AFL-CIO Public Policy Department, Employee Protections for Welfare-to-Work Participants (Washington, DC: 1997). Guide for State and local activists seeking to insure that former welfare recipients enrolled in "workfare" projects are covered by minimum wage and other employment laws.

Friedman, Sheldon, "We’ll Take the High Road: Unions and Economic Development," Working USA, November/December 1997. An overview of innovative union strategies and programs by a member of the AFL-CIO Public Policy Department.

Rogers, Joel, "A Strategy for Labor", Industrial Relations, Vol. 34, No. 3 (July 1995).