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 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 else very good condition. A response to Johnson's "War on poverty." More
Cat.No: 233466
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 Spectator: a literary newspaper, vol. 3, no 31, July, 1935
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, July, 1935
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 Women in the Postwar World
New York: Newsweek Club Bureau; Weekly Publications, 1944. 36p., wraps, 5.25x7.25 inches. Collection of pieces by Mary Anderson, congresswomen Mary T. Norton, CIO president Philip Murray, US Chamber of Commerce head Eric Johnson, and others. More
Cat.No: 147174
American Women: report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women 1963
Washington DC: GPO, 1963. Paperback. [xi] 86p., 7.75x10.25 inche, report illustrated with tables and figures, footnotes, photos, very good paperback in glossy white decorative wraps. Published in late 1963 just before Kennedy was assassinated. More
Cat.No: 230051
American-European March for Peace [pinback button]
n.p. [196-]. Small one-inch pin, outline map shows the route of the march. Though often mistaken on the market for a Vietnam War protest, this was an earlier march from the campaign for nuclear disarmament. More
Cat.No: 255324
Americans want peace [poster]
[Berkeley]: [Political Poster Workshop at the University of California, Berkeley], [1970]. 17.75x21.75 inch poster silkscreened on the back of conjoined sheets of computer printout paper, as usual for the products of this workshop at Berkeley. Perforated sprocket edge strip intact. Very good. In the Maggs Bros book "4973: Berkeley Protest..... More
Cat.No: 245089
AMEX Canada, Published by Americans exiles in Canada; volume 4 no. 2 (May-June 1973)
Toronto: the journal, 1973. 39p., staplebound 8x11 inch wraps; mildly toned else very good condition. This issue of AMEX includes a cover story on the film "Two People," about a deserter; much on the Amnesty Action Conference, and more. More
Cat.No: 233022
Ammunition. Vol. 7 no. 3 (March 1949)
Indianapolis: United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, 1949. 55p., staplebound magazine, pages toned; front cover abraded at bottom edge else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 245118
Amnesty and Karl Armstrong
San Francisco: Campaign for Amnesty, 1973. Four-panel brochure, 7x8.5 inches, very good. Article reprinted from Winter Soldier on the case of Armstrong, one of the four bombers who attempted to destroy the Army Math Research Center in Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin, Madison campus on August 24, 1970..... More
Cat.No: 217773
Anarcha-Feminists Take to the Streets...Because We Don't Need Anyone's Permission
Olympia, WA: Pirate Press, 2010. Single sheet folded to make a four-panel zine, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 256771
Anarchist Black Cross Network Newsletter. Issue #1, December 2002
Homewood, IL: South Chicago ABC Zine Distro, 2002. 57p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine-format newsletter, Updates on anarchist prisoners, prison abolition activism, and related topics. Includes a statement by former Black Panther Lorenzo Komboa Ervin regarding the newly formed network. More
Cat.No: 256779
Anarchist Black Cross Network Newsletter. Winter/Spring 2004
Chicago: the Network, 2004. 8p. tabloid format newspaper, paper mildly toned, small closed tear on front wrap else very good condition. Updates on anarchist prisoners, prison abolition activism, and related topics. More
Cat.No: 243338
Anarchist Black Cross: An Introduction
npl: Anarchist Black Cross, nd. Pamphlet. Single sheet folded to make a four-panel pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. Outline of the group's goals alongside contact information for various ABC Collectives. More
Cat.No: 256780
Anarchist Organization and the Insurrectional Project: for the creation of moments of mass destruction where creativity and anger combine in unpredictable collusion
New Orleans: Tension Collective, nd. [16]p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, bound upside down else very good photocopied zine. More
Cat.No: 256778
Anarchist Organization and the Insurrectional Project: for the creation of moments of mass destruction where creativity and anger combine in unpredictable collusion
New Orleans: Tension Collective, nd. [16]p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good photocopied zine. More
Cat.No: 257011