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.
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Alternative to Alienation. No. 7 (March-April 1976)
Toronto: 1976. 23p., tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, paper toned, minor wear. Includes a piece on "Mysticism, fascism, and the need for transcendence," Bob Dylan's music as a tool for getting back in touch with men's alienated feminine sides, and a three-page piece on fighting homophobia. More
Cat.No: 239436
Alternative, Journal of the Peace and Freedom Party. Vol. 1 no. 2 (Nov. 1972)
San Louis Obispo, CA: Peace and Freedom Party, 1972. Newspaper. 4p., tabloid newspaper format, horizontal fold crease, toned, especially at spine. 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 on the ballot, Ord fragging..... More
Cat.No: 206731
Alternative. "The news you won't read anywhere else." (three issues)
Alpine, CA: 1993-1994. Three issues of the progressive community newspaper from the San Diego area, vol. 1 nos. 2 and 6, and volume 2 no. 4. Friendly coverage of the Peace and Freedom Party; the editor (Jeff Archer) was a local officer in P&F. Includes articles critical of the invasion..... More
Cat.No: 239447
Alternative. "The news you won't read anywhere else." Vol. 1 no. 6 (July 30, 1993)
Alpine, CA: 1993. 20p., single issue of the progressive community newspaper from the San Diego area. Horizontal fold, mild toning. Friendly coverage of the Peace and Freedom Party; the editor (Jeff Archer) was a local officer in P&F. Includes an Arabic-language section. More
Cat.No: 239448
Alternative. Journal of the Peace and Freedom Party. Vol. 1 no. 1 (October 1972)
San Louis Obispo, CA: Peace and Freedom Party, 1972. 4p., tabloid newspaper format, some damp staining at lower right. 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 States, and more. More
Cat.No: 199563
America is a Democracy Only as Long as it Represents the Will of the People [poster]
Berkeley: Kamakazi Design Group, [1970]. 17.5x22.5 inch poster, very good, Design is adapted from an iconic photo of a Jewish family being rounded up in Nazi Germany. Text below lists thirteen "things YOU can do" to resist the Vietnam War. More
Cat.No: 237122
America's Aging Workforce, A Travelers Symposium. A Monograph of Proceedings from a Leadership Symposium, Houston, Texas February 26-28, 1986
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
American appeal, volumes 1-2, 1920 - 1921 to volumes 7-8, 1926-1927. Introduction to the Greenwood reprint by James Gilbert
New York: Greenwood Reprint Corporation, 1968. 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. Socialist..... More
Cat.No: 119553
American Communist. Organ of the American Communist Movement. Vol. II no. 1 (Jan-Feb. 1970)
Oakland, CA: 1970. 8 p. tabloid format newspaper, creased from folding, evenly toned. Includes an anti-gun control article, warning that it's a way to disarm the working class. More
Cat.No: 222593
American dissidents say: Protest repression in Russia [handbill]
San Francisco: Institute for the Study of Nonviolence; International Socialists, Socialist Party of San Francisco, Socialists for Independent Politics, War Resisters' League West, Democratic Socialists Organizing Committee, [1979]. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet, printed one side, edgeworn with small closed tears. Also included is a two-paragraph leflet from 1973 also calling..... More
Cat.No: 167712
An American Inroads special event: John Adams' opera Nixon in China, program, concert preview performances Thursday & Friday May 21 & 22 8pm at Herbst Theatre
San Francisco: American Inroads, 1987. [8p] includes covers, 7x8.5 inches, special thanks card laid-in, light wear and tioning, program for the special event, booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 225036
American labor history: Race and ethnicity in the working class
Somerville: New England Free Press, [1973]. Pamphlet. 48p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. Short book reviews and bibliography. More
Cat.No: 59935
The American labor legislation review. Vol. 10, no. 1, March,1920 to vol. 10, no. 4, December, 1920
New York: American Association for Labor Legislation, 1920. Various pagination, complete run for the year of the quarterly, hinges starting, index, issues bound in without the original wraps, ex library with the usual markings. More
Cat.No: 85243
The American labor year book, 1923-1924 by the Labor Research Department of the Rand School of Social Science.
New York: Rand School Press, 1924. 548p. [+ ads], original red cloth binding slightly soiled and with minor staining. Vol. 5. More
Cat.No: 84439
The American labor year book, 1923-1924 by the Labor Research Department of the Rand School of Social Science.
New York: Rand School Press, 1924. 548p. [+ ads], original red cloth binding partly stained, hinges weak, ownership signature of Richard Revere. Vol. 5. More
Cat.No: 143280
The American labor year book, 1925, by the Labor Research Department of the Rand School of Social Science, Solon De Leon, director
New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1925. 488p., [xiv]p., tables, movement library stamps on fore edges, last few blank pages badly creased, inscribed and signed in full by Solon De Leon. *Miles 184 Vol. 6. More
Cat.No: 88424
The American labor year book, 1927, by the Labor Research Department of the Rand School of Social Science.
New York: Rand Book Store, 1927. [vi], 252, [24p. ads], ex library, original red cloth binding slightly edge worn. Vol. 8. More
Cat.No: 3747
The American labor year book, 1928; political issues facing American labor, by the Labor Research Department of the Rand School of Social Science.
New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1928. Hardcover. [viii], 265p., original red cloth binding with a faded spine and faded edges of front and rear panel, internally very good condition. Vol. 9. More
Cat.No: 3748
The American labor year book, 1929. By the Labor Research Department of the Rand School of Social Science.
New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1929. 302p., original red cloth slightly rubbed, edge worn dj. Vol. 10. More
Cat.No: 83474
The American labor year book, 1930, by the Labor Research Department of the Rand School of Social Science.
New York: Rand School Press, 1930. Hardcover. 283p. [+ ads], original red cloth binding slightly edge worn, spine faded. Vol. 11. More
Cat.No: 102330
American Labor [Numbers 1-38, missing one issue]
Washington DC: American Labor Education Center, 1979-. Nearly complete run of the 8.5x11 inch newsletter, missing number 28; generally 8 pages, neatly creased from having been folded for mailing. There are 34 physically separate issues, as some of them are double issues. Includes educational material for union members about legal..... More
Cat.No: 244799
American Peace Mobilization
New York: American Peace Mobilization, [1940-?]. Six-panel brochure, folded to 3.75x8.5 inches, very good. Introduction to the APM and its program, which coincided with the Soviet shift from anti-fascism to maintenance of "peace" after the Molotov-Ribbentropp pact. Program calls for the US to avoid involvement in the European war. The..... More
Cat.No: 181795
An American people's program to end poverty and unemployment in the US: Economic program of the Communist Party, USA
New York: Communist Party, USA, 1964. 8p., 8.5x11 inch pamphlet, minor foxing. A response to Johnson's "War on poverty." More
Cat.No: 233466
American Pilots [handbill]
[San Francisco Bay Area]: n.pub. [1971]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, date penned in corner, fold-creased. Leaflet arguing that US pilots bombing Southeast Asia are war criminals, "no different from the men who ran fascist Germany's gas chambers." More
Cat.No: 251506
American report: Review of religion and American power. [12 issues]
Huntington, IN: Clergy and Laymen Concerned, 1970-1971. Twelve issues of the weekly tabloid format newspaper by religious opponents of the Vietnam War; evenly toned, address labels, otherwise very good. Issues present are Vol. 1, No. 3 (Oct. 16, 1970), 7-11, 14, 25, 44, 46, 47; Vol. 2, no. 5 (Oct..... More
Cat.No: 174718