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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Agreement between the New York Central Railroad Company, the Grand Central Terminal, and the employes [sic] thereon represented by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
New York: Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes, 1946. 49p., pocketbook with stiff covers, very good. More
Cat.No: 244149
Agreement Governing Hours of Service and Working Conditions between The Western Pacific Railroad Company and All That Class of Clerical, Office, Station and Storehouse Employes Represented by the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes and TC Division of BRAC. Effective December 16, 1943, Revised August 1, 1975
no city: [associated Railroad Brotherhoods], 1975 [date from cover]. Paperback. 192p., small stiff booklet under 6.5x4 inch printed cover sheets fastened with slot-headed aluminum bolts. A clean sound unmarked copy. Title page concludes with a non-discrimination statement. More
Cat.No: 227571
Agreement, 1968-1971: San Francisco-Oakland Newspaper Guild and San Francisco Newspaper Publishers Association
San Francisco: American Newspaper Guild. Local 52, 1968. 45p., staplebound booklet, very good. More
Cat.No: 224334
Agreement: Hotel Employers Association of San Francisco and San Francisco Local Joint Executive Board of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, AFL-CIO [and] Apartment, Motel, Hotel and Elevator Operators Union, Local 14 of BSEIU. Effective July 1, 1964
San Francisco: the unions, 1964. 57p., staplebound booklet, evenly toned, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 211956
Agreement: United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1657, AFL-CIO, and Big "B" Drug Stores, Inc.
Birmingham, AL: 1983. 20p., staplebound booklet, very good. More
Cat.No: 244146
AIM: the American Independent Movement newsletter [9 issues]
New Haven: AIM, 1969-1970. Nine issues of the 8.5x11 inch newsletter, some folded for mailing with address on rear cover, otherwise generally very good. Issues present are vol. 4 nos. 4, 7-9, 11-13, 19, and vol. 5 no. 1. Includes much coverage of local activism, including at Yale; gentrification, pollution..... More
Cat.No: 244594
AIM: the American Independent Movement newsletter. Vol. 4 no. 9 (May 1, 1969)
New Haven: AIM, 1969. 19p., single issue of the 8.5x11 inch newsletter, very good. Includes much coverage of local activism; cover story on gentrification is headlined "In the 'new downtown' where will they go?" More
Cat.No: 244595
Air quality without disrupting jobs / Support the UAW amendment to the Clean Air Bill [poster]
n.p. United Automobile Workers National Cap Department, [1977]. 13x19 inch poster, upper corners creased. More
Cat.No: 255546
The Alarm, no. 3, June 1980. The Natalia Trotsky papers
San Francisco: F.O.R. Organizing Committee in the U.S., 1980. Pamphlet. 11, [i], wraps, not stapled, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 199572
The Alarm, no. 3, June 1980. The Natalia Trotsky papers
San Francisco: F.O.R. Organizing Committee in the U.S., 1980. Pamphlet. 11, [i], staplebound pamphlet format, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 236889
The Alarm, no. 8, Summer 1981: Péret
San Francisco: F.O.R. Organizing Committee in the U.S., 1981. Pamphlet. 28p., staplebound pamphlet format, 6.75x8.5 inches, very good condition. On French Surrealist, Trotskyist, and Spanish Civil War veteran Benjamin Péret. More
Cat.No: 254688
Alarm: A Voice of Northeast Earth First!; Number four, autumnal equinox 92
Burlington, VT: Northeast Earth First! 1992. 24p., stapled wraps, 8.5 x 11 inches, lightly worn else very good condition. Theme of the issue is "500 Years of Resistance", marking the 500th anniversary of Colombus's arrival in the Americas and celebrating Native American resistance. More
Cat.No: 241403
Alarm: A Voice of Revolutionary Ecology Number eight, autumnal equinox '93
Burlington, VT: Northeast Earth First! 1993. 24p., stapled wraps, 8.5 x 11 inches, partially peeled-off address label on rear wrap, front wrap lightly foxed else good conditoin. Includes coverage of Native American land sovereignty issues and the Queer Pride parade in Burlington. More
Cat.No: 241404
Albatross: an intercollegiate magazine of student letters. Volume 1, no. 2 (February 1961)
Swarthmore, PA: Albatross, 1961. 10p., staplebound booklet, minor toning an dhandling. Stapled inside the front cover is a dittoed note that begins, "Dear friends, We have been given your name as a leader of the Southern sit-in movement. Our magazine wants to print letters from sit-in students so that we..... More
Cat.No: 249893
Albuquerque Today and Tomorrow [handbill]
Albuquergue, NM: AT&T, 1971. Single 8.5x14 inch sheet, mimeographed one side, introducing the group's three candidates for City Commission, Gary Cook Mahan, Jim Greer, and Lynn Burlbaw. Mahan had co-founded the Independent New Mexican Party with John Salazar. More
Cat.No: 166535
Alert! Focus on Central America [18 issues]
New York: Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, 1985-1992. Eighteen issues of the tabloid format newspaper, all with horizontal fold; some with mailing label and/or handwritten notes. Issues present are vol. 3 nos. 3, 5, 6; vol. 4 nos. 3, 6-9; vol. 5 nos. 1, 2, 4;..... More
Cat.No: 255124
Alert! Focus on Central America [four issues]
New York: Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, 1987-88. Four issues of the tabloid format newspaper, all with horizontal fold; otherwise very good. Issues present are vol. 5 nos. 1 and 2 and vol. 6 nos. 6 and 7. Coverage of US intervention in El Salvador and..... More
Cat.No: 255125
All out in support of the striking Kaiser workers. Join in the mass actions to help shut Kaiser down! [handbill]
Emeryville, CA: Marxist-Leninist Party, SF Bay Area Branch, 1986. 8.5x14 inch handbill, fold-creased, otherwise very good. Issued in support of the strike by SEIU Local 250, Lab Techs, and Optical Workers of SEIU Local 505. More
Cat.No: 249870
All out to stop the KKK! [poster]
Philadelphia: November 5 Mobilization to Stop the KKK in Philadelphia, [1988]. 20x26 inch poster, very good, stylized image of klansmen with burning cross. The Spartacist League played a behind-the-scenes leadership role in the Mobilization. More
Cat.No: 185389
All the way with LBJ [pinback button]
n.p. [196-]. 1.25-inch diameter button, very good, pairing the sarcastic slogan with a mushroom cloud. This pin was recently included in an exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California and the consignor's original loan tag is still attached. More
Cat.No: 255654
All's Fare
San Francisco: Auto-Graphics, [197-]. [8p., including covers], very good in staplebound wraps. Pro-Situ tract. Not found in OCLC as of July 2016. More
Cat.No: 207062
The Alliance. Campus Worker-Student Newspaper. Vol. 1 no. 1 (May 1970)
[San Francisco]: 1970. 5p., 8.5x14 inch mimeographed sheets stapled together at corner, fold crease, corner wear, red pen used to highlight parts of the masthead. From contents, it is apparent that this was issued by the PL incarnation of SDS at SF State University. Includes critique of treatment of campus..... More
Cat.No: 249900
The Alliance. Newsletter of the San Francisco Taxicab Drivers Alliance. Vol. 1 issue 2 (May 10, 1984)
San Francisco: the Alliance, 1984. 4p., 8.5x11 inches, light handling wear, very good. Main story is on efforts to restrict the number of cabs permitted in San Francisco. "We believe that the taxi-using public is behind us in our fight to stop the new permits..." More
Cat.No: 221993
Allowable Area of Thought for the Naturalized Citizen
New York: American Comittee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1943. Pamphlet. Reprinted from Lawyers Guild Review, Volume 3 No. 4, July-August, 1943. Single sheet folded to make 4 pages, musty, creased in middle from folding, rear wrap slightly soiled, a reading copy only. On the case of William Schneiderman, whose..... More
Cat.No: 228913
Alternative Education 1973 - Rivendell
Palo Alto, CA: Rivendell, 1973. [13p.], 8.5x11 inch mimeographed sheets stapled at left, silkscreened pictorial cover in black and blue inks on yellow paperstock, lightly worn, rear wrap soiled else very good condition with addendum sheet laid in. Program for an education symposium at the parent-cooperative alternative school. More
Cat.No: 184002