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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![The Ad Hoc bulletin (Marxist-Leninist) [13 issues of the newsletter produced by the FBI-financed pseudo-faction in the Communist Party, USA]](http://www.bolerium.com/pictures/thumb/201089.jpg?v=1536714665)
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. 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; addendum sheet laid in. Program for an education symposium at the parent-cooperative alternative school. More
Cat.No: 184002
The Alternative newspaper vol. 1, no. 10, week of May 10-16: May Day at BFI
Santa Barbara: Associated Students and Press Council, UC Santa Barbara, 1976. Newspaper. 12p. folded tabloid newspaper illustrated with b&w photos, mild toning 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 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. 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'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
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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
American labor history: women in the working class
Somerville, MA: New England Free Press, [1971?]. 36p., very good in wraps. A Radical America pamphlet. More
Cat.No: 47830
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, 1925, by the Labor Research Department of the Rand School of Social Science
New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1925. 488p., [xiv]p., tables, cover faded, front hinge cracked. *Miles 184 Vol. 6. More
Cat.No: 99900
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 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
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