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.
Against Sleep and Nightmare, No. 5
Oakland: ASAN, [1990s]. Magazine. 29p., 8.25x10.75 inches, illus., wraps creased else good condition. 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: 235033
Against the Student Mobilization Committee's Strike and against the Student...
New York: [Progressive Labor Party], [1967]. 3p., 8.5x14 inches; mimeographed sheets stapled together at corner, mild toning and edgewear. Document issued by five Queens activists, mostly affiliated with SDS or Progressive Labor, protesting the SMC as dominated by Du Bois Club and YSA members, and urging the reader to "resist..... More
Cat.No: 253284
Agreement between Beverly Enterprises D.B.A. Forestdale Health Care Center, Foresdale...
Birmingham, AL: 1987. 21p., staplebound booklet, very good. More
Cat.No: 244147
Agreement between Foothill-De Anza Community College District and the Foothill-De...
Los Altos Hills: the college, 2004. Spiral_bound. 267p., a superior "copyshop" type of binding, with its white plastic "comb"-fastened spine professionally printed with title, a fine copy. Includes a lengthy topic index with dozens of differentiated entries on matters like sick leave, on tenure, on rights of part-time employees, &c..... More
Cat.No: 290403
Agreement between Norton Company Chemical Process Products Division Mineral City...
npl: [United Steelworkers of America?], c1978. paperback. 23p., 4x5.5 inches; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 302128
Agreement between the New York Central Railroad Company, the Grand...
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...
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...
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...
San Francisco: the unions, 1964. 57p., staplebound booklet, 3.75x5.5 inches, staples rusted, pages evenly toned, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 211956
Agreement: United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1657, AFL-CIO, and...
Birmingham, AL: 1983. 20p., staplebound booklet, very good. More
Cat.No: 244146
Aims and Purposes of the Religious Liberty Association of America
Washington DC: Religious Liberty Association, [1941]. Pamphlet. Four panel brochure, 6.25x8.5 inches, evenly toned, two fold-creases, date stamped on rear panel, else very good condition. Seventh Day Adventist organization. More
Cat.No: 306656
The Aircraft News. Vol. IV no. 14 (April 9, 1941)
Buffalo, NY: The Aircraft, 1941. Newsletter. 4p., 8.5x11 inch newsletter, very good but for penned note at the end stating "Curtiss Aeroplane employees in dependent union." Issued by a union more cooperative with management than the CIO, which this issue harshly attacks. Discusses the expulsion of two members who had..... More
Cat.No: 309788
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
Albania: Laboratory of Subversion
Santa Cruz: Quiver Distro, 2006. Pamphlet. 34p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine. Pirated from the 2000 Elephant Editions version, itself a translation of a 1999 Italian pamphlet. "In Albania, just a few years ago, a sudden explosion of popular rage eloquently demonstrated that the State only persists thanks..... More
Cat.No: 286792
Albatross: an intercollegiate magazine of student letters. Volume 1, no...
Swarthmore, PA: Albatross, 1961. 10p., staplebound booklet, minor toning and handling. 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
All Isms are Wasms [handbill]
San Francisco: Upshot, [1977]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill, very good. Paula and John Zerzan's group. "The insurrections in daily life have so far made themselves public as primarily a crisis of participation. The decline of productivity, of voting, of union allegiance, and of other forms of self-humiliation is becoming manifest..... More
Cat.No: 282602
All Isms are Wasms [handbill]
San Francisco: Upshot, [1977]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill, horizontal fold crease. Paula and John Zerzan's group. "The insurrections in daily life have so far made themselves public as primarily a crisis of participation. The decline of productivity, of voting, of union allegiance, and of other forms of self-humiliation is becoming..... More
Cat.No: 282603
All out in support of the striking Kaiser workers. Join...
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 May 1st. Unite against school-wreckers and milk-snatchers [handbill]
Buffalo, NY: United Front May Day Committee, [1936]. Handbill. 11x8.5 inch mimeographed leaflet, edge chipped at upper left, not reaching printed portion. Announces a protest in McKinley Square to demand the reversal of budget cuts, and the taxing of the rich. More
Cat.No: 306173
All out to El Paso May 1st & 2nd! International...
San Francisco: New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and Socialism, [1981]. Handbill. 8.5x14 inch handbill, horizontal crease, otherwise very good. Includes English version of a call from the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional calling for the socialist reunification of Mexico (i.e., the reunification of the southwestern US with Mexico..... More
Cat.No: 314235
All Seasons Park [pinback button]
Vancouver: Mfg. by Superior Stamp, [1972]. Pinback Button. 1.5 inch diameter pin depicting a stylized tree. Some foxing in the field. Inspired by the earlier occupation at People's Park in Berkeley, local Yippie members in Vancouver set up a tent city at the entrance of Stanley Park to protest plans..... More
Cat.No: 267048
All's Fare
San Francisco: Auto-Graphics, [1976]. Pamphlet. [8p., including covers], very good in staplebound wraps. Pro-Situ tract, written in the first person. Only two copies found in OCLC as of 4/2021. More
Cat.No: 207062
Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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