Additional Reading – Clarence Hathaway

From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, Minnesota workers and farmers organized in many ways to make their lives more stable and secure. They sought strategies which would enable them to confront the railroads, banks, and corporations that not only challenged them directly but also wielded significant power over local and state governments. At times, workers and farmers looked to syndicalism, socialism, and communism for ideas, leadership, and inspiration in their struggles and movements. For readers who want to explore these aspects of our history in more depth, labor historian and RCHS editorial board member Peter Rachleff makes some suggestions:

Carl H. Chrislock, Watchdog of Loyalty: The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety During World War I (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991).

Gary Kaunonen, Flames of Discontent: The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017).

Jack Kelly, The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America (Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, 2019).

William Millikan, with Peter Rachleff (introduction), Union Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor, 1903–1947 (Ontario: Borealis Books, 2003).

David L. Nass, ed., Holiday: Minnesotans Remember the Farmers’ Holiday Association (Marshall, MN: Plains Press, January 1984).

Bryan D. Palmer, Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934 (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014).

William C. Pratt, After Populism: The Agrarian Left on the Northern Plains, 1900-1960 (Pierre, SD: South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2022).

Shelton Stromquist and Marvin Berman, eds., Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meat-packing Industry (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997).

Thomas A. Woods, Knights of the Plow: Oliver H. Kelley and the Origins of the Grange in Republican Ideology (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990).