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, 1931. By the Labor Research Department of the Rand School of Social Science.
New York: Rand School Press, 1931. Hardcover. 337p., tables, ex library with the usual markings, corner bumped, a decent reading copy. Vol. 12. More
Cat.No: 8807
American Militarism Launches A New Campaign - Operation High School. Claiming to "Help Boys Prepare," New Films Really Start Military Indoctrination of Youth
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
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. Pamphlet. 36p., stapled wraps, 5.25x7.25 inches, staple rusted else very good condition. 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
Ameriski druzinski koledar (American family almanac). 1920
Chicago: Jugoslovanska delavska tiskovna družba (Proletarec), 1919. 196p., hardcover, boards mildly worn, some internal toning. Annual publication of the Jugoslav Workmen's Publishing Co., including calendar for the year, resources for the immigrant community, and essays and articles on a variety of themes. A few black and white illustrations; many ads..... More
Cat.No: 270923
Ameriski druzinski koledar (American family almanac). 1934
Chicago: Jugoslovanska delavska tiskovna družba (Proletarec); Adria Printing Company, 1933. 224p., hardcover, personal ownership stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise very good; striking cover artwork depicting a zeppelin above a cityscape. Annual publication of the Jugoslav Workmen's Publishing Co., including calendar for the year, resources for the immigrant community, and..... More
Cat.No: 270916
Ameriski druzinski koledar (American family almanac). 1938
Chicago: Jugoslovanska delavska tiskovna družba (Proletarec); Adria Printing Company, 1937. 224p., hardcover, personal ownership stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. Annual publication of the Jugoslav Workmen's Publishing Co., including calendar for the year, resources for the immigrant community, and essays and articles on a variety of themes. Black..... More
Cat.No: 270919
Ameriski druzinski koledar (American family almanac). 1939
Chicago: Jugoslovanska delavska tiskovna družba (Proletarec); Adria Printing Company, 1938. 224p., hardcover, personal ownership stamp on front free endpaper, boards mildly worn. Annual publication of the Jugoslav Workmen's Publishing Co., including calendar for the year, resources for the immigrant community, and essays and articles on a variety of themes. Black..... More
Cat.No: 270921
Ameriski druzinski koledar (American family almanac). 1946
Chicago: Jugoslovanska delavska tiskovna družba (Proletarec); Adria Printing Company, 1945. 224p., hardcover, personal ownership stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. Annual publication of the Jugoslav Workmen's Publishing Co., including calendar for the year, resources for the immigrant community, and essays and articles on a variety of themes. Black..... More
Cat.No: 270926
Ameriski druzinski koledar (American family almanac). 1947
Chicago: Jugoslovanska delavska tiskovna družba (Proletarec); Adria Printing Company, 1946. 224p., hardcover, personal ownership stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. Annual publication of the Jugoslav Workmen's Publishing Co., including calendar for the year, resources for the immigrant community, and essays and articles on a variety of themes. Black..... More
Cat.No: 270927
Ameriski druzinski koledar (American family almanac). 1949
Chicago: Jugoslovanska delavska tiskovna družba (Proletarec); Adria Printing Company, 1948. 224p., hardcover, personal ownership stamp on front free endpaper, upper right corner bumped with a tear to the cloth, otherwise very good. Annual publication of the Jugoslav Workmen's Publishing Co., including calendar for the year, resources for the immigrant community..... More
Cat.No: 270929
Ameriski druzinski koledar (American family almanac). 1950
Chicago: Jugoslovanska delavska tiskovna družba (Proletarec); Adria Printing Company, 1949. 224p., hardcover, personal ownership stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. Annual publication of the Jugoslav Workmen's Publishing Co., including calendar for the year, resources for the immigrant community, and essays and articles on a variety of themes. Black..... More
Cat.No: 270930
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
Anarchism... a solution to world problems. A presentation of ten essays
Los Angeles: Man! 1940. Pamphlet. 24p., staplebound pamphlet, very good condition, 4.5x8 inches. Short essays by Melchior Seele, Ray Randall, Samuel Polinow, Edward Cunningham, Ammon A. Hennacy, Hippolyte Havel, M.B. Resin, Edna Larkin, Marcus Graham, and Richard Wagner. More
Cat.No: 42532