Selected Sources on Iowa Labor History

Butler, Donald Thomas. “Factors Affecting Trade Union Organizing of Manufacturing Firms in Iowa, 1946-1957.” Ph.D.diss., University of Wisconsin, 1959. 165 pp.

Cosgrove, J. E. “Labor Education in Iowa.” American Federationist 61(April 1954): 22-23, 30-31.

Development of a labor education program by the AFL in Iowa, 1951-1954.

Cumberland, William H. “Plain Honesty: Wallace Short and the I.W.W.” Palimpsest 61 (1980): 146-60.

Short was mayor of Sioux City in 1919.

Daly, John Marie. “History of Unionization in Waterloo, Iowa.” M.A. thesis, Creighton University, 1962. 173 pp.

Davis, Merle. “You Were Just One of the Unfortunate Ones.” Palimpsest 70 (Summer 1989): 96-102.

Laborers during the 1920s and 1930s.

Dobbs, Farrell. Teamster Power. New York: Monad Press, 1973. 255 pp.

Eichengreen, Barry. “The Impact of Late Nineteenth-Century Unions on Labor Earnings and Hours: Iowa in 1894.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 40 (1987): 501-15.

Ellis, Christine. “People Who Cannot Be Bought.” In Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers, edited by Alice Lynd and Staughton Lynd, 10-33. Boston: Beacon Press, 1973.

Yugoslavian immigrants in Jerome, Appanoose County.

Gallagher, Daniel G., and Richard Pegnetter. “Impasse Resolution Under the Iowa Multistep Procedure.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 32 (1979): 327-38.

The experience of the first two years’ operation of impasse resolution under the Iowa Public Employment Relations Act.

Gillroy, Thomas P., and Jack A. Lipovac. “Impasse Procedure Utilization: Year One Under the Iowa Statute.” Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 6 (1977): 181-91.

The operation of the Public Employment Relations Act in Iowa in 1974-1975.

Gilpin, Toni. “Labor's Last Stand.” Chicago History 18 (1989): 42-59.

The History of Labor in the United States: Focus, The Iowa Experience. Des Moines: Iowa Federation of labor (AFL-CIO), 1991. 67 pp.

Curriculum Guide.

Jarvis, Albert M. “Unionism in Iowa before 1914.” M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1928. 130 p.

Knuth, Margaret Helen. “Interests and Activities of Dubuque Labor, September, 1906-September, 1911, As Reported in the Dubuque Labor Leader.” M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1941. 172 p.

Mills, R. “Work Law Has Been Ruinous: Iowa’s Experience.” American Federationist 65 (Aug.1958): 27-28.

Rollefson, Arthur M. “A Study of Strikes in Iowa with Special Reference to the Period 1925-1940.” M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1940. 91 p.

Sannes, Erling N. “’Make Sioux City a Good Place to Live’: Organizing Teamsters in Sioux City, 1933-1938.” Annals of Iowa 50 (Fall 1989/Winter 1990): 214-40.

Schacht, John N. “American Labor and Working Class History at Iowa.” Books at Iowa 53 (November 1990): 29-60; and 54 (April 1991): 31-56.

Schacht, John N. “Labor History Resources in the University of Iowa Libraries, the State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.” Labor History 31 (Winter/Spring 1990): 168-75.

Scharnau, Ralph. “The Knights of Labor in Iowa.” Annals of Iowa 50 (Spring 1991): 861-91.

Scharnau, Ralph. “The Labor Movement in Iowa, 1900-1910.” Journal of the West 35(1996): 19-28.

Scharnau, Ralph. “Streetcar Strike 1903: Dubuque Walks.” Labor's Heritage 6 (1995): 58-77.

Scharnau, Ralph. “Workers and Politics: The Knights of Labor in Dubuque, Iowa, 1885-1890.” Annals of Iowa 48 (Winter/Spring 1987): 353-77.

Scharnau, Ralph. “Workers, Unions, and Workplaces in Dubuque, 1830-1990.” Annals of Iowa 52 (1993): 50-78.

Stonebarger, Dewayne A. “A Study of Unionism among Municipal Employees of the State of Iowa.” Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 1955. 250 pp.

Stromquist, Shelton. Solidarity and Survival: an Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993. 346 p.

Features excerpts from Iowa Labor History Oral Project (ILHOP) interviews.

Stuckey, Lorin. The Iowa State Federation of Labor. Iowa City: Chesnutt Printing Co., 1915. 147 p. (Bulletin of the State University of Iowa, no. 120).

Originally a Ph.D. dissertation done at the University of Iowa.

United Auto Workers Local 807: 50th Anniversary. Burlington, Local 807, 1991. 56 pp.

Warren, Wilson J. “The ‘People’s Century’ in Iowa: Coalition Building among Farm and Labor Organizations, 1945-1950.” Annals of Iowa 49 (Summer 1988): 371-93.

Weaver, James Baird. “The Threefold Contention of Industry.” In Farmer Discontent, 1865-1900, edited by Vernon R. Carstensen, 80-89. New York: Wiley, 1974.

1892 article on organized labor by Iowa lawyer and Populist candidate for President.

Winn, Robert D. “The Functions of the Iowa Federation of Labor, 1893-1964.” M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1966. 95 pp.

LABOR FORCE and EMPLOYMENT

Barton, Mabel V. “Woman Labor in Iowa.” M.A. Thesis, University of Iowa, 1918. 113 p.

Baumback, Clifford. “Shifts in Manufacturing Employment Within Iowa Counties, 1947-1954.” Iowa Business Digest 28 (Dec.1957): 1-2, 5-7.

Bloodworth, Jessie A. and Elizabeth J. Greenwood. The Personal Side. Works Progress Administration, 1939. 417 pp.

Effects of the Depression on Dubuque residents.

Bognanno, Mario Frank. Iowa Employment Patterns and Projections, 1940-1970: Industrial, Occupational, and Occupation-Industry Employment Matrix. Iowa City: Center for Labor and Management, College of Business Administration, University of Iowa, 1966. 48 pp.

Bognanno, Mario Frank. “ A Study of Employment Opportunites in Iowa.” M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1965. 101 pp.

1940-1960.

Bognanno, Mario Frank, and Vern Hagen. “Principal Employment Changes in Iowa from 1940 to 1960, with Projections to 1970.” Iowa Business Digest 37 (May 1966): 3-19.

Bohlman, Herbert W. Labor Market in Iowa: Characteristics and Trends. Des Moines: Drake University, 1937. 74 p.

Bowen, Howard. Unemployment Compensation as Applied to Iowa. Iowa City: College of Commerce, University of Iowa, 1936. 54 p. (Iowa Studies in Business, No.16).

Dinovo, John Phil. “Employment Trends in Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1950-1957.” M.A. thesis, Drake University, 1960. 72 pp.

Downey, Ezekial Henry. Work Accident Indemnity in Iowa. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1912. 80 p.

Downey, Ezekiel Henry. History of Labor Legislation in Iowa. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1910. 283 p.

Originally an M.A. thesis done at the University of Iowa in 1908.

Farley, Mary Allison. “Iowa Women in the Workplace.” Palimpsest 67 (1986): 2-16, 21-27.

Photos taken in Dubuque in 1912 (Klauer collection).

Farley, Mary Allison. “Wage Earning Women in Dubuque, Iowa, 1910-1917: Their Position in the Labor Force and How They Remember That Experience.” M.A.thesis, University of Iowa, 1985. 67 pp.

Iowa Labor Mobility Demonstration Project. Final Report of the Iowa Labor Mobility Demonstration Project. Iowa Employment Security Commission, 1969. 213 pp.

History of the project from March 1, 1967, to January 31, 1969.

Jakubauskas, Edward B. “Labor Force and Occupational Trends in Iowa.” Iowa Business Digest 36 (March 1965): 13-27.

1950-1964.

Jakubauskas, Edward B., and Donald E. Mitchell. “The Iowa State Manpower Development Council.” Iowa Business Digest 37 (Oct.1966): 11-19.

History, backgrounds and objectives.

Kaltenbach, Erwin John. “The Organization and Function of the Works Progress Administration in Iowa.” M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1937. 95 p.

Kremenak, Nellie Wilson. "Urban Workers in the Agricultural Middle West, 1856-1893: With a Case Study of Fort Dodge and Webster County, Iowa." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1995. 565 pp.

Kuhmen, Nicholas. Some Considerations Regarding the Boycott of Our Cigars. Davenport, 1886. 7 p.

Labor troubles in Davenport, 1883-1886.

Leighton, George R. “They Call It Barter: The New Economics in Ohio and Iowa.” Harper’s Magazine 167 (1933): 314-24.

The Waterloo Unemployed Relief Club.

Lewis, E. E. “Occupation of the Graduates of the College of Liberal Arts, State University of Iowa.” Midland Schools 29 (1914): 10-11.

Lewis, E. E. “The Prevailing Occupations of Iowa in Relation to the Problems of Vocational Education.” Midland Schools 29 (1914): 75-6.

Lloyd, Craig. “The Iowa Civilian Labor Force: A Comparative Study.” Iowa Business Digest 35 (April 1964): 17-28.

1940-1960.

Mabra, Fred J. “Manpower Utilization.” Military Review 46 (1966): 92-97.

“Man looks for a Job.” Life 36 (1 March 1954): 22-25.

Unemployment in Charles City.

Mergen, Bernard. “A Quantitative Study of Wage Workers in Iowa, 1894.” Annals of Iowa 41 (1972): 1114-27.

A comparison of union and non-union workers.

Moehnke, Rory Edward. “The Changing Industrial Employment Structure of Iowa Communities Between 1960 and 1970.” M.S. thesis, Iowa State University, 1974.

National Reemployment Service. Iowa. Educational Program of the Iowa State Employment Service and National Reemployment Service for Iowa, Vol. 1: Historical Background of Employment Service. Des Moines: National Reemployment Service for Iowa, 1930s. 107 p.

Peirce, Paul S. Employers’ Welfare Work in Iowa. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1915. 19 p. (State University of Iowa. University Extension Bulletin, No. 13).

Peterson, Clair A., and Norbert K. Norpel. Iowa Employment Trends, 1947-1960. Iowa City: Bureau of Labor and Management, College of Business Administration, State University of Iowa, 1962. 27 pp.

“Self-Help Movement in Des Moines.” Monthly Labor Review 36 (1933): 1000-1.

For the unemployed.

Sinn, Eugene and Willis Rauscher. Occupation of Gainful Workers: Iowa, 1900-1930. Des Moines: Iowa State Planning Board, 1935. 52 p.

Storby, Selmer O. “Labor in Iowa: Recent Developments and Policies.” M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1929. 86 p.

Thompson, Arthur T. “When Men Turn to Barter.” Christian Century 50 (1933): 560-2.

The Waterloo Unemployed Relief Club.

“Unemployed Relief Club, Waterloo Iowa.” Monthly Labor Review 36 (1933): 989-99.

Urick, A. L. “Labor Situation in Iowa.” In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Iowa State Conference of Social Work, 29-33. Mason City, 1917.

‘The Way We Worked.” Iowan 24 (Spring 1976): 9-15. Photos of businesses and employees in Dubuque, taken in 1912 (Klauer collection).

“What Happens When Jobs Run Out.” U.S. News and World Report 36 (8 July 1954): 28-31.

Unemployment in the Quad Cities in 1954.

“Working and Wandering.” Palimpsest 70 (Summer 1989): 75.

INDUSTRY OR TRADE:

BUTTON INDUSTRY

Batten, Samuel Z. “Muscatine: The Strike Problem of a Mid-Western Town.” Survey 28 (1912): 390-9.

The 1911-1912 strike in the pearl button industry of Muscatine.

Fairfield, Edward G. “Iowa Makes the Nation’s Buttons.” Iowa Magazine 3 (June 1919): 4-6, 39-40.

Muscatine button industry.

Farrel-Beck, Jane A., and Rebecca Hatfield Meints. “The Role of Technology in the Fresh-Water Pearl Button Industry of Muscatine, Iowa, 1891-1910.” Annals of Iowa 47 (1983): 3-18.

Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Commission on the Church and Social Service. Report on the Industrial Situation at Muscatine, Iowa. New York: The Council, 1912. 19 p.

The button workers strike.

Haefner, Marie. “Argonauts of the Mississippi.” Palimpsest 13 (1932): 473-86.

The growth of the pearl button industry in Muscatine from the 1890s to 1932.

Hurd, Frances Schruers. “The Pearl Button Industry of Muscatine, Iowa.” Annals of Iowa 38 (1966): 401-11.

Kelso, Margaret F. “The Freshwater Pearl Button Industry of America…” Part 4, “Development of the Industry.” National Button Bulletin 14 (1955): 154-58, 322-27.

Muscatine.

O’Hara, Mike. “Mr. Boepple and His Buttons.” Iowan 30 (Fall 1981): 46-51.

John Frederick Boepple, pioneer of Muscatine’s pearl button industry.

Rose, Earl T. “Iowa’s Clam Industry May See War Boom for Buttons.” Iowa Conservationist 1 (May 1942): 1-3.

Includes some history of the clamming industry in Iowa.

Rousmaniere, Kate. “The Muscatine Button Worker’s Strike of 1911-12: An Iowa Community in Conflict.” Annals of Iowa 46 (1982): 243-62.

Smith, Hugh M. “The Mussel Fishery and Pearl-Button Industry of the Mississippi River.” Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 18 (1898): 289-314.

Primarily Muscatine and Le Claire.

CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING TRADES

Magnuson, Linda Westcott. “Sheets and Company, an Iowa City Builder/Architect Firm, 1870-1905.” M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1980. 161 pp.

“Neumann Brothers Are Builders.” Alumnus (Iowa State College) 27 (1932): 214-17.

Arthur H., Walter N., Oscar, and Harold Neumann, partners in Arthur H. Neumann & Company, Des Moines builders.

Newman, Theodore Emerson. “The Construction Industry: The United States and Iowa, 1939-1954.” M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1956. 240 pp.

Yates, Carole Shelley, and Charles W. Roberts. “Heritage in Stone.” Iowan 31 (Winter 1982): 24-35.

Stonecutting in nineteenth-century Iowa and nineteenth-century stone buildings still standing.

Roberts, Charles W. “The Far Frontiers of Green International.” Iowan 26 (Spring 1978): 18-25.

The Green Construction Company of Des Moines.

“Rumble and Roar of a Cannonball Year.” Iowan 4 (Dec 1955-Jan 1956): 34-36, 50.

Construction in Iowa in 1955.

EDUCATORS

Carey, Eugene Roy. “A Comparative Analysis of the Iowa Public Employees Retirement System with the Other State Teacher-Retirement Systems of the Nation.” Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 1969. 338 pp. “Origin and Development of the Iowa teacher-Retirement Program.” pp. 76-93.

Doran, O. T. and Harry A. Greene. Factors Affecting Public School Teachers’ Salaries in Iowa. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1924. 32 p.

Hart, Irving H. “Iowa Teachers’ Salaries in 1940-41.” Midland Schools 56 (1941): 61.

Hobbs, Lucy E. History of the Teachers’ Annuity Movement in Iowa. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1926. 62 p. (University of Iowa Extension Bulletin, No. 145)

Originally an M.A. thesis done at the University of Iowa in 1926.

Rogers, Don C. “Iowa Teachers’ Salaries during Two Wars.” American School Board Journal 66 (June 1923): 43-4, 130.

The Civil War and World War I.

Williams, R. C. “Salaries of Rural Teachers in Iowa.” Midland Schools 52 (1938): 280, 282.

1937-1938.

ELECTRICAL POWER

Axelrod, Alan. “ A Century of Light: The Development of Iowa’s Electric Utilities.” Palimpsest 60 (1979): 130-55.

Charlesworth, George. “Rural Electrification in Iowa.” Iowa Year Book of Agriculture 46 (1945): 457-63.

1910-1945.

Clark, Florence L. “Harnessing Scenery in North-eastern Iowa.” Iowa Magazine 2 (Sept. 1918): 4-5.

Power plants on the Turkey and Upper Iowa rivers.

Goc, Michael J. Where the Waters Flow: A Half Century of Regional Development, 1941-1991. Friendship, WI: New Past Press, 1991. 151 pp.

History of area served by Dairyland Power Cooperative, includes Iowa.

Jorgenson, Becki. “Country Extension Agents: The Unheralded Rural Electric Pioneers.” Iowa REC News 39 (May 1985):18-20.

Pocahontas County Extension Agent E. J. Schmuecker and his efforts to promote rural electrification in the 1930s.

Murray, John Joseph. It Took All of Us: ie, 100 Years of Iowa Electric Light and Power Company. Cedar Rapids: Iowa Electric Light and Power Co., 1982. 279 pp.

Severson, Harold. CIPCO, the Story of a Unique Cooperative. Kenyon, Minn.: American Brochures, 1965. 31 pp.

Central Iowa Power Cooperative, 1945-1965.

Severson, Harold. Corn Belt: Enthusiasm Made the Difference. Humboldt: Corn Belt Power Cooperative, 1972. 140 pp.

Corn Belt Power Cooperative of Iowa, and rural electrification in Iowa in the 1930s and 1940s.

Severson, Harold. Determination Turned on the Power: A History of the Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative. 1964. 52 pp.

1935-1964.

Severson, Harold. Out of the Dark Ages: The Story of Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative, Marion, Iowa. Marion: Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 1968. 24 pp.

1938-1968.

Shawd, Jeff. “REC Linemen Remember…Life on the Lines.” Iowa REC News 39 (May 1985): 14-16.

Thompson, Carl D. “Maquoketa: City of Light and Power.” Public Ownership 6 (1924): 118-32.

The development of a municipally-owned light and power plant, 1915-1924.

Tubbs, Jill, and Jim Sayers. “Corn Belt Power Cooperative, a Leader in Rural Electrical Development.” Iowa REC News 39 (July 1985): 8-9.

FARM IMPLEMENT INDUSTRY

Broehl, Wayne G., Jr. John Deere’s Company: A History of Deere and Company and Its Times. New York: Doubleday, 1984. 870 pp.

“Deere Buys the Waterloo Boy,” pp. 403-7, covers the purchase of the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company in 1917. Other information about Deere operations in Iowa throughout the book.

Cedar Valley Engine Club. Progress in Tractor Power from 1898, Charles City Plant, White Farm Equipment. 2d ed. Charles City, 1975.

History of the White Farm Equipment Company, Charles City.

Deere and Company. Growth and Spirit: The Story of the John Deere Dubuque Tractor Works and Its First 20 Years in Dubuque. Dubuque: John Deere Tractor Works, 1966. 16 pp.

Devinatz, Victor G. “A Program for Building Cooperative Shop Floor Labor Relations: The UAW, the International Harvester Corporation and The "New Look" Procedure, 1960-1964.” Labor Studies Journal 20(1995): 5-18.

Finlay, Mark R. “System and Sales in the Heartland: A Manufacturing and Marketing History of the Hart-Parr Company, 1901-1929.” Annals of Iowa 57 (1998): 337-373.

Foley, James Edward. “Labor Union jurisdictional disputes in the Quad-Cities' farm equipment industry, 1949-1955.” M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1965. 121 pp.

Gilpin, Toni. "New Feet Under the Table: International Harvester's Industrial Council Plan.” Labor's Heritage 4 (1992): 4-27.

“How Our Company Started.” The Connecting Link (John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works) 12 (June 1954): 3-4, 15.

Founding of the John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works by John Froelich in 1892.

“Iowa State College and Hart-Parr Co.” Alumnus (Iowa State College) 8 (Dec. 1912): 57-9.

Charles City company.

“Iowa’s Great Tractor Factory.” Iowa Factories 1 (May 1912): 10-17.

The Hart-Parr Tractor Works at Charles City.

Kellogg, Lester S. “Farm Machinery: A Case Study.” In Urban Responses to Agricultural Change, edited by Clyde F. Kohn, 47-64. Iowa City: State University of Iowa Press, 1961.

Includes a section on trends in the location of the farm machinery industry in Iowa.

Klehm, Michael E. Collective Bargaining in the Farm Machinery and Equipment Industry. Washington , D.C: U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1978.

Marsh, Barbara. A Corporate Tragedy : The Agony of International Harvester Company. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1985.

Miller, Orrin E. The Life Story of Wayne Harry Worthington. Waterloo, 1986. 15 pp.

History of the John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works.

Miller, Orrin E. Louis W. Witry: The Man Behind the Waterloo Boy, and the Reason John Deere Came to Town. Waterloo, 1985. 8 pp.

Mohr, Ernest E. “Industry in Iowa: Farm Implement Industry.” Iowa Transit 43 (May 1939): 5-7.

Oliver Corporation. Progress in Tractor Power from 1898, Charles City Plant, Oliver Corporation. Charles City: Oliver Corp., 1966. 34 pp.

Oliver Corporation. A Super Story: The Oliver Corporation, Charles City, Iowa Plant. Charles City: Oliver Corp., [c.1954-1958]. 39 pp.

Oliver Corporation. A Visit at Oliver Tractor Plant, Charles City, Iowa. Chicago: Oliver Corp., 1966. 24 pp.

Ozanne, Robert W. Wages in Practice and Theory: McCormick and International Harvester, 1860-1960. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.

Welch, F. A. “Iowa Manufacture of Farm Implements.” Midland Schools 44 (1930): 305-7.

Wendel, Charles H., comp. Power in the Past: A History of Gasoline Engine and Tractor Builders in Iowa, 1890-1930. Hiawatha: Wheeler Printing, Inc., 1971. 96 pp.

FARM WORKERS

Foulon, Luis Alberto. “Changes in Utilization of Labor on Iowa Farms, 1939-1942.” M.S. thesis, Iowa State College, 1943. 61 p.

Iowa Farm Labor Program: A Report of the Emergency Farm Labor Project of the Agricultural Extension Service, 1943-1947. Ames: Agricultural Extension Service, Iowa State College, 1948. 22 p.

Jakubauskas, Edward B., and Neil A. Polomba. “Relocation of Farm Workers from Mississippi to Iowa.” Labor Law Journal 20 (1969): 479-90.

The Mississippi-Iowa Labor Mobility Program of 1968.

“Shock Troops: Twilight Harvesters.” Iowa Magazine 2 (Sept. 1918): 13-14.

Solving the harvest labor problem during World War I.

Taft, Philip. “Mayor Short and the I.W.W. Agricultural Workers.” Labor History 7 (1966): 173-77.

Wallace M. Short, mayor of Sioux City in 1919.

Vasey, Frank Thomas and Josiah C. Folsom. Survey of Agricultural Labor Conditions in Hamilton County, Iowa. Washington, D.C.: Farm Security Administration, 1937. 14 p.

Wyckoff, Walter A. “With Iowa Farmers.” Scribner’s Magazine 29 (1901): 525-36.

Author’s experiences as a wandering farm laborer in Iowa in 1892.

FOOD PROCESSING

“Atlantic Canning Company.” Iowa Factories 4 (Nov. 1915): 10-11.

Chard, Roy. “The Iowa Canning Industry.” Iowa Year Book of Agriculture 46 (1945): 115-20.

“The Crescent Macaroni & Cracker Company.” Iowa Factories 3 (July 1914): 13.

In Davenport.

“The Fine Art of Cheese-Making.” Iowan 26 (Summer 1978): 4-9.

Two cheese manufacturing firms, the Twin County Dairy near Kalona and the Maytag Dairy Farms near Newton.

Ford, Robert Norman. “The Vegetable Canning Industry in Iowa.” M.S. thesis, University of Chicago, 1948. 96 p.

Especially, “Development of Vegetable Processing in Iowa,” 6-13.

Harder, Connie. “Popcorn, an Iowa Success Story.” Iowa REC News 35 (July 1981):16-17.

The founding in 1913 and early history of the American Pop Corn Company of Sioux City, and its founder, Cloid H. Smith.

“The Johnson Biscuit Company.” Iowa Factories 1 (Nov. 1912): 6-13.

Sioux City company.

Lawrence, Bob. “Their Business is Popping!” Iowan 39 (Fall 1990): 24-27.

Jolly Time Popcorn, Sioux City.

Nelson, Irving A. Canning Progress at the Cool Spring Canning Company, 1893-1953. Lake Mills: Graphic Publishing Co., 1953. 68 pp.

Canning Company in Lake Mills.

Sokolov, Raymond. “Blue Notes: In Iowa, A Company Better Known for Appliances Produces a Blue Cheese that Rivals Those from Europe.” Natural History 91 (September 1982): 84-88.

Maytag Dairy Farms.

“The Sugar Beet Industry in Iowa.” Iowa Factories 1 (Oct. 1912): 6-12.

The Iowa Sugar Company of Waverly.

Sutcliffe, Judy. “Of Hives and Honey: Iowa’s ‘Hidden’ Industry.” Iowan 25 (Fall 1976): 12-17.

The Sioux Honey Association of Sioux City.

Thornton, Harrison John. The History of the Quaker Oats Company. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1933. 279 p.

The company was established in Cedar Rapids in 1873.

Weigel, J. Delbert and Lyle K. Huhn. “Iowa’s Oats As Breakfast Cereal Mechanically Prepared.” Iowa Engineer 31 (1931): 211-12, 218.

The Quaker Oats Company of Cedar Rapids.

Welch, F. A. “Iowa Canneries and Cereal Products.” Midland Schools 44 (1930): 211-13.

GLASS MANUFACTURING

Koehn, Donald C. “Iowa City Glassware.” Hobbies 61 (April 1956): 80-81, 88.

Iowa City Flint Glass Works in Iowa City in the early 1880s.

Millen, Pauline. “Rare Glass from an Iowa Factory.” Iowan 10 (Spring 1962): 31-33.

Iowa City Flint Glass Works in Iowa City in the early 1880s.

Musgrove, Mary R. “Iowa City Glass.” Annals of Iowa 37 (1964): 367-87.

Iowa Flint Glass Works in Iowa City in the early 1880s.

Musgrove, Mary R. “Keota Glass.” Annals of Iowa 37 (1965): 481-515. Reprinted in Annals of Iowa 40 (1970): 265-94.

History of the Keota Glass Works, 1879-1880 and its proprietor, James H. Leighton.

Musgrove, Mary R. “Keota’s Short-Lived Glassmaking Venture.” Iowan 14 (Winter 1965-66): 14-17.

Keota Glass Works in 1879.

Righter, Miriam. Iowa City Glass. Iowa City, 1963. 55 pp. Des Moines: Wallace-Homestead, 1966. 55 pp.

Iowa City Flint Glass Manufacturing Company, 1880-1882.

Righter, Miriam. “Iowa City Glassware.” Antiques Journal 9, no. 10 (1954): 18-19.

Iowa City Flint Glass Manufacturing Company, 1880-1882, and its product.

GROCERY BUSINESS

Bayless, James Leslie. “The Changing Role of the Wholesale Grocer in the Iowa Market.” Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 1952. 246 pp.

1852-1952.

Collins, Wilma. “Fabulous Super Market.” Iowan 1 (June-July 1953): 28-29, 43.

Dahl’s Super Market in Des Moines.

Fritz, E. Mae. The Family of Hy-Vee, Sixty Years of Tradition: A History of Hy-Vee Food Stores. 1989. 268 pp.

Hirsch, Mary. “Cashing in on Convenience.” Iowan 35 (Summer 1987): 14-17, 61-62. Casey’s General Stores.

“The Western Grocer Company of Iowa.” Iowa Factories 2 (June 1913): 6-12.

Marshalltown company.

Whye, Mike. “Iowa City’s New Pioneers.” Iowan 40 (Fall 1991): 70, 68-69.

Cooperative grocery store.

Volpp, Louis Donovan. “The Changing Functions of the Grocery Wholesaler in Des Moines, Iowa, 1929-1954.” M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1956. 79 pp.

LUMBER and WOODWORKING INDUSTRY

Belthuis, Lyda Carol. “The Geography of Lumbering in the Mississippi River Section of Eastern Iowa.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1947.

Belthuis, Lyda Carol. “The Lumber Industry in Eastern Iowa.” Iowa Journal of History and Politics 46 (1948): 115-55.

Blair, Walter A. A Raft Pilot’s Log: A History of the Great Rafting Industry on the Upper Mississippi, 1840-1915. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1930. 328 p.

“First Saw Mill in Des Moines.” Annals of Iowa 34 (1957): 151-53.

C. C. Van’s mill, built in 1850.

Fishburn, Jesse J. “Ben Hershey, Lumber Baron.” Palimpsest 28 (1947): 289-99.

Benjamin Hershey of Muscatine.

Hartman, George Bernhardt. “The Iowa Sawmill Industry.” Iowa Journal of History and Politics 40 (1942): 52-93.

Originally presented as an M.A. thesis at Iowa State College (1941) under title, “The Iowa Sawmill Industry, Past and Present.”

Haworth, Floyd Balch. The Economic Development of the Woodworking Industry in Iowa. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1933. 128 p. (Iowa Studies in Business, No. 13).

Originally presented as a Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Iowa (1932).

Hotchkiss, George W. History of the Lumber and Forest Industry of the Northwest. Chicago: George W. Hotchkiss & Co., 1898. 754 p.

Chapters 39 and 40, pages 584-632, describe the lumber industry in Iowa.

Jackson, Marilyn. “From Rafts to Riches: The Saga of Muscatine’s Lumber Barons.” Iowan 31 (Spring 1983): 42-50, 52-54.

Kirby, Jerry. “Iowa Spawns an Industry-1830: The Forgotten Giant, Lumber!” College Spokesman (Loras College) 44 (1946-7): 43-4.

MacDonald, G. B. “Wood-Using Industries of Iowa.” Ames Forester 11 (1923): 103-12.

“The Passing of an Iowa Industry.” Annals of Iowa 7 (1905): 225-6.

The demolition of the last lumber mill in Clinton in 1904. Reprinted from the Marshalltown Times-Republican, Nov. 25, 1904.

Petersen, William J. “Rafting on the Mississippi: Prologue to Prosperity.” Iowa Journal of History 58 (1960): 289-320.

Lumber rafts floated downstream to sawmills in river towns.

Russell, Charles Edward. A-Rafting on the Mississip’. New York: Century Co., 1928. 357 p.

Personal memories and history of lumber rafting on the upper Mississippi.

Sieber, George Wesley. “Lumberman at Clinton: Nineteenth Century Sawmill Center.” Annals of Iowa 41 (1971): 779-802.

Sieber, George Wesley. “Sawlogs for a Clinton Sawmill.” Annals of Iowa 37 (1964): 348-59.

Competitive aspects of log purchasing for the W. J. Young Lumber Company of Clinton in the 1860s.

Sieber, George Wesley. “Sawmilling on the Mississippi: The W.J. Young Lumber Company, 1858-1900.” Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 1960. 663 pp.

Clinton-based company.

Streit, Everett. “The Lumber Story—Boom, Barons and Bust.” Iowan 4 (Aug.-Sept.1956): 29-30, 43, 48.

Nineteenth-century Clinton was a lumber mill center.

Weigel, J. Delbert and Harold Petsch. “Iowa Mill Products Used throughout Nation.” Iowa Engineer 31 (1931): 238-9, 252.

The Carr, Rider and Adams Company of Dubuque.

MEATPACKING INDUSTRY

American Dream [videorecording] Prestige, Cabin Creek Films, directed by Barbara Kopple ; produced by Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn. 98 min. New York : HBO Video, 1992. Videocassette.

Arnesen, Eric. "Race, Party, and Packinghouse Exceptionalism, part of Symposium on Halpern and Horowitz: Packinghouse Unionism." Labor History 40 (1999): 207-35.

Cheever, Lawrence O. “The History of John Morrell & Co.” Morrell Magazine 24 (1947): 1-283.

History of the Ottumwa-based meat packing company. This work was published as a consecutively paginated insert into each of the twelve issues of the Morrell Magazine for 1947. Reprinted as a book under title The House of Morrell. Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1948. 303 p.

Cheever, Lawrence O. “John Morrell and Co.” Palimpsest 47 (1966): 145-92.

History of Ottumwa meat-packing company.

Deslippe, Dennis A. "Rights, Not Roses:" Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-1980. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Deslippe, Dennis A. “We Had an Awful Time With Our Women: Iowa's United Packinghouse Workers of America, 1945-75.” Journal of Women's History 5 (1993): 10-32.

Eldridge, Mary Beth. The Rath Packing Company Strike of 1948. Waterloo, 1990. 86 pp.

Fehn, Bruce. "The Only Hope We Had: United Packinghouse Workers Local 46 and the Struggle for Racial Equality in Waterloo, Iowa, 1948-1960.” Annals of Iowa 54(1995): 185-216.

Fehn, Bruce. “Ruin or Renewal: The United Packinghouse Workers of America and the 1948 Meatpacking Strike in Iowa.” Annals of Iowa 56(1997): 349-378.

Fink, Deborah. Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 235 pp.

Fink, Deborah. “What Kind of Woman Would Work in Meatpacking, Anyway? World War II and the Road to Fair Employment.” Great Plains Research 5 (Fall 1995): 241-62.

Foster, T. Henry. The House of Morrell: A Short History. New York: Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1945. 24 p.

Meat packing company of Ottumwa.

The Fruits of 100 Years, 1827-1927. Ottumwa: John Morrell Co., 1927. 28 p.

The Morrell meat-packing company of Ottumwa.

Green, Hardy. On Strike at Hormel: The Struggle for a Democratic Labor Movement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. 368 pp.

Includes scattered references to Ottumwa and UFCW Local 431 as well as other Iowa meatpacking plants.

Grey, Mark A. “Turning the Pork Industry Upside Down: Storm Lake's Hygrade Work Force and the Impact of the 1981 Plant Closure.” Annals of Iowa 54 (1995): 244-259.

Gunn, Christopher. “The Fruits of Rath: A New Model of Self-Management.” Working Papers for a New Society 8 (March-April 1981): 17-21.

The worker buyout of the Rath Pork Packing Company.

Hage, Dave and Paul Klauda. No Retreat, No Surrender: Labor’s War at Hormel. New York: W. Morrow, 1989. 398 pp.

Includes scattered references to Ottumwa.

Hammans, Charles Wayne. “Direct Packer Buying of Hogs in Iowa.” M.S. thesis, Iowa State College, 1923. 52 p.

Chapter 2, “Early History of Reload Station Development,” 11-15.

Horowitz, Roger. “’It Wasn’t a Time to Compromise’: The Unionization of Sioux City’s Packinghouses, 1937-1942.” Annals of Iowa 50 (Fall 1989/Winter 1990): 241-268.

Horowitz, Roger. “The Path Not Taken: A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-1960.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. 780 pp. Includes CIO unionization in Sioux City.

Huhn, Lyle K. and Melvin Nasby. “Iowa Packed Meats Find World Market.” Iowa Engineer 31 (1930): 45-7.

John Morrell Company of Ottumwa.

Isenhart, Charles. “Hog Heaven or Hell.” Progressive 51 (October 1987): 13.

Oppostition to new IBP plant, Manchester.

The Killing Floor [videorecording], a Public Forum Productions, Ltd. production in association with KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth; story by Elsa Rassbach; adaptation by Ron Milner; screenplay by Leslie Lee; producer, George Manasse; directed by Bill Duke. New York, NY: Kino on Video, 1997. 118 minutes.

Lund, Doniver A. and V. Allen Krejci. The Hormel Legacy: 100 Years of Quality. Austin, MN: Geo. A. Hormel & Co., 1991. 231 pp.

McCarty, Harold Hull and C. W. Thompson. Meat Packing in Iowa. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1933. 138 p. (Iowa Studies in Business, No. 12).

“The Meat Industry in Iowa: Plant of T. M. Sinclair & Co., Ltd.” Iowa Factories 1 (April 1912): 5-9.

Montgomery, R. Ames. Thomas D. Foster, 1847-1915: A Biography. Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1930. 284 p.

Manager of John Morrell & Company enterprises in the United States, and founder of the Ottumwa Morrell meat packing plant.

Naumann, Molly M. and Brian Schultes. An Intensive Level Architectural and Historical Survey of the John Morrell and Company Meat Packing Plant, Ottumwa, Iowa. N.p.,1991. 124 pp.

Parson, Geoffrey, Jr. and Robert M. Yoder. Waterloo Packer: The Story of the Rath Packing Company. Waterloo: Rath Packing Co., 1941. 23 p.

Redmon, Gene, Chuck Mueller, and Gene Daniels. “A Lost Dream: Worker Control at Rath Packing.” Labor Research Review 6 (Spring 1985): 4-23.

UFCW Local 46 and meatpacking firm, Waterloo, 1978-1984.

Rhodes, Richard. The Inland Ground: An Evocation of the American Middle West. New York: Atheneum, 1970. 351 pp.

Chapter ten, “Watching the Animals,” the I-D Packing Company of Des Moines.

Sacks, Newton. “Meat Packing Industry in Iowa.” Iowa Transit 43 (Dec.1938): 9, 11.

Sklar, Susan. “An Experiment in Worker Ownership.” Dissent 29 (1982): 61-70.

The worker buyout of the Rath Pork Packing Company of Waterloo, 1978-1982.

Squire, Catherine A. “Transforming People and an Organization: Transition to Employee Ownership and Democratic Management at the Rath Packing Company, 1979-1982.” M.S. thesis, Cornell University, 1989. 230 pp.

Stromquist, Shelton and Marvin Bergman, ed. Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997. 272 pp.

Tinstman, Dale C., and Robert L. Peterson. Iowa Beef Processors, Inc.: An Entire Industry Revolutionized! Newcomen Publication, 1137. New York: Newcomen Society in North America, 1981. 17 pp.

Walsh, Margaret. The Rise of the Midwestern Meat Packing Industry. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1982. 182 pp.

Contains much Iowa material.

Warren, Wilson J. “Evangelical Paternalism and Divided Workers: The Nonunion Era at John Morrell and Company in Ottumwa, 1877-1917.” Annals of Iowa 56 (1997): 321-348.

Warren, Wilson J. “The Heyday of the CIO in Iowa: Ottumwa's Meatpacking Workers, 1937-1954.” Annals of Iowa 51(1992): 363-389.

Warren, Wilson J. “The Welfare Capitalism of John Morrell and Company, 1922-1937.” Annals of Iowa 47 (1984): 497-517.

Labor management relations at the Ottumwa meat-packing plant.

Warren, Wilson J. “When ‘Ottumwa Went to the Dogs’: The Erosion of Morrell-Ottumwa's Militant Unionism, 1954-1973.” Annals of Iowa 54 (1995): 217-243.

Woodworth, Warner. “Workers as Bosses.” Social Policy 11 (Jan.-Feb. 1981): 40-45.

The Rath Packing Company of Waterloo, 1978-1981.

Welch, F. A. “Iowa’s Meat Packing Industry.” Midland Schools 44 (1929): 149-51.

Zieren, Gregory. " ‘If You're Union, You Stick Together’: Cedar Rapids Packinghouse Workers in the CIO.” Palimpsest 76 (1995): 30-48.

MILLING

Ballard David N., Jr. “Nineteenth Century Mills and Milling Industries in Story County, Iowa.” Journal of the Iowa Archaeological Society 31 (1984): 137-90.

Birecree, Adrienne Marie. “Decertification: A Case in Point.” Ph.D.diss., University of Notre Dame,1983. 348 pp.

The Clinton Corn Processing strike of 1979-80 and its aftermath.

Bjornson, Barbara. “A Sweet Success Story.” Iowan 25 (Winter 1976): 18-22.

Waconia Sorghum Company of Cedar Rapids.

Braga, Jesse. Benson’s or Union Roller Mills, Union, Iowa, Hardin County. Union, 1976. 42 pp.

Douglas, Virginia Elinor. “The Relative Degree of Cyclic Change in Iowa and the Nation As Measured by Comparable Business Indexes, 1923-1931.” M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1934. 77 p.

Milling in Iowa, 1870-1900.

Durst, Godfrey. “The Story of Iowa’s Early Flour Mills.” Iowa Factories 2 (May 1913): 6-8.

Fantasia, Rick. “The Strike as Emergent Culture: Community and Collective Action.” In Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers, 180-225. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Clinton Corn Processing Co. strike, 1979-80.

“Hill’s Mills.” Annals of Iowa 37 (1964): 457-58.

William and Thomas Hill, early millers of Linn County.

An Injury to One Is an Injury to All; One Year of Our Lives: The Clinton Corn Strike, 1979-1980. Clinton, 1980. 36 pp.

History of the strike against the Clinton Corn Processing Company.

Miller, John V., Jr. “The Iowa Powder Mills of E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, 1888-1901: A Study of Powder Mill Location and Operation in the Late Nineteenth Century.” M.A. thesis, University of Delaware, 1965. 135 pp.

Plant near Keokuk.

“Mills and Elevators, Boone County and Surrounding Counties.” Trail Tales 39-40 (1981): 4-122.

Muyskens, Joan. “The Old Flour Mill.” Annals of Iowa 38 (1966): 396-97.

The Des Moines Roller Mill, flour mill operated c. 1893-1917.

Schwarz, Geraldine. “A Miller’s tale of True Grist.” Annals of Iowa 43 (1976): 207-12.

A trip in 1917 by miller Herman Lidke to buy millstones.

Soike, Lowell J., and John P. Zeller. “A New York Venture in Northwest Iowa: The Iselins Build a Mill.” Palimpsest 70 (Fall 1989): 126-38.

Steen, Herman. Flour Milling in America. Minneapolis: T.S. Denison, 1963. 455 pp. “Iowa,” pp. 207-9.

Brief history of some Iowa flour mills.

Steimel, Karen. “Corn Processing in Iowa—How Sweet It Is.” Iowa REC News 39 (Nov.1985): 16-19.

ADM Corn Sweeteners of Cedar Rapids.

Swisher, Jacob A. “Iowa-Land of Many Mills.”