American Labor & Radicalism
This section includes books (both nonfiction and fiction) as well as ephemera related to labor unions and activism, grassroots political organization in fields such as environmentalism and free speech, and the underground press. Our holdings range from academic historical works and labor-themed novels to original leaflets and pamphlets.
California's Budget Crisis: Is There a Way Out?
npl: Solidarity, 1993. Pamphlet. 18p. pamphlet in nested self-wraps, 7x8.75 inches, light handling wear, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 311604
California's prisoners: victims of the Adult Authority
San Francisco: Connections, [197-]. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, very good but for new address rubberstamped on rear panel. Connections was an information and support service for prisoners and their families. This pamphlet critiques the Adult Authority and its use of Indeterminate Sentencing. More
Cat.No: 299924
The Call / El Clarín. Vol. 1 no. 2 (November...
Chicago: October League / The Call, 1972. Second issue of the Marxist-Leninist tabloid-format paper, 16p., evenly toned, mild handling wear else good condition. More
Cat.No: 239423
The Call / El Clarín: Vol. 2 no. 10 (July...
Chicago: October League / The Call, 1974. Single issue of the Marxist-Leninist tabloid-format paper, 18p. in English, 6p. in Spanish, evenly toned, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 217435
The Call / El Clarín: Vol. 2 no. 9 (June...
Chicago: October League / The Call, 1974. Newspaper. Single issue of the Marxist-Leninist tabloid-format paper, 18p. in English, 6p. in Spanish, evenly toned, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 266550
The Call / El Clarín: Vol. 4 no. 6 (March...
Chicago: October League / The Call, 1976. Newspaper. Single issue of the Marxist-Leninist tabloid-format paper, 18p. in English, 6p. in Spanish, evenly toned, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 213291
Call for a protest demonstration [handbill]
Berkeley: Long Haul, 1986. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill; somewhat unevenly toned, slight pencil notation on back, else in very good condition. Call for a rally responding to the Iran/Nicaragua scandal by a Berkeley social center called the Long Haul. The center is still active. More
Cat.No: 307221
Call of Youth: Organ of the Workmen's Circle and the...
New York: Workmen's Circle, 1937. 16p., slender staplebound journal, approximately 9.25x11.6 inches, postal markings on rear cover, vertically fold creased from mailing. Articles include Upton Sinclair on "Unbalanced magazine diets," discussing bias in the media; B. Solovioff on Jewish youth in Poland, a report onthe convention of the Workmen's Circle..... More
Cat.No: 263487
Call to a conference: preliminary announcement
Washington DC: Lewis Hill, [1945]. Ephemera. Two mimeographed 8.5x11 inch sheets, stapled together at corner; top sheet unevenly toned and creased. Penciled note of sender's address (Lewis Hill, a conscientious objector during WWII who would go on to confound Pacifica Radio). Announces a conference planned for February 1946. "The signers..... More
Cat.No: 305336
A Call to a May Day Conference. Sunday, April 10th...
Buffalo, NY: Provisional United Front May Day Committee, [1938]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill, toned, year penned in lower right corner, otherwise very good. “Progressive America is being assailed by the small clique of Torys who are out to defeat all social and labor legislation. Unite in the Democratic Front of..... More
Cat.No: 306171
Call to a New England community meeting [handbill]
Boston: November 9th Mobilization Committee, 1968. 8.5x14 inch handbill, mimeographed text both sides, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. Calls for anti-war protests at the state capitols of the six New England states on the day after the November election. More
Cat.No: 250678
A Call to Action: Labor Conference to Stop the War!...
San Francisco: Labor Conference to Stop the War, 2007. Pamphlet. Single sheet folded to make a [2]p. pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. Two identical fliers, printed one side only, advertising Global Exchange's program to have anti-war Iraq veterans speak at local high schools laid in. More
Cat.No: 256341
The Call [four issues]
New York: Socialist Party, USA, 1942-43. Four issues of the tabloid format newspaper, all with horizontal fold, paper toned, edgewear. Issues present are whole numbers 336, 385, 388, and 389. Articles on topics such as the wartime sugar shortage, the beating and arrest of Black labor organizers in Mississippi, a...... More
Cat.No: 263235
Cambodia still?
East Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Studies Center, [1975]. Four-panel pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Undated, but events cited in text suggest early 1975, when Lon Nol's forces were encircled in Phnom Penh. Calls for the US to drop all aid to the Cambodian government and let the Khmer Rouge forces..... More
Cat.No: 254051
Cambridge and nuclear weapons: Is there a place to hide?
Cambridge, MA: Cambridge City Council, 1982. Pamphlet. 9p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, horizontal fold crease, staples rusted, back cover has the penned name of a contact in the Native American Support Group. More
Cat.No: 188398
Cambridge and nuclear weapons: Is there a place to hide?
Cambridge, MA: Cambridge City Council, 1982. Pamphlet. 9p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, small stain on front wrap else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 282943
Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam: a community effort to give...
Cambridge, MA: the Committee, [1967]. Six-panel brochure introducing the local activist group affiliated with Vietnam Summer. Minor uneven toning. More
Cat.No: 250177
Camouflage: the myth of "labor monopoly"
Washington: American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations. Industrial Union Department, [1960]. 24p., staplebound pamphlet, 5.5x8.25 inches, staples rusted else very good condition. Publication no. 33. Argues that unions are the main force preventing corporate monopolization. More
Cat.No: 124100
Camp News [11 issues]
Chicago: 1972. Newspaper. Eleven issues of the underground GI movement tabloid format newspaper; three (notes with asterisk below) have the address label torn off, taking with it a piece of the last page, sometimes with text loss. Issues present are Vol. 3 nos. 6, 8*, 9, 10*, 11* and Vol..... More
Cat.No: 304498
Camp News [three issues]
Chicago: 1971. newsletter. Three issues of the underground GI movement publication, staplebound 8.5x11 inch packets. Issues present are vol. II, nos. 6, 7 and 8. The last issue was stored under a newspaper and has a very toned front cover sheet. Articles on numerous GI legal cases, protests at bases..... More
Cat.No: 304020
Campaign for a Democratic Foreign Policy, a working paper
Washington DC: Campaign for a Democratic Foreign Policy, [1975]. Pamphlet. 20, [ii]p., wraps unevenly toned, address & postage imprint on rear wrap else good condition, 5.5x8.5 inches. "The Campaign for a Democratic Foreign Policy (CDFP) is a national grass-roots network of activists, formed from the Indochina Peace Campaign. We are..... More
Cat.No: 295892
Campaign for Amnesty
San Francisco: Campaign for Amnesty, [1973]. Four-panel brochure, 7x8.5 inches, very good condition. Introduction to the SF-based group for the aid of war resisters, composed of members of VVAW, the National Lawyers Guild and other groups. More
Cat.No: 217774
The Campaigner. No. 10 (November, 1950)
San Francisco: Union Labor Party, 1950. 4p. newsletter, 8.5x11 inches, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. The Union Labor Party was the official representative of the SF Labor Council of the AFL. Promotes candidates including James Roosevelt, son of FDR, who was running for governor. More
Cat.No: 260262
Campaigns for Civil Liberty - 1937
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1937. Handbill. Single sheet, printed one side only, 6x13 inches, fold-creased, some uneven toning and foxing. More
Cat.No: 304426
Campaigns for Civil Liberty - 1941
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1941. Handbill. Four panel brochure, 3.5x6 inches, date stamped on rear panel, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 306665
Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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