Job Assignment.” Review of Educational Research 73, no. 4 (December 1, 2003): 441–49.

  • Binder, Amy J., Daniel B. Davis, and Nick Bloom. “Career Funneling: How Elite Students Learn to Define and Desire ‘Prestigious’ Jobs.” Sociology of Education 89, no. 1 (January 2016): 20–39.

  • Blossfeld, Hans-Peter, and A. Timm. Who Marries Whom?: Educational Systems as Marriage Markets in Modern Societies. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.

  • Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.

  • Brown, David K. Degrees of Control: A Sociology of Educational Expansion and Occupational Credentialism. New York: Teachers College Press, 1995.

  • Brown, Phillip, Andy Green, and Hugh Lauder. High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation. Oxford University Press, 2001.

  • Collins, Randall. The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. New York: Academic Press. Reprint, New York: Columbia University Press, (1979), 2019.

  • Davies, Celia. “The Sociology of Professions and the Profession of Gender.” Sociology 30, no. 4 (1996): 661–78.

  • Freidson, Eliot. Professionalism: The Third Logic. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

  • ———. Professional Powers: A Study of the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

  • Gerber, Theodore P., and Sin Yi Cheung. “Horizontal Stratification in Postsecondary Education: Forms, Explanations, and Implications.” Annual Review of Sociology 34, no. 1 (August 2008): 299–318.

  • Ho, Karen. Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. Duke University Press, 2009.

  • Hout, Michael. “Social and Economic Returns to College Education in the United States.” Annual Review of Sociology 38, no. 1 (August 11, 2012): 379–400.

  • Jack, Anthony Abraham. The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students. Harvard University Press, 2019.

  • Knopp, Sarah, and Jeff Bale. Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation. Haymarket Books, 2012.

  • Larson, Magali Sarfatti. The Rise of Professionalism: Monopolies of Competence and Sheltered Markets. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers (1977), 2013.

  • Mare, Robert D. “Educational Assortative Mating In Two Generations.” California Center for Population Research, January 13, 2013.

  • McCall, L., and Ann Orloff. “Introduction to Special Issue of Social Politics: ‘Gender, Class, and Capitalism.’” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 12, no. 2 (June 1, 2005): 159–69.

  • Meyer, John W. “The Effects of Education as an Institution.” American Journal of Sociology 83, no. 1 (July 1977): 55–77.

  • Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956.

  • ———. White Collar: The American Middle Classes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1951.

  • Prasad, Monica. The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

  • Rivera, Lauren A. Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.

  • Steinberg. “Social Construction of Skill: Gender, Power, and Comparable Worth,” 1990.

  • Stevens, Mitchell L. Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites. Harvard University Press, 2009.

  • Streeck, Wolfgang. “Skills and Politics: General and Specific.” Discussion Paper 11/1. Cologne, Germany: MPIfG, 2011.

  • Torche, Florencia. “Is a College Degree Still the Great Equalizer? Intergenerational Mobility across Levels of Schooling in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology 117, no. 3 (November 2011): 763–807.

  • Trow, Martin. Twentieth-Century Higher Education: Elite to Mass to Universal. Baltimore, MD: JHU Press, 2010.

  • Whyte, William Foote. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1943.

  • Witteveen, Dirk, and Paul Attewell. “Reconsidering the ‘Meritocratic Power of a College Degree.’” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 66 (April 2020): 100479.

  • Witz, Anne. “Patriarchy and Professions: The Gendered Politics of Occupational Closure.” Sociology 24, no. 4 (1990): 675–90.

Political Science / APD / Law / Political History

  • Balogh, Brian. The Associational State: American Governance in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 2015.

  • Barrow, Clyde W. Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.

  • Bartels, Larry M. Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. New York: Princeton University Press, 2010.

  • Bensel, Richard Franklin. The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

  • Burman, Leonard. “Taxes and Inequality.” Tax Law Review 66, no. 4 (Summer 2013): 563–92.

  • Busemeyer, Marius R. Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics and the Political Economy of Education Reforms in Western Welfare States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

  • Busemeyer, Marius R., and Christine Trampusch, eds. The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

  • Cowie, Jefferson. The Great Exception: The New Deal & the Limits of American Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

  • Crouch, Colin, David Finegold, and Mari Sako. Are Skills the Answer?: The Political Economy of Skill Creation in Advanced Industrial Countries. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  • Dilworth, Richardson. The City in American Political Development. Routledge, 2009.

  • Edwards, Rebecca. “Politics, Social Movements, and the Periodization of U.S. History.” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 8, no. 4 (October 2009): 461–73. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537781400001432.

  • Estévez-Abe, Margarita. “Gender Bias in Skills and Social Policies: The Varieties of Capitalism Perspective on Sex Segregation.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society 12, no. 2 (2005): 180–215.

  • ———. “Gendered Consequences of Vocational Training.” In The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation, by Marius R. Busemeyer and Christine Trampusch. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

  • ———. “Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism: Gender Bias in Skills and Social Policies.” In Political Economy of Japan’s Low Fertility, edited by Frances Rosenbluth. Stanford University Press, 2006.

  • Gellhorn, Walter. Individual Freedom and Governmental Restraints. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1956.

  • Gerstle, Gary. Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.

  • Green, Andy. Education and State Formation: The Rise of Education Systems in England, France and the USA. London: Palgrave, 1990.

  • Guinier, Lani. The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America. Boston: Beacon Press, 2015.

  • Hacker, Jacob S. The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

  • Hall, Peter A., and David Soskice, eds. Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

  • Hoganson, Kristin L. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. Yale Historical Publications (Unnumbered). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

  • Iversen, Torben, and David Soskice. “An Asset Theory of Social Policy Preferences.” The American Political Science Review 95, no. 4 (December 1, 2001): 875–93.

  • Katz, M. B. The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001.

  • Katz, Michael B. In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America. 10th Anniversary Edition. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

  • Lindert, Peter H. Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

  • ———. Growing Public: Volume 2, Further Evidence : Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century. Growing Public. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 

  • Novak, William J. The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

  • ———. “The Myth of the ‘Weak’ American State.” The American Historical Review 113, no. 3 (2008): 752–772.

  • Painter, Nell Irvin. Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era. W. W. Norton & Company (1987), 2008.

  • Thelen, Kathleen. How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

  • Young, Michael. The Rise of the Meritocracy. London: Routledge. Reprint, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1958.

Dissertations & Theses

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

 

Dissertations & Theses

  • Braverman, William Alan. “The Ascent of Boston’s Jews, 1630-1918.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1990.

  • Fisher, Scott Adams. “The Development and Recession of the Private Junior College Including Fisher Junior College: A Case Study.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, 1983.

  • Ham, William Thomas. “Employment Relations in the Construction Industry of Boston.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1926.

  • Hansen, Hal. “Caps and Gowns: Historical Reflections on the Institutions That Shaped Learning For and At Work, 1800-1945.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997.

  • Horowitz, Irving Lewis. “The Metal Machining Trades in Philadelphia: An Occupational Survey.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1939.

  • Hutchinson, Emilie Josephine. “Women’s Wages: A Study of the Wages of Industrial Women and Measures Suggested to Increase Them.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1919.

  • Lewis, Clare Louise. “Public Employment Offices in the United States.” Masters Thesis, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1922.

  • Mottl, Tahi Lani. “Social Conflict and Social Movements: An Exploratory Study of the Black Community of Boston Attempting to Change the Boston Public Schools.” Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1976.

  • Murphy, Kathleen. “Boston Teachers Organize, 1919-65.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, 1981.

  • Omori, Kazuteru. “Burden of Blackness:  Quest for ‘Equality’ among Black ‘Elites’ in Late -Nineteenth -Century Boston.” Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2001.

  • Passero, Rosara Lucy. “Ethnicity in the Men’s Ready-Made Clothing Industry, 1880-1950: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1978.

  • Srole, Carole. “‘A Position That God Has Not Particularly Assigned to Men’: The Feminization of Clerical Work, Boston 1860-1915".” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1984.

  • Sutherland, Edwin Hardin. “Unemployment and Public Employment Agencies.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1914.

  • Upton, Bryn. “Black Sisyphus: Boston Schools and the Black Community, 1790 - 2000.” PhD Dissertation, Brandeis University, 2003.

Interviews & Websites

 

Interviews

Levine, Janet. Ellis Island Oral History Project, Interview of Esther Zarkin Rosoff. Series EI, No. 106. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2003.


Websites

Our World in Data (Education Statistics):

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/mean-years-of-schooling-1

https://ourworldindata.org/tertiary-education