– Barrett, Ross. Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art. Oakland, Calif: University of California Press, 2014
– Phelps, Christopher. “The Strike Imagined: The Atlantic and Interpretive Voyages of Robert Koehler’s Painting ‘The Strike.’” The Journal of American History 98, no. 3 (2011): 670–97. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41510114.
– Dennis, J.M. Robert Koehler’s The Strike: the improbable story of an iconic 1886 painting of labor protest. Chicago: University of Wisconsin, 2011.
– Focus on the painting and its significance, especially in the context of the history of riots
