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 American anti-socialist. An organ of Jeffersonian democracy published at...
Washington, D.C. John Basil Barnhill, 1914. Last issue of the slender journal, 16p., crinkled with a piece torn out of the margin on the front cover (no text loss), staple rusted, a reading copy. The individualist anarchist editor adopts a more classically conservative perspective on such issues as inheritance taxes..... More
Cat.No: 257207
American appeal, volumes 1-2, 1920 - 1921 to volumes 7-8...
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
The American Civil Liberties Union
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, [1973]. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, 0.25 inch closed tear on front panel else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 278328
The American Civil Liberties Union
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, [c1974]. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, date penciled on verso of front panel else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 278497
American Documentary Films Media Catalogue
New York: American Documentary Films, [1970]. Pamphlet. 38p., stapled wraps, 4x8.75 inches, very good condition. Advertises leftist films on topics including the Vietnam War, labor history, women's liberation, Black liberation, Mexican-Americans, and much more. More
Cat.No: 275802
American Federation of Labor
Washington, D.C. AFL, 1939. Pamphlet. 14p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, staples rusted else very good condition. Brief history of the AFL, including a B&W photo of the interior of its headquarters in the 1890s. Foreword by William Green. Revised edition, first published in 1934. More
Cat.No: 286480
An American Inroads special event: John Adams' opera Nixon in...
San Francisco: American Inroads, 1987. [8p] includes covers, 7x8.5 inches, special thanks card laid-in, light wear and toning else goo program for the special event, booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 225036
American labor and the silk stocking boycott
New York: American Boycott Against Aggressor Nations, [1939]. Four-panel brochure, year penciled in corner of front panel, otherwise very good. Cover depicts a piece of silk fabric with a gleaming bayonet. Urges a boycott of Japanese imported silk as a means of "withdrawing American help to Japan, without which she..... More
Cat.No: 272124
American labor history: women in the working class
Somerville, MA: New England Free Press, [1971?]. Pamphlet. 36p., 5.25x8.5 inches, very good in stapled wraps. A Radical America pamphlet. More
Cat.No: 47830
American Labor History; Race and Ethnicity in the Working Class
Somerville: New England Free Press, [1973]. Pamphlet. 48p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps lightly worn and soiled, staples slightly rusted, else in very good condition. Short book reviews and bibliography. A Radical America Pamphlet. More
Cat.No: 59935
The American labor legislation review: Vol. 10, no. 1, March...
New York: American Association for Labor Legislation, 1920. Paperback. Various pagination, complete run for the year of the quarterly, hinges cracked, index, issues bound in without the original wraps, ex library with bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, card pocket on rear pastedown endpaper, borrowing form on free rear endpaper and..... More
Cat.No: 85243
The American Labor Party is YOUR Party [handbill]
New York: American Labor Party, [1936]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill, year penned neatly in corner, faintly creased from folding, otherwise very good. "At last we have our own party! Born in the strength, pride, and courage of New York's labor movement, guided by its tried and trusted trade union leaders..... More
Cat.No: 285179
The American labor year book, 1923-1924. By the Labor Research...
New York: Rand School Press, 1924. Hardcover. 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, 1927, by the Labor Research...
New York: Rand Book Store, 1927. Hardcover. [vi], 252, [24p. ads], cloth-covered boards, rear board stained, corners bumped, else very good condition. Vol. 8. More
Cat.No: 38046
American Militarism Launches A New Campaign - Operation High School...
Washington DC: The National Council Against Conscription, [1955]. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, 3.25x5 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 268557
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
American Pilots [handbill]
[San Francisco Bay Area]: n.pub. [1971]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, date penned in corner, fold-creased. Leaflet arguing that US pilots bombing Southeast Asia are war criminals, "no different from the men who ran fascist Germany's gas chambers." More
Cat.No: 251506
American report: Review of religion and American power. [12 issues]
Huntington, IN: Clergy and Laymen Concerned, 1970-1971. Twelve issues of the weekly tabloid format newspaper by religious opponents of the Vietnam War; evenly toned, address labels, otherwise very good. Issues present are Vol. 1, No. 3 (Oct. 16, 1970), 7-11, 14, 25, 44, 46, 47; Vol. 2, no. 5 (Oct..... More
Cat.No: 174718
American report: Review of religion and American power. [78 issues]
Huntington, IN: Clergy and Laymen Concerned, 1970-1972. Seventy-eight issues of the weekly tabloid format newspaper by radical religious opponents of the Vietnam War; evenly toned, address labels, otherwise generally very good. Issues present are Vol. 1, No. 1 (Oct. 2, 1970), 3-9, 11-36, 38-42, 44, 46, 47; Vol. 2, nos..... More
Cat.No: 174717
American report: Review of religion and American power. [five issues]
Huntington, IN: Clergy and Laymen Concerned, 1970-1971. Five issues of the weekly tabloid format newspaper by religious opponents of the Vietnam War; evenly toned, address labels, otherwise very good. Issues present are Vol. 1, No. 3 (Oct. 16, 1970), 7, 9, 11, 14, and 25 (April 2, 1971). More
Cat.No: 174721
American Report: Review of religion and American power. [two issues]
Huntington, IN: Clergy and Laymen Concerned, 1970-1971. Two issues of the weekly tabloid format newspaper by religious opponents of the Vietnam War; evenly toned, address labels, otherwise very good. Issues present are Vol. 1, no. 9 and 14. Articles include the punishment of a Kansas City black preacher for his..... More
Cat.No: 174722
The American Resistance
New York: Liberation, [1967]. Pamphlet. Six panel brochure, 3.75x8.5 inches, top edge toned else very good condition. Promotional brochure for the magazine. More
Cat.No: 288009
The American Spectator: a literary newspaper, vol. 3, no 31...
New York: The American Spectator, Corp. 1935. Newspaper. 16p. tabloid newspaper 9.5x12.5 inches, illustrations, stapled wraps, fold crease, small rust stain on front wrap, lightly worn else good condition. The original editors and contributors had left the paper by this time and it only had another year left in it..... More
Cat.No: 177578
The American Spectator: a literary newspaper, vol. 3, no 35...
New York: The American Spectator, Corp. 1935. Newspaper. 16p. tabloid newspaper 9.5x12.5 inches, illustrations, stapled wraps, fold crease else very good condition. The original editors and contributors had left the paper by this time and it only had another year left in it. It had become a more mainstream literary..... More
Cat.No: 177580
American Tragedy: Will it Strike You Next?
New York: New York State Communist Party, [1949]. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps unevenly toned, small silverfish hole, date in red pencil on rear wrap else very good condition. Interior title: "Letter from Three Wives." On the Smith Act trials. Directed towards women, warning them that "your husband may..... More
Cat.No: 276616
Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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