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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Detroit: Social Credit Group of Detroit, [1939?]. Pamphlet. [4] pages, staplebound pamphlet. Tear off card with blank form (save for sponsors name on bottom line) still attached. Browning to covers. Very Good. Describes a Social Credit plan. The pamphlet promises no inflation or deflation and that additional spending will boost..... More
Cat.No: 342679
1,600 Labor-Management Committees in the War Production Drive.
Washington DC: War Production Board, 1942. Pamphlet. 48 pages, staplebound pamphlet. Very Good. Lists all reported joint labor-management committees in the US shortly after entry into World War 2. The introduction links their rise to elevated levels of productivity (estimated to have increased 357% between December 1941 and August 1942..... More
Cat.No: 342090
100 Flowers Re-view: vol. 1, #2, January-February 1975
Cambridge: 100 Flowers Bookstore, 1975. Magazine. 16p. includes covers, 8.25x10.25 inches, articles, reviews, photos, news, very good newsletter in pastebound wraps. Bookshop review of books. Cover story on Tillie Olsen's "Yonnondio" Also articles on a meeting of collectives, open marriage and Burt Alpert's "Inversions" NOTE: This is not the Maoist..... More
Cat.No: 221843
1216 WPA employees to be dropped from Erie County rolls...
Buffalo, NY: Workers Alliance of America, Erie County, [1939]. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed handbill, evenly toned, "Buffalo - 1939" penned at lower right. The Workers Alliance of America, a Popular Front-era collaboration between the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, and others, pressed for better WPA funding and welfare benefits for the..... More
Cat.No: 341496
1500 found National United Workers Organization
Chicago: NUWO, [1976]. Four-page tabloid newspaper format publication issued after the founding convention of the NUWO (a front group of the RCP). Horizontal fold, some toning; text in English and Spanish. More
Cat.No: 221684
15th Anniversary of Fidel Castro's Attack on the Moncada Barracks
[San Francisco, CA]: [Socialist Worker's Party], [1967]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch sheet with mimeographed text and drawing, blank on verso; midcrease, crinkling to bottom corner, and staining, otherwise in very good condition. The speakers and the Market Street location indicate this was likely distributed by the Bay area SWP in 1967..... More
Cat.No: 340391
The 1928 and 1930 Comintern resolutions on the Black national...
Washington: Revolutionary Review Press, 1975. 39p. staplebound pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 22142
1937-1957: The Remarkable Twenty Year History of the Amalgamated Laundry...
New York: Amalgamated Laundry Workers Joint Board, [1957]. Pamphlet. [12]p., stapled wraps, 7x10 inches, illus., wraps lightly worn and soiled, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 282931
1945 Blue List: Catalog of Selected Motion Pictures
New York: Brandon Films, 1945. Pamphlet. 125p. + [3]p. index, stapled wraps, 5.25x8.5 inches, staples rusted, light handling wear, else very good condition. Catalog for the film distributor offering "movies to build the peace and instructional, recreational, documentary, entertainment and foreign language films." Founder Thomas Brandon was a founding member..... More
Cat.No: 344169
1953 Election Campaign Handbook
New York: American Labor Party, 1953. Pamphlet. [17p.], 8.5x14 inch mimeographed sheets stapled at corner, horizontal fold crease. "ALP" penciled in red at top. Not found in OCLC as of May 2023. "This important but short-lived party was founded in 1936 by an amalgam of hitherto Socialist Party-related trade unions..... More
Cat.No: 302990
1958-60 agreement between Capital Airlines, Inc. and the International Association...
n.p. International Association of Machinists, Airline Division, 1958. 64p. booklet in staplebound wraps, light handling wear, owner's name penned at top edge of front cover, staples rusted, front wrap lightly foxed. More
Cat.No: 200022
The 1969-1970 Leasing Season is Approaching; Help Organize the Ann...
Ann Arbor: Ann Arbor Tenants Union, [c1969]. 11x8.5 inches; single-sided handbill, somewhat toned on edges, but otherwise in very good condition. Ann Arbor Tenant Union organizes a strike against the Ann Arbor Property Management Association, asking tenants to leverage their power by withholding rent. At this time, Ann Arbor had..... More
Cat.No: 274542
1974 Sale Catalogue…International Books and Periodicals.
Bellflower, CA: International Books and Periodicals, 1974. Pamphlet. [8] pages. Very Good. Significantly discounted radical literature. Chiefly works by Mao and about China, or about or from Albania. Blank order form on final page. More
Cat.No: 336968
1978 Workers History appointment calendar
Philadelphia: Workers Books, [1977]. Hardcover appointment calendar with white plastic comb binding, light handling wear, piece of tape on cover, otherwise very good. Two to four pages per week, profusely illustrated with black and white photos and text describing domestic and international labor history events, along with paeans to Mao..... More
Cat.No: 225453
1984! 12th Annual Western Socialist Conference May 25-28 1984
Berkeley, CA: Western Socialist Conference - Organizing Committee (WSC-OC), 1984. [4]p., tabloid format, address label on back; photos., illus., workshops, conference logistics, and more. More
Cat.No: 330036
20 years ago, our country went to war. Today 1...
Bronx, NY: American League Against War and Fascism, [1937]. 5.25x8.5 inch handbill, "NY 1937" penned at bottom, corner chip at lower left. Announcement of an event at Hunts Point Palace, featuring speakers Gordon Sloane, Walter Hawthorne, and John Ackley. More
Cat.No: 320516
20th aniversary [sic] Modern Times Bookstore
San Francisco: Modern Times Bookstore, [1991]. 21p., + 14p. of ads, 7x8.5 inch staplebound pamphlet; b&w photos., slight sunning on spine, else very good. More
Cat.No: 333581
21 Questions and Answers about the American Civil Liberties Union...
San Francisco: American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, [1962]. Pamphlet. [16]p. including covers, stapled wraps, 8.5x4 inches landscape format, light handling wear, front wrap toned along stapled edge, small stain on front wrap, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 347246
[24 different newsletters, press releases, and mailers from the Union...
New York: Union for Democratic Action, 1941-1946. A group of publications from the UDA, mostly 8.5x11 inches, many with the year added in pencil in a corner, otherwise generally very good. Includes seven issues of the UDA Bulletin, many undated, from between 1941 and 1946; vol. 1 nos. 2 and..... More
Cat.No: 319814
25 Questions and Answers: about wages - prices - profits
Washington DC: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1957. Pamphlet. [16]p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8 inches, illus., bottom corner of rear wrap dog-eared else very good condition. Publication No. 58, October 1958. More
Cat.No: 266403
25th Annual Conference of the Communal Studies Association. "Change and...
Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society; National Historic Communal Societies Association, 1998. 12p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, staples rusted, address label on rear wrap, remains of tape used to hold shut for mailing on both wraps else good condition. Program for the conference, with two photos of the Zoar community in..... More
Cat.No: 160732
27 GI's desperately need your support, charged with mutiny at...
n.p. [1969]. Handbill. [4p]., 8.5x11 inches corner stapled together with a two-page "Background sheet on mutiny charge against 27 soldiers at San Francisco Presidio Stockade" and a single page reprint of the "Official recommendation from Hearing Officer at Pretrial Investigation to Lt. General Stanley Larsen." Toned along bottom-edge, staple perforations..... More
Cat.No: 325982
[3 handbills on the Memorial Union Labor Organization (M.U.L.O.) 1972...
Madison, WI: Memorial Union Labor Organization (M.U.L.O.), 1972. Handbill. Three half-sheet handbills, 5.5x8.5 inches; a bit handled, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 317933
30 Day Notice (Spring 1994)
Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Tenants Union, 1994. Newspaper. [4p.], 11x9 inch newsprint tabloid; slight toning around the edges, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 293716
30 Years of Quaker Service
Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, [1947]. Pamphlet. [16]p., stapled wraps, 8x11 inches, illus., staples rusted, small scratch on front wrap, date penciled on verso of front wrap, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 337888
















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Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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