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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AALC; African-American Labor Center/CAAT; Centre Afro-Americain du Travail
Washington: the Center, 1985. 36p., 8.5x11 inches, illus., half in English, half in French, on the Center's programs in the US and Africa, very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 141481
About face! The U.S. Servicemen's Fund newsletter. Vol. 2 no. 3 (April/May 1972)
New York: USSF, 1972. Single issue of the 6-page newsletter, tabloid format but on better paper, fold-creased for mailing; also included is a fundraising letter for the USSF co-authored by Angela Davis, Phil Berrigan and George Smith. More
Cat.No: 163459
About face! The U.S. Servicemen's Fund newsletter. Vol. 2 no. 3 (April/May 1972)
New York: USSF, 1972. Single issue of the 6-page newsletter, tabloid format but on better paper, fold-creased for mailing. Includes excerpts from various GI movement newspapers around the country. More
Cat.No: 168124
About face! The U.S. Servicemen's Fund newsletter. Vol. 2 no. 3 (April/May 1972)
New York: USSF, 1972. Single issue of the 6-page newsletter, tabloid format but on better paper, fold-creased for mailing, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 195589
ACAB news [two issues: 3, 4]
Guelph: the zine, 2010. Two issues of the Canadian anarchist zine; title stands for All Cops Are Bastards. Length is 18, 43 pages respectively; 5.5x8.5 inches. More
Cat.No: 248605
ACORN. Seeing to it that "The People Shall Rule"
Little Rock, Arkansas: Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now, n.d. Single sheet folded to make six-panel brochure. Early brochure for the organization that still exists, under the slightly different name of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. More
Cat.No: 131598
Action for Peace [two issues of the student protest newsletter, issued after the Kent State shootings]
New York: Action for Peace (Columbia University), 1970. Two issues of the 8.5x11 inch newsletter, 6 and 8 pages, sheets stapled together at upper left corner, one dated May 7 1970 (cover sheet rather toned) and the other undated but issued around the same time, with a depiction of the..... More
Cat.No: 196795
Active Transformation: a direct action anarchist newspaper [five issues]
Lansing, MI: A.T. Collective, 1998-2000. Five issues of the tabloid format newspaper, all with horizontal fold, mild toning. Issues present are vol. 2 nos. 1, 2, 5; vol. 3 nos. 2 and 3. More
Cat.No: 244489
Advance [six issues]
Gary, Indiana; Birmingham, Alabama: Trade Union Action League National Organizing Committee, 1979-1984. Six issues of the newspaper, fold crease, earlier issues on newsprint are toned else generally good condition. Issues present are vol. 1 nos. 1-3, vol. 2 no. 1 and 2, and vol. 5 no. 5. More
Cat.No: 244484
[Advertising card for Ideal Tooth Powder, with photographic portrait of Terence V. Powderly of the Knights of Labor]
Philadelphia: Vail Brothers, [188-]. Stiff card, slightly larger than 4x6.25 inches, with Powderly's portrait (a sepia photograph from the negative) on one side and text about Ideal Tooth Powder and Ideal Quinine and Sulphur Toilet Soap on the other. Plate measures 3.5x5 inches; his moustache about 1.3 inches from left..... More
Cat.No: 212110
The Advocate of Peace and Universal Brotherhood. Vol. 1 no. 7 (July, 1846)
Worcester, MA: Elihu Burritt, 1846. pp. 153-176, wraps bound with thread, pages remain uncut at the top; front cover has a faded area, otherwise mild handling wear and foxing. When Burritt, the "Learned Blacksmith," took over The Advocate of Peace, the publication of the American Peace Society, he renamed it..... More
Cat.No: 255963
The Advocate [eight issues]
New York: American Veterans Committee, Berkeley Chapter #1, 1946-47. 8 issues of the mimeographed 8.5x11 inch newsletter published by the Berkeley chapter of the left-wing veterans' group; all from before the AVC's expulsion of communists in 1948. Issues present are vol. 1 nos. 4-6, 12-15, 17. Three or four pages..... More
Cat.No: 181872
AFC Spotlight: Vol. 1, Book 3, Spring Edition
Pasadena: American Friends Service Committee, [c1979]. 7p. 8.5x11 inches, wraps secured by folding, creased from being folded in half for mailing, address label on rear wrap else very good newsletter printed on cream stiff stock. Cover story on Iran and Afghanistan. More
Cat.No: 251220
AFL-CIO / Solidarity Day / September 19, 1981 [pinback button and press pass]
n.p. (1981). 2.25 inch diameter pin, somewhat scuffed, together with an orange press pass in a plastic holder with metal clip on reverse. More
Cat.No: 259800
AFL-CIO Convention. October 23-26, 1995. New York City
New York: AFL-CIO, 1995. Cardboard Covers. Double cardstock folder with facing pockets, 11x9 inches folded, one pocket containing an oversize paperbound of 227p with color vignette chapter heads, the opposite pocket holding an 8.5x5.5 inch booklet labelled "1995 Resolutions, Book One", and a flyer (described below). The folder is wrinkled..... More
Cat.No: 257562
AFL-CIO news. Vols. 1-6 (1956-1961)
Washington: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1956-61. Six large hardcover volumes containing the first six years of the union's tabloid-format newspaper, though note that vol. 1 begins with issue 5. Generally very good, with some crunching of edges on vol. 1 and a "magazine" section of..... More
Cat.No: 156940
The African World. Vol. 2 no. 19 (July 8, 1972)
Greensboro, NC: Youth Organization for Black Unity, 1972. Tabloid format newspaper, 15p., evenly toned, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. Cover story is "Vietnam & Black Liberation", plus articles on Maummer el Quaddafi, South African miners, black organizing in prison, Amilcar Cabral, and more. More
Cat.No: 252191
Afrikan awakener: an organ of the Pan Afrikan Peoples' Organization. Vol. 3, no. 22 (July/August 1978)
San Francisco: Patrice Lumumba Publishers, 1978. 12p., tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned with minor wear. Nathan Hare on the Psychology of the Black Revolution, cover story on the Bakke case, unity program for a British Pan-Afrikan group, and more. More
Cat.No: 195027
Afrikan liberation day '80; Saturday May 24, 10 A M, this year at: Arroyo Park, Bancroft and 73rd Ave., Oakland, California
Oakland: Black United Front, 1980. 8.5x11 inch leaflet for the event. "Hail the people's victory of Zimbabwe, continue the struggle." Cartoon showing Apartheid being overcome. More
Cat.No: 42749
AFSCME Officers Manual: Information for local union officers
Washington DC: American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, [1972-1981]. Pamphlet. 27p., stapled wraps, 8.5x9 inches, staples rusted else very good condition. Dated from the union's leadership at the time (Jerry Wurf, International President and William Lucy, International Secretary-Treasurer). More
Cat.No: 259202
Aftermath of Jarvis-Gann: What's it all about?
[Bay Area, CA]: California Labor-Community Coalition, [197-]. Four-panel brochure, 7x8.5 inches, very good. On the effects of Prop. 13 on working people. More
Cat.No: 204815
Against gender! Against society!
n.p. ninjabikeslut, [201-]. Four-panel brochure, very good. Brief essay arguing for the abolition of gender and destruction of society. "Combinations of gender, race, trans*-ness/cis-ness of gender and myriad of other factors, create subject-positions where it is possible to both oppress and be oppressed..." More
Cat.No: 200317
Against Sleep and Nightmare [6 issues]
Oakland: ASAN, [ca. 1990-2001]. Magazine. Six issues of the 8.5x11 inch staplebound zine, some with handling wear or soil, some rust to staples, decent reading copies. Issues present are numbers 2-7. One man anonymous ultra-left zine published out of Oakland in the '80s and '90s. Influenced by perspectives of the..... More
Cat.No: 258627
Against Sleep and Nightmare, No. 2
Oakland: ASAN, [1992?]. Magazine. 29p., 8.25x10.75 inches, illus., front wrap unevenly toned. Consists of folded leaves, not stapled or otherwise secured. One man anonymous ultra-left zine published out of Oakland in the '80s and '90s. Influenced by perspectives of the Situationists and Freddy Perlman's Black & Red publications. More
Cat.No: 235031