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.
Almanacco della Rivoluzione, 1908
Paterson, NJ: Libreria Sociologica, 1907. 62, [ii], rear cover missing, and lacking the 4 p. catalog of other anarchist works from the same publisher that we have seen at the end of other examples. Apparently the only issue published under this title. Includes articles about contemporary events, a calendar of..... More
Cat.No: 262602
Almanacco sovversivo. 1906-07
Barre, VT: Biblioteca Circolo Studi Sociali, [1906]. 107, [iv]p., staplebound booklet, 4.5x9 inches; wraps worn, chipped, and beginning to split along spine, rust at the staples, otherwise very good. Text in Italian. Cover art depicts a man fending off a vulture. Includes articles both on and by many of the..... More
Cat.No: 257149
Almanacco sovversivo. 1916
New York: Nicoletti Bros. Press, [1916]. 94p., staplebound booklet, lacks wraps and last page (pp95/96), title page toned and stained, staples rusted, 2.5 inch closed tear through pp89-94. Italian-language "Subversive almanac," with articles about the war and other contemporary events, tributes to the Haymarket martyrs and to Joe Hill, a...... More
Cat.No: 261786
The Alternative in brief: a summary of Forging Peace, the...
Washington DC: PACCA/Policy Alternatives for the Caribbean and Central America, 1987. 12p., staplebound pamphlet, staples rusted else very good condition. A summarized version of Richard Fagen's critique of US policy toward Latin America. More
Cat.No: 238719
The Alternative newspaper vol. 1, no. 10, week of May...
Santa Barbara: Associated Students and Press Council, UC Santa Barbara, 1976. Newspaper. 12p. folded tabloid newspaper illustrated with b&w photos, evenly toned otherwise very good. Report on the strike against BFI and accompanying rally, march and protests. Photos of police actions and marchers. Cesar Chavez article. Jane Fonda article and..... More
Cat.No: 176836
Alternative, Journal of the Peace and Freedom Party. Vol. 1...
San Louis Obispo, CA: Peace and Freedom Party, 1972. Newspaper. 4p., tabloid newspaper format, horizontal fold crease, toned, especially at spine, slightly misfolded else good condition. Second issue of the newspaper, with articles on the presidential campaign of Benjamin Spock ("Spock Charges Nixon Opportunist"), report on Women's Conference, La Raza..... More
Cat.No: 206731
Alternative; Journal of the Peace and Freedom Party. Vol. 1...
San Louis Obispo, CA: Peace and Freedom Party, 1972. 4p., tabloid newspaper format, evenly toned, some damp staining at lower right, else good condition. First issue of the newspaper, with articles on the presidential campaign of Benjamin Spock, the trial of Gary Lawton, the Union of Vietnamese in the United..... More
Cat.No: 199563
Alternatives journal: newsletter of the alternative culture [20 issues]
Los Angeles: Richard Fairfield, 1972-1973. Newsletter. Twenty issues of the four-page, 8.5x11 inch newsletter devoted to communes, de-schooling, group marriage, the back-to-the-land movement, etc. Generally with postal markings on rear panel, neatly fold-creased. Issues present are numbers 12-27, 29-32. More
Cat.No: 311827
America -Love it enough to change it
Philadelphia: National Organization for an American Revolution, [1984]. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, contact info for the San Francisco branch of NOAR rubberstamped at the end. By James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs' organization. Beginning with a portion of Langston Hughes' poem "Make America America Again," laments the results of..... More
Cat.No: 260317
America's Aging Workforce, A Travelers Symposium. A Monograph of Proceedings...
Hartford CT: The Travelers Company, 1986. Paperback. 86p., softbound, 9x5.5 inch paperback printed on alkaline glazed paperstock, chapter heads and captions rubricated throughout, an expensive production in very good condition: sound, clean, unmarked. Laid in is a two-page News Release on Travelers letterhead announcing the release of this very booklet..... More
Cat.No: 233306
America's Steel Capacity: What It Is, What It Does
New York: American Iron and Steel Institute, [1948]. Pamphlet. 38, 11p., stapled wraps, 7x10 inches, illus., graphs, wraps lightly stained, staples rusted else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 276769
The American anti-socialist. A monthly magazine published at Washington, D.C....
Washington, D.C. John Basil Barnhill, 1912. First issue of the slender journal, 16p., blank margins of front and back pages have silverfish holes, but text complete; a reading copy. This issue contains essays reprinted from other authors including A.J. Balfour, former British Prime Minister, alleging fallacies and self-defeating weaknesses of..... More
Cat.No: 257440
The American anti-socialist. An organ of Jeffersonian democracy published at...
Washington, D.C. John Basil Barnhill, 1914. Last issue of the slender journal, 16p., crinkled with a piece torn out of the margin on the front cover (no text loss), staple rusted, a reading copy. The individualist anarchist editor adopts a more classically conservative perspective on such issues as inheritance taxes..... More
Cat.No: 257207
American appeal, volumes 1-2, 1920 - 1921 to volumes 7-8...
New York: Greenwood Reprint Corporation, 1968. Hardcover. Four volumes, in uniform blue cloth. three volumes are 8.5x11 inches, the fourth is 18.5x23 inches. Very good hardcover reprint set of the complete run. Original title of the magazine was The Socialist World. Radical periodicals in the United States, 1890-1960. First series..... More
Cat.No: 119553
The American Civil Liberties Union
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, [1973]. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, 0.25 inch closed tear on front panel else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 278328
The American Civil Liberties Union
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, [c1974]. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, date penciled on verso of front panel else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 278497
American Federation of Labor
Washington, D.C. AFL, 1939. Pamphlet. 14p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, staples rusted else very good condition. Brief history of the AFL, including a B&W photo of the interior of its headquarters in the 1890s. Foreword by William Green. Revised edition, first published in 1934. More
Cat.No: 286480
The American Independent Party welcomes you!
npl: American Independent Party, nd. Handbill. 3x8.5 inch handbill, double-sided; includes party platform, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 307023
An American Inroads special event: John Adams' opera Nixon in...
San Francisco: American Inroads, 1987. [8p] includes covers, 7x8.5 inches, special thanks card laid-in, light wear and toning else goo program for the special event, booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 225036
American labor history: women in the working class
Somerville, MA: New England Free Press, [1971?]. Pamphlet. 36p., wraps slightly toned else very good condition, 5.25x8.5 inches. A Radical America pamphlet. More
Cat.No: 47830
American Labor History; Race and Ethnicity in the Working Class
Somerville: New England Free Press, [1973]. Pamphlet. 48p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps lightly worn and soiled, staples slightly rusted, else in very good condition. Short book reviews and bibliography. A Radical America Pamphlet. More
Cat.No: 59935
The American labor legislation review: Vol. 10, no. 1, March...
New York: American Association for Labor Legislation, 1920. Paperback. Various pagination, complete run for the year of the quarterly, hinges cracked, index, issues bound in without the original wraps, ex library with bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, card pocket on rear pastedown endpaper, borrowing form on free rear endpaper and..... More
Cat.No: 85243
The American Labor Monthly; a magazine for inquiry into facts...
New York: American Monthly Publishing Association, 1923. Paperback. 64p., 5.5x8.5 inches; corners are slightly rounded from handling, small chip on bottom rear cover, slight chip along spine ends, in good condition. Content on Karl Radek, women and the garment industry, and more. More
Cat.No: 294757
American Labor Party Handbook
[New York]: American Labor Party, 1937. Paperback. 23, [1]p., wraps. 9 x 6 in. Good. Water stain to lower right corner of cover and textblock; edge wear. Second printing. Platform of the party for 1937, with a copy of its principles and by-laws. More
Cat.No: 310772
American Labor Party News, no. 1 (March 14, 1926). An...
New York: American Labor Party, 1926. Pamphlet. Eight panel brochure, folded, 8x11.5 inches; toned and delicate pages with some chipped edges, one corner nearly chipped off, good only. More
Cat.No: 309840
Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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