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General Sources:

Jonathan Levy. 2021. Ages of American Capitalism : A History of the United States. Random House. {see esp. Chapter 8, p236+ "What was the Industrial Revolution?"}

William R. Nester. A Short History of American Industrial Policies. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. {see esp. Chapter 4: Industrialization Unbound, 1860-1932}

Pursell, Carroll W. "The Expansion of American Manufactures." The Machine in America : A Social History of Technology. 2nd ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cbcpasco-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3318349 

Industrialists

Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr. 2015. Benevolent Barons : American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. https://bit.ly/3PfsDZu 

Zeidel, Robert F. Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse: Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvq2w2pj.

Labor

Lawrence B. Glickman. 1997. A Living Wage : American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 

Priscilla Murolo, and A.B. Chitty. 2018. From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend : An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States. New York: The New Press. {see esp. Chapter 4-8}

Subtopic searches: 

• child labor, 
• health & safety,
• unions,
• women,
• working hours

JSTOR "Industrial Revolution" 

• Bridges, Hal. “The Robber Baron Concept in American History.” The Business History Review 32, no. 1 (1958): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.2307/3111897.
• Fliter, John A. Child Labor in America: The Epic Legal Struggle to Protect Children. University Press of Kansas, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv7h0t22. 
• Pearson, Chad. Reform or Repression: Organizing America’s Anti-Union Movement. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18z4g51.
• Trotter, Joe William. “African Americans and the Industrial Revolution.” OAH Magazine of History 15, no. 1 (2000): 19–23. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25163396.